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andrew.donnellan.id.au
Fan of Jesus, Linux, PowerPC, Canberra, social democracy, efficient land use, trains. Enemy of RZ1 zoning. Fighting for a better city @greatercanberra.org.au. https://andrew.donnellan.id.au / @ajdlinux / @[email protected]
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Come to think of it the Musk-Trump presidency didn’t even last 1/3 as long as Mahathir-Anwar under PH

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

might have had under 4 hours of sleep this morning but I'm in a good mood nonetheless

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I wake up every morning and become Lanyard Man. It's a painful process that I dread more than my own death. And yet the lanyard must go on

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

every time I read UK/Ireland YIMBY content I am astounded

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

TIL another absolutely cooked thing about the American tech right

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

the system works

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump means lower minimum wages for Australians

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Of course open source software has been used in war before, but seeing ArduPilot Mission Planner being used to blow up Russian strategic bombers is still wild.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

got very close to actually having plans with two different people for this public holiday, and then both fell through, so now I'm just sitting here being a bit unenthusiastic

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

submitted 6 days ago • 76 comments

Fortune cookie writers, welcome to the war on cars

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

it also occurs to me that many of them prefer or have good reason for their social media use to be private (which isn't the natural mode of microblogging platforms) and/or pseudonymous (so maybe some of them are here already and I can't find them)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

have a bunch of irl friends who I wish I could interact with via tweet rather than just DMs and groupchats on various platforms, but alas they're not sufficiently brainwormed, they're much more sensible folk than me

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Every time there's new Palestine news I become more and more despondent about the prospect of there ever being a resolution, just further escalation, then eventually a temporary break until the cycle repeats Enormous human suffering, with no end in sight

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

As someone who presently makes fairly limited use of LLMs, I pretty much agree with all this In particular the point that to have proper discussions about the ethics, you need to understand the capabilities

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Hot Fuzz is a film about small town urbanism and oppressive homeowners associations

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

CIA officer, 18 months deep, deep undercover, logging on, typing "C3P04Evar" into the clandestine tool and typing "Meesa infiltrated the Iranian Nuclear Program" back to Langley

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

*Apparently*, things are still on track for MyWay+ third party real time data feeds in the next couple of days...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Another underrated change here: "land and planning policy" appears as a distinct line item - not just assumed to be covered by cities or regional development or housing or local government policy. Land use matters to a whole lot of things, and I'm very interested in seeing what Treasury does here.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Made the LWN list of most active developers for 6.15 by, uh, deleting two drivers and... that's it. I'm a net negative contributor!

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

well that's one way to verify your site ownership

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

irregular reminder that ballot secrecy in Australian Senate (and ACT Assembly) elections is only partial

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments