@kauer@aus.social avatar

kauer

@[email protected]

Poetry, Ubuntu. Following, boosting and favouriting do not imply agreement.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

@ghost_shit@aus.social avatar ghost_shit , to random

Tommy The Cat On A Hot Tin Roof


kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@ghost_shit Felix The Cat On A Hot Tin Roof?

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

"The free market will sort it out" the free market sorted out child labour by saying yes please and we had to pass a law. That's how the free market sorts things out.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@Daojoan "if the free market was really free, General Motors would be selling crack cocaine"

  • Michael Moor (approximately)
@BestPreston@aus.social avatar BestPreston , to random

What a patronising arsehole

PM apologises for 'any misinterpretation' labelling Grace Tame 'difficult'
ALT
kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@BestPreston I wonder if there are any times when a man in power has referred to another man as "difficult". It seems to me to be a misogynist dogwhistle.

@chandlerkyle93@stranger.social avatar chandlerkyle93 , to random

@dgar I saw a statue contest today. It was a total bust.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@chandlerkyle93 @dgar Awww. Don't worry mate. One day your plinth will come.

@IainMac9@aus.social avatar IainMac9 , to random
kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@IainMac9 I'm cynical enough to think that Alcoa will shrug and call it a cost of doing business. That fine should have been the entirety of their gross profits for the financial year. Only that class of fine will/may start deterring large corporations from wilfullly offending. Maybe one day...

@static@aus.social avatar static , to random

At an electronic music open night, we're 25 minutes late and the first act is still setting up... This might why they're first as it's supposed to be 15 minutes between acts.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@static my experience of amateur electronic music is that setting up IS the performance. Or at least 50% of it.

@dgar@aus.social avatar dgar , to random

Me: I got bitten by a huge viscous dog on my way home!

Them: Oh my gosh!! Imagine if it had been a small child!

Me: Well, honestly, I think I could have fought off a small child…

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@GroupNebula563 @dgar Big whorls have smaller whorls
Decreasing in velocity.
The smaller whorls have smaller still
And so on, to viscosity.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Despite being free, what's your biggest complaint about the Linux desktop? 🤔

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@nixCraft You really mean "desktop"? Or Linux generally? There are dozens of Linux desktops...

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

I might be interested in commissioning a painting. Is there a follow pack for painters here so I can browse some of their work? Thanks!

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@briankrebs joltergeist.com.au

Mobile website iffy - menu button almost invisible at top right. Best with a desktop browser anyway.

@static@aus.social avatar static , (edited ) to random

Oh that's fun.

Website for a nearby locality with events and things. It complains I have an ad-blocker on, which I don't really. My browser defaults to blocking trackers, and I have third-party cookies disabled, too.

But I don't know what it's "detecting". If I turn off the tracker blocking and enable third-party cookies (in a private window, natch), it still thinks I have an ad-blocker enabled!

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@static tell the website owners. Everyone uses ad blockers these days, and more and more people just leave, never to return, if a website demands that they disable their ad blocker.

So I imagine they would appreciate knowing.

From your description it sounds as if "turn off your ad blocker" may be a generic response the lots if different things - for example, if you turn off scripts, a lot of captchas won't work, and that might well be what's happening here.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@static Bummer. If it were me (and I do realise it's not :-) ) I would drop them, tell them why, and never visit the page again.

Requiring ad blockers to be disabled is blackmail.

@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , (edited ) to random

Is it any wonder that the US becomes increasingly divided?

Here is MAGA influencer Laura Loomer suggesting to her 1.8 million followers, that the gun used to kill Charlie Kirk might have been provided by a "Trans terror cell".

This is false.

According to the investigation, the rifle used by accused killer Tyler Robinson, used to be his granddad's and was given to him by his own dad, a registered Republican voter.

And obviously, "Trans terror cells" do not exist outside Loomers imagination.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@randahl There are lies enough in that ghastly post from that ghastly Loomer without inventing one.

She did NOT say that the gun was provided by a "trans terror cell". She floated the idea that it might have been.

If you had said "suggesting to her 1.8 million followers that the gun [...] might have been provided by" you would have been 100% accurate.

As it stands, people can say "look at the lies they put in her mouth! She never said that!" ... leaving you with no leg to stand on and casting the rest of your statements into doubt.

The response to lies must be impeccable truth.

@anon_opin@mastodon.social avatar anon_opin Bot , to random

No, inheritance tax isn't a double tax on your already taxed, hard earned money. You're dead. You don't pay it. It's paid, to all intents and purposes, by the people receiving the inheritance, who absolutely did not earn it, and don't deserve a massive tax free windfall.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@ocnurb @thygrrr @anon_opin who cares? So they have to sell it. Or whatever.

@kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar kenney , (edited ) to random

I changed the way I work a couple of months ago to follow this advice, it made a big difference and my productivity went up by miles.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@kenney My brother, who gets more shit done than anyone else I know, has a saying: "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly".

Which I think is pretty much the same idea.

I remember asking him many years ago what the key to getting shit done was, and he said "Start."

@slevelt@aus.social avatar slevelt , to VinylRecords group

good morning! some energetic music to start the weekend.

