Why the fuck do they even need to talk about (non-avian) dinosaurs at all? If the point they’re trying to address is “how did meat eaters on the ark survive?” they could just as easily talk about lions, tigers, wolves, etc.

And yet the position of the government seems to disagree with you.

Which is precisely why the law is so problematic.

Unfortunately I don’t think this is a good sign of any serious change in direction for BCC. Sylvan Rd is on the border between a ward controlled by a comparatively pro-bike LNP councillor and a Greens councillor in a ward that the LNP thinks they have a serious chance of winning back.

Dickson St is in an extremely safe LNP ward controlled by a rabidly anti-bike councillor, in an area where the state MP is also rabidly anti-bike, and there’s a very loud and well-organised (even if they’re small in terms of percentage of total population) anti-bike NIMBY group in the area too.

There’s also the fact that Sylvan Rd is completely unambiguously a through street that already has significant parking restrictions. Dickson St is, rightly or wrongly, perceived as more of a residential street, where people feel entitled to on-street parking.

https://puzzmo.com/play/circuits/0jgmaf22go/share

a really fun one today, imo

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Oh good tip!

Wtf is this crap? Just because I’m taking the approach of siding with reality I must be a bit or corporate stooge?

Google and Amazon do enough real things wrong without needing to make up bullshit conspiracy theories. Like Amazon’s abusive labour practices, and…everything about the Audible & Kindle platforms. And Google’s support of the American military industrial complex and shoving AI down everyone’s throats while making their products actively worse.

Just because something is bad, doesn’t mean every single accusation against it is accurate.

That’s a pretty righteous set up OP.

Lol not me. I’m not the author. Just saw the article and thought it was an interesting conversation starter.

That might be true, I honestly don’t know. But it doesn’t matter to the point I’m making, which is that however the device does it, it’s the device, locally, that determines whether a wake word has been said, before it starts transmitting what comes next.

No, they can’t. Precisely because of all the people who quite rightly don’t trust Google and Amazon, who would notice their devices’ network traffic increasing.

I’m specifically talking about Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices, not anything else your phone or apps are doing. So the only one of those articles even remotely relevant is the third.

And the third talks about “false wakes” being the cause. Which goes along with what I said before that until it hears the wake word (even if it’s mistaken in doing so), it’s not sending back recordings.

Care to clarify your meaning? Or are you just disagreeing because it feels good to go along with the conspiracy theory?

or a recipe for an insecure mess that could become difficult to maintain

The concept, or the specific setup the author of that article has? If you mean the latter, I’m not going to argue. But the concept? It shouldn’t have any effect either way on security, but the whole advantage of it is that it’s less of a mess. The same way that running a whole bunch of services on bare metal can quickly become a mess compared to VMs or Docker/LX containers, declared state helps give a single source of truth for what all the services you might be running are. It lets you make changes in repeatable and clearly documented ways, so you can never be left wondering “how did I do that before?” if you need to do it again.

If everything you run is a Docker container, there’s a good chance Terraform is overkill; a Kubernetes config will probably do the job. But depending on your setup there are a whole bunch of different tools that might be useful.

What’s your preferred approach to defined state in your home servers?

Well, we might not be able to see what the Liberal election review said, since Dutton threatened to sue his own party over it. But at least we can get Labor dunking on them instead!

https://puzzmo.com/play/circuits/j4431s1k8j/share

Oof. Beat me by that much.

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The data isn’t there. At least not in the way some of the biggest fearmongers talk about it. Everything you say to the device, you can assume is there. But it listens for the wake word locally and doesn’t send information to the server until after it receives the wake word.

Damn. Good luck with the recovery.