Nostr notes by ahistorical immaterialist

Local government voting; I pulled two voting slips out of the ...

2026-10-20T09:08:20Z

Local government voting; I pulled two voting slips out of the envelope, one for councillors and the other for mayor I assumed. Filled them in, returned them.

Just figured out, the mayor slip was folded in half - I actually voted for deputy mayor and didn't look at the other side of the slip. So I never voted for mayor.

Why would you have two slips with one double-sided, rather than three?

Running a web browser without ad blocking confirmed as a security ...

2026-10-15T21:15:03Z

Running a web browser without ad blocking confirmed as a security nightmare https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/

No photo, but I am attending Honours student seminars, and one ...

2026-10-09T03:47:36Z

No photo, but I am attending Honours student seminars, and one student (who studied fungal communities in eucalypt and pine forests) is wearing a shirt with neon glowing mushrooms all over it, and has a shaved head dyed red with white spots. Incredible, A+.

tfw a satellite image tile from before you bulldozed the ...

2026-09-28T01:32:43Z

tfw a satellite image tile from before you bulldozed the rainforest is still displaying in Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.9313528,140.755383,973m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDkyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

( ) Makes use of cool new kitchen gadget

2026-09-26T00:18:35Z

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( ) Makes use of cool new kitchen gadget

We've got big problems if we are seriously going to define ...

2026-09-24T03:39:42Z

We've got big problems if we are seriously going to define "scraping public dashboards" as hacking, now. If that's the case, I'm hacking government systems daily. https://mastodon.social/@camwilson/117323887705649903

You don't express "extreme concern" dickhead, you ...

2026-09-23T21:34:40Z

You don't express "extreme concern" dickhead, you prosecute him like you would any script kiddy under the cybercrime legislation you've been building for 30 years https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/24/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman

I've always loved QGIS because it is a great example of open ...

2026-09-22T21:34:04Z

I've always loved QGIS because it is a great example of open source software that is legitimately *better* than the expensive commercial alternatives...and keeps getting even better while they get worse. This is just an added bonus. https://mastodon.social/@nyalld/117316684150900164

my issue is with the constant framing that 1) this is a problem ...

2026-09-21T22:36:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…wj7y
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my issue is with the constant framing that 1) this is a problem with EVs and 2) this is a problem with Chinese things.

It's a problem with everything - not just EVs, not just cars, but phones, TVs, you name it. And it's a problem with products from everywhere.

It's the framing of *you're at risk if you buy a Chinese EV* (but your iPhone is fine because Apple is trustworthy) that's not helpful.

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2026-09-21T04:53:55Z

#cybersecurity

have to admit I'm not overly worried if some guy in Beijing ...

2026-09-20T23:11:46Z

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have to admit I'm not overly worried if some guy in Beijing is watching me through a camera while I yell at BMW drivers, I hope he finds it entertaining

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2026-09-20T04:33:43Z

Let's settle this

Tag yourself ...

2026-09-17T10:11:16Z

Tag yourself

Okay, fair call, this is neat #StraightOuttaShenzen ...

2026-09-12T10:15:53Z

Okay, fair call, this is neat #StraightOuttaShenzen
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPDoaWn

Ah yes ...

2026-08-25T23:58:54Z

Ah yes

Can someone explain to me why having 276 backup diesel generators ...

2026-08-25T07:50:05Z

Can someone explain to me why having 276 backup diesel generators is better than having, like, one big fuck-off backup generator? I'm guessing the answer is "avoid some kind of regulation" https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/george-town-council-approves-288-megawatt-ai-data-centre-at-bell-bay/

Eric Abetz is sitting in the car parked next to mine ...

2026-08-13T22:06:03Z

Eric Abetz is sitting in the car parked next to mine 🤷‍♂️

Someone, somewhere, has just asked Claude to fill in their census ...

2026-08-11T08:02:08Z

Someone, somewhere, has just asked Claude to fill in their census for them.

I think this is my main objection too, and I often use the ...

2026-08-05T01:59:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…rpsw
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I think this is my main objection too, and I often use the analogy of spreadsheets with people I talk to who don't program.

Imagine if Microsoft Excel randomly calculated cell values wrong, 15% of the time. Formulas sometimes didn't work as expected. You make a reference to cell A15 but Excel uses cell A150 instead. It wouldn't be fit for purpose, you wouldn't buy it.

