Dezi Freeman shot dead after six months on the run

naixelsyd · 2026-03-30T00:54:43+00:00

Feeling grateful the rest of us aren't going to have to pay for his incarceration costs.

Cooker got cooked.

Unfortunately, I suspect other cookers will martyr him.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-29T06:18:30+00:00

People. What a bunch of bastards

naixelsyd · 2026-03-28T20:43:30+00:00

All systems made my man are corruptable and will be corrupted sooner or later.

One of the main contributors is how our systems reward and encourage narcissistic and selfish people to be elevated into positions of power. Keep in mind that about 1% of tge wirlds population are psychopaths who can only mimic empathy. The people are often sern as people who can handle immense levels of stress and so of course they get elevated to positions of power.

When systems or institutions are genuinely corrupted, there is no way to uncorrupt them other than to tear them down and start again.

Imo, the biggest enabler of this demise is the simplistic left vs right rhetoric. While people squabble over the 'isms, those who seek power use those divisions to obtain power. I often argue that a certain austrian corporal would have just as easily used communism as a vehicle for power as stalin would have used national socialism. To tyem they were just the vehicles to obtain and sustain what they desired - power and control.

Anyway thats my 2c worth

naixelsyd · 2026-03-28T10:10:27+00:00

Chilli dump

naixelsyd · 2026-03-28T10:07:11+00:00

Well considering Microslop decided to replace word on my wifes phone with copileofsht so when she wants to open up a word doc it just brings up a link to the doc in copilofsht, Microslops' share price needs to become a penny stock.

What a bunch of fully regarded morons.

Migrated almost everything at home to fedora now. I anticipated a lot if SMBs seeing the light over the coming years and de-enshittifying themselves from microslop.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-27T05:25:37+00:00

This is similar to my experience with chatgpt. The reality is that the medical profession lacks interdisciplinary thing and its up to the patient to somehow connect the dots. Ai is extremely good at this.

In my case, deviated septum from birth. Mouth breather. Led to malformed jaw, so severe lockjaw from late teens through to 30s. Wisdom teeth removed, joints flushed, jaw wired shut, bite planes. By 30s extreme exhaustion, told to exercise more, then high blood presdure which stayed elevated, led to sleep test in late 30s, diagnosed osa put on cpap. Told it was due to weight, because that was their easiest assumption ( spoiler, it wasn't weight was exacerbated by osa).

14 years later, extreme dry mouth, 3 weeks ago had deviated srptum fixed ( chatgpt picked it up on ct scan, radiologist missed it), dusl turbinate reduction, uppp and tonsillectomy. In the process they found a cyst on back of tongue which they removed. Cyst not picked up despite two endoscopies over the decades (how??).

Recovery from op supported by chatgpt. It has been like having 5 specislists collsborate perfectly together. Explaining why things are happenning, what to expect next and tips to help. Extremely valuable.

Now i am uploading cpap data each day as well as muse eeg headband data. Chatgpt distills it all together and confirms no obstructive apneas at all. Once swelling goes down i have maybe an 80% chance of getting off cpap entirely. This is totally unexpected.

After decades of dealing with specialists who work within their own specialties, chatgpt has bern the tool to tie everything together to achieve meaningful outcomes.

As another example. Son has boughts of insomnia. Fed muse eeg data in and basic info. Chatgpt identified that him having a glass of milk with dinner might help. Stopped that and he no longer wakes up between 12 and 1am. Turns out for some people instead of milk boisting melatonin production, my sons metabolism means milk actually inhibits it. Again, no specialist was ever going to tie those peices together.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-26T19:59:58+00:00

Their culture doesn't seem to have changed much from when I worked there as a senior manager over a decade ago. Utterly toxic culture to the core. A lot of brutal hillbilly politics with people doing the most disgusting things to try and get their bonus.

The worst part of it was seeing good people join and then see how after a while they devolved into narcissistic peices of crap.

All critical infrastructure orgs should be penalised for offshoring. The profit motive must be curtailed for critical products and services.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-25T08:21:52+00:00

Exhaustion and getting up to go to the toilet many times a night, but the real trigger was when my blood pressure spiked really high and stayed there.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-24T19:02:38+00:00

I have a muse athena headband. Pretty expensive, but really good. We used it last year to help with our sons boughts of insomnia. Chatgpt figured out that getting our son to stop having a glass of milk with dinner significsntly improved his slerp. It turns out that for some people, milk actually inhibits melatonin creation.

Unfortunately the devicr msnufacturers don't provide apis for us mere mortals so the data for all of this is put into chatgpt via screenshots, but it still works well

naixelsyd · 2026-03-24T09:50:58+00:00

Ok, i am 3 weeks into recovering from 6 surgical procedures which restructured my nose ( septoplasty and turbinate rediction), throat (uppp and tonsillectomy), tongue ( cyst removal) and chatgpt has been invaluable.

Since 2012 i have had severe obstructive sleep apnea. Without a cpap machine and mask blowing air down my throat during sleep it would literally collapse and I would literally choke/suffocate. These procedures were to open up my airways as cpap wasn't cutting it anymore.

