Philip Mallis 🇺🇦

@philip@aus.social
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Transport planner  & history nerd. I make maps, photos & videos. Former councillor & Chair of Urban Planning at Boroondara City Council.

#UrbanPlanning #cities #transport #PublicTransport #melbourne #australia #LocalHistory #OpenStreetMap

All views are my own.

User & supporter of Fedora KDE, GrapheneOS, Wordpress & the Fediverse. Long-time #Wikipedia editor. Viva #FOSS.

"That bloke on the internet"

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Websitehttps://philipmallis.com
Videoshttps://youtube.com/philipmallis
Mapshttps://maps.philipmallis.com
LocationMelbourne, Australia

Today's historic photo of the day: broad gauge Redhen diesel railcar 403 on its way from Adelaide to Belair, calls at Keswick, SA, April 26 1986.

RedHen was the nickname used by railway employees and the general public alike to refer to the 300 and 400 class diesel hydraulic railcars that were the mainstay of Adelaide's suburban rail network from the 1950s until the 1990s. The 300 class were single ended, and the 400s were double-ended, meaning they could run as single car #trains as here.

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes C suits are the worse ones. They just think one quarter and how much stock is going up. That is all.
Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Futurism

#VendorLockIn is a financial AND strategic trap. ❌

From rising fees to hidden dependencies, #BigTech keeps you dependent on their services.

But achieving #DigitalSovereignty might be easier than you think.

Discover more in our latest blog post: "What is vendor lock-in? The real price of Big Tech."

🔗 https://nextcloud.com/blog/what-is-vendor-lock-in-the-real-price-of-big-tech/

What is vendor lock-in? The real price of Big Tech - Nextcloud

Discover the full cost of vendor lock-in. How does Big Tech limit your freedom? And what can open source solutions like Nextcloud do for you?

Nextcloud

Kinetic bubble bus operating a Route 504 service at the north end of Rathdowne Street in Carlton North

#MelbourneBuses #Melbourne #PublicTransport #Transit

Oh my. Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos from your private account hosted at Facebook or Instagram server. They will probably use WhatsApp too while at it

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

Facebook users opting to upload their photos for “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll, including photos that have not been uploaded to Facebook’s servers.

The Verge

Looks like kerbside protected bike lanes are coming soon to Franklin Street in the city!

This is happening at least between Elizabeth and Swanston Streets. Still some third-party construction works west of Elizabeth that might hold things up in that section.

#Melbourne #BikeLanes #Australia

Happy winter solstice for 2025! Here's Swanston Street looking terrific as usual near the Melbourne Town Hall

#WinterSolstice #Melbourne #Australia #cityscape

I think about this a lot.

Free ice creams being given out at Flinders St Station if anyone wants one

#Melbourne #FreeFood