But if you call the same thing "Copilot" it's amazing, and if you don't like using it you're not keeping up with the future!

DON'T buy an EV because there is nowhere to charge them! Why ...

2026-08-01T23:18:36Z

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DON'T buy an EV because there is nowhere to charge them! Why hasn't the government fixed this problem and paid for charging stations!

Car expert being interviewed: well...I mean, the government doesn't build petrol stations, you know...

Also Australians are the world's* greatest runners now. * ...

2026-08-01T23:07:28Z

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Also Australians are the world's* greatest runners now.

* Minor former British colonies except the big one.

Learning a lot about how normal people understand the world, once ...

2026-08-01T23:06:29Z

Learning a lot about how normal people understand the world, once again, by staying in a house where the TV is on commercial news 24 hours a day.

* DON'T panic buy fuel! DON'T!
* But we are going to lead with fuel prices being about to rise at the start of every half-hour bulletin.
* Prices are rising because the government is RAISING the tax! (back to where it has always been and also there's some kind of war going on possibly)
* Also, teenagers are scary and are using social media and stabbing people.

If I were to say the words "Transformative Change Agency For ...

2026-07-20T23:15:00Z

If I were to say the words "Transformative Change Agency For Holistic Sustainability", what would you think? Be honest.

If I had approximately $1,381.39 to spare I would just order shit ...

2026-07-18T01:51:18Z

If I had approximately $1,381.39 to spare I would just order shit like this and see what arrived #StraightOuttaShenzen

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2026-06-29T05:56:17Z

What a week, huh? Etc. etc.

Hardware pack for a purchase where the items required for each ...

2026-06-25T08:22:52Z

Hardware pack for a purchase where the items required for each step of the assembly process are in their own labelled bubble. Whoever came up with this is a thousand times #blessed

I'm just remembering certain explicit comments I made to a ...

2026-06-13T22:31:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…49j5
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I'm just remembering certain explicit comments I made to a couple of people about the dangers of building an entire institutional strategy around cloud products from American companies.

Do any LLM-touchers out there know if typical, corporate ...

2026-06-13T22:29:58Z

Do any LLM-touchers out there know if typical, corporate Australian users of Claude would have been using the Fable model that Anthropic has just taken away from non-Americans?

Just wondering what sort of mood certain org units whose practices I have been made aware of might be in on Monday morning...

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2026-05-27T11:19:23Z

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Oh HELL yes ...

2026-05-27T11:17:08Z

Oh HELL yes

""SOLAI has launched the Solode Neo, a $399 Linux-based ...

2026-05-14T01:32:18Z

""SOLAI has launched the Solode Neo, a $399 Linux-based mini PC designed for always-on AI agents, browser automation, and persistent developer workflows. The compact system ships with an Intel N150 processor, 12GB LPDDR5 memory, 128GB SSD storage, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a Linux-based operating system called Solode AI OS. The company says the device supports frameworks and tools including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, and Hermes, while emphasizing local control, automation, and privacy-focused workflows running directly from a home network. "

IMAGINE telling a normal person they need a second little Linux PC in order to automate the software on their other PC. They would shoot you dead.

The AI is now giving me work? Fuck off ...

2026-05-10T20:54:36Z

The AI is now giving *me* work? Fuck off

It has been 0️⃣ days since esteemed senior colleague has said ...

2026-05-06T05:13:21Z

It has been 0️⃣ days since esteemed senior colleague has said "I asked ChatGPT and it told me it would be better if we did this" and I was forced to reply with a list of examples of why it was talking out of its arse 🙃

Confessional rant incoming; I spent a significant amount of the ...

2026-04-23T06:37:25Z

Confessional rant incoming;

I spent a significant amount of the last two days messing around with Copilot (as recommended and encouraged by my employer), and the sum total is that I have been gaslit for about 6 hours and have learned very little of use. I really think I might post the logs somewhere, except they are very tedious and boring.

Broadly; yesterday, I have a very large (~168gb per file) spatial data-cube I want to do some calculations on. Too large to fit in memory, and the processing involves time-lags which means I really need to look at each cell independently. I wanted to make an "empty" template copy of that dataset so I could place the calculated results into it, cell by cell, hopefully in a way that might work in parallel.

Cue: several hours of:

"Do this..."

