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dimi

@dimi@techforgood.social

I am a father of three, living in Australia, Wiradjuri country.

I am Regional CTO for Palo IT, however the opinions stated here are purely my own and do not represent the opinion and/or ideology or of Palo IT, employees, customers or partners

I'm interested in security, compliance, psychology, philosophy, IoT, sustainability, etc.

I am admin for techforgood.social, and video.techforgood.social.

I post about many things, some jokes and mêmes, some tech, some questions... A bit of everything.

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dimi, to australia
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https://www.msn.com/en-AU/travel/news/albany-indoor-adventures-closes-as-public-liability-insurance-issue-spreads-across-australia/ar-AA1lRQrK?ocid=sapphireappshare

It's a shame that the active entertainment places have to shut down because of insurance policies and raising costs.

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Kirk: "Mister Scott."
Scott: "Aye, sir?"
Kirk: "How soon can we be underway?"
Scott: "Well, give me one more day, sir. Damage control is easy. Reading
Klingon? That's hard."
--"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
K'Ehleyr: "Why didn't we do this six years ago?"
Worf: "We were not ready."
K'Ehleyr: "I was."
Worf: "No. We were both too young, too unaware. We lacked commitment."
K'Ehleyr: "Perhaps we lacked th courage as well."
--"The Emissary", Stardate 42

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Kirk: "Bones. What the hell are you doing? Have you lost your mind?!"
McCoy: "Jim, help me! You left me on Genesis. Why did you do that? Help me,
Jim. Take me home."
--"STIII:TSFS", Stardate Unknown

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Kirk: "Does the species exist on any other planet?"
Spock: "Negative, humpbacks were indigenous to Earth. Earth of the past."
--"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Jennifer: "Hey!"
Sisko: "I'm sorry! It's just that this-- Jenn?"
Jennifer: "Yes?
Sisko: "Jennifer?"
Jennifer: "I'm sorry, did we meet last night at George's party?"
Sisko: "George? Jennifer... Wait a minute, this is impossible."
--"Emissary", Stardate 46388.2

dimi, to random
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On top of the usual "inches" and feet, do you know the following?

One hand = 4 inches
One hundredweight (US) = 100 pounds
One hundredweight (UK) = 112 pounds
One butt = 130 gallons of ale, or 151 gallons of wine.
One barleycorn is 1/3 in
A fluid scruple which is of course 1/480 of a pint, or, more appropriately 20 minims.
A gill on the other hand is 1/4 of a pint.

So, how many gills in a cubic barleycorn?

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Corey: "When did you start backing away from a good fight?"
--"Tapestry", Stardate Unknown

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
1st Garbageman: "Don't tell me you two were fighting again. I thought you made
up last night. Why are you two always fighting?"
2nd Garbageman: "I like the way she fights."
1st Garbageman: "Oh."
--"STIV:TVH", Stardate 8390

dimi, to Meme
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It's this time of the year when you confuse your dog :)

@humour

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Sisko: "Jennifer! Hold on!"
Tactical Officer: "Sir..."
Sisko: "Just help me to get her free!"
Tactical Officer: "She's gone! There's nothing we can do! We have to leave!"
--"Emissary", Stardate 43997

dimi, to Astronomy
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@humour

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Worf: "Enter!"
--"Peak Performance", Stardate 42

dimi, to random
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It's a misunderstanding that the first meeting between a member of the Q continuum and humanity happened at Fairpoint.

The first meddling with humanity was a time loop and has been documented in the movie "Groundhog day".

A lost pafe of the movie script references Q with the scribbled note "who is Q and what does he have to do in the movie?"

@allstartrek

dimi, to allstartrek
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@allstartrek
Picard: "'...it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it.'"
--"The Defector", Stardate 43

thor, to random
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🏢

dimi,
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@thor
And you can buy it here:

https://www.theliquidview.com/

dimi,
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@thor
Well... I don't really live in a city and the power does go out sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for a few days :) when it goes out, we have solar, batteries and a small generator for the fridges if needed.
We grow our vegetables, have chooks for eggs (not meat) and bees for honey
.
Were using rain water most of the time, except when prolonged drought. Town water is not drinkable either.

I am not saying we could live off grid for a year yet, but a few weeks should be OK :)

dimi,
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@thor
It's not super easy either, we have droughts and floods, heatwave and cold nights. No hospital in town and no food delivery available.
It's a choice of life that most of my friends and colleagues do not understand: why leave the advantages and comfort of the city to go live in a small town?

Getting a house far from the cities is not that expensive, but few people want to leave the comfort of the city behind...

dimi,
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@thor
We drive once or twice a month. It's around 80km away so unlikely to walk or cycle there.

dimi,
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@thor
It's a life saver, without it we couldn't get to hospital or anything like that, yes.

dimi,
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@thor
Oh we are not, I don't think anybody can ever be, even my neighbours who live completely off grid. We still need help from the community in the town and the larger country. We need school and chocolate factories.
Keep in mind my goal is not to become a hermit and renounce society. It's by necessity, where we live we have to be able to rely on ourselves and our community.

dimi,
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@thor
The thread was about virtual windows, right?
I like technology, it's my passion, my job, and I love it when it can help people.
I don't really have a need for it, but I think it could help people that live in cities to fight things like depression or to help relax.
About living off grid, though, I was wondering, do you live in a city?

dimi,
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@feld
Agreed on this. I am wondering if the big change from let's say 30 years ago is the diversity. When I was a kid, we had no internet, six chanels on TV (including one in German and one in Italian) and 2-3 newspapers in the country.
You could say "did you watch this yesterday on TV" and the answer was very likely yes.
Now, everyone reads a slightly or grossly different info from a gazillion of sources, all or them reflecting a part of the truth and some wrongs. It changed society
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dimi,
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@thor
If you can do it, getting in a country town for a month or two and seeing if this would agree with you more might be a thing to do... 40 is not the end of the wild and change might still be an option.

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They...cured lupus??? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03968-6 I mean. It's a hella intense, sci-fi treatment, and we're talking only a dozen or two patients, but they have actually knocked down four different autoimmune diseases here and it...works??

dimi,
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Oh no! This will prevent any reboots of House MD! :)

Seriously though, this is incredibly promising.

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