Glen T, heated, not stirred

glent@aus.social

Life: cycling, bushwalking, amateur radio VK5TU, Linux tinkering. Work: network engineering, systems programming, technical team leadership. Location: Adelaide, Australia. You're welcome to use the content without attribution; except for art like photos and films. Get in touch if they're not marked with a copyright license you find useful. Posts SFW with M-rated language at times.

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Post #3623444
Yet another academic who says stupid shit then walks away with career unaffected. "Pioneer of ‘extreme male brain’ theory of autism now says phrase unhelpful" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/05/autism-extreme-male-brain-simon-baron-cohen
Post #3447970
Adelaide friends Looks like the State Development Area for Osborne -- intended for works for the Aukus submarine project -- is far larger than needed. See the map below. It's basically the entire LeFevre Peninusla which doesn't currently have residential housing plus all but the central streets of Port Adelaide. This includes Victoria Drive and the Port River and its shores. The SDA makes it easy for the South Australia government to ignore local government and community concerns about...
Post #3040615
I don&#39;t know what Microsoft threatened the BBC with, but so much UK TV showing Linux screens. #linux
Post #3040614
fedora$ sudo dnf update --refresh Does not update the kernel today, &lt;glen wonders if update server is slow, as there is always a LLM-bug kernel update&gt; #linux
Post #3040613
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio heading to India to convince Prime Minister Modi that what Rubio said in Europe does not apply to Asia. La. #auspol
Post #3040612
The LibreOffice &quot;startup tips&quot; are surprisingly good. I had turned them off expecting the usual mix of irrelevance and marketing. But having turned them on, this is the one time a program has made this concept actually work. #linux
Post #3040611
Moving the Australian population census to the web should never fail to a denial of service attack. The amount of data to be transferred is tiny, let&#39;s massively overestimate and say 100KB. It has to be secured, but that&#39;s what encryption is for. The business requirement for the transaction speed, it&#39;s nowhere near the usual 200 milliseconds. 200 minutes would be fine. Constructing a huge central web and transaction processing enterprise application tells me that the des...
Post #3040610
Cybersecurity is a failure. It has turned the idea of personal computing back into a mainframe. Like computer security got stuck in the 1970s and never left. The idea that you or I might use a computer as a computation device in its own right is verboten in the Halls of Cyberism. Programming is done by The Other, and the messiness of product development, let alone learning or research, is simply forbidden. The only exception is the Excel programming environment, because the Cyberists know the...
Post #2345987
After recent excitement you might want to check that your fedora kernel is $ uname -r 7.0.4-100.fc43.x86_64 Now undo whatever module loading prevention you had in place for the recent issues. You might need to reboot. -- You might want to update the system rescue kernel. Find the files with $ sudo find /boot -name &#39;*rescue*&#39; and delete them. Remove an older kernel, anything 6.9 is old enough. Now recreate the rescue kernel with $ sudo dnf reinstall kernel kernel-core I...
Post #2106068
The US primaries -- where political parties choose their candidates -- is completly alien to Australia. Why is the state even involved? Why is litigation about candidate selection even possible, surely that allows a triumvirate by the courts rather than parliament being the ultimate power (as established by the devastating English Civil War).
Post #2106067
A note on the US withdrawing 5000 troops from Germany. The US is pulling back every missile it can which is not in the Middle East. Finding something a German politician said to take offence at was just a way to lower the political price. As a result these 5000 troops are not cooks and cleaners. They are the operators and weapon systems Europe most wanted to counter Russian expansionism. The troops and their equipment won&#39;t be coming back, because the US is now desperately low on war...
Post #2106066
When you charge the bike lights and computer, lube the chain, pump up the tyres, and only then read the weather forecast which promises rain, and maybe lots of it.
Post #2106065
Dear math teachers. Could we please teach people doing senior school maths about terms and expressions? Because the typical order of operations falls naturally from those definitions. Every time someone treats PEDMAS as a definition, rather than as an aide memoire, a kitten dies.
Post #2106058
Jeff Goldblum &amp; The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Adelaide Festival Theatre, Saturday last. &quot;Night blooms&quot; tour. Movie stars fronting a band playing jazz have a long history. Jeff Goldblum is no Cary Grant, but Goldblum knew the tradition and got the job done. Opened with thirty minutes of verbal game playing with the audience, dropping of famous names, and a guest appearance (for Adelaide, hometown director Scott Hicks). Long enough so that people who came to see Jeff T...
Post #2106054
You know how old I am? I had to explain the actual history of the collapse of the Berlin Wall to a coworker who was old enough to have just had a baby. (In case you are wondering, church youth groups were more of a cause than Ronald Reagan.)
Post #1882963
Raspberry Pi folks worried about CVE-2026-31431 &#39;copy fail&#39;. Add this to the end of the line in /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init Then reboot with sudo systemctl reboot. Check that it worked with dmesg | fgrep &#39;blacklisting initcall algif_aead_init&#39; expect to see [ 0.000000] blacklisting initcall algif_aead_init You&#39;re now good against this issue. #raspberrypi
Post #914906
Maximum 40C (edit: 104F). Never change, Japan.
Post #652190
South Korea had years of pain from China after the US placed THAAD air defence missiles in South Korea in 2017. The landowner of the THAAD site, Lotte, had 79 of its 99 China supermarkets close after a quasi-government boycott. K-dramas were banned in China, which simply meant their viewers moved to piracy, but this cost South Korea billions. Guess what&#39;s happening now that some Middle Eastern countries have burned through their stocks of air defense missiles? Yep, the THAAD system in...
Post #652189
&quot;Cadel: lungs on legs&quot;, a play about the sporting life of Cadel Evans. He is the first and only Australian to have won the Tour de France three-week cycling race. I liked it. Written and acted by Connor Delves. Adelaide Fringe Festival, Goodwood Theatre, tickets available, last show 21 March, then more Australian cities, Edinburgh Fringe, New York. https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/cadel-lungs-on-legs-af2026 #adelaide
Post #652188
Tried &#39;Transit mode&#39; on the Pixel phone. Don&#39;t waste your time if you&#39;re looking for decent support for rail and bus commuting. No &#39;next bus at&#39;, no concourse maps, no &#39;your stop is approaching&#39;. Google Maps was such a win for public transport when it integrated live timetables. But that was a long time ago.
Post #652187
There is a lot of writing saying the US has no strategy for Iran. It does. The US strategy is: - flatten Iran&#39;s cities, industry and infrastructure - walk away, leaving the chaos to whichever sucker doesn&#39;t recognise the play (ally, UN, etc) #auspol
Post #629308
A little over the &quot;supply of solar panels is just as vulnerable as the supply of petroleum&quot; hot takes.
Post #88942
SBS TV World Movies is going hard with Ghibli this Christmas season: Kiki's delivery service, My neighbour Totoro, Sprited away, Howl's moving castle, Arriety.