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Does the structure of the modern internet and technology (including AI) lead us towards authoritarianism? Instead of being independent...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114186...Does the structure of the modern internet and technology (including AI) lead us towards authoritarianism? Instead of being independent thinkers, we have deferred to the expertise of big tech and "the answer". The answer is whatever Google says, or whatever AI says. We ask for the answer, and receive, no further thought required. Children learn this from a young age. Does this make us more deferential to authority? #tech #power #ai #pol
19.3.2025 01:30Does the structure of the modern internet and technology (including AI) lead us towards authoritarianism? Instead of being independent...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114186...
Two bike rides in two days, and two tiger snakes almost run over! Certainly gets your heart rate going almost riding over a tiger snakes!...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114170...Two bike rides in two days, and two tiger snakes almost run over! Certainly gets your heart rate going almost riding over a tiger snakes! #mtb #australia #wildlife
16.3.2025 06:10Two bike rides in two days, and two tiger snakes almost run over! Certainly gets your heart rate going almost riding over a tiger snakes!...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114170...
Dear beard, can you please just chill? I can't be bothered this week. Thanks.
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114160...Dear beard, can you please just chill? I can't be bothered this week. Thanks.
14.3.2025 12:08Dear beard, can you please just chill? I can't be bothered this week. Thanks.https://aus.social/@Jakra/114160...
I assume this isn't an original thought. But is Trump just a middle school bully? With no awareness of anyone else's autonomy?...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114160...I assume this isn't an original thought. But is Trump just a middle school bully? With no awareness of anyone else's autonomy? Anything he does is fair, everyone else's retaliation is unreasonable, and perceived as him being 'bullied', despite it being reciprocal. Everything is someone else's fault. Everything good is because he deserves it, everything bad is a slight. #auspol #pol #bully
14.3.2025 11:55I assume this isn't an original thought. But is Trump just a middle school bully? With no awareness of anyone else's autonomy?...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114160...
Unpopular opinion (for myself)... maybe we really do need a "western cultural" studies degree at universities. Something to...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114160...Unpopular opinion (for myself)... maybe we really do need a "western cultural" studies degree at universities. Something to encourage philosophical thinking, that education isn't vocational, that the study of knowledge is its own outcome, to move to a non-transactional (Morrison/Trump) relationship with those around you.
I don't like the INTENT behind "western cultural studies", which is I suspect largely xenophobic. But maybe some naval gazing to the history of our culture may be useful. #culture #education
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So... what if WWIII were in fact, a world trade war? US vs the world? #tradewar #wwiii
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114160...So... what if WWIII were in fact, a world trade war? US vs the world? #tradewar #wwiii
14.3.2025 09:32So... what if WWIII were in fact, a world trade war? US vs the world? #tradewar #wwiiihttps://aus.social/@Jakra/114160...
Anyone an expert on #ebike laws in #westernaustralia? Do you have to be older than 16 to ride en ebike? The 16 year old limit certainly...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114130...Anyone an expert on #ebike laws in #westernaustralia? Do you have to be older than 16 to ride en ebike? The 16 year old limit certainly applies to scooters and anything throttle controlled, but pedal assisted ebikes are explicitly not e-rideables. All the sites I have found with info seem to be conflating the two.
So... is there an age requirement for riding a pedal assisted e-bike in Western Australia? #law #cycling
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So... moving on from #endometriosis, then chronic #pelvicpain, we're now looking at Central Pain Sensitisation. Fuck #chronicpain
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114121...So... moving on from #endometriosis, then chronic #pelvicpain, we're now looking at Central Pain Sensitisation. Fuck #chronicpain
7.3.2025 14:11So... moving on from #endometriosis, then chronic #pelvicpain, we're now looking at Central Pain Sensitisation. Fuck #chronicpainhttps://aus.social/@Jakra/114121...
So... I bought my son (with mild CP) an e-bike to give him ***ahem*** a leg up in mountain biking. He was so excited, I think he told...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114120...So... I bought my son (with mild CP) an e-bike to give him ***ahem*** a leg up in mountain biking. He was so excited, I think he told everyone at school about his new bike, and dragged half of them over to the bike racks to show his new ride. Leaving aside the issues of security/theft... at least he's excited to ride!
My new problem is... I'm not sure it'll fit on my bike rack! I'd calculated the weight, and made sure it was within spec... I just didn't expect the length! #mtb #cycling #disability
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If all firefox alternatives are dependent on Mozilla for upstream development, then swapping to firefox based alternatives that deprive...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114120...If all firefox alternatives are dependent on Mozilla for upstream development, then swapping to firefox based alternatives that deprive mozilla of an income seems to be a self-defeating premise. We either need a community built browser disconnected from any entity that is dependent on financial stability (are browsers too complex for that?), mozilla needs to find alternative sources of revenue, or perhaps Firefox could be available in two versions... one of which costs money to buy, the other continues the apparent monetisation of your data path they SEEM to be on.
