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on #Wurundjeri #WoiWurrung land. #music. #politics. bit of #crafting. mostly #shitposts. hobbyist #TheoryClown. all are equal. do unto others as you would have them do unto you. labor is entitled to all it creates. every act of violence you're tempted to attribute to mental illness is a policy failure. 'the division of the perceived universe into parts and wholes is convenient and may be necessary, but no necessity determines how it shall be done' (#bateson).

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crumbleneedy, to random
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sometimes the algorithm sucketh, but sometimes it slappeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8QHg9guY8

crumbleneedy,
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@mate this is courtesy of my tidal 'daily discovery' feed

crumbleneedy,
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@mate no - same ballpark as spotify

crumbleneedy,
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@mate they pay 2.6 times more per stream than spotify, and i don't think they cut payment off for tracks that don't stream a minimal number of times. i use bandcamp too, and i've bought a lot of physical media over the years.

https://edition.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/electronics/tidal-music-reasons-to-subscribe

ajsadauskas, to cars
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The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

Here's a funny-because-it's-true take on Transurban and the poor tax it imposes, from Punter's Politics:

https://youtu.be/FlKBakPAtiw?si=G39_0GcJzSB0SSA8

#cars #roads #fuckcars @fuck_cars #tolls #tollroads #memes #funny #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #auspol #vicpol #nswpol

crumbleneedy,
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@alcoholicorn state taxes can be made progressive; profit is inherently surplus to cost

crumbleneedy, to random
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just heard someone on the radio refer to cybersecurity experts as 'cybos' and this is a particularly australian brand of violence

crumbleneedy, to random
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities

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clearing out old photos on the phone and here's a gem from october 2016 that's aged particularly well

ajsadauskas, to fuckcars
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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

crumbleneedy,
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars we've been in coburg and although a few bits of gentrification are getring toe-holds it feels like it hasn't changed much in 50 years. surprised to see bar ranked so low - definitely best to have within walking distance.

we can get to everything except hospital (though there are plans to build one in the next decade or so), sports arena (plenty of pitches around), university, and gas/petrol station (should have one this year or next).

crumbleneedy,
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@blindsight yeah it's either unrealistic if it means stadium for spectator sports that seats thousands, or poorly worded if it refers to anyplace with fitness infrastructure, eg pitch, field, pool, gym, etc

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to australia
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Australia is bigger than some people overseas imagine.

So here's a quick comparison of Australian states to their US counterparts.

Tasmania is Australia's smallest state, with a total area of 68,401 square kilometres.

That's bigger than West Virginia, Maryland, Ha​waii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, or Rhode Island.

Australia's second smallest state is Victoria, at 227, 444km2.

It's larger than Minnesota, Utah, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Washington, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, New York, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maine, Florida, or Pennsylvania.

Fun fact: Victoria is larger in area than Indiana and South Carolina combined.

Now on to the ones that might surprise you.

You know how Texans love talking up how big Texas is?

New South Wales is bigger than Texas.

And by quite a margin. NSW is 801, 150 sq km compared to 696,241 sq km for Texas.

South Australia is bigger than Texas, and Michigan. Combined.

SA is 984, 321 sq km.

Texas (696,241 km2) plus Michigan (250,493 sq km) is just 946, 734 sq km.

Queensland is bigger than Alaska.

Queensland is 1,729,742 sq km, compared to 1,717,854 sq km for Alaska.

That also means Queensland is bigger than Texas and California. Combined.

Texas (696,241 km2) plus California (423,968 km2) is 1,120,209 sq km.

You can add in Michigan too (250,493 sq km) and it's still only 1,370,702 sq km.

That's right kids. Texas, California, and Michigan combined are 359,040 sq km smaller than Queensland.

That leaves Western Australia. It's 2,527,013 square kilometres.

How big is that? Well, the combined area of Texas and Alaska is 2,414,095 sq km, so pretty bloody big.

Source: https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories

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crumbleneedy,
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@pandanus @ajsadauskas @australia my cousin is visiting for the first time. we have two weeks in australia. we're meeting in sydney and then flying to melbourne and it was harder than expected to get him to understand just how much time it would take to fit uluru into our plans (we aren't going).

ajsadauskas, to ai
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In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation.

They will unearth a mess of poorly written, poorly -documented, barely-functioning code their staff don't understand.

They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

@technology

crumbleneedy,
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@themurphy counterpoint: computers in the 90s actually worked

crumbleneedy,
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@themurphy it's glorified autocorrect with no truth function. it's planet-killing garbage.

other_ghosts, to Palestine
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Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Definitely.

