The problem: "I'd like to to make the tea/coffee preferences of my team available so people don't need to ask when doing a coffee run or feel like making a cup of tea for their colleagues"
The UNIX way: Put your tea/coffee preferences in your .plan on the shared SPARC server.
The early web: A static HTML file with a table.
The web: A CGI application written in perl where people can update their preferences.
Web 2.0: LAMP stack in a VM with a JavaScript enabled fancy front-end wherein you can drag sugar icons into your cup. You can click to share your love of tea on social media.
AI: We trawl all staff social media, email and recorded phone calls to build a coffee and tea profile. I don't give a fuck if you're lactose intolerant, the AI says latté and AI is always right. We've discontinued the coffee machine and tea in the break room to pay for the first year cloud bill for the AI.
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In light of all the endless AI announcements pouring out of Governments lately ...
Why is it somehow impossible for a political party to put a general IT consultant on staff or retainer?
Not like one needs rockstar talent here. A slightly-jaded enterprise architect or infrastructure architect or manager with experience on the tools would do it.
Someone with a couple of support staff who can review a "bright idea" and explain exactly why that idea is a sack of shit before gulping it out to the public and looking like a fool.
At the very least, someone who can look at a proposed project and identify when a project is nominally good and when the entire thing has been designed to line the pockets of a series of vendors while delivering the minimal outcome.
$250k/yr spend seems cheap for being able to look vaguely smart on tech issues, right?
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The year is 2025 and a Sydney council has taken up policing "acceptable" swimwear for women.
Did the new year roll over a counter and someone is restarting in the 50s?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/15/greater-sydney-council-bans-revealing-swimwear-sparking-debate-about-double-standards
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If I had five cents to every real estate flyer in my "no junk mail" posted letterbox today, I've had $1.25.
Thus I'd like to propose that real estate agents shall be mandated to buy back their junk mail at five cents per item.
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OK, so the "scanner and linux" journey has so far involved hacking the backend code and compiling a custom build of SANE ...
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Two police officers found to have formed a criminal conspiracy with Lawyer X to manipulate a witness are fighting to keep their names a secret.
So VicPol are still trying to cover up this mess.
Victoria. Where you can't actually trust that your lawyer isn't a police informant.
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Heads-up -- an uptick in paypal phishing has been reported in a few circles, noting that the current run is more convincing than average and is being relayed through compromised accounts in trusted email providers.
These phishing emails may well pass DKIM/DMARC.
It never hurts to remind people to be vigilant, especially at this time of year when transaction rates are up.
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Reading a complaint about the dupont connectors from @jacqueline gave me an idea:
A re-imaging of the classic "200 in 1 Electronics" kit with an ESP32, all the common modules for simple projects, a set of resistors and mosfets and those hardy spring terminals to provide easy but reasonably solid connections.
Add some binding posts, an onboard battery and dev your ESP projects anywhere!
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We have a slacker in our midst ...
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My vacuum sealer (for sous vide) is on the way out, it appears. Any recommendations?
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WTF wikipedia?
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Seeing a roar of odd traffic from 45.230.188/24 and 45.230.189/24 -- anyone else?
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Well, that was a surprisingly loud "boom" rolling through the suburbs. I wonder what blew up?
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Why is Firefox pestering me to "log in" with a Google account?
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Anyone in Melbourne want some eggs at the moment? Our cluckers are out-laying our ability to eat eggs.
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If we're going to mandate smoke alarms -- and I think mandating smoke alarms is a very reasonable thing -- then we need to use that mandate to make the process easy.
My revised smoke alarm mandate:
Verily, we can replace smoke alarms without needing to get out a screwdriver and we can replace batteries on high ceilings using a stick rather than dragging out a ladder.
If it wasn't a giant pain in the arse to check smoke alarms, people would check them far more frequently and actually replace batteries rather than just removing them to quell the devil's chirping bird.
Bonus round:
Double-bonus round:
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I love the aesthetic of stainless steel and glass straws, but the clean-up is just too annoying.
Maybe an ultrasonic cleaner?
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Mountains of spam pouring from from ".best" TLD in the last 48 hours. Someone giving domains away?
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dashlane.com have started up their spamming engine again. Don't do business with spammers.
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