As a proud Canberran, and being regional New South Welsh by birth, I agree with this. It's taken a century to build Canberra - a city built to solve a specific problem, not for housing - into a real city. Let's not repeat that. We need to interrogate the mindset of large towns versus small cities.

Canberra Solidarity Sips with @profaus.bsky.social tonight at 6pm at Kingo's. Come along whether you're already in the union or whether you're just curious - particularly if you're a cybersecurity worker in town for BSides! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/solidarity...

Will be at BSides Canberra, come say hi etc

when are all the paracetamol manufacturers filing lawsuits against the USG

interesting to see Peter Cain MLA asking about what the ACT Government is doing re both short and long term AI risks and regulation (I expect the answer will be fairly boring: we have policies around government use and everything else is up to the feds?)

wondering how many other australians of my generation have the postcode for Mona Vale NSW 2103 permanently imprinted in their brain for life despite having never, ever needed to use it

I find the American reliance on part-time state legislatures fascinating - every Australian state or territory legislature is fully professionalised, and until I started looking into US state politics, it had never occurred to me that it could be any other way in the 21st century

Why is DNS

Ate leftover cake for breakfast day off to great start

One of the bathrooms in the rural holiday home we are staying in has the latch for the door lock on the *outside* of the bathroom. Has the person who installed this ever used a bathroom before

Proud to be a @profaus.bsky.social member, as always, and particularly proud to see so many active members that filling out my committee ballot paper is actually a challenge Join your union (and once you're in, make sure you have your say)

wonder how many ASIO files my name appears in, given social media analysis + the number of weirdos who I've managed to be within 2 degrees of

the Navy SEALs would've successfully completed the operation if they'd been about 5% better at WARFIGHTING, which is why next time they'll succeed because they're now part of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR they're incredibly lucky this story was kept quiet for 6 years

dear NSW P-plater passenger who I *think* was trying to yell abuse at me for being on a bike this afternoon, you're gonna have to yell louder, my auditory processing isn't good enough to understand what exactly you think of me

YIMBY organiser/software engineer overlap is large enough that it's not all that surprising that I've now run into the "YIMBY organiser on the other side of the world"/"software engineer who knew a quarter of my team from their previous employer" combo

up at 2am looking at a bug report that came in from someone applying my kernel patches to help him debug a different issue on his G4 Power Mac thank you G4 Power Mac user, this bug is actually interesting and has consumed me all day

So: the matrix.org database secondary lost its FS due to a RAID failure earlier today (11:17 UTC). Then, we lost the primary at 17:26. We're trying to restore the primary DB FS (which could be fastish), while also doing a point-in-time backup restore from last night (which takes >10h).

seeing a fusion reactor was pretty cool; take note other conference organisers, I will be expecting your conference to have a fusion reactor from now on

goodbye wellington you were great

Some West End residents are railing against a medium density development in their inner city suburb, just minutes from the CBD. It's sad that they're doing it at one of our favourite bars too. 😭

in wellington this week for @rustforgeconf.com, lmk if you wanna say hi

A one like, one thought thread where they've followed through until well into the 300s

The name gives the game away

Every time I have to think of Bootlin for whatever reason I still think of them first as Free Electrons :'(

compare and contrast the Australian Capital Territory and our Self-Government Act, which has its own weirdnesses

On the one hand, we (and the UK and France and Canada and so on) are finally actually doing something which has been a major goal of pro-Palestinian advocacy since forever. On the other, the war doesn't look anywhere near over - what's the most useful thing for Australia to do about that?

loving the "supposedly" here

RFK just loves killing people

hmm disagree

very annoying that bed is warm and comfy while the outside world between here and my gym isn't

An early contender for candidate profile of the election, I think. Matamata-Piako District Council.

🚆🛴🚲We don't think a blanket ban of e-bikes and e-scooters from trains is the best way forward. A more nuanced approach is needed, addressing safety but not losing the obvious advantages for first mile/last mile connectivity. Have your say: engage.vic.gov.au/pu...

"Be correct, not balanced" - Katie Roberts-Hull at the @inflectionpoints.work launch

The @inflectionpoints.work launch is happening

Apparently they bought this site from the Australian Catholic University! Wouldn't have happened back in the days of the Psychological Practices Act

Going out of my way to spite Skybus

On my way to Melbourne for the @inflectionpoints.work launch. Currently running on less than 3 hours' sleep. I have only mild regrets

Seems mostly reasonable changes to the oversight system, although there's also a non-oversight amendment to expand immunities for computer offences outside Australia to cover certain ADF and Defence Department functions, apparently a Richardson Review recommendation...

Forgotten just how much pain golang vendoring has caused me

This is one of the more amusing results of the Tasmanian election

"About 147 nations already recognise the state of Palestine – but none as large as France" TIL France is larger than China and India

A NACC prison sentence! (by way of intensive correction order) Interesting that as an employee of a Commonwealth company he was charged with a state offence for this www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9026417/

Is there any route out, any at all, of the mesh of international copyright treaties that lock in the current paradigm of "intellectual property"?

warning: don't get scammed at the scam ATM

Disappointed to learn this book isn't about the intersection between AI safety and YIMBYism

Blòg: firms #blog orangejuiceandryvita.com/247/firms

Dear friend who I miss: I know it's not your favourite question, but I do actually want to know how you are

I am a YIMBY for more museums, not just more trains and houses

Great to see 72% of respondents at the pop-up consultations supporting the Missing Middle Housing Reforms - hoping to see a lot of supportive submissions once those are released shortly!

I'm glad I'm not a Wellington voter, it'd be so hard to figure out my ballot knowing I can only write 1 next to one of these three amazing candidates