Hugh

Computational handyperson. Librarian. @ausglamr and @bookwyrm maintainer.

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You should go read a good forest.

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2025-05-24 21:41:01

What a perfect vignette to describe the damage that’s been done to higher education by people who are obsessed with “skills” and “job-readiness” but above all with compliance.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts

2025-05-21 06:38:13

"It’s our shared responsibility to preserve the viability and value of WorldCat for future generations. Participants commit to respecting the contributions of every library. The rights and responsibilities associated with WorldCat are promises that every member library makes to preserve the integrity of WorldCat as the world‐class library resource."
https://www.oclc.org/en/protecting-worldcat.html
What utter hubristic tosh.
Libraries and librarians owe nothing to WorldCat or OCLC other than disdain and such contratural obligations as can be proven in court. It is not my responsibility to prop up OCLC's decrepid infrastructure and rancid, overpaid corporate culture. Nobody needs to care whether WorldCat as a product is "preserved for future generations" (LOL). We absolutely *should* carry forward the collective effort and collaborative culture of international librarianship, and share our metadata with each other. But that doesn't require WorldCat specifically, and one of the biggest barriers to progress in this space is precisely OCLC and their litigousness.

2025-05-01 07:25:20

This is classic USAmerican cultural misunderstanding from Uber Eats.
The entire point of the :democracysausage: democracy sausage is you buy it from the school fundraising committee at the polling booth.
The #DemocracySausage is a celebration of the democratic process, yes, but also more. It’s the equivalent of the American “I voted” sticker. AND just as importantly, buying the sausage at the polling booth supports the social fabric that makes up our democracy by financially supporting the school, church, scout troop etc.
Reducing this to a commercial transaction between an individual and an American tax evasion scheme without ever leaving the house is literally the opposite of what democracy sausages represent.
https://files.ausglam.space/media_attachments/files/114/431/374/854/756/251/original/f7192d4dc76293dc.jpeg

2025-04-09 03:06:39

Microsoft GitHub sent me a marketing email today, which indicates how badly their Copilot sales are going.
If you want me to hate your message before I’ve even read it, put both “agentic” and “right-size” in the subject.
https://files.ausglam.space/media_attachments/files/114/305/787/975/063/310/original/46ea3ffda2b8ac55.jpeg

2025-04-05 03:24:16

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@nprofile…j90y yes, I'm not across the Mastodon codebase but my expectation is also that it would do a fresh webfinger request.
Thinking about it as a "cache" isn't really the right conceptual framework though. There will be a copy of the user in the database, including copies of any posts etc your current server knows about. e.g. https://ausglam.space/@james@bne.social is a full user object on ausglam.space .
So a webfinger request isn't necessarily going to refresh anything, all it does is point to the canonical source data for the user.

2025-04-03 08:47:53

If you're involved in the #BookWyrm project as a user, admin, developer or in any other capacity, you may wish to weigh in here: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/2513#issuecomment-2774887987

2025-02-20 00:01:15

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@nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…h6f2 Hi you can stop your deliberate missing the point and get out of my mentions, I don't actually care. I'm not filing a tax return here.

2025-02-19 21:26:22

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@nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…h6f2 I never said it was. But firms exist to produce things. The total money in to units of output is an obviously reasonable way to calculate the cost per unit of thing. If they spent $5M on donuts to incentivise their workers or give away in a marketing promotion, that’s still a cost of total production. If they gave 50% of the VC money to the founders in bonuses, that’s part of the total cost of running the business.