Basically, I don't want to be dependent on Mozilla OR Google for my browser. I don't want my browser and its data to be a possible source of revenue for the company that makes it. #firefox #mozilla #browser #tech
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Gee, with things looking the way they are, maybe we should cancel AUKUS, and just buy our submarines from someone else... like the french?...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114103...Gee, with things looking the way they are, maybe we should cancel AUKUS, and just buy our submarines from someone else... like the french? #auspol #aukus
4.3.2025 09:47Gee, with things looking the way they are, maybe we should cancel AUKUS, and just buy our submarines from someone else... like the french?...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114103...
With all that's going on in the world right now, how on Earth are they suggesting that reality television and the oscars are important?...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114097...With all that's going on in the world right now, how on Earth are they suggesting that reality television and the oscars are important? #tv #pol #auspol
3.3.2025 09:22With all that's going on in the world right now, how on Earth are they suggesting that reality television and the oscars are important?...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114097...
Fucking fuck off.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-28/endometriosis-sheargold-comments-disappointing/104993576#endometriosis...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114081...Fucking fuck off.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-28/endometriosis-sheargold-comments-disappointing/104993576
#endometriosis #EndometriosisAustralia
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I'm still very unconvinced by AI in general. But the ability to ask a question that would probably be seen as stupid by people more...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114075...I'm still very unconvinced by AI in general. But the ability to ask a question that would probably be seen as stupid by people more expert in the field without any judgement or snark, is very valuable. It gives people an entry point to something they don't understand, so that they can understand what they read about it when searching, and even ask the right questions later on. That first step of asking the stupid question is my favourite use of AI. #AI #tech
27.2.2025 10:47I'm still very unconvinced by AI in general. But the ability to ask a question that would probably be seen as stupid by people more...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114075...
"How's your week going?"... Two system wide outages in a week affecting core school processes. The first was a Microsoft...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114075..."How's your week going?"
... Two system wide outages in a week affecting core school processes. The first was a Microsoft authentication failure, so no auth to single sign on service, no ability to take class attendance, everything down.
Today was a fibre interruption to a government data centre. All core systems down, though at least we could take attendance using mobile phones! #tech #education #cloud
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Anyone know an open source, linux compatible 3d slicer that is compatible with UpBox 3d printers? #upbox #3dprint #opensource #linux
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114074...Anyone know an open source, linux compatible 3d slicer that is compatible with UpBox 3d printers? #upbox #3dprint #opensource #linux
27.2.2025 08:20Anyone know an open source, linux compatible 3d slicer that is compatible with UpBox 3d printers? #upbox #3dprint #opensource #linuxhttps://aus.social/@Jakra/114074...
Anyone got info on the govnext/vocus fibre outage this morning? Affecting WA public schools, now resolved. #vocus #tech #govnext #perth
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114073...Anyone got info on the govnext/vocus fibre outage this morning? Affecting WA public schools, now resolved. #vocus #tech #govnext #perth
27.2.2025 01:51Anyone got info on the govnext/vocus fibre outage this morning? Affecting WA public schools, now resolved. #vocus #tech #govnext #perthhttps://aus.social/@Jakra/114073...
Pet hate - Managers who insist they need more monitors. You only have one set of eyeballs, you can only look in one place at a time. Two...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114041...Pet hate - Managers who insist they need more monitors. You only have one set of eyeballs, you can only look in one place at a time. Two monitors is enough for anyone, just learn how to use them better. Keyboard shortcuts to move windows around, virtual desktops, switching between active windows, there is very little that you can do with 3 monitors that is more efficient than 2! (As long as the monitors are big enough, of course). #tech
21.2.2025 12:36Pet hate - Managers who insist they need more monitors. You only have one set of eyeballs, you can only look in one place at a time. Two...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114041...
I think we need a new algorithm for politics. If a politician says something you agree with, they get +1, but if they DO something you...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114025...I think we need a new algorithm for politics. If a politician says something you agree with, they get +1, but if they DO something you don't agree with they get -10. Just need to find a way to make sure this doesn't scale with pollies saying bullshit MORE OFTEN to offset the truth. #uaspol
18.2.2025 13:27I think we need a new algorithm for politics. If a politician says something you agree with, they get +1, but if they DO something you...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114025...
A replacement battery for my $2k laptop (2019) was $60. That's pretty good to eke another couple of years out of it! Will I get another...
https://aus.social/@Jakra/114025...A replacement battery for my $2k laptop (2019) was $60. That's pretty good to eke another couple of years out of it! Will I get another 5 years out of it?? #repairability
18.2.2025 13:14A replacement battery for my $2k laptop (2019) was $60. That's pretty good to eke another couple of years out of it! Will I get another...https://aus.social/@Jakra/114025...