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PaulWay

@PaulWay@aus.social

I'm a six foot tall ape descendant in Canberra, Ngunnwal/Ngambri country. I work for a tech company, mainly in Python and on Linux. In my spare time I read, turn wood, go for walks, play with technology, 3D print, play keyboards with friends, and ride a motorbike. At of this post, no-one is currently trying to drive a bypass through my home...

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luciedigitalni, to wwc
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Americans looking aimless again in defence

@wwc

PaulWay,
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@luciedigitalni @wwc I thought that was a military hot take for a moment there 🙂 🇳🇱 ⚽

mjg59, to random
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Every Eero in my mesh was functioning as a Thread router and sending IPv6 RAs for the same /64, which meant Linux kept updating its routing table based on whichever one it saw most recently, which meant Chrome kept firing ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED errors if a page load was in flight when that happened and good lord

PaulWay,
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@mjg59 I didn't know teledildonics had progressed that far!

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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If you use an issue tracker, is Done an acceptable state for an issue that you haven't been able to reproduce (but that you haven't demonstrably ruled out either)?

(Boosts welcome.)

PaulWay,
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@xahteiwi I'd only mark it done if the reporter has also been unable to reproduce the issue and there's not enough information to work out where the problem might have occurred.

If it's a one-off glitch, sometimes those things can never be traced back.

But I had a nine month old issue that was reported to me a week ago that (I believe) I solved by looking at what we knew the client software must have done and working out how that would interact with our API server. So I don't think one can simply say "this issue is old, I can't reproduce it, I didn't get any logs, so I'm closing this issue".

melissabeartrix, to random
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I haven't watched this the head line is what I want to see ... And I hope when he does shit his pants it's in public ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsI4uxtkS9g

PaulWay,
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@melissabeartrix It's a clickbait headline. Don't get your hopes up.

Sodium Ion has a number of advantages over Lithium. The key advantage is that they can be fully discharged and recharged, which is great because fully discharged cells are completely inert - so no danger when in transit.

The big question is just how fast these batteries can be produced, and how they will go in replacing the existing lithium-ion battery system. The second question is how many of the existing innovations that have brought lithium ion battery energy density up from 80wh/kg when they started to the >200wh/kg they have now. If they can do that then this really would put the nail in the coffin of the fossil fuel industries.

PaulWay, to random
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I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:

  • Will AI take people's jobs?
  • Will AI destroy creativity?
  • Will AI take over the world?
  • Will AI be used to make people poorer?

And not:

  • Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
  • Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
  • Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
  • Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?

Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.

It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.

The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.

PaulWay,
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@selzero I'd agree with you that people are not defined by what corporations ask them to do.

But I don't think that applies to everyone even now. Creative people of all types - artists, craftspeople, poets, musicians, authors and so on - often create the things that give them their description despite not being paid. If they get paid, then great - we do like to be fed, sheltered and clothed 🙂

People love to feel useful and love to do things that they enjoy. People often like working on things that are part of a larger social endeavour, such as maintaining a community garden or playing in a sports team. Jobs have historically been tied to value creation - either in physically producing food or in doing the things (blacksmithing, weaving, cooking, etc) that produce things of value.

Sure, people with money will also pay people to produce things; Capital works to buy things (or the labour to produce them) and sell them for more money.

I get paid as a software engineer more than I could make if I was simply working full time growing food, or working delivering for Uber Eats. But I happen to also enjoy working as a software engineer, and I think I'm not too bad at it. That doesn't mean my identity is defined by my employer.

That "flawed concept" has always been the employer's view of people anyway - as fungible, replaceable workers. We're not, and we know we're not, and any manager who has read The Mythical Man Month knows that we're not.

Em0nM4stodon, to random

“Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
Do you have anything to hide? 😡“

Yes! I do!

  • The color of my underwear
  • My friends’ cats photos
  • My failed gym class grades
  • My first attempt at "portrait"
  • The outcome of my last meal
  • The weird mole on my left toe
  • How much I cried watching Star Trek
  • How much cheese there is in my fridge
  • My failed knitting experiment
  • The horrible poem I just wrote
  • My bank card pin number
  • My social security number
  • My main password
  • The web search history for your birthday gift

Privacy is a Human Right! ✊

Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨

🎉

PaulWay,
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@Em0nM4stodon So, businesses - why do you use VPNs and all that encryption? Do you have anything to hide?