Yeah that didn't work because of X

"Oh you're totally right, very perceptive of you, you understand why that didn't work. You need to do THIS."

Yeah that made things worse, now this is broken.

"Good catch! That never would have worked and here's why. You need to do this instead."

...Eventually it concluded, logically enough, that it might be useful instead to output a bunch of individual files, each representing the time-series for one cell. That way I can run each cell (or a group of them) in parallel, and then merge all those cell files back into a cube at the end. Great. Copilot said this was "Recommended, typical, HPC-safe way to do this". Cool.

Today; Okay, how do I use cdo, or gdal, or R, to merge all these thousands of single-cell files back into a data-cube that has the dimensions/metadata etc. of the input variables?

Repeat of yesterday:

"Do this"

Yeah nope.

"Of course, that was a bad choice, do this instead"

Nah, it's fucked mate.

"Well obviously, but good news, all you need to do is this."

Nah.

"Fair enough, but I have a simple solution, give this a try".

...

The ultimate conclusion (which I don't know if I believe yet) is that no spatial tools like cdo or gdal are capable of really dealing with a "raster" that is just a single 1x1 cell, and if only I chunked things into anything larger than that, 2x2 or 1x1500, it would all be fine.

I haven't tested this theory yet, and there are a few reasons it would not be a great way to do things, but I'm done. This was really not productive, I'm sure I churned through more computing resources having this conversation than my HPC processing of the actual data will use. I'm sure some chucklehead will say "Well it would have worked if you had used Claude" or something, but that's kind of not the point. We are being pushed to use this *specific tool*, we are wasting a bunch of money on this *specific tool* and being told it will make our work easier and more efficient. It's bullshit.

Quantum dog in the superposition of "in" and ...

2026-04-07T21:03:02Z

Quantum dog in the superposition of "in" and "out"

if AGI is possible (and it really, absolutely isn't within ...

2026-03-25T21:15:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…qh8h
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if AGI is possible (and it really, absolutely isn't within the framework of LLMs/transformers), I still don't see the connection to making their money back.

1. Create single universal global super-intelligence
2. ???
3. Profit!

it's not even just about "they probably rushed the ...

2026-03-12T03:51:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…gv5h
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it's not even just about "they probably rushed the writing" for me, it's more just the feeling that whoever produced that content simply doesn't care enough, or respects the audience enough, to bother producing something that's human and good. This is why "slop" has taken off as a term. And you feed slop to pigs, from a bucket.

We aren't pigs, we're people, looking for entertainment and connection. I think you're right, small snippets of info (a weather forecast) are probably tolerable - but one can already hit an icon in Android Auto or Car Play and have a local weather forecast read out instantly, it's not clear how it's a value-add for a radio show.

they do, which is completely fair and necessary. I just feel, ...

2026-03-12T02:49:31Z

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they do, which is completely fair and necessary. I just feel, since I adopted my first dog 30-odd years ago, they have somewhat outpaced inflation.

I've noticed it has become a serious social faux pas to buy ...

2026-03-12T02:45:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…uj22
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I've noticed it has become a serious social faux pas to *buy* a pet. One is only allowed to *adopt* an animal that has been *rescued* - paying a lot for the privilege, naturally.

im getting a bit suspicious of the rescue dog industrial complex

2026-03-12T01:38:09Z

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im getting a bit suspicious of the rescue dog industrial complex

from a user (specifically, a parent's) perspective, Spotify ...

2026-02-24T09:58:25Z

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from a user (specifically, a parent's) perspective, Spotify Video is the reason I am shifting everything away from Spotify and getting ready to cancel it. You can't disable video podcasts in Spotify, therefore I can't trust it as something my kids can use to listen to podcasts.

A bunch of inane, offensive Youtubers have started dumping all their content there to get around parents controlling YouTube time.

ah yes, SnapSendSolve! I downloaded it weeks ago, when I try to ...

2026-02-17T23:24:09Z

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ah yes, SnapSendSolve! I downloaded it weeks ago, when I try to report something it tells me to create an account, and then that fails and says "Please retry in 24 hours."

It says this every time I have tried 🫠

Just an exciting genre of social media post called "prick in ...

