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duncan_bayne

@duncan_bayne@emacs.ch

I'm a Melbourne-based husband, father of three, and principal engineer / engineering director. I live amongst the trees out in Belgrave; you can find me online at:

🚀 Gemini: gemini://duncan.bayne.id.au/
🦣 Mastodon: https://emacs.ch/
🌐 Web: https://duncan.bayne.id.au/
◯ sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~duncan-bayne/
🤢 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-bayne/

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18+ msquebanh, to snails
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One of many that breed more prolifically than our native ones. I was talking to 2 Indigenous friends & 1 Chinese friend today, on group conference chat. We were talking about harvesting invasive snails & eating them instead of just removing/killing & composting. We discussed harvesting & eating invasive species, like snails & American bullfrog. Harvesting & eating invasives helps to remove them from our ecosystems & aids local food security.

duncan_bayne,
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@msquebanh https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/invasive

msquebanh, to random
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What's on your right now?
Post a photo of it.

I am wearing my fave comfy slippers.

I am a random tooter.

duncan_bayne,
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@msquebanh Sketchers slip-on. Bought last year, and supremely comfortable. Probably the only type of non-specialised (dancing, motorcycling, cricket, outdoors) footwear I'll ever buy again.

duncan_bayne,
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@msquebanh They are! And they're robust (great "camp shoe" when at Cub Scouts camp), and washable (in practice, dunno if it's advised, but can clean the fabric with mild detergent & sun- or cool-oven dry).

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duncan_bayne,
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@kaia Haha holy shit, I for one would not want to incur the justified wrath of the infursec community

GossiTheDog, to random
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Microsoft are getting mauled on Insta for this advert, and rightly so.

https://www.instagram.com/microsoft365/p/C7j8ipnxIiI/

duncan_bayne,
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@GossiTheDog Sent this to a close friend whose startup is actually trying to fix fucked meeting cultures. Said Microsoft is now doing presales for him.

duncan_bayne, to random
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From the AWS CloudFormation docs ...

"Fn::If": [condition_name, value_if_true, value_if_false]

Or, as Greenspun put it,

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp."

duncan_bayne,
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@holgerschurig The point I was trying to make was just that it's frustrating to use tools that clearly aren't ideal for the job at hand. Specifically, conditional statements in JSON (or YAML for that matter). At the point you need that, you really should be offering an actual language rather than a serialisation format. May be time to consider migration to CDK.

duncan_bayne, to random
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Non-Americans give the US a lot of shit over a lot of things, only some of it deserved. I know, I'm Australian, and we do it all the time 😁

But I really hope all the Americans here really, deeply, grok the significance of the verdict in the Trump case.

Much more important than any specifics of the case, or the involvement of Trump himself: an American court handed down 34 felony convictions to an ex-President.

In how many other countries would this happen? Can you imagine Putin, or Jinping, or Erdogan, in a similar situation?

You did well, and should be proud to be American.

duncan_bayne, to random
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https://x.com/Nikos_17/status/1794641890769252720

The one good thing about the promised draft is that there is zero chance it'll come to pass, because it would require the Tories to win.

aldi80s, to Vintage
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Pioneer P-D1
Compact Disc player, 1984.

I really love the style. 40 years later and it still looks super modern.

#Pioneer #RetroTech #Vintage #Stereo #CompactDisc #Japan #1980s #HiFi #Stereo #MusicLover

duncan_bayne,
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@aldi80s Better than modern! The labels are all legible and the buttons are clearly buttons.

janl, to random
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Well, officially in the market for a Slack replacement now. Hit me. What are you personally happy with in a small business setting, strong macOS/iOS support, user friendly, including nontechnical folks?

duncan_bayne,
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@janl I use Mattermost; I self-host for personal use, and we also have a Mattermost server at $DAY_JOB for staff, editors, and contributors. Works very well.

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@janl Negligible, especially when done well :) The work server is nicely managed through CloudFormation; my personal one is just docker images on an EC2 image that I manually upgrade.

Main things were:

(a) configuring it to store files in an S3 bucket that can be backed up, and

(b) running a cron job to take daily backups of the database

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@janl Ooh, speaking of which, this might be a good starting point:

https://github.com/DanielHeath/mattermost-aws

duncan_bayne, to random
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Okay anyone know what this is about?

My suburb, Belgave, has just sprouted a few temporary installations of traffic monitoring cameras (photo attached of the control unit).

No-one I've spoken to at the Yarra Ranges Council or VicRoads knows what they are. I've emailed VGSO (at VicRoads' suggestion) and NTSurveys, because the latter's phone just goes to voicemail.

I'm very curious to know what data are being recorded, and how the data are being handled.

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@PCOWandre @decryption @ozjonty I went back to take a look inside but it's fitted with high end physical security.

That is, a single black zip tie on one corner.

May have another poke around if I don't hear back from the owners sometime soon.

decryption, to random
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telstra 1 hour ago "we will call you back in 30 minutes with an unlock code"

duncan_bayne,
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@decryption I'd love to know what the plan is here ... they're already understaffed to support existing customers. Death spiral?

decryption, to random
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My main beef with the Pixel 8a is that it's a slippery fucker. Did nobody at Google hold this phone in their hands??

duncan_bayne,
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@decryption All our Pixels - kids have 2s, I have a 4 - are in rugged cases partly for that reason.

It shits me that none of the major manufacturers make any effort to ruggedize their phones. Almost like they make money off repairs or something ...

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

decryption, to random
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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

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@georgeharito @decryption Good enough that I could carry a modern point-and-shoot as an alternative to a smartphone camera?

The main thing that's holding me back from switching to a Linux phone is the parlous state of their cameras and associated software. I want to be able to snap mementos of my children, and e.g. the PinePhone didn't deal at all well with low light or movement.

I tried an older Canon SX610HS but that really didn't cut the mustard.

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    duncan_bayne,
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    @decryption What sort of form-factor, and how much faff / DIY are you willing to entertain?

    I ran Numberstation on my PinePhone for a while, and that was just fine.

    You could run Numberstation or even totp-cli on almost any single-board computer ... maybe pair a Pi Zero with something like this:

    https://www.amazon.com.au/2-13inch-Display-Raspberry-250x122-Paper-Like/dp/B09Q3P89JF

    Pair it with something like this for control:

    https://www.adafruit.com/product/512

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    @decryption Yubikey then?

    duncan_bayne, to random
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    TIL that there's a cafe nearby called JavaScript Cafe 🤣

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    duncan_bayne,
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    @decryption Ooh how about this one

    duncan_bayne,
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    @decryption Or this one - old now but Apple brought back DRM with Apple Music so still relevant

    duncan_bayne,
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    @decryption I just don't get the love so many geeks have for Apple. Jobs was a genius in many ways but his contempt for customers was notable even in the 80s.

    https://www.folklore.org/Diagnostic_Port.html

    "But once again, Steve Jobs objected, because he didn't like the idea of customers mucking with the innards of their computer. He would also rather have them buy a new 512K Mac instead of them buying more RAM from a third-party."

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