ClatterBrain
@Clatterbrain
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A marketing guy by day @ Telstra, muso/journo/geekdad by night, who just wants robots and humans to get along. Opinions may soon be my employer’s, but not today
Telstra Signs Deal With the Largest Wind Farm in Australia That’ll Be Fully Operational by 2024 http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~/714312046/0/gizmodoaustralia/
By setting up API paywalls it appears Twitter is chasing that lucrative and highly successful business model deployed by App.Net. Bold move.
Ronico1890 year. The telephone tower The Telefontornet in Stockholm (Sweden 🇸🇪) connected 5,000 telephone lines.
#sweden #connectedpeople #SaturdayMug #stockholm #telephone #SaturdayThings
Kris HowardTwice in the last week - both personally and professionally - I had to deal with an Asker vs Guesser issue. https://medium.com/redhill-review/navigating-ask-and-guess-cultures-in-a-modern-world-30b167f8ab09 This article is a good intro to the concept, and has some suggestions for bridging that communication divide.
Sindarina, Edge Case DetectiveSince I just saw yet another developer use '1.2.3.4' in an example configuration, a reminder that you MUST NOT use publicly routable addresses that you do not control in your code.
Instead, use one of the available 'TEST-NET' IPv4 or IPv6 ranges documented in RFC 6890, such as;
192.0.2.0/24
198.51.100.0/24
203.0.113.0/24
❌ 1.2.3.4
✅ 192.0.2.4
Pass it on to all of your fellow developers, documentation writers, and so forth.
Full RFC is here;
RFC 6890: Special-Purpose IP Address Registries
This memo reiterates the assignment of an IPv4 address block (192.0.0.0/24) to IANA. It also instructs IANA to restructure its IPv4 and IPv6 Special-Purpose Address Registries. Upon restructuring, the aforementioned registries will record all special-purpose address blocks, maintaining a common set of information regarding each address block.
Tatham Oddie@timrichards In the opposite direction, something that's new(-ish) is actually grabbing your GPS data when you call 000.
https://exchange.telstra.com.au/triple-zero-advanced-mobile-location/
When you call 000, your phone will now also activate the GPS, grab your lat/long, and then automatically shoot it off to 000 as a text message. On the call centre side, we correlate the phone call and the text message back together, and then hand that location data off to police/fire/ambulance. This is way more precise than using the cell tower information to guess within a few km.
It does go in the opposite direction though of capturing more data rather than less. Again, lots to balance.
@timrichards
Your telco knows which cell you are connected to. Cell data is stored as part of mandatory metadata retention legislation. You can request copies of your own data, e.g. via https://www.telstra.com.au/privacy/customer-access, but you can't turn this off as it's part of a) how the network functions, and b) legislation. The proactive texts are about avoiding bill shock, and are aligned to the Telecommunications Code of Practice, which is a regulatory instrument.
Your telco knows which cell you are connected to. Cell data is stored as part of mandatory metadata retention legislation. You can request copies of your own data, e.g. via https://www.telstra.com.au/privacy/customer-access, but you can't turn this off as it's part of a) how the network functions, and b) legislation. The proactive texts are about avoiding bill shock, and are aligned to the Telecommunications Code of Practice, which is a regulatory instrument.