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nnye

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Crafter, geek, glitter, googly eyes, data privacy advocate, my brain stops for cats, my body is 50% chocolate. Values driven, I love lifting people up. Hope Punk is my jam.
She/Her.

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nnye, to random
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Fediverse, I request your aid!

Where could I go to (try to) get hold of a digital copy of an out of print record? Specifically “Send the city sunshine” by Bernard Bolan.

Alternatively, how do I get a vinyl into online format? (I can get the record through eBay looks like)

nnye, to random
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We have “AI” out there deriving art and literature and assessing science journals and reviewing test reports for evidence of cancer and dreaming up nonsense to inject as facts.

And here I am, numbly clicking the “I am not a robot” box and trying to identify which squares have a bicycle in them, so that I can enter a form that will send an email into a ticketing system so that my enquiry can go through some routing software until it can be reviewed by an auto responder to determine how urgent it is.

KathyReid, to random
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I just used the words "empathy" and "feelings" in a sentence and now I'm having an identity crisis.

nnye,
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@KathyReid it surprises me that these words might have caused a seismic mindset shift. But maybe you just haven’t had enough coffee today?

mattcen, to random
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Can anybody point me at documentation on how calendar invites over email work? It's something I've wondered about for ages but never understood and finding info on the fine details really hard.
I know that CalDAV lets you sync calendars around.
I know that you can send a calendar invitation via email.
I DON'T know how this happens. Presumably the CalDAV server sends it via SMTP From: the organiser?
I know that you can RSVP to an invitation via email
I DON'T know how this response gets back onto the organiser's calendar. Presumably the CalDAV server is hooked into mail somehow and looking for iCal attachments?

This interplay between creating/updating events and them being sent around via email and then magically updating the calendar is the bit I'm confused about.

nnye,
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@mattcen This right here is a prime example of how curiosity killed the cat.
You were warned but you still looked into the cursed knowledge anyway.

nnye,
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@mattcen @nnye do not be! For you have far more courage than I, to even look upon that rfc.

KathyReid, to random
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Me: stays up till 4am trying to debug a @matplotlib issue

Also me: gets a good night's sleep, has the Magic Bean Juice ☕ and spots it within 5 minutes

🤕

nnye,
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@KathyReid Have definitely noticed the same effect when trying to do a cryptic crossword. Afternoon/evening? Cannot do.
Next morning, cleans up half of the crossword.

They say being tired is the same as being drunk. (“They” is some study that was referenced in an internet article I read one time. And is therefore unrefutable proof)

mattcen, to ADHD
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Maybe I should be surprised I don't do this more often, but I just microwaved my lunch and then forgot about it for about 10-20 minutes. 🤦

nnye,
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@mattcen this is why I never walk away from the microwave. And why I never leave my tea to stew (just leave the teabag in. Near enough!) and why I set reminder alarms to get the washing out of the machine. And why my slow cooker gets used more than my oven.

nnye, to random
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Been reading up on regular burnout vs autistic burnout vs adhd burnout and so if you need me, I’m just going to be sitting over here for a while reprocessing my entire life.

Strategies for recovering for one kind can be triggers for another kind and I’m just… like… 🤯

nnye,
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@mattcen Right?! Right!!! I know you get it. It’s like some sort of weird midlife crisis but just running a bit late (either that or I’m going to live to an overripe old age)

joe, to random
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Another month, another update post! I read a lot this month. https://blog.joewoods.dev/updates/january-2024/

nnye,
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@joe but Joe, where are the pictures of cats?!

KathyReid, to random
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My reflection from yesterday's @linuxaustralia - you can't make things a priority for an organisation unless prioritisation involves dedicating resources to that priority.

If there are no additional resources, and other things are not de-prioritised, then you cannot logically make something else a priority.

There is a "red line" on organisational capacity - if things get added to the list of priorities / tasks, then either something else drops below the line, or more resources are required to deliver those priorities.

It's that simple.

nnye,
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@KathyReid Given that any given item will also take more time/people/stuff than originally estimated, the actual red line is higher up the list than you think.

Though we are starting to get into the territory here of conflating priorities (things we want the organisation to achieve) with tasks (stuff that people have to do in service of a priority)

mattcen, (edited ) to melbourne
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EDIT: Sorted! Thanks all!

Does anybody in have an old they're prepared to part with?

I've realised having a HomePod Mini would really help me manage my to-do/shopping lists without me getting distracted by phone notifications, but according to the Compatibility section of https://www.apple.com/au/homepod-mini/specs/#:~:text=Compatibility, I need an iOS device to set it up (and to a lesser extent, get full functionality).

nnye,
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@mattcen I have been pondering Home Assistant for this kind of use case but it feels like a lot of futzing around (because FOSS) compared with my likely amount of gain.

