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Jakra

@Jakra@aus.social

Science/IT teacher in a country Australian town. Don't really want to be identified by my students, so leaving it brief.

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sundogplanets, to random
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The only feeling I have about starship is dread.

They want to use that to launch batches of HUNDREDS of Starlinks at once. And guess where all those Starlinks will end up? The pieces that don't make it to the ground will end up in our upper atmosphere, screwing up the stratosphere, the ozone layer, who knows what else because SpaceX isn't required to do any environmental assessments of this.

Shit. Maybe a good time to post this essay I wrote yet again: https://theconversation.com/an-astronomers-lament-satellite-megaconstellations-are-ruining-space-exploration-215653

Jakra,
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@sundogplanets when NASA did it for science, it was for mankind, doing it for shareholders doesn’t have the same appeal to me.

quinn, to random
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Young people are waking up every day to media about war, genocides, dead children. They are unsure of being able to make a living, scared by debt, violence, addiction, homelessness. They are unsure if the burning planet will even support their lives. They are struggling for secure basic housing after having their lives upended by a pandemic...

meanwhile the NYT:

Jakra,
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@quinn well, if they didn’t have phones, they would be ignorant of all those other things. Just turn up to work every day, make money for your employer, spend money, ask no questions, cause no trouble. Information at the hands of the public is too dangerous!

decryption, to random
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Uhhh, fuck you, pay me Google

Jakra,
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@decryption Sounds like an opportunity for some chatGPT nonsense, full of keywords for SEO... just like the rest of the internet.

MorpheusB, to auspol
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#Auspol #Getup #NoNuclear

We do not want nuclear power, too long to get, far too expensive, and will drive up power prices. Just money or mates.

We are already nuclear powered from our son. More and more countries, getting closer to 100% from solar and wind.

Please sign the petition to convince our representatives we do not want or need.

https://getup.to/zdZwDUoE7fompCo

Jakra,
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@MorpheusB when the proposed solutions are always decades away, this justifying ‘transition fuels’, it stinks like extending fossil fuels rather than solving the problem. We have technologies now that can help, but no, let’s delay the solution. #auspol #climate #fossilfuels

bakuninboys, to random
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Setting up my own mail server took like a week. However, my escape from Google is one step closer.

Jakra,
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@bakuninboys email is one that I’ve always steered clear of. The risks are high, especially things like losing control of your domain name. Whoever gets your domain gets all your email. No thanks. Then add spam, viruses, managing blocklists. Then the issues of uptime, lost email, etc. All too hard for me!

Jakra, to auspol
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Shame! Disgraceful! Time to split the Murdoch ‘news’ empire.
Anatomy of News Corp: What's behind a Sky News headline?
#auspol #crikey
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/04/29/sky-news-australia-news-corp-headlines/

Jakra, to Teachers
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A letter to parents from the SSTUWA
23 April stop work action
Dear parents,
It is likely that your child’s public school may be closed on the morning of Tuesday 23 April 2024. If it is open, it won’t be for lessons as normal. #union #sstuwa #westernAustralia #teachers #teachersStrike #education #parents

Jakra, to random
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Well fuck. I wasn’t watching where I was stepping as I swept the roof, fell through a plastic roof panel on the patio. Saved myself on the way down, nothing serious barring a few scrapes and bruises. #lucky #stupid #cleaning #accident

Jakra, to selfhosted
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Huh, looks like @nextcloud Talk can be (or is working on being) federated between Nextcloud instances. That'd be pretty cool. Instant, video, and audio messaging without relying on someone else's platform would be pretty cool. Its hard choosing a platform that works on desktop, Android, and Apple, and is not trying to monetise my children.

Jakra, to linux
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Trying to update firmware on an HP Spectre X360 laptop from linux, but I can't extract a .bin file from the downloadable .exe file. Has something changed in this space? The .exe file extracts only another .exe file! #linux #HP

Jakra, to NixOS
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Whyyyyyyy is it so hard? Using sops-nix to encode passwords in a flake. It all seemed so easy. But /etc/fshadow in the built image has no password against the user, can't log in. No debug info, nothing to suggest where to go next! #nixos

Jakra, to RaspberryPi
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Poor little #RaspberryPi is indexing my photos in #photoprism, maxed out the cpu, and temps are >80deg C. Doing the work though! #SelfHosted

Jakra, to history
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Anyone know the origin of the term "wog sores" in WWII as Australian slang?

Jakra, to auspol
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"Look, I can tell you, this claim by the CSIRO that you can run a whole country on solar and wind is simply a lie," [Dick] Smith said
Did he not get the memo about not denigrating and undermining our nations scientific bodies and hard working scientists?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-22/fact-check-dick-smith-renewables-entire-country/103617364?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

Jakra, to Women
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I'm trying to re-find an article about perceptions of women in leadership roles, showing that there was no middle-ground between perceptions of too soft, and cold and unfriendly. But I can't remember where I read it. Can anyone help me?
#women #feminism

Jakra, to auspol
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Hard to argue that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al aren’t also a threat to national security. #auspol

Liberal MP urges Australia to follow US in TikTok crackdown, calling app a ‘serious threat’ to national security

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/17/liberal-mp-urges-australia-to-follow-us-in-tiktok-crackdown-calling-app-a-serious-threat-to-national-security?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Jakra, to FIRE
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Last day of school, and the arson has already started... Two fires started within minutes of each other

Jakra, to random
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Dear oven, please just do the thing. You have one job. Make the food hot.
Please?

Jakra, to auspol
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"There is one reason why all these people were being detained, and that's because they have failed the character test," Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan said.

Yeah, but ScoMo failed the character test, and he’s allowed out in public!
#auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-16/government-to-rush-immigration-legislation-through-parliament/103111708?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

Jakra, to ukteachers
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Anyone know if the "Red Tape Review" into education in Western Australia commissioned by Dr A.D. Buti is publicly available somewhere? #education #australia #auspol #WesternAustralia #transparency

Jakra, to NixOS
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Trying to debug nixos build problems... turns out to be an issue with memory limit in WSL2. Sigh.

Jakra, to ukteachers
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I got my new Serial Killer Card, by which I mean my Working With Children Card. I’m yet to see one that doesn’t look like a criminal’s mug shot! #education #teachers

Jakra, to linux
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My gaming desktop is now rocking Linux. Just a test for now, but I'm impressed with the performance, especially because its running on a 10 year old HDD! I might need to steal some space from Windows on the SSD or buy another one. Depends on how much I use Windows now I guess. #linux #gaming

Jakra, to music
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I have had the music of the Wellerman in my head all day. But it’s more than that, it’s the tune of Wellerman, but the lyrics are the chorus of Milkshake by Kelis. #music #mashup

Jakra, to random
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Welp, finally on covid number 2. I had a good run, but now I feel shit. Hopefully no loss of smell and burning sinuses this time. #covid

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