there is no panic

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there is no panic

there is no panic

@eddit0r

gatekeeping stuff you wouldn’t have heard of yet.

Melbourne, AU Katılım Ocak 2009
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Nabeel S. Qureshi@nabeelqu·
Amusing how much the knowledge economy is being held back right now because we settled on crappy legacy formats like .ppt, .xls, .pdf, .docx and so on
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@aussiewongm @missrobinson Someone from Tabcorp once told me the product was a hedge when everyone was worried about the equine Hendra virus in 90s. They were surprised how many people bet on it in the trials and rolled it out widely.
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Amber
Amber@missrobinson·
Last night at the local RSL I came across virtual greyhound racing. People actually bet on them. What new form of insanity is this?
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Gandalv
Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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planefag
planefag@planefag·
@heatloss1986 every day, I beg the A-10 stans to just start pitching an A-11. it can be ECM and stealthy, or it can be cheapo COIN, you can even keep the cool big gun if you want, just for the love of God let the warthog rest why won't they let her rest
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HSVSphere
HSVSphere@HSVSphere·
@JustDeezGuy And: The lack of good interfaces, as mandated by UNIX, makes these "systems" suck at doing anything nicely without a million interface compatibility hacks. Linux may be cobbled together but we have interfaces that deviate from UNIX and are thus good.
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Paul Snively
Paul Snively@JustDeezGuy·
Your periodic reminder: 1. The BSDs are rightly proud of being actual operating SYSTEMS, not “distros” cobbled together. 2. macOS is a certified UNIX™️ with a FreeBSD-based userspace.
Nuno Afonso@nafonsopt

For anybody saying "Just use Linux", you need to realise that Linux is worse than Windows. Windows has all the bloat, and while you can have Linux without any of that you still don't have tools like Remedybg, RAD Debugger and Super Luminal. Once you have such tools, then Linux is a suitable app development environment. But _it is still trash_ because of the whole Linux model of you needing to compile everything. The fact that you cannot run an app built using a newer version of glibc is an insane decision. I shouldn't have to upgrade my whole machine in order to run something built on a newer version. I shouldn't be worried that an upgrade will break my machine. I shouldn't be forced to compile things from scratch to work on my machine. I shouldn't be forced to install N packages, I just want self contained binaries I can just download and run. I shouldn't be forced to develop with an old distro to have "max glibc compatibility". I shouldn't have to worry about X11 / Wayland / Window Managers. I shouldn't have to worry about asking the user to select a folder, display a dialog or show notifications. Linux is such a huge waste of potential, if they got their shit together they would completely obliterate Windows. I first got into Linux in 2000, and even back then there was this "it will take over Windows any time now!". It's been _26 years_! The same way I'd pay quite a lot for Windows without any bloat, I'd be willing to pay for a distro that gives me all this.

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@taipan168 Because they fucked up the power and now the optics look bad so the taxpayer gets fucked.
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taipan168
taipan168@taipan168·
Why exactly are we doing this? There are 1,000 jobs at Tomago aluminium smelter, so the taxpayer is subsidising each at $300k pa?
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@taipan168 I can understand low information voters being angry at the fuel situation. Both major parties have shat the bed on strategic fuel reserves over the previous decade. Decided sovereign capacity was too expensive to maintain and YOLO’d the downside risk.
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@MyFirstCousin First submarine transfer from the US isn’t until 2032. Next US election is 2028. It will be the end of the term of the subsequent president and very little to do with the Trump administration.
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Secretary Dead Parrot Society
Secretary Dead Parrot Society@MyFirstCousin·
Trump is using Australia as a cash cow taking AUKUS payments and Australia will never see anything for them. The sooner Australia recognises the Trump regime is a crooked outfit that has no scruples the better.
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Craig Murray
Craig Murray@CraigMurrayOrg·
Iran has hit Israel particularly hard today. Yet there is zero footage or photos in my timeline, literally zero.
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wombot 👀
wombot 👀@_colourmeamused·
You can reliably identify the dumbest mayors, councillors, and politicians from who falls for the trackless tram pitch “an early proposal may be just a few months away” YOU FOOL YOU COMPLETE RUBE
NZ Transit Buzz@NZTransitBuzz

#TransportNews: Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger says he and city council staff are working towards a trial of trackless trams, and an early proposal may be just a few months away. Via The Press: thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360967…

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Dr. Malcolm Davis 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Dr. Malcolm Davis 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦@Dr_M_Davis·
Good to provide some comments, alongside @JAParker29 , on the options (or lack thereof) for Australia to send a warship to support maritime security through the Strait of Hormuz. The #IranWar highlights a risk that we have a smaller @Australian_Navy than ideal, even as our security outlook worsens, until we can start to see new naval surface combatants - the Advanced Mogami frigates appearing from late in this decade - and the Hunter class Future Frigates in the 2030s. This dip in fleet size will be reversed in time, but we're going through a period of greater risk at the moment. But the reality is that new naval surface combatants cannot be acquired quickly, and we need adequate workforce to crew and sustain them. We're in rough strategic seas, but we must sail through with what we have.
Ben John@benjohn65

Australia isn't sending a warship to the Persian Gulf. But if the government wanted to, is there one to send? abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1… via @ABCaustralia

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@cljack My son still gets irritated when a particular food item he thinks *should* be at a type of restaurant is not on the menu.
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Charlotte Lee
Charlotte Lee@cljack·
Truly incredible the speed at which you can give American kids a long and complicated foreign menu and they will find Burger
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lev 🇵🇸
lev 🇵🇸@abookofsymbols·
are there crustpunks of the sea, like guys who still hop freighters in 2026
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Brent Hodgson
Brent Hodgson@BrentHodgson·
$19 billion for the capital gains tax discount. $16.3 billion for fossil fuel subsidies. $368 billion for AUKUS submarines. Only $1.425 billion collected from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. What would you change?
Australia Institute@TheAusInstitute

Australia Institute research shows the government would raise an extra $19 billion a year by scrapping the capital gains tax discount. Not only would it improve housing affordability, there'd be $19 billion more to spend on services. It's a no-brainer. @MattGrudnoff #auspol

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Filippo Alimonda
Filippo Alimonda@FilippoAlimonda·
@chrisalbon Or...or... and hear me out... buy a raspberry Pi mini and SSH into an EC2 u7in-24tb.224xlarge 🌈
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Chris Albon
Chris Albon@chrisalbon·
What if, instead of a buying a mac mini, you could rent a computer and just ssh into it.
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