Oh dear. Tens of thousands of Oscar Piastri fans packed into Albert Park to see their lad take it to the world. Only to put his McLaren into the wall while trundling out to line up on the grid.
Mike Carden
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Technologist, cyclist, former satellite ground stations guy, usually found somewhere in south eastern Oz.
It's been ages since I've seen anything from Corey Quinn - we must no longer have a social media overlap. This recent post of his about his AI email spam autoresponder tickled my fancy:
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/i-hope-this-email-finds-you-before-i-do/
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/i-hope-this-email-finds-you-before-i-do/
Dear Lazyweb: I have some limited experience in running Zoneminder and a bunch of webcams monitoring Satellite ground stations around the world, but I set up none of the hardware nor the software. I have recently acquired several different models of Panasonic IP cams and I’d like to deploy some around my townhouse. Is there a nice online guide for planning a domestic security camera setup that I might use to point me in the right direction? Physical mounting advice as a bonus.
Questions like Where should they go? Is POE reliable? What software makes sense? etc etc.
Any Compute resources will need to be running Linux on X86_64, PPC64LE or ARM64.
Questions like Where should they go? Is POE reliable? What software makes sense? etc etc.
Any Compute resources will need to be running Linux on X86_64, PPC64LE or ARM64.
Dirk HohndelWhatever you do today, first read this:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/
I hurt my neck reading this because I nodded along so hard. @pluralistic puts his finger on the pulse and points out what's wrong with, you know, everything these days.
Thanks Cory.
It’s an interesting and daunting process, being a First Home Buyer having just turned 60. Turns out that being a high income earner with no debts and substantial savings makes loan pre-approval pretty easy.
But house hunting is just a terrible process. We started out with our basic requirements (single level, double garage, 3 bedrooms) anywhere in Canberra, but houses like that are rare or very expensive.
So we’re considering townhouses now, with all that entails.
But house hunting is just a terrible process. We started out with our basic requirements (single level, double garage, 3 bedrooms) anywhere in Canberra, but houses like that are rare or very expensive.
So we’re considering townhouses now, with all that entails.
Loving the Hottest 100 of Australian songs today. So far only one of mine among those played so far, The Waifs were at #74.
BrianKrebsReally enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
Nolan Lawson"The Copilot Delusion" by Jj https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
"You’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."
Infinitely quotable. I wish I could write like this.
StilgherrianToday’s AlienSideBoob from @JB is titled “What if they had a culture war and nobody came?” https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/what-if-they-had-a-culture-war-and-560
Gavin ShoebridgeBoy, making videos on the internet sure does open you up to attacks from complete strangers. One gentleman just wrote in the comments under my latest video that I'm autistic. That's a new one.