2026-02-17T21:41:57Z

Just an exciting genre of social media post called "prick in a Ford Ranger parking on the yellow no-standing line literally across the pedestrian refuge in a school zone outside a primary school at 8:30 in the morning and not even just quickly dropping off kids which I might barely tolerate", yelling into the void

TIL there is a species of fungus found only in Texas and Japan, ...

2026-01-09T00:23:03Z

TIL there is a species of fungus found only in Texas and Japan, and genetic analysis suggests the two populations have been separated for 19 million years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorioactis?wprov=sfla1

Century 25% complete. ⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

2025-12-31T06:20:17Z

Century 25% complete.
⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

Uhhh wraith-possessed slave to a warrior-emperor cursed with ...

2025-12-30T05:50:26Z

Uhhh wraith-possessed slave to a warrior-emperor cursed with immortality by an elder god serving the cause of Chaos I guess?

useful info, I have a same-era MacBook Pro that I do intend to ...

2025-12-27T10:44:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…74w9
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useful info, I have a same-era MacBook Pro that I do intend to put Mint on at some point in the future.

I put Mint on my 2011 MacBook Air and it works like a charm, absolutely zero issues.

Thoughts on driving the Geely EX-5 for a few days; - smooth, ...

2025-12-20T01:37:14Z

Thoughts on driving the Geely EX-5 for a few days;
- smooth, fast, comfy, lots of bells and whistles
- too many bells and whistles, in particular it isn't great at understanding the 35kph advisory signs on highway off-ramps don't apply to the highway itself, and gets angry at me continuing to drive at 100
- main charging test passed with flying colours - we can drive the 60kms to the city and back, and then easily charge that back up with my piddly 7 amp charger overnight

As someone who has already paid off their HECS debt, let me tell ...

2025-12-08T06:53:38Z

As someone who has already paid off their HECS debt, let me tell you what I think of the government reducing people's HECS debts by 20%;

Excellent fucking job, but they need to go higher, try 40% next time.

Two new papers I've been involved in have come out in the ...

2025-11-27T22:56:28Z

Two new papers I've been involved in have come out in the last few days, both, broadly, about King Island.

Spatial heterogeneity in Holocene vegetation dynamics across Bass Strait and its regional paleoclimatic implications - https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2025.10051

King Island as a microcosm of 19th- and 20th-century agricultural land clearing in Australia - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111608

seems to me Optus owes you $255

2025-11-24T02:14:50Z

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seems to me Optus owes you $255

Just read an article detailing how Microsoft executives are ...

2025-11-21T01:01:44Z

Just read an article detailing how Microsoft executives are confused and upset that people don't appreciate their AI features and don't like people giving them shit about them on Twitter. "How are people not impressed with this stuff?"

Fellas, have you used the internet lately? It's fucked. Have you used Windows? Fucked. It's shit. People are sick of it being shit, because it didn't used to be as shit as this. You've gone and fucked everything, that's why people aren't happy with you.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-exec-asks-why-arent-more-people-impressed-with-ai

if I wanted to get somewhere on time I would simply take into ...

2025-10-26T22:40:44Z

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if I wanted to get somewhere on time I would simply take into account the morning traffic and leave 5 minutes earlier, but I'm weird like that

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2025-10-18T06:34:46Z

I am in possession of a battery powered Ryobi pruning chainsaw. ...

2025-10-12T04:06:39Z

I am in possession of a battery powered Ryobi pruning chainsaw. They should give these to everyone. Universal Basic Chainsaw.

IMHO don't slash the speed limit, get over this as fast as ...

2025-10-11T21:19:31Z

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IMHO don't slash the speed limit, get over this as fast as bloody possible

This is not far from us and we drove over it a few weeks ago (not ...

2025-10-11T21:12:30Z

This is not far from us and we drove over it a few weeks ago (not realising what it was) and the highway is still open https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/speed-limit-slashed-as-lyell-highway-landslip-worsens/

Think you're getting weird targeted ads? Hold my Americium ...

2025-09-19T12:33:47Z

Think you're getting weird targeted ads? Hold my Americium 241

Tonight the post-grad students held a jam session in the ...

2025-09-11T11:32:00Z

Tonight the post-grad students held a jam session in the department that I came along to with my guitar. A good time was had by all, we played Wish You Were Here, Tainted Love, Dirty Old Town, Blister in the Sun and, of course that absolute banger Call Me Maybe.

Disturbed to hear there has been a brutal, calculated murder at ...

