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Australian SCUBA educator living on the Great Barrier Reef after working a tech career in Silicon Valley.
I enjoy technical diving for fun as well as cooking (just about […]
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@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy@nihilistnomya Wow, that looks quite challenging. Looks like you're making good progress on it though!
Are you looking to be able to do full gymnastics routines?
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyThe names behind the core software we use every day: https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet/read
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy@Edent Being Google, I could absolutely see someone putting in code to detect screen orientation and make that work. I was disappointed that it did not.
@terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gyReposted by @psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyAverage woomba levels across Australia
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyIf you run Linux, this list of CVEs suggests that upgrading the kernel sooner, rather than later, might be an excellent idea:
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyRE: https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/117361907824365148
AI can not generate _human_ opinion. By definition.
It should come as no surprise that two of their key findings were "AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance. " and […]
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyPetty vs Bitter, an essay on not letting others grind you down.
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-be-a-petty-motherfucker/
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyScience geekery meets gaming. Analyzing the corrosion of the mugs in Monkey Island by Grog.
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyUS AI companies are trying to get an exception carved out of Australian copyright law. This is utterly uncouth.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/ai-companies-train-on-creator-work-documents-reveal/107154688
Yes, copyright law is broken, but cutting an exception into Australian law for […]
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyGiven the horrors of the printing industry these days (DRM ink cartridges anyone?!?!), this seems like an excellent project for anyone in the market for an inkjet printer:
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy@mina It's also a fairly standard play in capital intensive industries. Build something before there are regulations and then welcome in regulations as a significant hurdle to competition. It also helps that the regulations will be built around the business models of the early entrants to the […]
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyAn excellent Clarke and Dawe style take on the utter stupidity that is the #AusPol approach to ebikes and mobility scooters. By @rubenerd
https://www.rubenerd.au/with-apologies-to-clarke-and-dawe-scooters/
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy**Many people who immigrate to Australia develop hayfever or asthma within their first 3 years here. I've anecdotally heard the same about interstate transplants, but haven't seen any data on it 10/10
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyThere's no need to panic. Just make sure you have a plan, anything in your plan is on hand/refilled/in date, and check if the plan needs updating since the last time you thought about it. 9/10
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyThunderstorm asthma completely overwhelms ambulance capacity, so help may not come for a long time. In 2016, a lot of the deaths occurred when people who were having bad attacks couldn't wait longer for an ambulance and tried to make their own way to hospital, but going outside into the pollen […]
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyThis may not be the year we get another big thunderstorm asthma event, but after 10 years and a pandemic it's easy to become complacent. The Australian Thunderstorm Asthma season goes from Oct 1st until December 31st, but all the Thunderstorm Asthma events to date have been in November (Except […]
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyMake sure you have an inhaler with you, and just as importantly a spacer. And if it's been a while, look up how to use them - more than 80% of adults have bad technique! 6/10
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gyIf we have a thunderstorm asthma event, pandemic air filtration precautions are actually super useful. A room with a HEPA filter going will have a much lower pollen count, and N95/P2 masks are effective at filtering the pollen as they remove particles down to 1µm. 5/10
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gySo if you're a person who has a history of hayfever, asthma, childhood asthma, adult onset/post COVID asthma, or a recent immigrant* then you should probably make a plan for what to do if you are affected by Thunderstorm Asthma. 4/10
@psa.masto.ai.ap.brid.gySince the 2016 thunderstorm asthma event, there's been changes to asthma management guidelines. Salbutamol (ventolin) used to be the "reliever" inhaler everyone had, but that has changed. Some people don't even need relievers in their day to day life anymore, and not all preventers are great at […]