duncan_bayne

duncan_bayne, 39 minutes ago to random

Sorry kids, no eggs for breakfast tomorrow unless she moves first.

decryption, 10 hours ago to random

blog post where I compare a bunch of cameras under $1000 to find the best one for someone looking to get back into the hobby

https://blog.decryption.net.au/t/cameras-under-a-1000-with-amazing-dynamic-range/156

decryption, 8 days ago to random

lets say i wanted to use something that isn't a smartphone for TOTP purposes - what's out there? something stand alone, probably not internet connected or reliant on a business providing updates to keep it working, and that I can have multiple copies of

duncan_bayne, 8 days ago to random

TIL that there's a cafe nearby called JavaScript Cafe 🤣

decryption, 8 days ago to random

think im done here, can finally print em out

Quinnypig, 9 days ago to random

Either Google Cloud has done something next-level horrifying, or this superannuation company is being highly misleading about their own mistake.

Bets?

https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

Kels_316, 10 days ago to random

the workshop across from my old one, which is a mirror image, has just hit marketplace at $200 less per month than I was paying a year ago, and I was paying $400 a month less than they advertised it for 3yrs ago. Commercial property is a massive scam.

duncan_bayne, 13 days ago to random

"There are plenty of Jewish Zionists, myself included, who support Palestinian liberation and a safe and secure two-state solution for both people. The sad reality is that many of those Jews were murdered on October 7 by Hamas terrorists."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-799080

duncan_bayne, 14 days ago to melbourne

Oh no! Sichuan House in Melbourne (Victoria) has closed down. There was no announcement but first they closed for renovations, never re-opened, and their phone is disconnected).

Does anyone have any recommendations for good, authentic, Sichuan food in or around Melbourne now? 🙏

(Should add: I'm a snob, and cook my own Sichuan food at home, gong bao ji ding and ma po tofu, because there's nothing authentic near me.)

#melbourne #sichuan #restaurants

decryption, 16 days ago to random

Issue 2077 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• US-based PsiQuantum gets $1b from AU govt to build "world's first fault-tolerant error-corrected corrected quantum computer" in Australia

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• Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Intel N100 benchmarks & specs comparison

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duncan_bayne, 16 days ago to random

Vizio: "We never stop questioning what's possible".

Also Vizio: "Maybe it's possible to violate the GPL and get away with it, even after getting the FSF involved."

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-to-be-deposed-in-sfc-v-vizio-updates-relevant-faq-entry

futurebird, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

Listen it's very simple. The president can't be prosecuted for any official act.

Some worry warts keep asking "well what if the president tells the military to stage a coup?" Always with the "what about a coup?" questions! Listen, Cassandra, we have a safe guard: if something so bad (and unlikely pfft) as a coup happened the congress would obviously impeach the president. Happy? No?

We don't need a judicial check AND a legislative one too. That's too much! The president must be free!

jwz, 19 days ago to random

The Millennial CAPTCHA.

This is really well done:
https://jwz.org/b/ykPi

duncan_bayne, 20 days ago to random

Over the weekend, I installed a local LLM to play around with Emacs integration and suchlike. (Related: if you haven't tried Emacs in a decade or two I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Ligatures, LSP integration, LLM integration, ...)

Anyways right off the bat the LLM hallucinated what is now my favourite non-existent HTTP response:

400 KO

🤣

tuxdevices, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to apple German

I just received my new work laptop (#Apple #Macbook Pro M3, ~€2000) just to discover that it does not support dual-monitor output despite having multiple video ports.

For a feature that even the cheapest laptops (and older MacBooks) have had for years, Apple now asks you to buy the MacBook Pro M3 Pro (€2500) or M3 Max (€4000).

This is essentially €2000 #ewaste. Not so "pro" after all.

futurebird, 22 days ago to random

Joke justices on a joke court.

duncan_bayne, 26 days ago to random

The evolution of the criticism of capitalism, from Marx through Marcuse, Galbraith, and Harringon, courtesy the late Robert Hessen ...

https://www.econlib.org/robert-hessen-rip/

"That these amenities had become available to most people did not cause capitalism’s critics to recant, or even to relent. Instead, they ingeniously reversed themselves. Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse proclaimed that the real evil of capitalism is prosperity, because it seduces workers away from their historic mission—the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism—by supplying them with cars and household appliances, which he called “tools of enslavement.” Some critics reject capitalism by extolling “the simple life” and labeling prosperity mindless materialism.

In the 1950s, critics such as John Kenneth Galbraith and Vance Packard attacked the legitimacy of consumer demand, asserting that if goods had to be advertised in order to sell, they could not be serving any authentic human needs. They charged that consumers are brainwashed by Madison Avenue and crave whatever the giant corporations choose to produce and advertise, and complained that the “public sector” is starved while frivolous private desires are being satisfied.

And having seen that capitalism reduced poverty instead of intensifying it, critics such as Gar Alperovitz and Michael Harrington proclaimed equality the highest moral value, calling for higher taxes on incomes and inheritances to massively redistribute wealth, not only nationally but also internationally."

The Philosopher Stephen Hicks produced a nifty flowchart explaining this (attached). "Startup Anti-Capitalism" perhaps - pivoting from failure to failure 😜

duncan_bayne, 26 days ago to random

@SteveThompson Seems like willful ignorance, at best.

"We did not explore whether Khader indeed used words like the ones you claim he did"

drewdevault, 27 days ago to random

First 12 months of writing a GUI toolkit: getting text rendering right

decryption, 28 days ago to random

did IBM ever apologise directly and publicly for their role in the holocaust? i could have sworn they did but it appears not (or at least I can't find any sort of document/press release/website saying so)