What are your tips on glasses? I choose standard uncoated lenses nowdays after finding that anti-reflective/anti-scratch coatings often scratched easily or had an optically-rippled surface, but maybe things have improved?

The footwear, or the logic gate arrangement?

If that’s the main problem then that’s easy to solve! Simply use a free public xmpp server.

I mention the self- and paid-hosting options because businesses tend to like having a sevice agreement backed by a contract, and may have additional specialised requirements not provided by free services (xmpp or otherwise).

XMPP. A business can self-host, there are public servers, or there are many businesses which offer customised xmpp hosting as a service.

I can be federated with other xmpp servers or be a locked-down work-only service, or federate with chosen other servers (such as a client company’s xmpp servers).

An excellent discrete maths textbook for those missing the inclusion of the subject in the course: Discrete Mathematics - An Open Introduction, 3rd edition by Oscar Levin

Some 4G phones don’t support 4G calling correctly or with all networks.

Check whether your phone actually uses 4G (VoLTE) for calls – to sort-of test this, make a call while connected to mobile data and note whether the signal meter’s 4G indication drops to 3G(H+/HSPA) or something during the call.

A more insidious version of this issue is that some phones do VoLTE just fine, but only use 3G for 000 calls.

Some phones only support VoLTE with some networks. There’s a chance that an appropriate firmware upgrade could add support for some network/device combos.

Jojo Rabbit is a good one.

Arkenfox is a tool to assist setting up stock Firefox.

• Land Value Capture
• NSW and VIC value capture reforms: A comparison
• The great Australian town planning give-away
• Dodgy rezoning, a summary

Yeah, I can never quite tell with articles sometimes…

Among many elements of the story that absolutely fail to raise sympathy:

[…] They planned to subdivide their block into 26 lots once the land was rezoned as residential, live on one block and drip-feed two or three others on to the market each year.

…just what we need – a drip-feed of low-density housing.

Yeah nah, that’s not the way. Sure people can get away with it, but it’s really not eliminating the hazards.

• https://www.fnqsafetygroup.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cutting-empty-drums.pdf
• https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/safety-alerts/explosions-when-cutting-used-fuel-tanks-and-metal-drums

There’s a bunch of non-obvious hazards which exist around cutting into containers which have held fuels, including but not limited to:

• An empty propane container could have an gas+air mixture inside it in proportions which could explode.
• Any liquid residue in an empty fuel container can be vapourised by the heat of the cutting, creating a fuel+air mix which can spontaneously explode from the pressure and heat, even without sparks (think: diesel engine principle but instead of a 0.25L cylinder it’s a 200L cylinder).
• An empty gas canister can be contaminated with heavier oils/waxes that could build up over the years of refilling cycles, creating the same hazard as noted for empty liquid fuel containers.

Methods to reduce the hazard include:

• Thoroughly washing the inside of the container before cutting (access can be difficult though).
• Filling with water and cutting while full of water. (Container musn’t be sealed, and the cutting method must be safe to use in a wet environment, and further hazards such as introducing oxygen into the container need to be considered).

ffs, every time someone from a community group asks me “Can you have a quick look at our basic website, we just need to change <reallySimpleThing>”, and I’m like “sure, i used to do web development, let’s have a look […] FFFFFFUUUUUC…”

“Current AI models cannot forget data they were trained on, even if the data was later removed from the training data set,” Han’s report said.

Bullshit. You delete the entire model and start again.

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Huh. Even Boeing doesn’t want to be associated with Boeing:

Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.

A railway station isn’t restored until all the passenger rail lines and services are restored.

I was all ready to rant about the problem of new developments being built before public transport infrastructure, but I checked the map and there are two railway lines in the vicinity!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12079848#map=14/-33.6923/150.8920

…that said, there is a distinct lack of cycle/pedestrian infrastructure and the style of vehicle traffic makes it hostile.

Of course, the best solution to that is limiting car traffic to a single lane, no on-street parking, and a 20km/h speed limit.

No worries. The situation I was describing is indeed absurd and defies reasonable expectations.