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Railison

@ Railison @aussie.zone

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  • What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution?

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  • First OS was DOS, though my parents used a computer with Windows 3.1 on it before we got the dos box.

    Excluding Damn Small Linux, first real Linux was Mandrake 9.2 (download edition).

  • What is your favourite species of bat? 🦇

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  • Got these near my house. Actually it’s the grey headed flying fox. Cutest bats of all time but their shit is not something you want on your car

  • Japanese hospitality wears thin as overtourism takes toll

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  • Go visit in winter, it’s spectacular. Go away from where tourists go, it’s an incredibly intimate country to visit.

  • Maybe we can get good IPv6 support now

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  • Wasn’t the point of IPv6 to remove the need for CGNAT?

  • Those of you who did not graduate, why?

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  • Just been diagnosed but haven’t started treatment yet. I’m excited for the next stage of life!

  • ‘Poison portal’: US and UK could send nuclear waste to Australia under Aukus, inquiry told

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  • I mean, Australia is one of the best places in the world to send nuclear waste. Seismically inert, sparsely populated in remote areas, strong regulatory competency to ensure a compliant industry. With it buried deep underground, life on the surface won’t be affected nor will the hydrology.

  • What's the hardest lesson you've learned?

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  • Know when to ask for help. You can’t always hold the world on your shoulders.

  • Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes

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  • Confidential projects, etc. amirite?

  • Russia overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world in PPP terms

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  • Thank you!

  • Russia overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world in PPP terms

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  • Please someone ELI5 what this metric means

  • OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

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  • When I think of AI ruining humanity, this is how I picture it

  • While the US and EU are putting up barriers to Chinese cars, Australians are buying them at record levels

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  • Isn’t there a Chinese Tesla factory?

  • Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Ooh will try thanks for the heads up!

  • Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Reading pages out loud has been an unexpected hit for me on the latest iOS. I’d love this in Firefox too.

  • Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry

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  • Rules based world order when you could pretend and get away with it

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  • The Witness. Started seeing puzzles in real life and having the urge to drag my finger across them

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  • I first try to think of the broad headings. If I can’t do that yet, I write out dot points of my ideas and see if I can group them.

    Next, I start expanding the headings out with as many dot points as I need.

    When I want to add more detail to a dot point, I indent that further, or write a sentence/sentences under it.

    When I’ve got sentences for everything, I start to remove the scaffolding and group into paragraphs.

    Example

    Say I want to write a how-to guide to change a car tyre. I initially think of two main things:

    Tools required

    Procedure

    Now, let’s add some dot points

    Tools required

    • Jack
      • What is it?
      • Where to find it?
    • Tyre wrench
      • What is it?
    • Spare tyre
      • Does your car have one?
      • Differences between spare tyres and normal tyres

    Procedure

    • Prepare the car
    • Prepare the jack
    • Jack up the car
    • Remove the tyre nuts
    • Remove old tyre
    • Place new tyre
    • Tighten nuts
      • Check tightness
    • Lower the car
    • Test new tyre

    Notes

    • Plan to replace spare tyre if used
    • What if you have no spare tyre?

    Notice how I added a new heading when a thought came to mind?

    Now I’ll keep adding detail until I’ve got paragraphs.

    Tools required

    • Jack
      • What is it? A jack is a device you use to raise the car wheel up above the ground so you can change the tyre.
      • Where to find it? You can usually find the car jack in the boot of your car, but check with your vehicle owners manual for specific locations. Your car might not have a jack, in which case you will need to source one from elsewhere.
      • Safety Jacks carry significant weight, so can be unsafe if damaged or not set up properly. Check that your jack isn’t damaged before using it. Moreover, you will need to ensure your jack isn’t on a slippery surface or a surface that could be damaged by it. In that case, you can place a plank of wood under the jack.
    • Tyre wrench
      • What is it?
    • Spare tyre
      • Does your car have one?
      • Differences between spare tyres and normal tyres

    Procedure

    • Prepare the car
    • Prepare the jack
    • Jack up the car
    • Remove the tyre nuts
    • Remove old tyre
    • Place new tyre
    • Tighten nuts
      • Check tightness
    • Lower the car
    • Test new tyre

    Notes

    • Plan to replace spare tyre if used
    • What if you have no spare tyre?

    Then keep doing this until you’ve finished it! Remember it’s normal to rearrange things as you go.

  • Dead Florida dolphin was infected with highly pathogenic bird flu

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  • But was it drinking raw milk?

  • What possible, fundamental, misunderstanding of the nature of the universe could make current academics look like flat earthers?

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  • Oh we already know this. There are parts of the genome that, if even slightly changed, cause terrible, terrible things.

    Mutations can happen anywhere, but serious mutations (that may affect the basic things a cell needs to do in order to exist) result in cell death and therefore don’t manifest in the population — the population continues on as though the mutation had never existed.

    In this way, natural selection conserves some parts of the genome while less essential parts can vary more freely without being deleterious to the organism.

    For example, most non-bacteria (including all plants, animals, fungi, protists) have special proteins called histones. Histones are used to package the DNA together and wrap it all up. Cells can’t function at all without a these proteins, and the most important histone proteins evolve so slowly that they’re almost identical between a human and a pea. (Humans and peas shared a common ancestor over half a billion years ago.)

    ETA: My molecular biology knowledge is rusty, but IIRC the way DNA is packaged and unpackaged can also reduce or increase the risk of DNA being exposed to potential mutagens. So if it’s wrapped up, it’s harder to access and tamper with