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Comment · 23 days ago
I'm surprised that so far nobody has mentioned using one for a password store. The 'pass' utility has git integration and encourages you to have a git remote somewhere to host a duplicate of your encrypted store. For over a decade I have had a cloud VM costing a few cents a month to do this.
Comment · 1 month ago
It is a good read. I 'borrowed' it from the Internet Archive and read it. The reconstruction of what happened from the various different and conflicting sources is interesting, as is the 21st Century expedition to seek the wreck.
Comment · 1 month ago
Canberra - Sydney is one of the busiest routes in Australia with Dash 8 and ATR turboprops on high rotation every day. I could see a small electric aircraft working pretty well there, modulo charging times.
Comment · 2 months ago
Arriving ten hours after this was posted, I am a tad surprised that nobody seems to have popped up to suggest that the article ought to have been titled, "The job safest from AI may be writing".
Comment · 2 months ago
Ten minutes ago from Atlassian: "Our teams have identified a possible fix for the issues impacting Jira Cloud, Jira Service Management and Confluence. This is now being rolled out to impacted regions and we will update within one hour, or sooner if further information is available."
Comment · 2 months ago
A lot of swans live here in the Australian Capital Territory. They seem to like our lakes. I have only ever seen black ones.
Comment · 3 months ago
From that link... if only Craig knew the difference between 'tenet' and 'tenant'.
Comment · 5 months ago
Yes, in Australia we have compulsory voting, but no national holiday. Polling day is on a Saturday, so most people can get to their local polling booth pretty easily. And since COVID, pre-poll postal votes have become even more popular and the Australian Electoral Commission has a really secure and streamlined process for these, proved over decades.
Comment · 6 months ago
I think that the EV6 User Interface is pretty spot on, including things like side mirrors complemented by cameras that activate when you indicate, a nice HUD and real buttons for most things. If ONLY I didn't have to manually deactivate lane keep warning alerts EVERY time I start the car, it'd be nudging perfect.
Comment · 7 months ago
I saw the book mentioned at random here mid way through last year and ordered it for my Kindle. To my surprise, it wouldn't be available until the end of the year. I found that puzzling because some people here seemed to be saying that they had read it. Now reading this set of comments today it seems that I was to be buying a revised version and the text had been 'in the wild' for some time. Anyway, it duly arrived, I read it and thought it an okay read. It wasn't until reading this page today that I became aware of the existence of a thing called SCP and any of what that entails in relation to the book.
Comment · 7 months ago
Is there a place somewhere in the world where Hydrogen powered passenger vehicles are a success? I know that the one Hydrogen filling station here in Australia's Capital City has shut down after opening with great fanfare a few years ago. And the approximately 20 or so Hydrogen cars it supplied are no longer being used.
Comment · 8 months ago
Actual voice phone calls are so rare for me these days that I'll often go months without making or receiving one, though my mobile phone is always with me. And I recently realised that the house I live in, which was built in 2020, has no provision for any sort of landline telephone at all.
Comment · 8 months ago
Installed the snap on Ubuntu 24.04 and when I used it to look at /etc/sudoers.d/README, it emitted:

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

Press RETURN to continue

...which I thought a little odd.

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