Nina Hagen Band vinylrecords@a.gup.pe icon VinylRecords group

A vinyl record of the Nina Hagen Band is displayed on a wooden stand. The album cover features a striking image of Nina Hagen with bold makeup and an edgy hairstyle, a cigarette resting on her lips. The cover is displayed next to a turntable playing the record
ALT
kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@slevelt vinylrecords@a.gup.pe icon VinylRecords group One of my all-time favourite albums. A time capsule with "TV-Glotzer", a fantastically feminist couple of songs in "Unbeschreiblich weiblich" and "Pank". Most of her later stuff was somehow less good (to me), except for "Wir leben immer noch". I did a translation of that one which immediately got posted without attribution on numerous lyrics sites, grrr.

@slevelt@aus.social avatar slevelt , to VinylRecords group

the soundtrack to the prep for our move included the Jam’s song That’s Entertainment (courtesy of its use in a recent Guy Ritchie movie), so I’ve been looking for this since we landed in . Fitzroy vintage store haul today! 🥳🎵

the Jam - Sound Affects vinylrecords@a.gup.pe icon VinylRecords group

PS the soundtrack further included DC Fontaines, which we went to see play shortly before our move, and Amyl and the Sniffers, the Melburnians who were sudden BBC radio favourites in December.

vinyl record cover of the Jam’s Sound Affects, with a collage of photos and symbols in black, white, pink and blue. the cover is displayed next to a turntable playing the record.
ALT
kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@slevelt vinylrecords@a.gup.pe icon VinylRecords group great record, I had a copy back in the eighties that got played to death. Still listen to it every now and then (the digital version nowadays).

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@nixCraft a very welcome side effect if this may be reduction in the attitude that it that it is "self-evident" that Word and Excel are the standards against which all other similar tools are measured.

One can but hope...

@static@aus.social avatar static , to random

Need a way to copy files into a new codebase and telling everything except my editor to ignore them until I'm ready to migrate them. The linter gets upset at them. Webpack gets upset at them. Git gets upset at them because the linter can't "fix" them.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@static how smart is your dev environment? You may get away with just adding an extension to each name, like ".dat". Remove it when you want the env to see the file properly.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@static even by hand and one at a time its not that much effort. You'll spend more time scripting it than just doing it :-) A grand tradition!

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

My passion is staring into the void

A four-panel stick-figure comic with a minimalist art style. In the first panel, a stick figure stands alone with text above that says, “my therapist says i should pursue my passions.” In the second panel, the stick figure looks at a small black square with tiny white dots, representing the void. The text reads, “but my passion is staring into the void.” In the third panel, the void now has two white circles resembling eyes and a small smile. The text says, “and it’s starting to stare back.” In the fourth panel, the void continues to stare with its eyes and smile, while the stick figure holds out a small piece of paper labeled “$5.” The text above says, “it wants a monthly subscription fee.”
ALT
kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@Daojoan The fact that the void is smiling is most disturbing...

@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

The Trump administration has launched a portal where you can report DEI in schools, "ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination."

You know what to do: https://enddei.ed.gov/

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@darkrat @401matthall @evacide "access denied" - me too. Possibly geoblocked as I'm not in the US.

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked why an Associated Press reporter was barred from some events—and her answer certainly seems retaliatory.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@georgetakei interesting take that access to the president is a privilege; that access to the press conferences is a privilege.

You work for the people you horrible little scumbags; it is your DUTY to inform.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

These are stupid, stupid people, enacting stupid, stupid policies that will hurt everyone they hate half as much as they'll hurt themselves, and at their own expense.

https://www.theindex.media/these-clowns-are-economic-illiterates/

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@Daojoan This is not about the economy. They don't care about the economy. They don't care about people. They don't care about norms, conventions or the law.

And they are not stupid! They just have objectives that are so far from what normal sane people have that their actions make no sense through that lens.

Start seeing these actions through the lens of destruction, disruption, repression and the acquisition of money, territory and power.

Thinking they are stupid - instead of bad, criminal and dangerous - is to underestimate them; and that helps them win.

@teadrinker@aus.social avatar teadrinker , to bookstodon group

This is a long shot, but I wonder if someone knows this book?

It's science fiction (I want to say cyberpunk?) and all I can remember about it is that it had something to do with water purification, and there was a group of individuals who had been affected by some event or accident and it had led to them losing limbs, so they wore prosthetics.

The conversation I remember was between two characters, one of whom used prosthetics, and who I think was trying to sabotage the water purification?

I would have read it a good ten years ago, at least. I know this is super vague but hopefully there's enough there to ring a bell for someone?!

bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@teadrinker bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group are you thinking of "Tank Girl"?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

YouTube has fully blocked Invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment-2365205990 For those who don't know: Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.

kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@nixCraft sorry for possibly silly question, but what are they blocking, exactly - and why does it matter?

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Sounds about right.

A social post from @anthracitedub on Threads that says: Baking instructions should be: Cook it until you smell it, then go take looksee.
ALT
kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@georgetakei There's an art to cooking toast,
Never try to guess!
Cook it till it smokes,
Then twenty seconds less.

  • Piet Hein
@MattHatton@aus.social avatar MattHatton , to random

How the fuck is this supposed to work, my guys?

A corporate gift catalogue. Printed on paper. With an instruction to “click here to order”.
ALT
kauer ,
@kauer@aus.social avatar

@JustJimWillDo @MattHatton I don't. What's the problem?