Recovering ICAC tragic

He got an award?!? Is it uncharitable to think it might be the sort of award one gets spam emails about? Yes, it is uncharitable. Would be interesting to look at the award details. "I was busy" lol. And "I stayed overseas because I had been threatened". #ICACRadio

@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange @decryption@aus.social How the fuck did his eyes get closer together?!?

Anita was providing fresh ideas, according to Greenwood's earlier evidence. Dwyer is saying that is unlikely to have been the case, as the matters she was involved with had been ongoing for many years. Again, making the case that Anita has not provided value. #ICACRadio

@pmcneil@aus.social I'm, not that close to Dutch politics, but I suspect that the reason other countries can plan and execute this sort of thing and we cannot is chiefly that their public services are not politicised, but ours are. For at least thirty years, but the seeds were sown earlier, successive Governments have been working on making the Australian Public Service into the supine and politically compliant structure it is today. Removing tenure, overtly political appointments and so on. It trashes any ability for the APS to work on anything at all independently of the politics of the day. In this we are very like the UK government and the US government. The UK public service is no longer anything like how it was when "Yes Minister" lampooned it decades ago.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt It's astonishing, isn't it? Just - astonishing. You'd think they might put up a few things with at least some potential to be read as negatives, like maybe what is all this going to cost, but no. My goodness. Health care, education and housing for all! What are these maniacs thinking?!? Fear them!

@alice@lgbtqia.space There is a tendency for bot writers to see their bots as having all the rights and privileges (ethically) as a person. They don't. Also, if doing what a bot does would be creepy or unacceptable if a human user did it, then what the bot is doing is creepy and unacceptable. There's also a question of scale and frequency. If a human sat glued to Mastodon 24/7, instaboosting everything I did but otherwise never interacting or engaging, I would regard that as weird and want them to stop.

I want my, I want I-C-A-C I want my, I want I-C-A-C... Eight minutes minutes late and counting! Come on! Hot pokers warmed up? Check! Thumbscrews greased? Check! Unflattering camera angles on witnesses arranged? Check! Let's go! #ICACRadio

@huwr@aus.social @decryption@aus.social I hate being asked (or passively bullied) into moving on by someone waiting for a free table. I'm not someone who naturally dallies; when I'm finished, I'll go. That said, if pushed I will generally find there's time for another round of coffee, or an extremely leisurely glass of water. The whole point of cafes is to have a relaxed cuppa, and someone who would take that away from me gets to stew in their own impatience. The absolute cherry on top is if they get another table! Then I can immediately finish up, stand up, and leave. Bliss. Is that petty? Yes. Yes, it is.

@decryption@aus.social Might be an idea to consider what telemetry is sent back to the manufacturer or others. And any other user-hostile data collection or transmission.

@Kels_316@aus.social @nacho_borracho@aus.social It feels like cowardice to me. That someone would walk away, rather than offering help.

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social @ashwin@defcon.social You: What's the answer? Everybody else: This. You: No, but really, what's the answer? Everybody else: This. You: Ok, fine, yes but... what's the answer? Everybody else: THIS! You: Huh. I can see I need to run another poll.

Its enjoyable to encounter an English word that I have never seen before. It happened today. Do you know, without looking it up, what a "placket" is? Sometimes spelled "placquet". Feel free to boost. And, without revealing the actual answer, feel free to suggest likely meanings :-)

@smiteri@mstdn.ca @n_dimension@infosec.exchange @VeeRat@zeroes.ca Man, I am so tired of hearing "youre using it wrong" when AI does not deliver. I don't mean to sound patronising, but if I ask an AI to do exactly X and it doesn't come up with a working X, then the AI is wrong, not me.

@dgar@aus.social If nine out of ten puns survive walking into a bar, then overall there'd be one pun in ten dead.

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social Octarine. The Pratchett scrolls are quite specific about this, and authoritative.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Great read. Contains this quote, which applies to so many things - most recently vaccines... "a problem got solved so thoroughly that we forget how big of a problem it was"

@en3py@onlyarts.social @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au It's not a lexical dilemma at all. "Not respond" is neutral; "refuse to respond" is not neutral and implies two extra pieces of information that as far as I can tell we do not have: That the request was received and that a decision was made to ignore it. Neither of those can be inferred from the information at hand. Journalists should be careful with such things, and so should we. If we are to be better than the liars and the trolls, then we have to be accurate and truthful. There is also a slight ambiguity here: "respond" could mean respond to the request, i.e., communicate with the Coast Guard, or it could mean "respond to the need", i.e., go help the other vessel. I don't think it makes any difference to this discussion though. Interesting article on maritime law; thanks!

Found this. Sorry, no source recorded. Thought Pauline might be interested. #AUSPol

@Extelec@mstdn.social The rain falls down upon the just And also on the unjust fella. But more upon the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella...

@inthehands@hachyderm.io "dots"? ss;dr... (sorry, substack; didnt read)

Need a job as a Head Barista? The Eddy in Merimbula (NSW, Australia) is hiring. Seems like a together crew. No relation, just a customer :-) Details in alt text. Boost maybe?

@Unixbigot@aus.social Hah. I read that just now, laughed, appreciated it and thought "yup, boostable!" And found I already did boost it - a year and a half ago. Good one!

@captainvellalives@lgbtqia.space @emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space and they are definitely laughing at you, not with you...

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social You have once again omitted octarine.

@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social as long as you are not counting the person who said "octomarine"...

