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Meanjin (Brisbane AU) . Cycling (Downhill Specialist. Road + Gravel + Commuting). 3d Printing (Fusion 360 + Prusa XL). Will write documents, review PRs and sit in meetings for food. Will occasionally write code too if my meetings are cancelled.

"After this week is done it should all calm down for a bit" - Me, 2002.

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vampiress , to random
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Good Morning cats 'n kittens.

It's a public holiday here on the biggest landmass in Oceania.

Which means I'm working on Dungeons of Freeport, because I am a terminally creative person.

But I did let myself sleep in! See, ma, I do relax sometimes!

I will post more about my progress throughout the day.

But first: caffeine.

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@vampiress stares in Queensland.

jerry , to random
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To those people who are coming at me about security training - at best, it reduces the problem, but doesn’t come close to eliminating it. And you’ve not lived until you have a person who opened the wrong email being skewered by senior management, who insists the whole thing was their fault, after all, “they took the training”

No, I am not on that train. It is part of a program, but it is NOT a security control. I will die on this hill.

drew ,
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@jerry but Jerry, we shifted left. Why didn’t that fix it? We shifted, Jerry! Left!

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15 years ago, the Greens started warning that we needed to start preparing and planning the transition from coal to renewable energy.

The Libs responding by gaslighting and saying things like “You can’t shut down coal energy overnight!”, something the Greens were in no way shape or form asking for.

The media simply quoted the Libs. Their excuse? “We WeRe JuSt TeLlInG yOu WhAt ThEy SaId!”. Never quoted what the Greens actually wanted, or actually analyzed the situation, just QuOtEd WhAt ThEy SaId! The Liberals and those talking complete and utter horse shit. While burying their heads in the sand about energy transition.

Now, we’re in a situation where coal plants are shutting down ahead of the 15 years ago schedule, renewable sources have been delayed massively, and many don’t have power lines heading to them nor are connected to the grid properly. We are in the EXACT problem situation the Greens were warning about 15 years ago.

The media won’t take responsibility for their one-sided citing and TeLlInG yOu WhAt ThEy SaId. They’ll just write articles pretending that never happened, glossing over their part in it.

We’re in for hard times. All caused by the Liberal governments of the last 15 years. And Labor especially now aren’t exactly any better. And caused by the media failing to do their actual jobs.

https://theconversation.com/clean-energy-slump-why-australias-renewables-revolution-is-behind-schedule-and-how-to-fix-it-229514

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/scaremongering-wont-keep-australias-lights-on-picking-up-the-pace-of-energy-transition-will

drew ,
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@bastardsheep

vampiress , to random
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Friend: "So what are you doing on the project?"
Me: “Designing quests primarily."
Friend: "Ah like... some kind of Quest Mistress?"
Me: "That sounds like the wrong kind of merger of LARPing and BDSM.”

Aaaand with this image firmly in mind, it's breakfast time.

drew ,
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@vampiress I will never think of tuning xp/level curves the same way again.

vampiress , to random
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I love getting into a series of great games late. By the time you get to them, there's SO MUCH for you to play.

BOTW and its sequel will be fun to work through in the next little while.

I just came off ALSO coming in late to Marvel's Spider-Man on Playstation. Played 1 & 2 - still have Miles Morales to get to at some point too.

Seriously solid games.

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@vampiress just finished a BG3 playthrough. Such narrative effort. Random animals voice-acted. Just crazy.

vampiress , to random
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Late to the party but I just realised something: this is the first Zelda game I've ever bought... brand new.

drew ,
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@vampiress and the sequel is “let’s take the physics glitches and make them into a game”

vampiress , to random
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Like Discord needed to get any worse.

drew ,
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@vampiress love to meet my community at the food court. It’s good that half the tables are now poker machines.

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    drew ,
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    @vampiress is the ai making… a threat?

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    drew ,
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    @vampiress ironically I was just thinking about whether I should 3d print a DEC vt100 terminal.

    We were playing this (https://www.unsolvedcasefiles.com/jamie.html) at a family game night and (no spoilers) the suicide note was written on a vt100 “computer”.

    I spent far too long trying to work out if someone’s story of using it and saving their work on a floppy disk was a clue or an author oversight.

    drew ,
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    @vampiress probably a watch stand like the Mac ones.

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    drew ,
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    @vampiress just went through NY with my family on holiday and my 11yo had constant déjà joue* where every few seconds they would see a building they had done a mission from, or a rock formation in Central Park they’d climbed, blew their mind. beautiful game.

    drew ,
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    @vampiress oh yeah. Such feels.

    https://eigenmagic.net/@drew/111666826530872729

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    drew ,
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    @vampiress as someone who flew with my whole family on a 737-900 on Jan 3rd and was booked to fly on one again Jan 14 (paid extra to rebook before it was cancelled), I have been following this somewhat.

    So far the best detail I’ve found is the https://www.youtube.com/@blancolirio channel.

    1. https://youtu.be/I9EvHpf8jZg
    2. https://youtu.be/WhfK9jlZK1o
    3. https://youtu.be/ubCQZtLTAug
    4. https://youtu.be/RSGujNq4bVM
    drew ,
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    @vampiress he talks about Boeing not removing the doorplugs for interior fitting, but potentially wifi installers doing so. Also lots of detail about the bolts and inner workings.

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    drew ,
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    @vampiress I wonder if fewer?

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