Stephen Gentle

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I’m an electronics/software engineer and consultant, mostly working in biometrics and security, previously in satellite/wireless/RF communications. Very interested in climate, green tech, sustainability etc. I also love speciality coffee, photography and music!

@stilgherrian The best advice I can give to Zoe and Johanna is to leave Australia and set up their public policy institute in Sweden instead.

They will never have a win here.

Even if their proposals get nods, they'll be so butchered by the legislative process that they'll fail in implementation.

Australia doesn't do tech policy successfully. We have uniform monotonic failure.

If you want to do tech policy, and you're smart, do it literally anywhere else.

But not here. All we'll ever do is blurt.

/end

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
-- Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."
-- Reid Wiseman, April 2, 2026

#moon #space

Dear National Broadcaster.

The richest woman in Australia has no expertise in war, international or domestic law. She is a private person with no qualifications beyond a high school certificate and an inherited fortune.

What she thinks of Ben Roberts Smith is for her private musings. It is not news and there is no requirement for you to publish her missives on it.

Steady the ship.

My @smh cartoon.

The multimillionaires who staff the Reserve Bank of Australia have decided more unemployment is a good idea.

They all have enough money to ensure their children won’t have to work, probably their grandchildren.

They can’t imagine what it is to have to choose between heat and healthy food, having already lost all the things that provide status and comfort in our society.

#AusPol

One really big thing I want to see in my lifetime - the mainstream acceptance that the central bank *simply cannot* fix inflation by raising rates.

It’s utter lunacy and it hurts millions of people. And it just doesn’t work.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/australia-petrol-prices-rba-interest-rate-rise-inflation

#auspol #inflation #rba #interestrates

Australians hit by soaring petrol prices now face expected blow of interest rate rise

Economists predict RBA board will hike cash rate to 4.1% next week as inflation climbs and energy costs surge

The Guardian

Today is the day, the EU decides on Chat Control 1.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?

We at Tuta say NO. 

❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification

Instead we fight for:

✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source

And so should the EU. Stop #ChatControl now! 🥊 

Curious if your emails are safe? Check here which providers scan your data:
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanning-google-microsoft

@jerry Hey didn’t realise you were taking over ioc.exchange! Things have been really broken for me at least the last few days though - most profile images aren’t loading and I also can only see 3-5 posts on Trending whereas before I would see dozens and dozens of posts there, I liked to scroll that feed so really hope that’s not intentional!
Thursday's blog post (05/02) is now posted (15:40 EAST) - RBA bows to financial market pressure and boost bank profits at the expense of low-income mortgage holders - https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=63049
RBA bows to financial market pressure and boost bank profits at the expense of low-income mortgage holders – William Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory

2021: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.

2022: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.

2023: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.

2024: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.

2025: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.

2026: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.

Much innovation. Very business.