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• Post #3031444

  @zl2tod@mastodon.online Agreed. One day the idea of a council owning some buses and trucks and employing some people might not be considered outlandish!

• Post #3031253

  I look forward to finding It more about this "website" which, given it is for a significant public institution, might be anything from a simple set static pages describing the facilities of a building to a complex site (or "application") used for managing the discovery and management of digital and ordinal assets by many thousand people. I certainly expect it should demonstrate more thought and consideration than one could expect from some rando on Fiverr. And, though I...

• Post #2536482

  This sounds delightful. Disappointing I'm too old to take up a wheelwright's apprenticeship. https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/the-love-story-behind-nz-s-only-wagon-wheel-makers

• Post #1754372

  I'm at least 60% sure no one at RNZ uses the RNZ iOS App to read the news. Because it is very irritating in very obvious ways. Must notably not allowing selection or zoom on images - which are often maps of diagrams that are near useless without enlargement. And I can't even share articles direct to the browser from the app.

• Post #1475343

  Stormy night. Had a dream that I saved a beautiful treadle hammer (attached to an antique bicycle!) from being melted down as scrap.

• Post #1475342

  TIL Mac OS allows multiple processes to simultaneously bind to (listen on) the same local port! So much potential for confusion. #modelsurprise

• Post #1475340

  I feel like, these days, it is worth emphasising that "the working class" is anyone who depends on wages or a salary. So many people don't identify with label, and yet it is them.

• Post #1475338

  Beginning to look like electrification of the economy was a good idea afterall. How surprising.

• Post #1475336

  Terrible news. Some EV fast charging has increased in price by ~5%!

• Post #1475329

  It must be a weird time to be Jacinda Ardern. Watching the government of her own country take exactly the wrong lessons from crises she managed and lead through. The takeaway from COVID shouldn't have been "Act slowly and act late".

• Post #1475328

  Supermarkets shouldn't use computer vision systems for security or customer tracking purposes. They should use them to spray water in the face of anyone who squeezes an avocado.

• Post #1475327

  "Important update On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out." Dear Github, I have used Copilot once, but you can still go fuck yourself.