There is a difference between "this is above my pay grade" and "I'm not getting paid enough to deal with this shit".
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rainynight65
@rainynight65@aus.social
mastodon 4.7.2I dabble. Mostly in trains - H0 scale and live steam. Sometimes in games. Professionally in tech. German living on Yuggera land in Australia. I post and repost in English and German. Trans rights are human rights.
(Previously @rainynight65@mastodon.social)
Profile pic is a close-up of a model locomotive (Victorian Railways B Class B65)
Header is a picture of The Ghan, a tourist train, taken in Alice Springs, Australia, with locomotive NR75 prominently in the lead
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@BashStKid@mastodon.online @quixoticgeek@social.v.st "We need nuclear for base load" is one of the most doggedly persistent myths around.
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social And then the tech bros talk a lot about "democratising" things, as if making art wasn't already accessible to everyone. Not all people have the same talent, ability or time to invest, but *everyone* can try their hand at making music, writing, drawing, sculpting...
And what the bros don't understand is that art, more than anything, for many artists is about the process of creation, not the final result.
It is such a dire state of affairs.
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@admin@burnout.cafe You say “I really am a supporter of free speech and free expression” and literally in the second half of the same sentence demand that another instance ban users for posting content you don’t like.
Your instance rules apply to your instance, not to all others. You do not get to decide what gay pride is or isn’t. You are not entitled to demand that other instance admins do your dirty work, or that people of a specific sexual orientation disappear into a corner or hole just to please you. I’m only going to say this once so let me be very clear: Fuck. That. Shit.
Equating erotica or consensual pornography with violence and gore is absolutely despicable.
If you want to run an instance with restrictive content rules, it is up to you to curate the space. Or you could trust your users to curate their own timelines and block or hide content they don’t want to see. Last time I checked, content only appears in your local timeline if one of your users posts or boosts it.
@staff@mastodon.social
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Here's what the video conferencing tool used in my company does:
When a meeting is recorded, it prompts everyone to consent to being recorded and to have the recording processed by AI.
If you do not consent - you can't participate. You can't speak, type, or activate your video. If you want/need to do any of those things, then you must first consent.
I'm not sure that's 'respecting choice'.
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@pelicangut@aus.social How big are they? Would one of them fit in my backyard? I want one - looks like it would make for a nice #modelrailway installation...
This lovely creature departed this world today.
She had the DNA of three working dog breeds. Survivor of snake bites and chewed-through electric cables. She was just shy of her twelfth birthday.
Rest in peace, Jasmine.
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@moof@cupoftea.social I am not sure such research exists.
I have stopped using screen protectors 14 years ago. I've never had a phone screen scratch or crack in that time. I've always used cases that create a rim around the screen to keep it from making contact with whatever it falls on.
My main personal dislike of screen protectors is that they tend to reduce screen clarity, and swiping on touch screens feels less fluid.
After the devastating Farrer by-election loss, Jane Hume is asked whether a future Coalition would include One Nation.
Her answer: "It is an impossible question to answer."
No it's not. There is absolutely nothing impossible about saying "no" when asked if you'll collaborate with fascists. Saying "It's impossible to answer" means two things:
- You're not opposed to the idea
- You're keeping your options open so you don't have to backflip later
I'm calling it now: someone in the Liberal Party will publicly and noisily float that idea before the end of the year, and they will not get shot down.
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@990000@mstdn.social Especially genius since this is such a basic reminder that any smartphone made in the last fifteen years should be able to do this without needing to orchestrate agentic AIs.
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@alice
Wouldn't be the first time Niantic have pulled something along those lines.
A large amount of the data in Pokemon Go, locations, photos etc came from Niantic's previous game, Ingress. See second para under 'Development and Release' in the wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)#Development_and_release
Of course training delivery bots with crowdsourced data is a few steps up in corporate evildoing.
@cyberlyra
So, Inland Rail is done now.
I would have liked to see a properly conceived, designed and implemented version of this. But the way it was actually going to come about, with zero community consultation, bonkers decision-making and largely adverse impacts on the rural towns, it's probably better left alone.
This is top tier bullshit. Both the fact that the leader of a fascist party is being gifted a private plane by Australia's richest mining magnate, and how the need for a private plane is justified: politicians don't want to be bothered by members of the public when traveling.
@mschfr@mastodon.social @masek@infosec.exchange I worked in a company like that. We called it 'waterfall with stand-ups'.
I normally wouldn't comment on this kind of stuff, but this quote from currently erstwhile Sydney shock jock and consistently all-round piece of shit Kyle Sandilands is just too precious.
"I just want to get back to work. I’ve got a family, I’ve got mortgages to pay, like everyone else."
Mortgage*s* to pay. Note the plural.
The man is on a cool 7+ million base salary just for being a dickhead on radio. Several advertising and licensing deals put him considerably north of 10. If I was on that kind of money, I wouldn't take out fucking mortgages - I'd pay cash.
"I have mortgage*s* to pay, like everyone else." I suppose being this far out of touch comes with the territory when you're worth hundreds of millions. Sure, everyone owns a bunch of investment properties that they're trying to wring maximum profit out of, at the cost of everyone else.
Fucking piece of shit.