But it may be an option?

nnye, to crochet
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Fediverse: what’s your favourite edutube person for videos on crochet basics? A friend’s kidling is wanting to learn crochet and her mum needs to stay one step ahead but both of them are total beginners!

nnye, to random
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A very merry (mildly malevolent) Aussie magpie Christmas to you. (This thing is as tall as I am)

Australian magpies have a beautiful carolling song, are very intelligent (they can recognise and remember individual humans) and will murderously swoop you if you go within the No Humans Allowed zone of their nest, in spring. (Or if they just don’t like you) The zone is not signposted.

They are also a protected species. Wild magpies are not usually seen with Santa hats.

nnye, to random
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Is BookWyrm sufficiently great that I can move off GoodReads? (I do not Amazon)
I hear Outside of a Dog has an awesome admin and a good choice for someone in AU. Confirm/deny?
Is there some other book reviewing platform that is a healthy alternative?

nnye, to random
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"I sometimes wonder what more we could have done if we hadn't built an Internet that's being strangled with spam and ads and noise."

Latest, but not least pithy thought-provoker in The Crux from the cheese-lovin' @daedalus

Me, I wonder how we can get back to that early stage vision of a world connected freely with information, wisdom and compassion.

Why yes, I am an idealist. But also... friends.

https://eigenmagic.net/@daedalus/111321769987842735

nnye, to random
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I didn’t know about this, but now I do, I want one in my life. And also the time to tinker with it. And the money to buy all the hardware bits.

https://www.home-assistant.io/

KathyReid, to GraphicsProgramming
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MFW my cluster job that's been running for 23 days completes successfully and writes to disk properly:

Unicorn Dance GIF

nnye,
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@KathyReid to be fair, your soul is a sparkly dancing unicorn anyway (when caffeinated).

nnye, to random
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Pls halp: I’m crowd sourcing some ideas. 💡

A friend has terminal cancer. She loves the beach. A lot. I want to convert a corner of her garden into a mini beach. (Her husband is on board with this plan)

Hit me up with your ideas on how to do this, cheaply, with local community support, in something we could complete in a day.

Help me bring joy.

joe, to random
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I just purchased a 3D model to print for the first time ever

nnye,
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@joe Yay! What are you going to print?

joe, to random
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I need to resolve to start going to play DDR in the middle of the day again.

nnye,
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@joe I endorse this commitment to joy.

lindamciver, to random
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What kind of science do you wish people understood? What science do people need to understand in order to make the world a better place?

Obviously Epidemiology & the spread of infectious diseases, ecology, and climate science are right up there.

I'd add food science - by which I mean how food cooks, how/when bacteria grow in food, what happens to different foods when you refrigerate or freeze them, or expose them to oxygen, and nutritrion,

as well as health - what does your body need to be healthy, how do you know when you're getting sick, what do we know and not know about how the body works.

I'd add the psychology of marketing, of sleep, and of learning.

Also the physics of motion - stopping distance, friction, water, etc.

And the nature of science itself.

What would you have in that list?

nnye,
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@lindamciver Something that underpins all science: curiosity, critical thinking, awareness of bias, and provability.

KathyReid, to TwitterMigration
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So, it's been a while since I did an post where, I find interesting people for you to follow on , and use my reach to more closely connect the :fediverse:

@ANUResearch is the official Mastodon account of Research (I think, it all looks very legit, but I don't know the person behind the account) 🇦🇺

@drwaus is the new official account for Digital Rights Watch in Australia (h/t to all the good work Sam @floreani is doing in this space - don't forget to catch her at @pyconau later this month!)

@AoIR is the official Association of account. Read more at https://aoir.org/about 🇺🇸

Professor @nilsph1 works in organisation and information retrieval at the Department of Archive, Library and Information Studies at Metropolitan University @oslomet :flag-no:

@fionatribe is an , workplace and who works in and 🇦🇺

@dcm is Dimitri Coelho Mollo, an Assistant in the Philosophy of at University :flag-se:

@anders is a strategist for :flag-se:

@rachaelvdm is a interested in 🇳🇱 🇦🇺

@bentarnoff is a technical , who recently wrote a brilliant piece on Joseph for The Guardian. You should read it. 🇺🇸

@observablehq is the official account of the platform, based on from @mbostock

That's all for today, don't forget to share your own , particularly as we say ❤️

nnye,
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@KathyReid I love how welcoming, inclusive and diverse your shoutouts are!

joe, to random
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nnye,
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@joe dat tongue blep!

joe, to random
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I am so delighted by how these stickers turned out.

nnye,
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@joe why did that not come with a content warning? My heart! 😻

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