2025-09-05T03:41:36Z

Disturbed to hear there has been a brutal, calculated murder at the University of Melbourne

hard working Aussie mums and dads getting slugged at the browser!

2025-09-01T21:20:12Z

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hard working Aussie mums and dads getting slugged at the browser!

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2025-08-31T10:43:32Z

Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?

The thing about Palestine Action, in the UK, is as far as I can ...

2025-08-10T10:03:10Z

The thing about Palestine Action, in the UK, is as far as I can tell they did the absolutely most precision-targeted, moral action possible; property destruction against actual literal weapons of war - nobody harmed, no disruption to the general public.

No wonder the government is losing their shit and making an example of them.

I've been saying we should bring back the letter thorn for ...

2025-08-07T06:32:41Z

I've been saying we should bring back the letter thorn for years https://mastodon.social/@Edent/114986022160247496

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2025-07-26T09:18:21Z

Listen to this fucking key change coming up

Doug Anthony All Stars version possibly superior, however.

2025-07-26T07:20:56Z

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Doug Anthony All Stars version possibly superior, however.

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2025-07-26T07:19:39Z

First song I voted for to appear! #hottest100oz

Legit thought this would be the song they pretend to play at #1 ...

2025-07-26T06:53:34Z

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Legit thought this would be the song they pretend to play at #1 to take the piss

Nope nope

2025-07-26T06:50:26Z

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Nope nope

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2025-07-26T06:50:03Z

FUCK OFF HORSES #hottest100oz

Full disclosure, I voted for Flame Trees

2025-07-26T04:21:48Z

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Full disclosure, I voted for Flame Trees

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2025-07-26T04:21:25Z

Baaaarrrnnseyyyy #hottest100oz

are you going to tell people what to do when it goes rogue and ...

2025-07-25T10:57:10Z

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are you going to tell people what to do when it goes rogue and deletes their files and database?

One of the candidates running in Lyons that I have to avoid ...

2025-07-18T11:30:39Z

One of the candidates running in Lyons that I have to avoid voting for is described as an "esoteric lawyer" on Kevin Bonham (npub1auj…euf3) 's blog 👀

Just read a news article on the ABC that search engines in ...

2025-07-10T23:06:23Z

Just read a news article on the ABC that *search engines* in Australia about to be forced to age verify...logged-in users. Only logged-in users. The government's belief that people under 18 won't be able to read and click a "Log out" button is fucking astounding.

Just received an email from an international organisation, ...

2025-07-03T23:39:07Z

Just received an email from an international organisation, extending best wishes for the forthcoming "holiday season" and wanting to know my availability during this period. What "holiday season" might this be referring to?

Lovely afternoon up on kunanyi ...

2025-06-22T06:34:44Z

Lovely afternoon up on kunanyi

uhh the facts are the US just bombed the hell out of the country, ...

2025-06-22T00:31:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…mcef
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uhh the facts are the US just bombed the hell out of the country, unprovoked, I'm not sure how it would be ethical for a US media outlet to "counter" that simple fact

you worship the Old Gods and maintain their sacred mysteries

2025-04-27T01:39:25Z

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you worship the Old Gods and maintain their sacred mysteries

I think an analogy with the invention of spell checkers is kind ...

2025-04-27T00:54:28Z

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I think an analogy with the invention of spell checkers is kind of useful. Spell checkers are good! When they were added to word processors, they were legitimately great! Not perfect, but a good addition to the software you're using.

Now imagine if spell checkers required a subscription to work, to pay for the insane energy and warehouses full of processors to run them. And imagine if, once spell checkers came out, it was declared that we simply didn't need to teach kids to spell anymore, since spell checkers only cost $15 a month.

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe ...

2025-04-26T23:05:09Z

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.

It's always disheartening when you see people you hugely ...

2025-04-22T14:21:31Z

It's always disheartening when you see people you hugely respect and who contributed greatly to the tools you use to get work done every day, start talking about how Markov chains are their friendly smart buddies.

Be us, in hotel room in Melbourne, browsing comedy festival shows ...

2025-04-12T08:15:29Z

Be us, in hotel room in Melbourne, browsing comedy festival shows on phone, discussing how we would like to see Nish Kumar, but his show tonight is sold out.

Leave room to grab some dinner. Get into lift. Nish Kumar is in the lift.

