Partner framed a poster from her youth.

@megsouth We are not the only people to think so. The people processing this evidence could have simply added a typed translation of the encoded text. But instead they took so much care to place it in its graphical context. Hours of work, which they clearly thought the journal deserved.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwaldby/116042742610295596

The Diary of Anne Frank but in the year 2000

Strange, the ChatGPT/OpenAI invokes all the technology stuff people who value REAL human skills use, NOT stuff the people who use AI cheat at. (ie. reading for yourself, Raspberry Pi, doing calculus by hand, loading Linux, riding a bike) 🤔

Aside from the "singularity" reference 🙄

Maybe they're selling "instead of working hard to learn all this stuff you can shortcut and use our AI?" Is this like the Apple "we'll crush everything you love" ad?

Remembering Jon Kudelka, his greatest one-line single panel

"When the market is this many layers of fucked, we’re lucky that we have alternatives. By using, supporting and contributing to nice products built by nice people, we can go some way to making open source a viable and sustainable model in whatever future in which we find ourselves."

https://piccalil.li/blog/the-open-source-design-stack/

#OpenSource #FOSS #WebDesign

Weird destruction of bike tyre, a Gatorskin Hardshell. A stick got caught in the front fork and stripped a little bit of the loosely woven side protection off the tyre (I originally thought this was some printing on the sidewall). Now that woven mesh is slowly separating from the body of the tyre. I've had a puncture every ride, so safe to say the tyre is stuffed.

@Philipnschofield only from obscure op shops known only to my partner :)

Holeproof Walkers "the long sock to wear with shorts"

@foundseed @delawen it is mid afternoon in Australia, here is my city's electricity usage for three days prior. You can see the light yellow for domestic solar exports (ie, after meeting the house's usage). The purple is gas, the only non-renewable.

You can see how air conditioning on hot nights is keeping gas usage high overnight at the moment (this is our worst case gas usage, lower in the rest of the year). I don't give that long to disappear, people are putting off car purchases for 20KW household batteries so the aircon runs for free 24x7.

@foundseed @delawen Sure they derate in the heat. My panels derated about 15% when the temperature was over 45C. So when we designed the system we added 20% more panels. Cost a few hundred Aussie dollars. Basically part of the overall cost of the system.

Solar panels are cheap enough that if there is any sort of access issue getting onto the roof then the correct answer is "Cover the whole thing whilst you are up there".

Son dragging me about Eduroam* last night. Lots of Tumblr, etc posts where people can't connect and want you to die; and people who have connected in some unexpected place and want to have your babies.

Nothing, not one single post, in between these extreme views.

* I did some work on this organising many other people to grow the footprint in Australia from 'prototype of a few users' to 'solid production across all Australian unis'

Meg's Bookshop in Port Pirie to close:

https://megsbooks.com.au/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/meg-s-bookshop-port-pirie-closes-after-35-years-south-australia/106277430

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Rather see people move from ICE cars to cargo e-bikes myself. Especially for the household's second car.

@anarodrigues Forgejo self-hosted. Codeberg didn't quite match my use case since although I use the GPL, if people want a different licence -- maybe they do want a warranty in order to bid for a government contract -- I want to be able to say 'yes, but it will cost you'.

@skribe Who then didn't show. Lol. Makes sense.

@benno if desperate enough, 'strace -p'. See the '-e trace=' option to just show the system call which happens once per loop, eg, 'strace -p 123 -e trace=select'.

But yes, SIGINFO. Imagine right clicking on an app and a dialog box pops up and says "Reading input file, 50% done".

@foundseed The inevitability of solar has been wholeheartedly embraced by Australians. "You mean at the hottest time of day my air conditioner runs for free?" is not a difficult sale.

Haven't done the sums of recent to know how many months, but the payback period on residential rooftop panels is under a year, not too long ago that was three years.

Now at the stage where new street lighting -- actually on power poles -- has solar cells and battery built in to limit mains usage.

Just how did "Melania" take an average of A$982 per screening when tickets were at most A$31? No report has 30 people at a screening.

@ghalldev I hate that you can't tell if the email is real or phishing. So you have to start a whole new virtual machine, install enough Debian to have a web browser, then paste in the link.

Had someone sending me parallel emails to those sent by Foreign Relations journal. 50% odds the recipient will 'unsubscribe' using the wrong link. Interesting targeting of users too.

I want to slap anyone who is sending bulk emails without a cryptographic signature.