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FreeBSD | Perl | reformed C developer

Large swing in votes moving from LNP and Labor to One Nation in SA. The move from the Uni-Party to the Loony-Party system has begun. The only hope is if they do win seats people get exposed to utterly useless they are in actual government and there is a swing back to more sane independents.
Friend’s flight diverted back to Melbourne because “low cloud; couldn’t land”.

@david_chisnall What about an instance reputation system as an alternative, or in addition to a user reputation system?

IMHO, the only viable moderation-at-scale system relies on building communities/instances that self-moderate and/or cross-moderate.

Replay: Water Research Day

Replay: Water Research Day takes place on Saturday, March 21, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time. This limited-time event features Lotad, Clamperl and Feebas, with boosted shiny odds, special Field Research tasks, and a Paid Timed Research for even more encounters. Lotad, Clamperl and Feebas all previously featured in Research Day events

Pokémon GO Hub
Bonus content, in apology: this is how I remember (will, in fact, never ever forget) the binomial for American robins — sorry, robins
@pixel The worst! Feebas are normally hard to come by, too.
@pixel Did you get the three friends needed? If not I can get a couple of friends to add you.
Real possum found among plush toys in Hobart airport gift shop

The possum was escorted back out, unstressed by the incident…

Pulse Tasmania

One of the most wrong names in linux history are "predictable names" for network interfaces. They are literally the least predictable names I have ever seen.

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