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Society has done a really poor job of teaching people to enjoy learning how to do something, rather than just getting an outcome, huh?

Source code is for explaining things to other humans. The machines don't need it to look like that.

Urge to FOI AusPost for the signoffs on the TERF wizard owl promo bullshit rising.

@stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net whatever they are taking they should either halve it, or double it.

More helpful advice.

"Good afternoon Justin, Thank you for contacting the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO). The ANAO does not have any branded merchandise available. ANAO Communication"

Beaumont Tiles gets a Security Bandage Award for failing to take security seriously.

The song had to be recorded and released without knowing it'd be on the movie soundtrack, basically. A new recording of an existing song (a cover) recorded for the movie soundtrack is disqualified. They have to have used an existing, released version of a song in the movie.

@drew@eigenmagic.net I thought it a shame they didn't use Weird Al's Albuquerque in the Coyote vs ACME movie

Maybe someone could look into how genies get put into bottles in the first place?

@gvwilson@mastodon.social Booo! [complimentary]

Looks like my plans to migrate things off DigitalOcean just got reprioritised to "as fast as possible".

@MattHatton@aus.social "the Strathfield Rodentia" ahahaha #ICACRadio

status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.

This is why I have two external backup drives in rotation.

There is an Aldi ad on SBS lately that annoys me. An old woman warns "beware the salami that boasts a tiny price, thy corners be surely cut" But salami doesn't *have* any corners.

How do I explain, in a professional work context, to a group of early- and mid-career engineers that Omarchy is a fascist project they should avoid because the stench of that past association may never come off?

Bit of a work win to end the week. Big #TGIF time

I wonder if I can get Xero's VP of engineering to get their dev team to learn how to gracefully degrade a webapp if LaunchDarkly isn't contactable. Such as when customers run adblockers. Because right now their app is just broken if you block LaunchDarkly and it doesn't have to be.

Morning Fediverse!

Local raven (that we have decided is named Tina) was trying to get into a neighbours groceries that were left on their front porch. Clever girl!

@tubsta@social.bsdlab.au this is on the zfs recv side, on a removable USB drive. USB disks can be a little… fraught.

Late bedtime after school cabaret night plus some poor sleep means moar coffee needed.

Morning Fediverse!

@liamvhogan@aus.social I continue to struggle with seeing how selling phenylephrine tablets as a nasal decongestant isn't classed as fraud.

My consulting rates are reassuringly expensive.

This might be my favourite photo of me giving a talk at Melbourne Python metup.

Maybe putting credulous, incurious people in charge of important things is a bad idea?

@jpm@aus.social could be, yeah. last lot had the slightly overcooked brown you get from the IIRC Brisbane factory.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @jpm@aus.social I blame Joh

@ifixcoinops@retro.social ooh matron!

@emmadavidson@aus.social attn @MattHatton@aus.social

@franksting@theblower.au no I ate them

Is it nostalgia to remember when a lot of this stuff was called "fraud" and there were consequences?

The modern Arnott's ginger nut seems smaller, and less dense. It doesn't cope well with being dunked in a cup of tea now. I recall being able to hold it in there for several seconds and get it to a warm and chewy texture, but it just disintegrates if you try that now.

@xssfox@cloudisland.nz duly noted

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au not in a way that I'd expect affects the heft and density of the biscuit before it gets dunked. Unless my tea has developed some quite remarkable properties.

so the ANAO logo font appears to use a slightly customised version of Segoe WP Bold, or similar, and the triangle thing doesn't look too hard to duplicate…

@jpm@aus.social @oxy@social.bsdlab.au they might try, but the different ovens in different states work differently, apparently, so they have to adjust the recipe anyway. From what I recall of what my brother-in-law who used to run Arnott's R&D said. Brisbane's are often too hot and tend to overcook the biscuits a bit.

jazz coding: it's the code you *don't* write that makes all the difference