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  Holy shit. Descendents are playing on Saturday. Here. In Hobart.

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  Say it, brother! "A local control interface means the system can continue operating: - without Internet access, - without dependence on a vendor specific cloud service, - without vendor-determined future cloud subscription fees, - and without the risk of a manufacturer simply deciding they no longer wish to support third-party cloud access, and just turning it off." From https://simonhackett.com/2026/05/18/the-home-battery-lock-in-you-dont-yet-know-about/ Yes, I know this h...

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  Maybe so, but unlike AI data centres, restaurants provide tangible value to the community they're built in. Notably, one can go there and eat food. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-02/firmus-response-public-backlash-artificial-intelligence-tasmania/106864804 #politas #ai

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  RE: https://mast.hpc.social/@Elwell/117070881641104873 For storage folks in Melbourne, there's a Ceph Meetup happening on October 30 as part of the eResearch conference that runs from October 26-30.

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  I found this in our letter box today, and I want to love it because it is _so_close_ to being a cleverly rendered, simple, positive statement about something good the government has done. Unfortunately they just had to bring in the usual fear/blame combo with the little "valid only" line... #auspol #politas

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  Could not agree more (seen at The Margate Train)

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  A bit of work stuff again - creatively using `kexec` to boot into the Harvester installer in an environment where I was unable to directly boot an ISO image via the system's iLO: https://www.suse.com/c/sideloading-suse-virtualization-onto-an-existing-linux-system/