Robin

Come have a listen to what a group of singers combining both youth and maturity* can do after just a few days of intensive rehearsals. 

* actual maturity may not be included

In contrast to the regular seasons of singers aged 18-25 from around Australia, this is a group of singers aged 19-well-beyond-25 from all over the world - but all of whom have at some point in the past couple of decades been part of NYCA's main season.

The NYCA Invitational 2025 Since our inaugural NYCA season in 1996, after more than 25 years of music making, The National Youth Choir of Australia have over 300 alumni!...

Melbourne people who like music!

This concert is coming up on Sunday afternoon, and early signs are it's going to be pretty excellent. It's the NYCA (National Youth Choir of Australia) Invitational season.

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Merry Christmas Jon. Looks like a sensational one.

A screenshot from the GitHub Acceptable Use Policy. It says: "11. User Protection You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users. We will interpret our policies and resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole."

So I wrote this, and it's the best thing I've ever written.

"We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole."

That right there. That tells everyone how Trust & Safety is going to act, and it gives T&S profound latitude. They're not there to rules-lawyer or first-amendment.

I don’t care if you are ‘ungrammatical’ or misspell a word or have a typo, or accidentally use the ‘wrong’ word. It’s not a sign of how smart you are. I’m interested in whether you’re sincere, original, funny, kind, surprising, or saying something really important to you.

…has the express goal of extracting as much value as they can for their executives and shareholders. In the US, private insurers are both access control *and* motivated to deliver as little as possible to anyone else in the system. That is not a conflict which the NHS or Medicare share.

The goal of the system affects how access control/budgeting/resourcing are applied - and it’s somewhat disingenuous to omit that. Given a certain availability of resources (infrastructure, skilled workers, funding to keep the above going), it makes a massive difference if someone in the middle…

peacock jumping spiders?

All sorts of things get dropped in cups of water in Vladivostok: phones, polonium, novichok...

It triggers a loud alarm, but I keep right on walking. I figure the least I can do is create as many false alarms as possible, to provide cover for anyone who actually needs to shoplift food.

Our local Coles has the auto-gates at the self checkout. Except they don't seem to work about half the time. I scan and pay for my groceries every time, but half the time as I approach the gates they stay shut. So I push them open (they're designed to swing rather than let you break them).

"Fair Work finds United Workers Union’s industrial action had affected employees who wanted to return to the work site". Not employees: scabs. It affected scabs. No one else would have wanted to cross the picket line.

A country that is this ridiculous about how the internet works probably shouldn't try nuclear-powered anything TBH.

Nah - just pop the MyHealthRecord database and find them that way.

How we are making decisions about the social media ban – The Chaser The PM on his foolproof decision making process.

Anthony Albanese confirms social media ban list will be decided by pulling names from a hat
chaser.com.au/newsletter/h...

We’ll call it “the C3 election strategy”

Also, I recommend using the “sort by proportion” option, which isn’t the default sorting of results.

This tool has very quickly turned my nascent list of follows into a list that’s looking a lot like an old-school Aus Twitter reunion. With one key absence of course - wish Geordie were here.

Oh and our government is about to introduce the most absurd legislation to ban under-16s from social media. Of course there is no way it can work even a little bit, but that's never stopped the Australian government from legislating something to do with the internet!

Which of course means that no-one can ever trust an Australian IT product not to have a government-mandated backdoor in it. It does not surprise me that it is a condition on Australian domain registration to have the registrant information publicly visible.

Australia is a trashfire for computing/security related rules. We already have legislation in place which the government could use to secretly order any Australian company to introduce a backdoor in their product and it would be a heavily-punishable criminal offence for the company to tell anyone.

Fair point! I've just turned them on for my .com and .net domains... but it doesn't look like it's available for .au domains.

I have a few domains. Should I use one of them to change my bsky handle? I'm inclined to use one that isn't my surname (although obviously domain whois would lead to my identity anyway). I could even use the domain which corresponds to the origin of my handle.

Now seems about as good a time as any.

Performing in an excellent Preston Symphony Orchestra concert - and absolutely nailing my big solo.

That's so much more polite and professional than what I could manage.

Doesn’t count - starts on 1 December.

Friends coming over for dinner and gaming. Listening to the rain.