Oh, look at that, they do. They have lots of stuff they want to hide. They want to hide their CEO's correspondence with politicians, and their meetings with lobbyists, and their sales forecasts, and their failed experiments, and so on.

So, Senator, why do you use "parliamentary privilege"? What do you have to hide?

Oh, look at that, they have stuff to hide too. They don't want their houses to be found, or their meetings with corporations to be known, or their donations, and so on.

Privacy is a human right, but funnily enough corporations and politicians don't really want their own privacy to be questioned.

mightyspaceman, to random
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I am in dire need of a new laptop.

Maybe I could save for a framework...

PaulWay,
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@mightyspaceman Checked out @system76 ? 🙂

PaulWay,
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@mightyspaceman Well, with System 76 you get a choice of their own respin of Ubuntu, or your own 🙂 So you're not paying the Microsoft Tax.

"Cheaper, a little larger and with more ram" - a common plea from laptop purchasers 🙂

Also, I found that I could buy RAM in Australia cheaper than the upgrade options, so if you find something that you want it's cheaper to do the RAM and NVMe upgrades yourself in my experience. Check your own prices 😉

Jakra, to random
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    PaulWay,
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    @Jakra I think the problem there is who's being counted. Medians are better than means here, but the thorn either way is in who is counted as earning an income. Do we count all those people on disability support? Or who are working five hours a week? Or who worked only six months of the year? Or people who earn no income in Australia themselves but their Solomon Islands trust fund gives them an unlimited credit card? Or people who are earning income in Australia but don't actually live here? And so on.

    I'm sure a tax accountant could find lots more categories of people that change how we might measure the percentile income.

    The problem here is really that politicians can change who's counted and who isn't to suit the numbers. Like Little Johnny Howard changing the definition of 'unemployed' to not include anyone who's not registered with CentreLink - which suddenly removed an entire category of people from the 'unemployed' numbers and made him look like he'd achieved better 'jobs figures' than he actually did.

    I don't like the fixed brackets either, I agree there must be a better way. Maybe just indexation, the way most other things in the tax system are indexed?

    alexkidman, to random
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    It is cold outside of bed. Don’t get up. Learn from my mistakes.

    PaulWay,
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    @alexkidman There is only one answer to this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRIKST-ozRo

    PaulWay, to random
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    @alexkidman just listening to your episode on EV trucks.

    You need to look up Janus Electric.

    Doing EV conversions on medium and heavy haulage trucks, and using battery swap technology. Change over the battery in two minutes at the depot. Faster that filling up with diesel (let alone hydrogen, the never-fuel). And charging the batteries from solar panels on the factory roof...

    Also look at SEA Motors, another Australian company building "drop in" replacement drive trains for small to large delivery trucks.

    The question really is: can the trucking industry afford not to switch over?

    PaulWay,
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    @alexkidman yep - replying to add detail, not to criticise.

    alexkidman, to random
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    I've made my peace with Mondays. We're good now, good friends, even.

    That way Monday will never see it coming when I shank it in the back. All I need are some accomplices to provide me a good alibi. Who's in?

    PaulWay,
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    @alexkidman Yep. If I chose a four day working week it'd be by not working on Monday.

    You have my axe, and my crowbar, and the various other heavy implements I have conveniently to hand in case Monday comes unannounced.

    PaulWay, to random
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    It's irritating me that the conservatives brand taxes as "taking your earnings", because it leaves out the important part: that they then get redistributed in use to maintain and develop a just and fair society.

    There are lots of examples of unjust and unfair societies in history and currently, and to me the common thread of those is that that take public money (taxes) and they give it to wealthy people and big companies.

    Whereas in just and fair societies taxes are a 'pooling of resources', a more equitable distribution of that public money to the individuals and small companies that need help and are disadvantaged.

    No outrage about the government 'taking your hard earned money' and giving it to Qantas, or Harvey Norman, or to Rio Tinto, or people with more than three million dollars in their superannuation? There should be.

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