Serious offer: i know how to make electric bicycles, electrify analog bicycles and repair broken electric bikes/scooters. If you are in #Brisbane, feeling fuel pinch, and want to get (back/newly) on two wheels, hit me up. Parts to electrify a bicycle cost a few hundred dollars, no need to spend $4000 on a store bike if you don’t want to. I even have some analog bikes we could use for parts. If you have access to ex rental scooters from defunct rental companies, i can also help resurrect these.

Will hold a weekend #ebike #escooter #micromobility workshop if there is interest.

ETA: if not in brissy i can recommend parts to buy

ETFA: if you have a good bike but a dead battery, this can be resurrected for around $100

ETEFA: your replies tell me I'd better pump out a blog post on this subject pronto.

ETYFA: Blog series https://accelerando.com.au/news/

💻 Tech Despondency

Has AI adoption in the industry as a whole, particularly in programming made you feel a little hopeless in the past couple of years. What are your feelings for the future?

I feel I had a skill that is not valuable as much, especially with the imbalance of supply and demand in this space.

#AI
#programming
#tech

LLMs are clearly giving the broader tech workforce an existential crisis. Which I think is understandable.

If you view your job as solving issues for business as quickly as possible by way of writing code; then yeah you're generally not going to fare well against a machine.

I think things become more interesting when the frame shifts from "the output is code" to "the output are systems". IMO writing the code has never been the hard part of building systems.

Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-is-pulling-back-from-openai-and-anthropic-but-his-explanation-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256781

Anyone have a lead on the cheapest iPhone display repairer in #melbourne?

A friend who is extremely hard up for cash has had her toddler throw her phone in the toilet. Apple store said it would be $400 but would probably only last a month or two, so that's not viable.

I've shared my sci-fi short story for the Australian Writers' Centre's February Furious Fiction. The brief included that the story's theme had to be "EIGHT". 🚀

Link to story on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/short-stories/the-sol-eight-expedition

#writers #writing #furiousfiction #scfi #shortstory