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geordie

@geordie@aus.social

Basketball statistician, scuba diver, amateur chef, motorcyclist, language nerd, computer toucher, happy snapper, pretengineer. I am like if James Bond was unattractive, uncharismatic and not misogynistic.

Catholic (religious), cataholic (really into my cat)

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Wife got invited to a charity dinner where her ticket was covered but she had to make a personal donation to the salvos. She said she wasn’t going to do that because they discriminate about who they’ll support. The offer was rescinded. She’s made a donation to Twenty10.

Folks she’s the one.

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Richard Dawinks: answering questions nobody asked since 1941.

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"iPads Pro" er... @decryption I'm not sure about this.

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SO, if I was feeling old before...

Wife: "You can't write the trivia answers because of your handwriting."

Me: "What the fuck are you talking about my handwriting is great. It's neat, cursive with the occasional restrained flourish from a gorgeous pen filled with gorgeous ink."

Wife: "and that's the problem. The folks running the trivia are in their twenties. They don't ever write by hand or read handwritten words. They read screens and printed pages. They can't read your answers."

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Thing is, they can’t. Australian privacy law forbids Google hitting back. This is why A Current Affair features a squillion people saying the bank did them wrong and the bank “declines to comment.” It’s not because they’re embarrassed, they’re literally banned from defending themselves publicly. The debanked on ACA are meth hoovers and banks can’t do shit. Google can’t say “Unisuper typed terraform destroy”, even though that’s what happened.

From: @GossiTheDog
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112398849195395148

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The woman at the cafe where I get my lunch squealed "mong mong!" which is "puppy" in her language. That heralds the arrival of Brolly. Brolly is a genetically engineered hybrid of a bulldog and an MRAP and is an Extremely Good Boy.

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Can anyone give me pointers as to why embedding PDFs or linking to them or otherwise acknowledging their existence is impossible in Hugo?

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docs state that the "root" of your resultant website is /static, and anything in there can be referenced as the root, and they're lying, and I'll set them on fire in front of their families.

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@jonoabroad look somebody let Google make up a programming language that solves Google problems and in an identical manner to Kubernetes it metastasised throughout the online landscape and now this is how we make websites.

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@jonoabroad I don't like it, but here it is.

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So this weekend I was at a wedding and at the reception guests had to make a Lego minifig of themselves which was placed on white Lego mats with a specific plinth to stand on and a name plate. The bride and groom will frame it and have an artwork of minifig representations of the guests at their special day.

A person in a patterned shirt looking at a table with assorted LEGO pieces while a boy in a blue shirt is building something; background shows people sitting at a dinner event.

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Cairns airport staff are so nice. I carry a lot of shit in my carry on and you’ve got no hope of identifying it all on X-ray. At Sydney and Melbourne they insist on removing a thing at a time from the bag then putting the balance through again and again on the hope there’ll be few enough chargers or electronics that they can then ID everything to their satisfaction. The woman in security here just took my camera out to of my bag, with my consent, wearing soft gloves, and then went through my bag explaining why. Quick, efficient, polite, and if there was any connection between security theatre and safety, she’s ticked that box. Five stars.

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If the objective is to identify everything in the bag, look in the fucking bag. The idea that it’s less invasive to do it via X-Ray and to insist on doing as much X-Ray as possible is fucking brain worms. Imaging technology changes nothing. Backscatter X-Ray can still see my dick.

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Some alcoholic airline regulator boss has decided the difference between privacy invasion and not is whether you go through the passenger’s belongings using a scanner or not. It’s bullshit. It’s like big tech saying the difference between ads being ok or not is whether they’ve gathered enough of your private info to make it likely you care about the advertised product.

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Ornithologists are taking the piss.

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I still can’t get over this. A “spangled drongo” sounds like an insult an Australian character in an American TV drama would use where no producer or indeed any of the cast have ever met an Australian.

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Remember: April is Procrastination Awareness Month

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I don’t want to come across as dramatic or whatever but I would die for this cat.

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Live, laugh, toaster bath.

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I am on a train.

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Vexing over “Cairns formal” men’s attire.

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(It’s not a bad vex it’s more how can I look really nice and not, you know, die. Because over 18C is warm for me.)

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Apple Watch annoyed me for the last time at least for the next week or so. I think the MP3 player instead of listening to music from my phone is digital detoxing me and the notifications were getting annoying. Old Faithful is back.

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@decryption oh yeah, and also touch screen.

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