Dave. @ dgriffith @aussie.zone

I'm a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

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Then you end up with an inbox full of drive-by spam to abuse/admin/aardvark/.. (insert dictionary here)../zack/ziggy.

In my opinion, software engineering has about another 50 years before it matures to the point where it is a "proper" engineering profession.

I search for complicated things on google, because that's when I need to search for stuff.

I take about three seconds to look at the LLM-generated summaries/answers, disregard them as tedious monotonic bullshit, and then scroll down to links where real people are discussing the real problems and the real solutions they have.

......use Windows on an air-gapped PC to do all your software development? At least then hackers won't steal your source and post your shameful code on the internet.

Ollama released a new feature yesterday

Ollama 0.5.1, yesterday : "Fixed issue where Ollama's API would generate JSON output when specifying "format": null"

Ollama-rs 0.2.1: released 08/09/24.

Gee I wonder why it doesn't play nicely with the latest Ollama API which uses new/updated behaviour for an option 🤔

"Just got to spin through a few trillion instructions to get things sorted before we go to standby! Won't be a minute!"

It's likely to be forced participation.

You want to use airtags and benefit from other phones providing tag locations? Then you have to supply data to the airtag network as well. Quid pro quo and all that.

You can set up fast roaming (802.11r) which is supported by most mobile clients and gives a much more organised handover between APs. Bit of config tangle but apparently works ok once you get it going.

They are capable of voice and data but are only permitted for text messaging due to transmit power restrictions.

Get on uhf40 at the top of the gateway bridge in Brisbane, you can hear every whinging/gossiping truckie in the city all at once haha.

Why the fuck isn’t there just a simple status LED that is on the same circuit as the camera?

Because cameras aren't simple on-off devices powered by a single wire, that's why. It's always got power, and it's turned "on" (send image data over the data bus) and "off" (do not send data) by software commands over the same data bus.

So the most convenient solution is then have the camera IC have an output that can drive an indicator light. And as camera ICs are basically full computers in their own right, they can be reprogrammed so that they don't turn on that output.

End result is that you are much better off either having a physical cover over the camera lens, or having a USB camera that you can unplug.

I've seen plenty of trucks do the single right hand indicator blink, usually b-doubles and larger.

I interpret that as a few things:

• Old mate has noticed me behind them and has judged the road ahead to be suitably clear, so I can nose out and have a look and go for it if I think it's ok, and
• That they in turn have a good bit of road ahead of them so they can attempt to nudge all the trailers to the left for me as I come past.

$80k was a good salary 10 years ago. I don't know how you could raise a family on it, today. And half of Australia is making less than that!

You can do it, but:

• You can't live within 1.5 hours of capital cities or major regional cities.
• You can't live in a mining town.
• You can't live in a tourist town.

Unfortunately all the left over places have shit job opportunities, shit services, and are generally classified as shit areas as a result.

So until you advance enough in a career that you can pull a tree change to somewhere less pricey and still keep your income, you're screwed.

, couldn't the brokers just filter the period when i started clickning everything?

They don't care about the quality of an individual profile, it's the quality of the aggregate data that's important to them. If anything, your profile might be identified as an outlier compared to the average and simply discarded. They're not going to look any further than that and try and "rescue" your data, they've got a million other profiles to sell to advertisers.

22 million users. 2700 million likes. 122 likes per user?

That engagement ratio seems a little off?

The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don't have jobs and no income, not able to survive...

Most solutions to this issue usually involve some variant of a universal basic income. However, that gets politically boiled down to "MOAR TAXES GOVERNMENT IS STIFLING THIS COUNTRY!1!1", so in countries like the US that want to keep the freedom of being able to be homeless and starving, it's not going to be possible.

Is this a variation on l'esprit de l'escalier, where instead of the perfect comeback you simply make up a set of events after the fact that put you in the best light? 🤔

Does it download the actual music tracks from youtube-music, or does YouTube helpfully provide the video version of the music?

I've used a few downloaders and it seems these days that every music video is a whole "production" with 30 seconds of dialogue and intro before the actual music starts, or there's background noise over the first dozen bars (because the artist is in a cafe or car park or on the train in the clip) and all of that is just a bit tedious when listening to the audio only.

You've got the motive back to front.

yah, let’s get rid of these cheap, easily manufactured and implemented dials and knobs

In modern cars those buttons are an input to a body computer which then sends commands over the vehicle data bus to another module that performs the appropriate function. The touchscreen option is much cheaper once you have more than a few buttons to deal with.

Buttons have different physical shapes, the little decal for the button on each one has to be printed and put on top, each one needs to be connected to power, each one needs to be slotted into the dash somewhere , each one needs to be backlit so you can use it at night, and the signal for each one has to be routed somewhere through increasingly bulky harnesses, etc etc.

A touchscreen sits on the vehicle data bus and with a bit of software, sends whatever command is needed.

Is it a great user experience to press fiddly buttons on a touchscreen while driving down a bumpy road? Fuck no. But it is definitely cheaper and less complicated for the manufacturer.

Effective advertising has a clear and simple visual language, and this is what UIs should strive for.

Interfaces can be needlessly complex regardless of being flat or skeuomorphic.

But flat interfaces still require mental effort to parse. Especially when the interface is complex and/or crowded and you're trying to pick out active UI elements amongst decorations like group boxes/panels.

Essentially, flat interfaces are currently popular because of touchscreen devices. Touchscreen devices have limited space and thus need simplistic UI elements that can be prodded by a fat finger on a small screen.

But I don't need a flat touchscreen-friendly interface on my non-touch dual 24" monitors with acres of screen real estate. I need an interface that nicely separates usable UI elements from the rest of the application window. That means 3D hints on a 2D screen, which allows my monkey-brain with five million years of evolved 3D vision the opportunity to run my "click the button" mental command as a background process.