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• Post #4409301

  :omya_xero:

• Post #4296407

  Maybe putting credulous, incurious people in charge of important things is a bad idea?

• Post #4228910

  vibes means vibraphone

• Post #4220966

  In which I share helpful advice with the audience.

• Post #4214630

  This might be my favourite photo of me giving a talk at Melbourne Python metup.

• Post #4193675

  Is it nostalgia to remember when a lot of this stuff was called "fraud" and there were consequences?

• Post #4181179

  It is my considered opinion that the stem ginger cookies from Aldi are now superior to the modern Arnott's ginger nut biscuit.

• Post #4121834

  Maybe someone could look into how genies get put into bottles in the first place?

• Post #4047175

  Morning Fediverse!

• Post #4025904

  Highway to the Synergy Zone.

• Post #3974850

  "Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you. Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason. Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"

• Post #3945787

  "Just fork it" assumes that it is as easy to duplicate and distribute the ecosystem that sustains a piece of software as it is to duplicate and distribute a software artifact.

• Post #3943105

  I levelled out a paved path yesterday, and remembered to sweep sand into the gaps between the pavers to help them grip each other and not move around quite so much. It took ages, but I'm pleased with the result. Better than the landscapers who did the last one.

• Post #3897557

  Services Australia has not changed. Stable systems resist change. That's what stable means. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/18/robodebt-whistleblower-was-told-her-royal-commission-evidence-could-cost-you-your-job-court-hears

• Post #3820368

  Oh you credulous muppet Albo. "Anthony Albanese says the federal government will introduce faster approval processes for AI projects, including datacentres, across Australia, seeking to shore up investor certainty and maintain community confidence in the rapidly advancing technology." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/anthony-albanese-promises-fast-track-approvals-for-datacentres-to-shore-up-ai-investment

• Post #3819284

  It just took me a surprisingly long time to find synoptic charts on the BoM website. The main weather maps and facts things don't seem to show air pressure? Like, at all?

• Post #3437182

  AusGov is going to double the fine that has never been applied or paid because the thing they were told wouldn't work isn't working. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/27/australia-under-16-social-media-ban-tech-companies-penalty-double

• Post #3381989

  I'm unclear on why all the people running off the cliff think I would be worried about being left behind.

• Post #3360050

  Had sausage rolls from Oasis Bakery for the first time in years and they were disappointing. The recipe is different and they're not spicy any more alas. Happily, the babaganoush was lovely, and the roasted capsicum with sun-dried tomato was phenomenal.

• Post #3299630

  I have decided there are two kinds of cracker biscuit split direction: KitKat, and domino.

• Post #3228025

  Oh neat, my PRs for PostfixAdmin got merged.

• Post #3184509

  Coffee and pain au chocolat in a hammock in the sun after pulling up and stacking 150 bricks. That'll do.

• Post #3111064

  "Just take over maintaining the software yourself" is a lot like "just take over running the local council yourself". There are lots of structures and systems in place to prevent you doing that, no matter how much you might want to.

• Post #3067650

  "The government has admitted it illegally cancelled hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments because of a glitch in the automated system that runs the controversial mutual obligations scheme, it has been revealed." https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/03/hundreds-of-thousands-centrelink-payments-cancelled-illegally-albanese-government-admits Which Minister is resigning over this? And which department secretary is getting fired?

• Post #2988750

  Finally getting around to reviewing a PR to add FIRES data feed support to FediBlockHole… and encountered a bunch of maintenance stuff that was needed, such as security hardening of GitHub Actions, adding automated linter/formatter checks to developer config for contributors, etc.

• Post #2988749

  Morning Fediverse!

• Post #2892320

  RE: https://social.shirow.net/@djb/116645158605455974 🚨 ANAO audit report klaxon 🚨

• Post #2755929

  TGIF :tgif: #tgif

• Post #2656231

  I will be running some tabletop exercises shortly. What is the saving throw to avoid saying "roll for initiative" at the very beginning? Wisdom, or Charisma?

• Post #2563016

  ai;dr (AI; Didn't Read)