acute_distress

@acute_distress@mastodon.nz

Software developer currently building things with Ruby, Rails, Rust and Redis

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rbreich, to random
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Trump has told oil execs he would:

-Immediately expand drilling

-Gift the industry $110 billion in tax breaks

-Reverse environmental protections in exchange for $1 billion in campaign contributions

This is a man who's literally willing to sell out the future of our species.

ArrestJK, to NewZealand
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"Budget 2024: Nicola Willis says National wasn't aware tax changes would result in 9000 earning less income"

Look there's a very good reason for this, it's that Willis is fing useless at her job.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/budget-2024-nicola-willis-says-national-wasn-t-aware-tax-changes-would-result-in-9000-earning-less-income.html

pawsplay, to random
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theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

tanepiper, to random
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I can't wait until people start suing Google for generating libel https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/24/google-criticized-as-ai-overview-makes-errors-like-saying-president-obama-is-muslim.html

ifixcoinops, to random
@ifixcoinops@retro.social avatar

Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

ifixcoinops,
@ifixcoinops@retro.social avatar

Linux is a bit shit sometimes,

There's your headline. I don't care whether you use linux or not; ten years ago that might have mattered, I might be trying to get more people to use it so that adobe or whoever would put more effort into supporting it, but that doesn't really matter anymore, these days everything either Just Works or there's a native equivalent that's better and I've no selfish reason to recommend linux anymore, so if you're happy with windows stick with windows.

If you're not happy with windows, here's the other half of that sentence at the top of this post:

Linux is a bit shit sometimes - but when it's a bit shit, it's a bit shit in the way of a cat who watches the mouse run across the living room floor, not in the way of a cat who suddenly decides to bite you for no reason. It's not actively malicious, it's just a bit shit sometimes, which these days is tbh pretty damn good compared with a lot of stuff.

Like, it's not bad because it's being hollowed out for investors, it's not bad because it's spying on you to make more money, it's not bad because its makers know you've gotta take it anyway, it's not bad because it knows it can get a lot worse before you look elsewhere, it's just... bad. But bad in like a normal way, like a bike with a wonky gear shifter and tyres that keep going soft, not like a bike that shows you adverts.

There's my linux recommendation.

LINUX: It's A Bit Shit Sometimes™

peterdutoit, to climate
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As the Singapore Airlines incident is in the news cycle, a reminder from research published in June 2023:

“Clear-air turbulence (CAT) is hazardous to aircraft and is projected to intensify in response to future climate change.

“Severe-or-greater CAT increased the most, becoming 55% more frequent in 2020 than in 1979.”

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL103814

joshua_drummond, to random
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lots of myths busted in the latest Cynic's Guide:

  • blue zones probably don't exist
  • love languages definitely don't exist
  • can you use chickens to cure cat allergies? (yes)
  • bonus: what if science was like church
  • double bonus: a kitten

https://www.cynicsguidetoselfimprovement.com/making-the-link/

molly0xfff, to random
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hi hello i see it's time for our semi-regular reminder that your browser's incognito mode does not protect you from surveillance!

nysos,
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@molly0xfff
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joshjacobsen, to NewZealand
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Minister for Regional Destruction, Shane Jones, conceals meetings with mining executives on the West Coast then lies about said meetings to say they were “last minute” (they were organised days in advance).

The potential for corruption inherent in the Fast Track legislation working is exactly as designed then.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/15/jones-undeclared-dinner-had-two-more-mining-industry-attendees/

pezmico, to random
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Lots of attention given to absenteeism, threats to fine parents, online dashboards for real-time student tracking and all the BS non-solutions.

Instead we could clean the air in schools, normalise masking in risky environments, regularise testing, support adequate isolation. But for that it would be necessary to break out of the collective delusion and admit that .

Relief teacher shortage, rising staff sickness sees schools struggling to stay open
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517006/relief-teacher-shortage-rising-staff-sickness-sees-schools-struggling-to-stay-open

strypey, to aotearoa
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"So here is a call from the NZOSS to the New Zealand Government to set up a Government centric Mastodon instance to provide a conduit for Agencies, Departments, Entities, Schools, Councils, DHB's and any other central or local government organisation to disseminate pertinent information in real time."

#CarlKlitscher, May 2022

https://nzoss.nz/node/2168

#Aotearoa #NZ #GovernmentIT

micchiato, to random
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Bask in the irony.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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leebennett, to random
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COVID19_DISEASE, to random
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⚠️ BREAKING

MERS Outbreak in Saudi Arabia puts health experts on high alert

The pathogen, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome, is a close relative of SARS-CoV-2 but has a far higher fatality rate – 35 per cent of confirmed cases have died, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The WHO expects that less serious and asymptomatic cases have historically been missed, which could also affect the overall case fatality rate.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/mers-outbreak-saudi-arabia-middle-east-respiratory-syndrome/

KathyReid, to stackoverflow
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Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their code wasn't working, or assist with a bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train models, like , without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's .

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of , it's also a salient lesson for folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

gedeonm, to random
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Ladies and gentlemen, your moment of zen. 🦜💃

A woman and a parakeet dance in split screen. The woman mimics the intricate moves of the bird in a stylish green coat and slacks

ArrestJK, to NewZealand
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"Government considers removing election day voter enrolment
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says very few countries allow it, and New Zealand should consider changing the rules."

Very few countries have democracy too, does Goldsmith think we should consider removing that too?

On the day enrolment helps democracy, the RW seem to oppose democracy.


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rooster, to random
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Imagine every four years there being a good chance a party is elected into power that openly and clearly says that people like you are evil and need to be eliminated from society

nixCraft, to random
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Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

18+ whitequark, to random
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if you are drowning because of the results of your own choices, it is considered bad form to pull your friends under the water with you

byroncclark, to random
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If this happened in Australia the little fish and chip shop would get to keep the name and the American fast food company would just have to call their stores 'Ravenous Petes' or something
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515839/no-more-popeye-fish-n-chip-shop-forced-to-drop-name-by-fast-food-giant

arstechnica, to random
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Sony will soon demand Helldivers 2 players on Steam have PSN accounts

A surprise hit, a network with brutal baggage, and the Steam profit paradox.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/sony-will-soon-demand-helldivers-2-players-on-steam-have-psn-accounts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

MostlyHarmless, to random
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