Last year I tried to use an image gen AI for some legitimate work ...

2025-04-12T07:35:24Z

Last year I tried to use an image gen AI for some legitimate work - generating some stand-in images for a web tool (that would eventually be replaced by photos). Pictures of various aspects of a garden; green grass, dead grass, shrubs, vines on a wall etc.

The AI insisted on inserting a garden gnome in every one. The more I told it NO GARDEN GNONES, the more it added. https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@Legit_Spaghetti/114321751903285137

What if we all passed the hat around and just bought Tumblr?

2025-04-05T06:06:33Z

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What if we all passed the hat around and just bought Tumblr?

:thinkingwat: ActivityPub version of MySpace, including ...

2025-04-05T06:02:25Z

:thinkingwat: ActivityPub version of MySpace, including (featuring) insane HTML-hack personalised web design

How might one convert a Wordpress site into a static website? ...

2025-03-25T09:00:47Z

How might one convert a Wordpress site into a static website? I'm guessing maybe some fancy deployment of recursive wget? Maybe?

I don't know, I don't really "support brands", ...

2025-03-11T03:11:45Z

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I don't know, I don't really "support brands", they can do fine without my support. What I do do is spend my money on products that meet my specifications, and Tesla's, where the car company can track your car and look through its cameras, and where the doors lock you in and can't be unlocked if there's a fire, just aren't up to scratch 🤷‍♂️

yep, drove past this morning and they have painted over the ...

2025-03-11T00:55:03Z

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yep, drove past this morning and they have painted over the graffiti 😢

it's on the Brooker Hwy, every one from the northern suburbs ...

2025-03-10T04:58:24Z

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it's on the Brooker Hwy, every one from the northern suburbs drives right past every day!

I have been waiting for this, it's in an incredibly prominent ...

2025-03-10T04:52:04Z

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I have been waiting for this, it's in an incredibly prominent location

Brisbane listeners are going to miss the 7-hour Hildegard von ...

2025-03-07T03:31:20Z

Brisbane listeners are going to miss the 7-hour Hildegard von Bingen special from 11pm until 6am tonight 😢https://bne.social/@james/114119018195553871

#infrastructure tootin', the last two sections of the new ...

2025-02-25T08:40:53Z

#infrastructure tootin', the last two sections of the new Bridgewater Bridge are sitting there attached to the gantries, ready to be lifted into place any day now

Advice request: Say I wanted to run some kind of multi user ...

2025-02-20T03:55:41Z

Advice request: Say I wanted to run some kind of multi user online file storage/sharing system - think Dropbox, but hosted myself, using something like OwnCloud I'm assuming. What are some hosting providers that would provide cheap *space* for such a service - and I'm talking a couple of TB of files, probably?

(For those in the know, looking for something to serve the same purpose as the now dead Cloudstor service for a geographically dispersed research group).

Medieval Nubian fashion brought to life - this is fantastic ...

2025-02-14T07:53:12Z

Medieval Nubian fashion brought to life - this is fantastic https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medieval-nubian-fashion-brought-to-life/

Book your hotels now, folks, ain't nobody getting home ...

2025-02-11T04:17:45Z

Book your hotels now, folks, ain't nobody getting home tonight https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/traffic-blocked-on-tasman-bridge-after-truck-towing-boat-gets-stuck/

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2025-02-09T23:43:10Z

It's a constant annoyance to me that my phone, on my home ...

2025-02-09T06:13:54Z

It's a constant annoyance to me that my phone, on my home internet connection, can effortlessly stream high bandwidth video from YouTube or Netflix - but constantly pauses/buffers on much lower bandwidth internet radio. I'm thinking maybe it's got something to do with background app/battery saving stuff; with video I have the screen on and the app active, with radio I don't.

Now I'm not a "marketing" "guru" but I think ...

2025-01-30T08:12:42Z

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Now I'm not a "marketing" "guru" but I think maybe throwing away the "Office" brand your company has been known for for decades and replacing it with the name of a product that everyone hates and that is losing massive amounts of money, is a tad silly.

Microsoft renaming their entire office app "Copilot" so ...

2025-01-30T08:05:28Z

Microsoft renaming their entire office app "Copilot" so my phone now says depraved things like "Would you like to open this PDF in Copilot?" is going to send me full The Joker