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peterrenshaw

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AnotherScrappyStartup 🦖🦕in the computer age <https://seldomlogical.com>
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mikemathia, to StarTrek
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peterrenshaw,
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@mikemathia utility in naming your domain name🤣☺️

❝ How I decided what to call my home on the Internet.

<https://seldomlogical.com/seldom.html>

Melissabeartrix, to random
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I'm one hole to a medical scanning place ... I left a call back last week and again yesterday ... I'm going to hold this time ... Asshats !!

This getting old is getting ridiculous ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Edit - I refuse to fix this mistake... Giggles ... It works

peterrenshaw,
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@Melissabeartrix getting old is good, some do not. #NemoResidio

peterrenshaw, to privacy
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“Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to ”

“he outlined an argument that a dynamic tension exists between security and technology, Burgess added “encryption protects our and enables our …and creates safe spaces for violent to operate, and .” labelled encryption “clearly a good thing, a positive for our democracy and our economy” because it “protects , it enables communications and transactions.” But he noted it also provides with , which is why has laws that make it possible to access encrypted messages.”

/ <https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/asio_afp_accountable_encryption/>

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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The meerkat mask mandate you didn’t know about. By Mandy Squires

"Both Melbourne and Werribee zoos have strict mask rules in place to protect the curious creatures from catching COVID from members of the public during “meerkat experience” sessions."

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/why-antimaskers-wont-get-near-melbourne-zoos-meerkats-and-the-zoo-animal-covid-vax/news-story/6ce70cf1f2d7155476e14a1420a375c7

Both Melbourne and Werribee zoos have strict mask rules in place to protect the curious creatures from catching Covid from members of the public during “meerkat experience” sessions. “Fitted face masks are to be worn on all experiences, behind the scenes, tours and in some animal habitats, which will be signed,” Melbourne Zoo informs potential visitors on its website. The zoo’s terms and conditions state that anyone who refuses to mask-up as directed can be refused entry or ordered to leave the zoo. Masks are also required to be worn by visitors participating in Werribee Zoo’s African cat experience, that allows humans to get close to servals. A spokeswoman for Zoos Victoria said precautionary measures were taken “to carefully manage health risks through animal care practices, such as wearing masks whenever there are animal and keeper interactions with primates, meerkats and our feline species”. It comes as the number of Victorians hospitalised with Covid each day surges again, after the state enjoyed a brief respite. An average of 116 people a day were hospitalised with the virus last week, up from 95 the week before. Covid deaths have also risen to 80 in the most recent 28-day reporting period of March 6 to April 2 — more than in the previous period of February 7 to March 5, with the latest metropolitan and regional wastewater testing revealing “increasing prevalence of Covid-19 infections in the community”.
A Covid vaccine for Australian zoo animals has been made. The Zoo and Aquarium Association Australasia (ZAA) and Adelaide biotech company Vaxine developed the vaccine, called SpikeVet, based on technology used in the COVAX-19 human vaccine. “We explored a range of options to vaccinate our zoo animals and this option was selected considering both safety and potential effectiveness,” co-convener of the ZAA Veterinary Advisory Group, Dr David McLelland, said. “While Covid-19 vaccines for animals have also been developed overseas, it is more feasible to use a locally made vaccine, particularly one that has already been shown to be safe and effective in a broad range of animal species.” ZAA said the SpikeVet vaccine had an optimised formulation appropriate for animals of very different sizes and was designed to protect against all the major Covid variants, including the Omicron variants.

peterrenshaw,
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@auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy the Meerkats at the Royal Children’s in Melbourne with their glass enclosed house 😷🐈

peterrenshaw,
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@auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy the Meerkats at the Royal Children’s in Melbourne with their glass enclosed house 😷🐈

<https://blogs.rch.org.au/news/2014/03/27/some-fun-facts-on-our-little-creatures/>

peterrenshaw,
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@auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy the Meerkats at the Royal Children’s in Melbourne with their glass enclosed house 😷🐈

<https://blogs.rch.org.au/news/2014/03/27/some-fun-facts-on-our-little-creatures/> / <http://www.greenanddale.com.au/meerkats-royal-childrens-hospital/>

jonny, to random
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Are there actually neuroscientists who dont believe that most invertebrates, fish, etc. have lowercase-c consciousness, an internal subjective experience of the world? Is the alternative that they are just reflex machines? Why wouldnt we make the opposite assumption - that animals that have a complex enough nervous system to run a whole body thats responsive to their ecosystem are "conscious" until proven otherwise. But what would the point be of proving otherwise? I guess im just deeply uninterested in semantic games that exclude most of the animal kingdom from the assumption of mere subjectivity.

Re: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01144-y

peterrenshaw,
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@jonny found ants in the roof & the car this week 🐜

rasterweb, to sketch
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Do the kids know what these are? Are they back? Did they ever go away?

