Mike (VK1OMG) 🏴‍☠️ / is on Nostr

Once and future code monkey. Blithe spirit. VK1OMG on the air.

Canberra, Australia. For my sins.

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2024-11-13 04:59:14

There's a new release of the Rust book! Dropped 5 days ago.
The new super secret chapter (super secret in that it's not on doc.rust-lang.org yet that I can see) is on Github:
https://github.com/rust-lang/book/blob/main/src/ch17-00-async-await.md
#rustlang

2024-10-22 22:59:12

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@npub1jma…0as2 Debbie Downer.

2024-10-22 22:44:10

The longer the build times the longer I get to spend on the toots. Not seeing the incentive to fix that...

2024-10-10 05:13:03

First snake of the season. Baby brown, shot off the path in front of me & into the grass.
Early this year. Usually see them in summer proper.

2024-10-10 05:13:03

First snake of the season. Baby brown, shot off the path in front of me & into the grass.
Early this year. Usually see them in summer proper.

2024-08-31 20:57:22

Funny to me to think if him as Vyvyan grown up.
I suppose that's partly true.
Adrian Edmondson eating & talking, all quite calmly, in a restaurant at 67.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/aug/18/adrian-edmondson-i-dont-think-i-ever-fell-out-with-rik-but-things-became-thinner

2024-06-19 19:46:01

"Instead of aiming for the root of these harms, the concentrated power at the heart of the platform monopoly, the mass surveillance that is the engine of this business model... we see efforts almost to extend this surveillance and this monitoring and give governments a piece of it." – Meredith Whittaker, Signal, ex Google, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws

2024-06-10 23:31:43

"Nothing about Apple in 2024 is cool, but perhaps this is what it looks like when you’ve won, when you’ve succeeded in getting your products in everyone’s hands and built your walled gardens. What do you do next? You become the delivery device. Apple’s power is now in leveraging its captive user base."
Charlie Warzel in the Atlantic

2024-05-02 01:52:53

"It appears that the government either doesn't understand what our scientists are telling them, or they are deliberately hiding the facts from the Australian community."
Just picture Albanese shouting "I'm the Prime Minister" at any passing scientist & hey, mystery solved.
#auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/national-defence-strategy-ignored-climate-risks/103789018