Duncan Bayne

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Seen elsewhere on Mastodon (but now can't find) ... 1970s: Manual supplied with car tells you how to change all fluids, check timing, gap sparkplugs. 2020s: Manual supplied with car implores you not to drink the battery acid.

@Kels_316@aus.social You know KMart prints custom mugs, right? A Mr. Bomb Expert mug could be yours in under a day ...

@cwebber It may just be old fashioned authoritarianism too, I guess. Very convenient for politicians if all online speech can be tied back to individuals through official ID.

@chantaryu2 @cwebber Oh yeah. Meta and others are definitely involved. But it might not be cash changing hands, just the possibility of universal surveillance.

@macmanx "there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry" Arrrrr, I think ye be wrong there, matey.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @decryption@aus.social Oh, LOL, you got that email too?

@alexandrageese@bonn.social I mean, this is completely in line with other moves in this space from EU members (chat control, age verification, tying age verification to Android / iOS device attestation). Watching this from a distance - Australia - and shaking my head at the US's lurch into fascism, and now the EU's enthusiasm for techno-authoritarianism.

@Willow That's a *great* idea. Will commence immediately.

@snaprails@cupoftea.social @TheEddieShow@beige.party @cmconseils@mastodon.social I'm surprised it was economically viable to get your Nan's telly to the moon for him to step on! 1969 payload costs were bonkers.

@mojo Can we get in on this here in Australia? 🙏

@timriley@ruby.social @pat@hachyderm.io Looks great! Sydney's too far for me ATM, but I'd definitely be up for one in or near Melbourne.

@ajft@aus.social Back when I was a teenage motorcyclist, when we found people parking like this (e.g. cars in motorcycle parks) we'd let all their tyres down.

@pitrh@mastodon.social 25 years ago 🤯 I *remember* that.

@hailey Well handled 👏 Also makes me wonder, again, at the level of needless complexity and expense I've seen at some places over the years ...

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I once, 25 years ago, accidentally submitted my wife's CV in place of my own, when applying for a role as a programmer. Astoundingly I got an interview! The hiring manager started off by asking why I thought I was qualified for the role, as my background was in call centre management. 🤣 Needless to say I didn't get the role. Something about attention to detail.

@Kels_316 Good luck - either way 😉

@JallBarret "I’m getting more and more reason to move my non-Kobo / Amazon stuff to Ingram Spark." I suspect that's the real reason behind the change. They're firing their small customers.

@snaprails@cupoftea.social @TheEddieShow@beige.party @cmconseils@mastodon.social Economies of scale there too, since it was so many tellies at once 🙃

@robpike@hachyderm.io Not sure how the lettering has been put on my Unicomp keycaps, but I've used them for *years* with no visible wear. Or indeed any physical change in the keyboard itself. Those things are built like tanks, and still available new. Their new Mini M model in particular looks nice. And I believe you can get Mac style keycaps for them. My own Unicomp sports a custom keycap set they printed for me with actual hyper, super, and meta labels. https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/MINI_M

@mcc I was genuinely concerned about the heat shield for a bit.

@Nonilex@masto.ai @ASegar@mastodon.social "You may as well scrap philosophy altogether." Strongly suspect that's the exact purpose here.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social Not just a bank, but a savings bank. Backed 100%* by a well-diversified range of commodities.

• Appreciate that's not always entirely possible, watching e.g. the price of gold plummeting just recently.

@bodil@social.treehouse.systems Welcome to the club, we kept a seat warm and a beer cold for you 😉

@benteh@mastodon.social I once got (more or less) fired from a tech company, and then returned years later for a very successful stint there as a senior manager. Getting fired doesn't mean you're useless 😁 Sometimes it just means you weren't what your employer thought they needed at the time. And sometimes they were wrong 😉

@hailey@hails.org 😉 On a serious note - thanks, this is really interesting. We deploy as systemd units at $DAYJOB already; looks like we could harden things a bit.

@Viss "everyone, i guess" As much as I prefer FreeBSD I do have one remaining Internet-facing Linux server at home ... so yeah, me too :/

@neoluddite@aus.social @Daojoan@mastodon.social See e.g. the "I love science" folks reacting to research that suggests marijuana use in adolescents increases the chances of certain mental illnesses. All of a sudden it's about the feels, because it's contrary to their worldview.

@jpm@aus.social Of *course* our central heating picked today to pack up 🙄

@servelan As someone who's skeptical of *complete* fossil fuel replacement goals due to issues with cost, availability, and pollution from storage, I was wondering how they plan to do it. Turns out, from the article ... "France only generates a fraction of its electricity from hydrocarbons, thanks to its extensive nuclear power generation." I mean, don't get me wrong. If I was the king of everything and could replace all of our (Australia's) fossil fuel power generation with renewables and nuclear, I would. It'd not be perfect, but would be better than what we have now. I guess I'll keep waiting for 100% renewables *without* nuclear to become viable, outside of lucky cases (e.g. where there's plenty of pre-existing hydro).

@EUCommission Speaking as an Australian, I'm delighted! As a "middle power" the more we move away from alignment with the US, and towards alignment with the EU, the better.

@cstross "Don't be so careful in time of death" is a pretty good one-line summary of the Hagakure.

@bitnacht@bitbang.social I had one of these when I was a kid. Probably still knocking around my parents' place somewhere.

@foone@digipres.club The hardest part is writing composable GUIs. I just don't believe you can have the expressive power of something as simple as pipes. I think Microsoft, oddly, came the closest to this in GUIs with OLE.