A sketch of a cassette tape.
A sketch of a cassette tape.
A sketch of a cassette tape.

peterrenshaw,
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@rasterweb A cassette “Wall of sound”

<https://flickr.com/photos/bootload/50388142882/in/album-72157624191108461/>

peterrenshaw, to sciencefiction
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“One day in 1979, while logged in to San Diego State University’s principal computer from his home, found himself chatting to another user via the program, both using implausible names and trying to figure out each other’s true name. “Afterwards, I realised that I had just lived a story – at least by the standards of my childhood,””

/ / / <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/29/vernor-vinge-obituary>

retiolus, to MullvadVPN
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Made a script that connects automatically my computer to when joining a new, unknown network.

If you disconnect from the network, it disconnects from VPN, and if you connect to a know/trusted network, it will ignore it and won't use the VPN.

https://codeberg.org/retiolus/scripts/src/branch/main/auto-mullvad/auto-mullvad.sh

peterrenshaw,
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@retiolus if the script fails, where does it report?

Also: <https://www.shellcheck.net/>

$ shellcheck myscript

Line 32:
local active_connections=$(nmcli -t -f NAME,UUID con show --active | grep -v "mullvad")
^-- SC2155 (warning): Declare and assign separately to avoid masking return values.

Line 36:
local network_uuid=$(echo "$active_connections" | awk -F: '{print $2}')
^-- SC2155 (warning): Declare and assign separately to avoid masking return values.

peterrenshaw,
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@retiolus if you wrapped the script with a error return u can get some reporting. Good for debugging especially for file paths and calling built in programs that may change.

#/bin/sh

name: my script

desc: when script fails, send err to stderr

{

// scripting here

} >&2

You can also use STDERR for explicit fails, cf: <https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html#s3-environment>

err() {
echo "[$(date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z')]: $*" >&2
}

if ! do_something; then
err "Unable to do_something"
exit 1
fi

peterrenshaw, to ai
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“I welcome our digital minions’: the Silicon Valley insider warning about algorithms – while embracing them”

After reading the article, I still can’t work out the benefits … aside from trial & error and spending money on widgets.

I was sort of expecting a framework of critical evaluation instead I’m underwhelmed with consumerism & academic wankery.

/ / / / <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/10/i-welcome-our-digital-minions-the-silicon-valley-insider-warning-about-algorithms-while-embracing-them>

melissabeartrix, to random
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Pizza ... Lunch that I wanted yesterday

Hugz & xXx

peterrenshaw,
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@melissabeartrix nom

NanoRaptor, to random
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The Macintosh SE will rear up and expose its extra floppy drives if it feels threatened.

peterrenshaw,
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@NanoRaptor imagine the whirrrr & clicking sounds. ☺️ How many disks does an OS install?

Lana, to random
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Roses are red
My laughter is busting

peterrenshaw,
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@Lana @feld the choice of grade was a balance b/w strength (more carbon) & cost (less C & Ni in 301 than 304?) … the rust is likely b/c increased carbon.

The trade-off b/w 301 & 304 is a approx. 30% strength improvement for 301. Still laugh at the rust though.

shaknais, to webdev
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I reckon I'm about halfway implemented a fully usable static site generator in POSIX-shell only. Fun mini project for uni, and open source as usual.

https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/fLatLong

peterrenshaw,
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@shaknais I love reading implementations. Now I’ll improve my shell scripting. My current tool is a combo of python, rust and a tiny bit of shell to save repeat typing.

peterrenshaw, to webassembly
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“WASI Preview 2: What WebAssembly Can and Can’t Do Yet”

light on technical details, worthy as a ‘heads-up’, quick read.

/ / / / <https://thenewstack.io/wasi-preview-2-what-webassembly-can-and-cant-do-yet/>

peterrenshaw,
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A slightly more detailed review of the component release preview.
<https://blog.sunfishcode.online/wasi-preview2/>

peterrenshaw,
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“The State of WebAssembly – 2023 and 2024”

A more detailed overview of WASM: “In this article, I start off by reviewing the WebAssembly developments during 2023 around Garbage Collection, Tail Calls, fixed-width SIMD, multiple memories, improvements in .NET, and work happening with the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and the Component Model. Then I try to predict where I think things will go in 2024.”

#GerardGallant / #wasm <https://platform.uno/blog/state-of-webassembly-2023-2024/>

peterrenshaw,
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listening to “Running languages in WebAssembly”

/ / / / <https://youtube.com/watch?v=DKLAeBRQqRM>

peterrenshaw,
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listening to “Wasm : Modeling with Micro Webassemblies”

/ / <https://youtube.com/watch?v=PAMuiYCP6mM>

peterrenshaw,
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listening to “WebAssembly functions for your -compatible database”

/ / / <https://youtube.com/watch?v=QIDkVM7rCqA>

peterrenshaw,
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super dry listening so far 😐

peterrenshaw,
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“Your next challenge: making more ()”

/ / <https://youtube.com/watch?v=IXE7RTiK6HM>

peterrenshaw,
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“What CAN’T do?"

This 🐍 / talk is very good.

/ 2023 / <https://youtube.com/watch?v=JbZAsSzzk0E>

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