Ewen McNeill

Pretty sure it's oil's turn to go up this week 😉

🚢🇨🇳 "We're just popping over to the market to pick up some oil. Do you need anything? We could drop some things off to you on our way past. No really, it's no bother. Happy to help."

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How to think about Brent: Russia exports 7 million barrels of oil daily. Normally, 20 million barrels go through the Straits of Hormuz daily. So this shock is 3x what Russia's invasion of Ukraine was in 2020. But the current rise in oil prices is smaller...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/a-massive-...

According to President Zelenskyy, countries in the Middle East fired about 800 patriot missiles in just three days — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war.

A Chip with an Incredible Musical Legacy Happy 50th Birthday to the Zilog z80 CPU : A Chip with an Incredible Musical Legacy

Happy 50th Birthday to the Zilog z80 CPU : A Chip with an Incredible Musical Legacy

This would *significantly* set these kids back from being able to enter the modern workforce, not to mention kneecap their online security/anti-scam education, and devastate a significant number of kids through social isolation. Especially at-risk kids. Cascading generational damage.

Seems like requesters choosing to make their OIA requests via a public platform ought to expect their names will be public?! 😔

(And if they didn’t want that they could do the OIA request directly themselves.)

Understandable you’re finding it a difficult problem :-/

Usually the legal solution to that problem is to keep adding exceptions as people bring them up. Potentially building in a way that, eg, the responsible Minister can add classes of exceptions.

(I assume here by "VPN" they mean what the UK means by "VPN" -- ie, makes traffic come from overseas IP.)

If the dollhouse is what you still want *two months later*, then it's by definition the "do something nice just for" you that you are required to do by those strict instructions.

Those people sending the money clearly knew you wanted the dollhouse, right 😉

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Out of curiosity, are the "people wanting their name removed" the people who made the request? Or people who are mentioned in the documents released?

(In the latter case it seems like perhaps the agency releasing the documents should be redacting them more up front 🤔)

My work requires me to use a VPN when connecting to the work network when outside of the physical location to help protect organisational data. This is not a proposal that has had prior serious technical consideration in its development.

Satellite map showing the border between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Tyrkia. There's a marked line that is only 2,1km wide.

If Armenia also closes its airspace they'd be limited to this 2,1km wide strip of land.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Find some local friends who are also interested, and order together. The International Shipping charge is the same for 1 board or 6 boards (and I'd guess for 10 boards too).

Unfortunately Mouser (who own CrowdSupply) ship only via rapid courier, so the minimum shipping charge is non-trivial :-/

"Unfortunately the objects arrived too fast for the system to handle" 😉

"any commercial activity" would seem to include "selling goods or services to Anthrophic". Which would be rather more wide ranging -- eg, electricity, colocation, cloud services, Internet transit, stationery, etc. Seems very "y'all have to pick a side" 🙃

(Can't imagine it holds up in court.)

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Glad to hear things are in a rather safer state now, without excessive damage along the way. Sorry about the cost (and the So Many People (tm)) involved in geting it all to a safer state :-/

Oh no!

Sorry turning over that rock revealed way more problems than first suspected :-/

Hopefully the fixing is done soon, and you can get some peace again 🙏

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play

Quarantine Nation – New Zealand Podcasts A lethal virus. A drastic lockdown. A nation turned upside down. .

Looks like this podcast series of a trailer and 8 episodes. It took some finding, but the nzpod page does have an actual RSS link, making it actually a podcast rather than just sparkling streaming audio.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo3i...
nzpod.co.nz/podcast/quar...

Has the rāhui been lifted? Or is this culturally insensitive in addition to being medically unwise? :-/

Not just allowed. They're special cased. "mopeds" (50cc and under) can be riden on a car driver's license, rather than needing a motorcycle license as for larger scooters/motorcycles.

www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/veh...

Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked MediMap is used by health providers in aged care, disability, hospice and the community.

Patient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Out of interest, what's your threshold for "indoor air quality good enough" for indoor dining? "Basically the same as outdoor air"? Or some higher threshold for "good enough"? 🤔

(Mine has been "basically the same as outdoor air", which is... often fairly limiting.)

Yes.

The learning part is the interesting part. The doing part is just "finishing the job".

The only ways I've found out of that trap is either "apply as you learn" (eg, programming) so by the time you finish learning the job is done. Or have a job that's "constantly learning new things".

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) Classic Movie Clip YouTube video by Douglas Tooley

The only mainstream movie I've seen that portrays the Black Panthers even remotely close to historical reality, is "Judas and the Black Messiah."

Strong recommend.

A lot of people today say terms like "Rainbow coalition" and "It's not race, it's class" but have no idea where these terms come from.

Thank you for this suggestion of "Judas and the Black Messiah" 💚

I watched it yesterday, and as you said it feels like it portrays the Black Panthers (and the "get them by any means necessary" Government forces against them) in a fairly realistic manner. Glad I saw it!

In case it helps Venus Theory (game audio designer, YouTuber) has done a couple of courses, as well as some free YouTube tutorials on game audio design.

Link is the cheaper course; there’s also an in-depth course on the Avowed game audio.

venustheory.gumroad.com/l/gamemusic