@kudra@aus.social How? What did it do?!? I use Tusky, and have on many occasions wished it had a "save as draft" option, because if I navigate away from an in-progess message it discards it. Usually it's because I want to refer to some other message. If I am lucky I remember to select all and copy, so I can paste it back, but I usually forget :-( #Tusky

@cford@toot.thoughtworks.com @matt@toot.cafe Lets try to compare apples with apples, hm? It's not "lives saved" by cars vs "dogs run over"; it's "lives saved" by cars vs "lives lost and destroyed". The number of people injured and killed by cars each years hugely outnumbers the people saved by them. As in, literally millions to one. About 1.2 million killed - EACH YEAR. The number of injuries is 20 to 40 times higher (reference: WHO statistics). It's true that most things have good and bad uses, though it's VERY hard to argue that about guns, unless you think that people's ability to engage in a fun sport outweighs the desperate cost in human lives that guns bring - and that's just civilian gun use. For generative AI, BILLIONS have been poured into them. One thousandth of the amount so far spent could have probably have solved a pretty large chunk of the world's accessibility problems. As someone else has commented, using generative AI to find accessibility solutions is to use the most fantastically damaging, expensive and inefficient tool imaginable. That some solutions pop out is a good thing, but it is at extraordinary cost to everybody, including those helped. The solutions are founded on wholesale intellectual theft and channel vast amounts of money into the pockets of the worst people on Earth. In other words, that theft is also from people with disabilities, that cost is also paid by people with disabilities. So yeah - it's easy for me, as a person without a disability, to say that this is utterly fucked. But it's utterly fucked.

@trib@aus.social don't forget, because gravity doesn't care :-)

@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social @etsyy@mastodon.catgirl.cloud @blogdiva@mastodon.social "It's fucked now, so it's ok if the new system is fucked too" is not IMHO a useful argument. Piracy - sorry sharing - solves some of the problem, the parts where stuff is too expensive and all the cash goes to exploiters. It doesn't solve the other part of the problem, where creators get nothing for their efforts. Except joy, I guess, but you can't eat joy.

@trib@aus.social If (IF!) they truly don't retain any information about your activities or the content of files you process and IF the results are acceptable, then the only catch I can see is that you are relying on an external third party for a workflow. There are a LOT of genuinely free and open source PDF tools out there. Not sure why a new one is needed.

@haruki_zaemon@aus.social joke, Joyce...

@haruki_zaemon@aus.social looks more like a high-pressure warning...

@kagan@wandering.shop Might be worth pinning a short post to your profile. Also, what citizenship(s) do you have? If your parents or grandparents or even further back have any Euro heritage, you may find you have other citizenships you don't know about. If you have any Euro citizenship, the Eurozone is your oyster :-)

@Spoon@aus.social I turned it off and on again (the application) and now it's displayng 🙂

@warkolm@aus.social @trib@aus.social don't touch discourse with a barge pole. Aussie or not, it's a steaming pile of poo as anything except a web chat forum manager.

@nacho_borracho@aus.social @Kels_316@aus.social What? Has anybody in Australia ever been successfully prosecuted for attempting to provide first aid? Seems to me that an unconscious and about-to-be-dead woman of any religious persuasion is unlikely, once revived, to complain about the process that saved her life.

@madcollector@retro.pizza I seem to be in the minority in this thread, but it shits me right off when randos call me "love". Or "darl", "darling", "dear", "sweetheart" or whatever other ridiculous infantilising word springs into their tiny minds. And then they have the fucking gall to get offended when I say very politely that I dislike being called that, so please don't. It seems to be much more women than men that do it here in Oz, and I just know that if I called *them* those things they would perceive it as sexist bullshit.

@adamsteer@mapstodon.space @en3py@onlyarts.social @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au No, "not responding" IS NOT the same as "refusing" or "declining" to respond, for the reasons I gave and will not repeat. Saying it's so without offering any counterargument does not make it so. While the situation being discussed is "maritime", this has nothing to do with maritime obligations. It could just as well be an SMSed request to pick someone up at the bus stop. Unless the Meta vessel did in fact receive the Coast Guard request (which according to the article they say they did not) and then chose to ignore said request (a moot point if they never got it), there is no justification for using loaded terms like "refused" and "declined". ... however much we may want this to be further evidence of Zuckerberg's lack of character or whatever. Bias is bias. If people want to say "They're lying! They did get the request!" then that's a different discussion.

@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social Tell us more!

@Shdwdrgn@tech.lgbt @grammasaurus@mastodon.social @SunnJax@tech.lgbt Bike paths should follow highways - because the highways are the shortest, best routes, usually.

@monkeyninja@10base2.dev Someone already mentioned that commercial displays are often heavier and thicker. Some, however, go the other way and are very, very, *very* thin and light, designed for video walls and similar, and that can also be a problem. Also, commercial displays sometimes come with extra embedded hardware - basically a small computer - that is designed to talk to some particular provider's digital display software. It's not Internet-connected, as such, but it is extra weight, extra power, extra heat, even if you re not using it. So avoid getting models with those (unless you can use them of course). And some commercial displays are basically huge Android tablets. Avoid those, too...

@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au "not responding" is not the same as "refusing" or "declining". If you are going to summarise a story to add your own take, at least don't do it with straw men. I've no time for Zuckerberg or Meta or people with multi-million-dollar yachts generally, but accuracy in reporting and quoting of reports is important, and this is the umpteenth post that says the yacht "refused" or "declined" to help. It did neither. It just did not respond. Which may be just as bad in effect, but also could have reasons.

@mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net Another parallel to (actual, historical, factual) Nazi methods.

@etsyy@mastodon.catgirl.cloud @blogdiva@mastodon.social Digital assets can be cheaply duplicated, but it is not cheap to create the original version. Question is, how does the creator get their reward?

@Spoon@aus.social Well that's different. I get the quiterss icon in the notifications area (top right) but it either won't open its window or is opening it out of sight. I've done quite a careful search :-) A secretive little fella!

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu So banks based in non-Euro countries can take six months to action a transfer? Seems excessive.