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France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
Save the Stonnington Garbos!
The outsourcing of garbage collections has led to missed collections, higher long-term costs, and a lower standard of service for residents. The same will happen to Stonnington. We’ll see these worker...
megaphone.org.au
TIL that the default for RHEL systems is for the journal to be non-persistant. That's crazy bro. You have some kind of crash, end up rebooting, then you have no way to find out why it crashed.
No matter how outlandish the question I ask of AI, it always starts out with "It's a common scenario ..."
Hmm. There are existing databases (and APIs) that allow autocompleting a full address given the first few characters. Shoe-horning LLMs into existing use cases served well by much leaner technologies does not seem like a win.
Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social · 7mo agoInstead of focusing on country-name dropdowns, how about we replace the entire name-and-address dialog with a single free-text "name and address" field and let the LLM handle everything else, including JSON conversion? 3/8
From the POV of a non-US citizen: If you ever get a decent government again they might be in a better position to argue for better gun controls given that the main supposed rationale for gun ownership - to keep a rogue government in check - has been demonstrated not to work.
Rebel with a Cause@rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 7mo agotRUMPSTEIN IS DESTROYING OUR CONSTITUTION!! 1st Amendment: GONE Right to Assemble Freedom of Religion Freedom of Speech Freedom of the Press Right to Petition 2nd Amendment: GONE Right to Keep & Bear Arms 4th Amendment: GONE Unreasonable Searches & Seizures
AliExpress are scammers .... they send me an email featuring a desktop computer for $45; click on it to find the actual price is $284
Youtube music seems to have been overrun with AI slop. I often have it going when I am working. Lately every 5th track seems to be AI.
I really wish clippy had an option to filter out complaints about code not touched in the index or something like that. It's giving a load of lints in unmodified files which presumably passed master in an early version. While they might need fixing I don't want those changes mixed in. #rustlang
Even the briefest of searches on this Magika tool reveals that it's primary use case is for detecting malicious files that might have content contrary to its filename. This Lunduke "Journal" feed is full of terrible takes.
I don't think the designers of vs code have gotten their heads around the concept of "permanently"
Why do centre-left politicians post on X? Under both these tweets there are nothing but hate filled negative replies from MAGAs and (probably) bots. Why try to push positive messages into that environment?
“The bill aims to protect children under 16, but Google Wallet is primarily an adult-oriented service that most children don’t have access to” Surely it is the adults that have to prove that they are old enough, not the children that have to prove they are not? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Google age ID proposal may not suit Australia’s under-16 social media ban, expert says
Proposed system of storing passports or drivers licences in Google Wallet app likely to benefit adults, but usefulness in identifying teenagers without ID documents unclear
theguardian.com
In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away quietly, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
newyorker.com
Yikes. "Australia should rethink its relationship with America because alliance is becoming obeisance." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Trump's order on showerheads seems trivial but it's a subtle power grab
It seems only a matter of time before Donald Trump uses a crisis and the National Emergencies Act to bring about a revolution in the United States.
abc.net.au
This is what we're dealing with. Desparate people who have convinced themselves that Trump is their saviour, even as he does the exact opposite of what they need.
The LNP campaign seems to be disintegrating. Barely any policies to begin with, followed by backflips on half of the few that they had. What's going on? My 2¢ worth: they got lulled into a false sense of security and did not prepare properly.
One of the interesting aspects of all this is that the balance of trade has in large part been driven by the differential in living standard between developing economies and western economies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Yesterday, Peter Dutton said he will run Australia from Sydney. Today he told Melbourne what infrastructure projects will be allowed. He thinks this will help him in Victoria. #auspol
There were 69 journalists killed in all of WW2. 63 in Vietnam. The Israelis have killed more than 200 in Gaza. Deliberate murder to silence reporting.
Look, it doesn't really matter what we say - they will do what they want to do. They will make up justifications, and if the courts disagree they will ignore them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Dictator shit
Apparently #SSN is now available on Binge. Much better deal than Kayo at $4.99 a month (if you only want to watch the Netball). binge.com.au/four
I don't know where to start with that. What's worse - that this guy sees Ukraine as a wayward farm animal or that he thinks it's ok to beat animals with a 2x4???
Raymond Wilton@raymondwilton.bsky.social · last yr.There was an audible gasp at the Council on Foreign Relations as Keith Kellogg, White House’s special envoy for Ukraine & Russia, characterised US decision to cut off intelligence sharing & military aid to Kyiv as like beating a farm animal with a piece of wood. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich | Julianne Schultz
Performance is all for the US president, who is intent on creating a world dreamt of by global libertarian thinktanks
theguardian.com
