Cin (they/them)

ah i see we are back to every fucking thing going wrong all the time

I say it again-

If you have to force, con, or coerce people to use your product, your product is trash

Join me in the 'Berra!

5:30pm Garema Place

Dear Canberra drivers

You're legally required to turn on headlights (NOT just running/parkers/fog lights as they don't activate tail lights) during low light conditions, for the safety of all

Today very much qualifies

You're invisible to other drivers even if you think you can see

impossible then dump it on the underpaid, overworked few who work hard and run for the hills, they renegotiate, push the deadline over and over and over, they hide the add-on costs of what is really required, go to expensive networking events as "training"...

There's more but you get the idea 😓

The vendors lie, the agency can't be bothered enforcing the contract penalty clauses, the interns get billed as senior consultants, the CEO flies in for remote meetings at every opportunity, the panel awards the contract to their mates or businesses they're silent partners in, they promise the...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"What the fuck?!"

Saw it at the cinema, highly recommend!

We must stop peace protesters from terrorising our war criminal guests

Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Withings

But now I have no silent alarm device. 😒

so it's a pretty massive betrayal. And I had provided feedback to that effect and they had seemed to rethink the slop bot, until forcing it on us last night.

Anyway, everyone I know who owns a Withings is deleting their account right now.

Hopefully the account deletion takes all my historical data with it

Data that *used to* only exist on the watch and phone, but got uploaded to their slop bot with the update and account reset

I chose the brand because it wasn't invasive and only collected data I wanted, to my own device

This morning I woke up to find my smart watch account has been reset, meaning my alarms did not go off, and the new app force installed which includes an AI bot you can't disable unless you pay $15/m for app+

My account is now deleted and the watch will go into a box to go flat

for a "plug-in replacement" that head unit sure was a prick to get working

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

Let's see if our panel on censorship gets censored by the government/lobbyist alliance.

NSW government has already made contact with Newcastle Writers Festival board about including Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, ABC reports

When will the bullying & intimidation stop ?

4 books containing the 7 books of the Muderbot Diaries

4 books containing the 7 books of the Muderbot Diaries, photo shows the books spines

4 books containing the 7 books of the Muderbot Diaries, photo shows the books closed, displaying painted page edges

Packidge! 😁
#muderbotdiaries

And while they're pretty bad, they are far from the only offender

Can confirm I've dealt with tons more of this crap lately than ever before

SPF etc are useless when you add whole slabs of IPs and wildcard DNS in to "just make it work"

Herzog’s visit "a terrible cruelty" For Palestinian Australians who have lost entire families in Gaza, the decision to welcome Israel’s president to Australia is not diplomatic neutrality but an act of profound cruelty. As deaths continue despite a ceasefire, questions of grief, justice and political accountability can no longer be avoided.

Herzog’s visit “a terrible cruelty” https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/president-herzogs-visit-a-terrible-cruelty #Auspol

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List of marches against Herzog on Feb 9

hm, hopefully not the malicious kind..

Never has there ever been a #UBI study that failed to make economies, people's lives better, for less money than other social programs.

They should not have invited Herzog to Australia. Now the police are saying they have concerns about how his visit will cause “significant animosity”.

The Albanese Government needs to withdraw this invitation now!

oh that's stunning, love it!

screenshot of an excel sheet with the columns Import Status and Error, with the values CompletedWithErrors and None in the row below

error status: yeah nah

This is utterly chilling. This US Alliance looking increasingly like the largest risk to the Australian people.