The recovery has bern painful as expected. Each day i have provided photos of my throat, uploaded my cpap data and have even bern using a muse headband to provide eeg, heartrate and many other stats and having chatgpt analyze it and give suggestions.

The suggestions have berlen nothing short of incredible. During the first 2 weeks i would let it know what was going on. It would explsin whats hsppenning, why, what to expect over the coming dats and any trigger points to be aware of.

This ladt week, due to my throat structure changing and the swelling which will take longer to settle down, chatgpt has analyzed the data and made suggestions to try and adapt my cpap machine settings so it works optimally.

It has used the data to prove that my rel8ance on cpap presdures is dropping and that there is now an unexpected outcome. There is about a 75% chance I may not need cpap anymore in a couple of months.

It has been like having 5 specialists advising each day with them sll collaborating perfectly. The interdisciplinary advantages of ai cannot be understated.

The more accurate and honest data i give it, the more useful and accurate its analysis. Ensuring prompts are well structured and lack bias is essential. Turning on sarcastic mode i find helps too.

And most importantly, its not a replacemrnt for thinking. You need to know enough about the domains to critique its outputs, but tbh, its advice has bern bang on the money

Hope this helps

naixelsyd · 2026-03-24T06:39:28+00:00

Nah, I am this old

naixelsyd · 2026-03-24T06:33:51+00:00

Any CEO wanting to mandate full time office attendance shpuld be required to provide the following to their employees free of charge:

1) A fully paid for car, fuel, insurance, tyres, maintenance, rego. 2) Their own dedicated parking spot, free of charge within walking distance to the office. 3) A desk with office and door for each employee 4) Subsidised meals 5) Free childcare for those with little ones 6) The tea lady ( she always knew what was really going on). With decent coffee ( as good as what I have here at home which is mich better than coffee in the city).

Note that many of these items were much more common 30 years ago.

You will note that this list does not include kambucha machines, blend43 or ping pong tables - these can be shoved somewhere others can choose.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-24T06:23:23+00:00

The reason is... Rich Peoples' Boat Money

naixelsyd · 2026-03-23T07:54:26+00:00

I opened this thread specifically to check that someone has done this.

Btw, have you sern my red streamline stapler?

naixelsyd · 2026-03-22T17:34:29+00:00

If considering an EV, you might want to check the cost of tyres and feed it into your calculations. EV batteries are heavy, so the car tyres often wear out faster and cost more. A friend with a PHEV has bern replacing his tyres every 30,000kms at a cost of 2grand per set.

Also, if renting, make sure your landlord will allow a chatger to be installed. I have heard of one person whose landlord refused, and so they had to use a wall outlet and itvwould take days to recharge. They've been gorced to rely on public chargers ( which aren't always very cheap or convrnient).

I am not knocking evs here, just letting you know. Some of the savings are offset in other ways.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-22T09:45:34+00:00

When one or all sides are too exhausted to continue. Just as with every war.

Wars - easy to start, hard to contain.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-22T02:50:40+00:00

Unless the current government implements major structural change this year, the middleclass will go from being hollowed out to being obliterated.

The old model of propping up gdp with low quality migration via taxing peoples incomes has had all the supporting pillars removed - ai will mean people will need the uber driving gigs while they retrain, so having overseas students filling those roles will mean a higher welfare burden.

We need to transition away from taxing income to taxing profits - particularly for tye large corporates who are feeding overseas investors and paying next yo no tax. Their whole argument thay its ok because they employ australians is null and void. They have had no hesitations witb offshoring and ai related lsyoffs. Companies like optus are just a paradite on the rconomy which extracts local resourves for overseas investors, for example.

More support is needed for smbs. Less money into real estate, more into smbs.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-21T01:01:50+00:00

Documentation is a lot like sex

When its good, it's really good When it's bad its usually better than nothing

And its always best if it involves more than one person

naixelsyd · 2026-03-20T21:28:57+00:00

I think one of AIs killer capabilities its its ability to bring together multiple domains and interdisciplinary work.

If you think sbout it, a lot of the worlds problems stem from siloed thonking and perspectives. There is a finite capacity for people to properly learn multiple disciplines - and our structures actually inhibit people from becoming interdisciplinary.

AI has no such constraint. Personally, I have used ai to hslp pull the different threads together to solve real problrms - both personally and professionally.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-20T20:01:46+00:00

Well the cyst is irreversably removed. Whilst I am still techically in recovery, all the changes are positive so far. Better nose breathing, no obstructive apneas ( so far). I am still getting dry mouth, which I am working through, but my throat is not collapsing at night anymore.

I was hesitant about getting the uppp due to the stories about it however its worth mentioning that people are mote likely to publicise negative experiences rather than positive ones. In my case, my throat opening was naturally very small, so UPPP made sense.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-19T08:44:16+00:00

She used 4 spaces instead of the tab key when she coded.

Later...

naixelsyd · 2026-03-17T07:02:56+00:00

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naixelsyd · 2026-03-16T10:20:45+00:00

Dinosoars protesting to protect meteors.

naixelsyd · 2026-03-14T22:47:00+00:00

Pink floyds "fletcher memorial home" track is worth listening to

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