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- Trans Rights
- Are Human Rights
- aphorism
- When Bhagavan was asked, "How should we treat others?", He responded, "There are no others."
- Poverty
- Is a disease of the rich
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Doctor day again. Getting stabbed, bled, and zapped in the pursuit of a variety of diagnoses, all downstream issues of a single #COVID bout in Jan 2022.
BTW you can avoid my 46 months of hell just by:
- masking up
- staying vaccinated
- washing your hands
- ventilate enclosed spaces regularly
- and reminding others to do this
Such a small price to pay
On that note #Aranet CO2 sensors are reduced for a further week https://aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4-home/ I highly recommend them
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Some days you think I'll just fix a bug.
And then you're knee-deep in yaml-powered tool written in python, suddenly falling through a hidden trapdoor into a shell script that uses sed and grep to parse the yaml configs, and you land on a bed of ancient monkey skulls.
At least you hope they're monkey skulls, because the inference could be its other devs who never made it back, and this sed/grep monstrosity is looking for something that was assumed to be on a single line, but doesn't have to be, because ... yaml is not an ini file.
The monkey skulls suddenly collapse into dust, and while you sneeze, you disturb a previously hidden nest of snakes (the python, you remember), which rises up to bite you on the arse. At least, its pretty close to your arse.
The only thing you can think of is to run screaming down random corridors looking for an exit, only to find that the config files that should be in /usr/local/etc are in fact in /etc/ and they point you to an escape route, even if its poorly documented, but its across a shoddy rope bridge over /var/lib/ and there are raging crocodiles below you. Skimming these files that don't respect hier(7) at all, you realise there's no choice - it's the bridge, and the crocs, and you'll need to move, fast.
Grabbing a fraying cord on the rope bridge, you struggle across as fast as you can. Of course, it pulls loose, and you swing wildly down towards the crocodiles. There's no way out now, but suddenly you realise -- /run/ isn't safe, but there's /var/run/ where this stuff should be, and at the last second, you swing over the crocs, into a hidden cave of the ancients.
There is a scroll, and it tells you how to get out. There are only two words:
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I imagine a 20 tonne side loading coal wagon but filled with delicious gravy. And then I imagine 80 more of them. They come past my door where I have a wall of mashed potato and a giant crane with a gravy bucket on it to pour over my mashed spuds. I also have a ball pool but it’s full of peas instead and my entire front yard is laden with delicious slices of roast NZ lamb.
That’s my idea of a gravy train and nobody gonna stop me.
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BIG win for #ClimateJustice today:
States at the UN just adopted a landmark resolution on climate accountability, reaffirming that climate action is a legal obligation.
https://www.ciel.org/news/global-civil-society-groups-welcome-the-un-climate-accountability-resolution-vote/
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🇦🇹 An Austrian court found former intelligence officer Egisto Ott guilty of spying on Wednesday in a case in which he was accused of helping #Russia hunt down opponents and selling it state laptops and phones at the behest of suspected Moscow agent Jan Marsalek.
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I wrote up my #PyconUS 2026 experience: https://blog.pamelafox.org/2026/05/pycon-2026-reflections.html
(you can just scroll through the pics, it got kind of long - what a week!)
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Yes, you heard that right — you can now sideload apps from wherever you are! Even better, without being tethered to AltServer you never need to worry about your apps expiring again 🥳
Plus, easily manage Apple's 3-app limit now that you can swap out your apps anytime! No AltServer, no problem.
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I fucking detest this current NZ Government with a passion.
Not because I'm Trans, but because I don't give a shit who is!!!!!!!!!
And NOBODY, I repeat NOBODY, is going to convince me that I'm in more danger around a Trans person than I am around a HUGE fucking part of the cis male population.
6+ decades on the planet has proven that time and time and fucking time again!
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But if you use a LLM to write your code, and only look at it, when it doesn't do what you want, you are not training to become a better programmer, you are training to become a better "incoming code quality inspector".
But there is no training-path from incoming code quality inspector to good programmer, because you are (deliberately) not investing the 10k hours.
At the core it comes down to passive vs. active vocabulary: You only grow your active vocabulary by expressing yourself.
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Since my last $DAYJOB was canceled 12/2025, I'm working full-time at IzzyOnDroid – without any pay. Living on prior savings, I'm now slowly running out of funds. So if you like our service & support, and want it to stay at the current level (and above): any help is appreciated! This can be donations (see: https://android.izzysoft.de/help?topic=support_us – everyone $/€ 1 per month, and I'm covered) – or part-time remote freelance jobs (apart from my IoD experience, I'm an Oracle DBA).
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One of the best road closure notices I've ever seen. Back story: the people of the villages along the Brenner pass motorway are really really sick of having heavy vehicle traffic thundering past their homes 24 hours a day so one of the local mayors (acting as a private person) notified the authorities of their intention to demonstrate. On both carriageways of the A13 autobahn. A court correctly upheld the right to freedom of assembly so the Brenner pass, one of the few north-south routes for traffic to/from Germany and Italy, will be closed for the day over the Whitsun holiday and drivers will just have to deal with that.
Needless to say a lot of people are very upset about this, but most of them seem to be in Germany or Italy rather than in Tirol. The people of the area need a plan and they need promises for traffic reduction over the medium term, particularly after the Brenner base rail tunnel opens. Right now I can understand why they feel nobody gives a shit about them.
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Good! Europeans are dumping VISA and MasterCard.
Adieu Visa et Mastercard : 130 millions d'Européens basculent vers un paiement 100 % souverain dès 2026 ( English translation: Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans will switch to 100% sovereign payment by 2026 ) https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-basculent-vers-un-paiement-100-souverain-des-2026-n250918.html
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A delicate Minoan gold ornament, in the form of a bee, to celebrate #WorldBeeDay The c. 3,600 year old bee is finely decorated with filigree-work and granulation. Length: 1.9 centimetres, weight: 17 grains
📷British Museum https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2016_2/9_14/1ca1de1c_c246_4960_a7f5_a5a700ef03d1/mid_GAA6163.jpg
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In this post, through my recollection of a very funny event in a Nigerian court, I explore how language use and language dominance carry more than syntax in them. Power, justice and history converge in the colonial court, and justice loses.
https://folukeafrica.com/an-anticolonial-lawyer-in-a-colonial-court/
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Ascent on the less touristy side of Harder. Top ridge with a lot of very confused people not understanding what is this running thing and why would anyone want to do it. And descend nearly missing Habkern and back through an unknown path on the North side of HarderGrat. That last bit needs to be altered though. It’s a wide gravel road with no views.
Meetings-as-a-Service.
I also supply:
- No-as-a-Service
- Inadvisable-choice-as-a-Service
- Defer-as-a-Service
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A bad hair day
A soggy male splendid fairywren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendid_fairywren) at Banyowla Regional Park near Perth, Australia
Photograph Vikrant Deshpande
I know how he feels, but without the plumage.
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A great outcome for Sams Creek...
Gold mine on conservation land in Golden Bay denied permit https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/595816/gold-mine-on-conservation-land-in-golden-bay-denied-permit
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GitHub confirms breach of ~3,800 repositories after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claimed responsibility for the hack (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-confirms-breach-of-3-800-repos-via-malicious-vscode-extension/
http://www.techmeme.com/260520/p14#a260520p14
- Trans Rights
- Are Human Rights
- aphorism
- When Bhagavan was asked, "How should we treat others?", He responded, "There are no others."
- Poverty
- Is a disease of the rich
Warning: may occasionally contain content. Consume in moderation. Finest dumpster fire curation on the fedi.
Joined Jun 2018