2025-02-19 19:16:40

Remember the Humane AI “pin” that was even dumber than the Juicero? They’re ewaste now after only 10 months and cost $24,000 each to produce:
https://www.404media.co/the-humane-ai-pin-a-700-brick-of-e-waste

2025-02-13 20:11:08

So @nprofile…t3vj prompted me to think about this and now I can't get it out of my head.
There is, at most, two years before Carla Hayden is replaced as the Librarian of Congress by someone from Moms for Liberty.
It's possible (I think unlikely but who knows) that all functions of the LoC will be defunded and shuttered except providing advice to members of the US Congress before that.
The entire anglophone library world has foolishly relied on infrastructure managed by LoC – including all core cataloguing standards and techniques, and the most widely-used vocabularies – for decades.
I'm aware that if you asked the more powerful people within librarianship what their plan is to deal with this, the answer right now would be "we haven't thought about it".
But ...what are we going to do about this? We gotta #decentralise

2025-01-15 08:49:28

You should get a blog
https://www.hughrundle.net/you-should-get-a-blog

2025-01-13 19:38:25

Today I'm interested in what you'd recommend to a normal person who wants a platform/system that Just Works to publish a website and/or blog in 2025. :boost_ok:
I know there are a lot of nerds on here with opinions about which sub-flavour of Linux is the best - that's not what I'm asking.

2024-11-09 10:46:08

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@npub1gcl…cs78 wouldn’t it be the 10th of whatever the 14th month is?

2024-10-08 23:26:40

Perfect, no notes. :discoursechef:
#decolonise
https://files.ausglam.space/media_attachments/files/113/274/382/976/287/240/original/0a5dbe23d1dd5a71.png

2024-08-27 09:50:10

Some great links in The Crux this week but the story that really has my head spinning is Microsoft Authenticator just overwriting accounts if they happen to use the same login identifier like, for example, an email address.
Just galaxy brain levels of disdain for customers right there.

2024-07-21 20:56:30

Request to Americans to CW your shit. The rest of us suffer the consequences of your politics but we don’t need to see wall-to-wall commentary on it here.

2024-07-12 20:55:23

“Copilot also doesn’t require many PC resources, with the app just needing 4 GB of RAM”
The web server I run all my personal projects on has 4GB of RAM. It’s the entire memory allocation of a 2010 model MacBook.
The computer reviews industry really needs to log off and get some perspective.

2024-06-26 20:50:23

“Nasa and Boeing officials insist the astronauts are not stranded and that the technical difficulties do not threaten the mission.”
Sure, but Boeing officials once insisted that their 737 MAX planes kept nose-diving into the ground because Africans are bad pilots so they are not exactly a reliable source of information.

2024-06-05 08:47:21

🎉 My first CiviCRM documentation contribution has been merged!
Still convinced this is the most under-examined area of bringing in new contributors to FOSS projects: it requires a bit of a stretch to learn git (or whatever version control is in place), but no coding, and a well-designed docs structure is usually fairly intuitive. Plus normal users see things programmers don't.

2024-05-15 21:50:23

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@npub1au2…2mr6 Interesting, I have noticed at Reservoir and Parliament sometimes imminent trains aren’t visible at the entrance screens but I assumed it was a deliberate safety feature to prevent people rushing up or down stairs.

2024-04-19 22:10:38

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@npub1ztm…t758 lol the eSafety Commissioner will just send another email saying they are very cross.

2024-04-16 07:57:08

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@npub1au2…2mr6 !!?? has this been reported somewhere?

2024-04-03 07:18:38

I'm hiring.
Coordinator, Library Discovery Platforms
HEO7, ongoing full time
Based at any (VIC, Australia) campus.
https://careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/job/567035/coordinator-library-discovery-platforms
:boost_ok: #jobs #GetFediHired

2024-03-26 21:42:42

Swapping my work laptop for a new one today. I hope IT enjoy the @npub1qas…ngll sticker I added.
https://files.ausglam.space/media_attachments/files/112/164/157/839/412/159/original/ec324ff6504d3758.jpeg

2024-03-17 08:34:25

The five sizes of measuring cup:
- Metric cup (250ml)
- UK Imperial cup (284.13ml)
- US customary cup (236.59ml)
- US legal cup (240ml)
- The thing that came with your rice cooker (???ml)

2024-02-12 20:44:44

“Allowing a language model to generate its own training data is a challenging but promising area of research.”
The High Priests of technology are now teaching machines to drink their own piss.