Tim Serong

Say it, brother!

"A local control interface means the system can continue operating:

- without Internet access,
- without dependence on a vendor specific cloud service,
- without vendor-determined future cloud subscription fees,
- and without the risk of a manufacturer simply deciding they no longer wish to support third-party cloud access, and just turning it off."

From https://simonhackett.com/2026/05/18/the-home-battery-lock-in-you-dont-yet-know-about/

Yes, I know this helps Simon's current/future WIP Energy Autopilot business, and that's fine because this approach helps EVERYONE. You don't own a thing if you can't control it locally and/or it can be remotely bricked.

#energystorage

Maybe so, but unlike AI data centres, restaurants provide tangible value to the community they're built in. Notably, one can go there and eat food.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-02/firmus-response-public-backlash-artificial-intelligence-tasmania/106864804

#politas #ai

Holy shit. Descendents are playing on Saturday. Here. In Hobart.

Could not agree more

(seen at The Margate Train)

RE: @Elwell@mast.hpc.social

For storage folks in Melbourne, there's a Ceph Meetup happening on October 30 as part of the eResearch conference that runs from October 26-30.

I found this in our letter box today, and I want to love it because it is _so_close_ to being a cleverly rendered, simple, positive statement about something good the government has done. Unfortunately they just had to bring in the usual fear/blame combo with the little "valid only" line... #auspol #politas

A bit of work stuff again - creatively using `kexec` to boot into the Harvester installer in an environment where I was unable to directly boot an ISO image via the system's iLO:

https://www.suse.com/c/sideloading-suse-virtualization-onto-an-existing-linux-system/