Source for the income: https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/kyle-sandilands-arn-salary-breakdown/
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@aaron @rorystarr LOL, that's basically just the same prediction repeated ad nauseam with small tweaks and updates...
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@SummerKnights Everyone should be able to feel safe. I'm glad you have this, and I wish you a lot more of it for your future.
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@pinguino@social.linux.pizza @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Capitalism is actively starving millions of people.
If there is one thing I loathe with every fibre of my being, it's broadcast radio.
As of yesterday, the workers on the construction site across from my rental have taken to carrying a portable radio with them. It's loud enough that I can hear it through my closed windows at 30m distance. If I open my windows, I can clearly hear what the talking heads are saying.
This is NOT helping me get through my day.
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@ptoothfish It was bad enough when I had a rental car recently and the indicator was on the other side of the steering wheel, where decades of muscle memory expect the window wipers to be.
The wealthy are no longer merely saying "Fuck you, I've got mine".
They're saying "Fuck you, I've got mine, but I want more, so I will get more, and if that means you can't get yours, fuck you even more."
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@rorystarr Not to mention Full Self Driving in Teslas, which has been arriving (checks watch) any minute now for the past five years at least.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run
The tech industry for the past 15 or so years: "Here's a great solution to that problem."
Everyone else: "That's not a problem anyone has."
Tech industry: "Oh, you will."
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@tinker Sounds like they've finally found their angle to attack VPNs, which have been a thorn in some politician's sides for a long time. Age verification will be the wedge.
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@da_667@infosec.exchange Is it XCode the IDE, or XCode Developer Tools?
I'm asking because I have Brew and Python on my Mac and definitely did not have to install the XCode IDE (which is a huge download), but I know a lot of things require XCode Developer Tools.
The fuck?
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@cR0w It is unbelievable how much time this story spends on trying to convince the reader that this hunter was a really swell guy who did it all out of the goodness of his heart. An 'eager conservationist' (I paraphrase) who hunted for legitimate culling reasons (and not to fill his mansion with animal trophies, perish the thought).
As far as I'm concerned, the elephants should have been allowed to keep his head for a trophy.
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@mhoye Microsoft saying this is also bananapants in the sense that they assume they had this 'social permission' in the first place.
But you can't lose what you don't have.
Just like they - and other AI companies - never had the social permission to hover up and appropriate all the shared and public knowledge they could get hold of, just so they could compress it and sell it back to us in a stochastic fashion. Just like they didn't have the social permission to build massive data centres in rural areas, tangibly reducing quality of life there with noise, heat and water pollution.
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@neurovagrant Zero Trust was always overengineering, but the eagerness with which the same Zero Trust advocates are punching holes in their security setup so LLMs can have free reign and we can have some of this "don't get left behind, look at how much time/money you can save with this" is astounding.
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@GLaDTheresCake
Totally not problematic. A metric crapton of location and activity data that are most definitely not in the wrong hands...
@alice @cyberlyra
RE: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
I love Firefly. I love Serenity. I rewatch both every few years despite Whedon and Baldwin. And this goes to show, because normally I would ban people like that and their output from my consumption.
But this? I could not be less enthusiastic about this if I actually tried. Animated, set between the show and the movie? Not a draw for me, in several aspects. Those gaps have been filled by the comics, not always in the greatest fashion but satisfyingly enough that there's no new ground to be trod there.
In all honesty, a "20 years later" live action sequel with the remaining crew, clearly older and perhaps a bit wiser, would have been more appealing to me. Especially if they'd had gotten rid of Jayne's character.
@komislava I am one of them.
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@Gargron@mastodon.social @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net How do you install ublock Origin in Vivaldi?
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@f_beaudet@cosocial.ca worth noting that this only works if you're subscribing directly with Microsoft.
If you buy an annual key through a reseller, you do not get offered the 'classic' option, so you will have to put up with Copilot. Thing is, even so these 12 month keys are often cheaper than paying Microsoft directly.
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@jonmsterling I had a prof in Uni who fell under the 'clueless' category. He was supposed to teach Java, but everything he knew he got out of a book that he read over the summer break. Every time someone asked a question that went beyond the basics, his response was along the lines of "Great question. Why don't you read the documentation and tell us the answer next time?". Exasperating.
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@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social When everyone is rushing to dig for gold that may or may not be there - the surefire way to get rich is to sell shovels, pans and pickaxes.
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@gulfie oh, are you running accessories through LocoNet as well? I only use it for feedbacks.
Fuck me, they really elected Matt Canavan as Nats leader?
What the actual fucking fuck? What the fuck are the collective members of that party thinking? Are they *trying* to make themselves completely irrelevant?
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@bastardsheep@aus.social I once made my stepfather's 486 work laptop unbootable by messing with the config.sys. Was able to rectify the mistake by using my mother's similar (but not identical) work laptop to create a MS-DOS boot disk and revert the config.sys changes...
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
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@gulfie@mastodonapp.uk Whats your DCC central? I always find it a bit weird when they make you do these calculations. I use homebrew LocoNet sensor boards and I just configure them with a portion of the LocoNet address range. In my software (not JMRI) I just configure each sensor directly with its address. It doesn't need to know what type of boards I have.