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neoluddite

@neoluddite@aus.social

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luciedigitalni, to random
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"The findings suggest the return to office movement has been a poorly-executed failure, but one particular figure stands out - a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped RTO mandates would result in staff leaving."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study/

neoluddite,
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@luciedigitalni @drunkenmadman Who knew that so many executives and HR professionals would be cowards who are bad at their jobs? /s

decryption, to random
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Yet another person is using my gmail address with a dot in the username thinking it is theirs - this time it's enrolling their kid in school. Normally I do nothing but should I do something here? I have the damn kids birth cert, full details of the family, etc.

neoluddite,
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@decryption I have the same problem (firstname.lastname@gmail.com). Usually I let them know if it's something important (job interview, rental application, etc), otherwise not. In this case it might be the school that's mistyped (ie. not necessarily their fault), so worth contacting.

It's often surprisingly hard to contact larger organisations to let them know they have the wrong person, and a similarly surprising number of them don't do double opt-in.

After the fifth dating site signup from the same person, I did once update someone's dating profile to read something like "I am an idiot who doesn't know my own email address and signs other people up to dating sites." They stopped pretty quickly :D

oysta, to random
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oh no starlink is down

neoluddite,
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@jpm @Kels_316 @oysta

Doc Brown from Back to the Future, tearing his hair out in shock and saying "1.21 Gigawatts?!?"

liamvhogan, to random
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Shit pitch: public sector engaged consultancies should apply a standardised framework of employment level codes to their employees, so that all the rank dorks in the APS and State public services know who they’re allowed to tell to fuck off and who they can’t bully

neoluddite,
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@nickzoic @liamvhogan chuck in some funny hats and bits of brass and gold braid while we're at it

jpm, to random
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Respecting the troops by making love, not war. It’s what the Diggers would have wanted.

(Paging @Kels_316 )

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006820299084.html

neoluddite,
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@Kels_316 @jpm Anzac Day was last month 🙄

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

neoluddite,
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@CedarTea @MisuseCase @theluddite Negative prices aren't a problem for solar or wind, since they can just stop sending electricity to the grid. Coal, Nuclear and older gas plants on the other hand, can't ramp down quickly so they're the ones losing money.

And marketwise this is an opportunity for batteries, pumped storage and anything that can ramp demand up or down quickly - aluminium smelters (for example) can make a packet if they shut down lines during peak demand, and get free electricity if they spin up on sunny days.

oysta, to random
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A man has come with a big truck and a big pump

neoluddite,
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@jpm @oysta trainspotting_toilet.gif

jpm, to random
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Toddler has started using crayons. I assume there will be rainbow poos within 24 hours

neoluddite,
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@jpm

liamvhogan, to random
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Sugru for fixing boots: the yobbo’s way of repair

neoluddite,
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@jpm @liamvhogan Happy to help out if you need me, I used to be the director of Stop Doing Dumb Shit consulting

oysta, to random
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“Police officer stabbed in head apprehended his own attacker”

This is the way

neoluddite,
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@jpm @oysta next time aim for a vital spot

ausfestivus, to random
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Advocating for the closure of internal email and force everyone to use Teams. Email is where your team's knowledge goes to die.

neoluddite,
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@jimbob @liamvhogan @geordie @ausfestivus Just send people email anyway, but put a "This email sent from Microsoft Teams." line in your signature. Refuse to tell anyone how you did it.

jpm, to random
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Another song that would be excellent with a thick subcontinent accent - November Rain (Guns’n’Roses)

neoluddite,
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@jpm monsoon season is April to September tho

Kels_316, to random
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Trapped at a table with a bunch of poms and South Africans talking about food. I want to die.

neoluddite,
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@jpm @Kels_316 100% natural botulinum toxin, get it down ya

az, to random
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nightmare scenario: one of the top three cloud providers has a misconfiguration and deletes your entire account by accident and can't recover it.

neoluddite,
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@az @jpm threat model: I am surrounded by clowns

neoluddite,
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@jpm @az it takes longer to roll out SAP than it takes me to find a new job, so I'm better than cool; I'm already gone

neoluddite,
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@jpm @az well yes, I'm sure it's very sad/angry/exciting(bad connotation) for the people involved. The point is, explosions are best watched from a distance.

jpm, to random
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Halal snack pack > haram snack pack

neoluddite,
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@jpm I had a Haram snack pack while I was in Canada, but they called it Jenny Craig fries. Melted blue cheese and bacon bits on fries is pretty competitive. Might've had truffles or something too, I don't really remember. But it was definitely good.

jpm, to random
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I have received another packing tape mummy

neoluddite,
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@jpm please, my no wets

Kels_316, to random
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the workshop across from my old one, which is a mirror image, has just hit marketplace at $200 less per month than I was paying a year ago, and I was paying $400 a month less than they advertised it for 3yrs ago. Commercial property is a massive scam.

neoluddite,
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@decryption @Kels_316 *SMMFs

jpm, to random
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checks date

Oh no

neoluddite,
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@jpm time to put on your Boba Fett costume and head down to Bunnings

JulianOliver, to random
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On the curious thing of Mastodon unknowingly DDoS'ing websites, dubbed the 'fediverse effect' https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

neoluddite,
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@JulianOliver That's just the Slashdot effect for people who don't learn from history...

jpm, to random
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This is your casual reminder that all horses have the same birthday

neoluddite,
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@jpm also everyone in infosec

18+ liamvhogan, to random
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Australian media: our politicians must show moral authority, we are poorly served by the people we elect, only our fearless truth to power will preserve democracy

Also Australian media:

neoluddite,
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@jpm @liamvhogan "...is probably fine, as long as you're a cop, politician, high court judge, ..."

Kels_316, to random
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you only put this in your contract when it's definitely true

neoluddite,
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@Kels_316 same company, probably

jpm, to random
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WHERE THE FUCK DID THIS YAK COME FROM?!

neoluddite,
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@jpm depends on the yak, but a flamethrower is often a better option

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