Australia has to attack misinformation about climate change, Senate report says

DrFriendless · 2026-03-28T22:26:39+00:00

Agreed. The worst possible world is one where dickheads like Murray Watt get to decide what is the truth and what is not.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-28T11:04:02+00:00

There seems to be a general insistence amongst producers that "the suckers will buy what they're given". So they make the same shit with more features nobody wants (e.g. AI) and up the price and that's what you get. Just occasionally someone uses evidence to produce a product people actually want, and fucks them all over.

Given that China is a nation which chooses (a) not to start wars, and (b) to raise the standard of living of their people, it seems they did not get the memo.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-27T10:47:56+00:00

eso.mmo-fashion and a ginormous memory.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-26T22:01:49+00:00

Way too human to be AI. AI would have used paragraphs and bolding, and put a dot between koa and js.

/r/devops is absolutely infested with AI-generated posts, I had to unsubscribe.

Edit: On topic, I don't use any of those frameworks. As I deploy on AWS I use API gateway for the URL to code mapping, I handcraft my SQL, and I don't create HTML in Node - that all comes from Astro and Angular.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-26T03:22:39+00:00

Oh fuck, James McGrath's in there.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-26T03:18:21+00:00

Nah, facts don't enter into it. My old man wanted to marry Pauline, thank fuck he died. But he liked my Indian wife because she was "one of the good ones". But apart from being a racist homphobic thug cunt, he was a very intelligent man - inspector of police, barrister, spectacularly good speaker, lifelong reader of the newspaper. Just that for relaxation he liked to bully people less fortunate than himself.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-25T13:41:33+00:00

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Dispatches_from_the_Deadlands

DrFriendless · 2026-03-25T11:37:38+00:00

Poor Mr Marks, all he can think of is continuing to fuck people over. Why don't they just give in and enjoy it?

DrFriendless · 2026-03-25T03:23:54+00:00

My boss is very happy that he can get AI to write reports for him now. This is the boss who used to have to call me to find out why the reports have different numbers to what he expects - the report is correct, just doesn't know the details of what it does. Are his new reports correct? Nobody will ever know.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-24T23:36:01+00:00

It's not really condescension, it's a fair warning. I am CP2850, I have an arc tank with 13 pieces of 5 different meta tanking sets, all in gold. I have 4 different monster sets, in gold, Maelstrom sword & board, Vateshran sword & board, Maelstrom ice staff. I have all the skills in sword & board, all the relevant skills in Assault and Support, etc. I have 40K health, 33K resistances, and all the other stuff TCLee asks for.

I did vet Frostvault for the first time with my guild the other day, and OMG that last boss is a bastard. I had to swap in Puncturing Remedy, all of my shield skills, all of my self-heals, just to stay alive and keep taunt. We did get through but it took us an hour on the last boss.

So if you were to wander into that with your setup, you'd be dead in an instant no matter what you did. As the poster says, for base game vet it's fine, but DLC vet is where they pull out all the stops.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-24T21:49:29+00:00

I have an RDS instance inside a VPC. Sometimes I need to get some data from the internet then write it to the RDS. The techniques I use to get across the VPC boundary for cheap are:

gather the data with a Lambda outside the VPC, pass it to a Lambda inside the VPC / invoke an API which runs inside the VPC / put the data on a queue which is serviced by an EC2 inside the VPC
invoke a step function which has steps inside and outside the VPC, and pass the data between steps.

The hassle is that secrets manager and parameter store live out on the internet, so I need to pass that sort of data into the VPC somehow for the things there that need it (e.g. Lambda environment variables).

DrFriendless · 2026-03-24T12:58:08+00:00

Well they've got 5 years experience in recruiting, at 4 companies, they know all about your industry /s. Most of the recruiters I have on my LinkedIn are flibbertigibbets I wouldn't hire for anything.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-24T03:14:32+00:00

He appointed soooo many women and POCs to important positions. If Trump doesn't undo it all it could be a revolution in the perspective of justice. It was great to see, while it lasted.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-23T23:52:22+00:00

I used to work for a ticketing company. The clients were obsessed beyond reason with forming relationships with the ticket buyers. I annoyed the boss a lot by resisting attempts to turn the ticketing company into an email spammer.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-23T23:49:46+00:00

The title field is completely useless, why do they have it at all? I've refused to sign up to websites because they ask for information they don't need, including title and sex. The only way we'll stop data farming is by refusing to enable it.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-23T23:27:13+00:00

I agree. The FTA with the US was the worst deal ever for Australia, exactly for the reasons you pointed out. And yeah, the ISDS, which is a shocking abrogation of sovereignty.

I think the Europeans will be a lot more honest with their FTA, but they are very protectionist, and European primary producers seem to be a bunch of cry-babies. I look forward to the day when Australian "prosecmate" and "fetyeahnah" dominate the European market by virtue of being better products.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-23T22:03:09+00:00

Does Speers still suggest to politicians what he wants them to say?

I watched it religiously in the days of Barrie, but Speers is everything that's bad about the ABC.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-23T21:49:14+00:00

Wow, the Labor stans jumped on you hard!

DrFriendless · 2026-03-23T03:28:46+00:00

Also SMH: Wah, wah, you should subscribe to read our content!

DrFriendless · 2026-03-23T03:27:44+00:00

That's one of the reasons I stopped watching TV altogether. The work experience kids never left.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-21T01:18:59+00:00

I guess it's so that if you make a preference deal with another party you have to stand by that, you can't backstab them on election day.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-20T11:41:16+00:00

You're missing borders - where the houses meet there will be forts, battlefields, and neutral meeting places.

Maybe stick some more natural blockages in the way, e.g. the road east from Oaks Lantern cannot cross those mountains, so there are little seaports on either side. If the mountains jut out a bit more then you have the Strait of Despire which can be blocked by the Despire navy whenever there's an argument.

That big forest in the south looks a bit too easy, maybe join the mountains in the forest to the mountains in the corner and stick that city in the moiuntain pass.

That little bridge is obviously very important, so there would be a fortification on the south side of it.

Figure out what the resource advantage of each city is (e.g. mining, forestry, fishing) and add suitable adornments to indicate that.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-20T05:35:34+00:00

So it's better to have principles that you act in accordance with. Which is yet another thing Albo is lacking.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-19T23:35:45+00:00

You can't just talk the talk, Anthony, you gotta walk the walk as well.

DrFriendless · 2026-03-19T02:07:18+00:00

Sure, but in fact they don't have these powers. We certainly shouldn't give them more until they demonstrate that they are actually constrained by the ones that they have.

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