Delegitimizing UNRWA was always the goal. One does not accidentally elicit random confessions under torture—the confessions you get are the confessions you set out to get.

Defunding UNRWA is precisely the politics of collective punishment. Even if these allegations are proven, there is no justification in this unless your goal is wiping out an entire people.

From Truthout:

"Is US’s Suspension of UNRWA Funding Retaliation for ICJ’s Interim Ruling?"

https://truthout.org/articles/is-uss-suspension-of-unrwa-funding-retaliation-for-icjs-interim-ruling/

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crumbleneedy,
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@other_ghosts @palestine great quote - what's the source?

crumbleneedy, to random
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love to communicate

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to technology
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Are agile scrums an outdated idea?

Here's a video on YouTube making the case for why agile was an innovative methodology when it was first introduced 20 years ago.

However, he argues these days, daily scrums are a waste of time, and many organisations would be better off automating their reporting processes, giving teams more autonomy, and letting people get on with their work:

https://youtu.be/KJ5u_Kui1sU?si=M_VLET7v0wCP4gHq

A few of my thoughts.

First, it's worth noting that many organisations that claim to be "agile" aren't, and many that claim to use agile processes don't.

Just as a refresher, here's the key values and principles from the agile manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/

  1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
  3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  4. Responding to change over following a plan
  • Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
  • Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
  • Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
  • Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
  • Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
  • The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
  • Working software is the primary measure of progress.
  • Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
  • Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
  • Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
  • The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
  • At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

Your workplace isn't agile if your team is micromanaged from above; if you have a kanban board filled with planning, documentation, and reporting tasks; if your organisation is driven by processes and procedures; if you don't have autonomous cross-functional teams.

Yet in many "agile" organisations, I've noticed that the basic principles of agile are ignored, and what you have is micromanagement through scrums and kanban boards.

And especially outside software development teams, agile tends to just be a hollow buzzword. (I once met a manager at a conference who talked up how agile his business was, and didn't believe me when I said agile was originally a software development methodology — one he revealed he wasn't following the principles of.)

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crumbleneedy,
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@ajsadauskas @technology as with so many things it depends on the people involved. we have a daily 15-min standup that's good for raising issues and blockers, asking questions, keeping the team across releases and significant production issues, ensuring that everyone has work for the day, etc. it helps that it's run very effectively. all of that can be and is done in other channels but it's a good way to get everyone on the same page together. does it cost money? all meetings cost money. but i would argue that good efficient meetings pay for themselves.

tantramar, to art
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Watercolour landscape — the Tantramar marsh.

crumbleneedy,
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@tantramar i love it. warm and ghostly at the same time.

Popehat, to random

I don't post on here much any more, or monitor it much, so probably better to find me on Bluesky if you need me.

De gustibus etc. No platform is perfect. But I feel more comfortable there, and less like I'm likely to get screamed at for using Latin without a CW or something.

crumbleneedy,
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@seachanger @hikeofthemenrys @socprof it's still happening

Defiance, to music
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November 4, 1987

Sonic Youth released the EP “Master-Dik”

This is a strange album. It feels self indulgent, hastily produced and lazy. A lot of caterwauling and carrying on. The KISS sample in the title track was cool to hear though.

For me, the only track I liked was their cover of “Beat On The Brat ''.

It’s really well done and was a welcome change from SY’s traditional sound.

, Punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPSxff21LYQ

crumbleneedy,
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@Defiance speaking of great covers by SY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZRYI4tUtgQ

crumbleneedy,
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@nic not sure. has any other band spent an entire peel session covering another band? or even doing all covers?

crumbleneedy,
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@nic this is great - and it meets the criteria so i'll pay it but with the qualification that he did an album of guthrie songs so it was both an homage and a bit of marketing

crumbleneedy,
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@nic oh wow here's a rabbit hole - thanks!

crumbleneedy,
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@nic "28 August 2001: (Peel says that in birthday phone chat with Captain Beefheart he mentioned Cat Power covering 'Come On In My Kitchen' the previous week during her live session at Peel Acres. This prompted the Captain to sing it down the phone to him, which Peel describes as a moving experience.)"

rebeccawatson, to random
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As Gavin Newsom got more and more national press and seemed like he was setting up a future presidential run, I honestly thought he would make an effort to suck less but oh well

crumbleneedy,
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@rebeccawatson apologies if you've seen this before but it's some interesting background on how hindu nationalists are running the israeli playbook on equating criticism of the state with religious bigotry

ComicContext, to comics
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crumbleneedy,
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@ComicContext

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