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Andrew Donnellan

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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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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 9h

> Prabowo has pledged to deploy 20,000 Indonesian forces as possible peacekeeping troops

20k troops!! I'd have to guess this would be the largest ever Indonesian military deployment anywhere outside an immediate neighbour?

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 10h

yes, inc the most common case, the information just never gets told to anyone else

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 1d

general know-how, data and documentation, passwords and other security credentials, organisational memory... all things which should be shared

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 1d

a bus factor of 1 for anything where people have a reasonable expectation of the thing outliving the specific 1 is bad and should be avoided

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

bus factor = "how many people need to be hit by a"

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

every now and then I wonder if it's worth having a spare company lying around in case I need it to do company things. hmm

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

Also there's a reason why when you're building a new railway or whatever through a CBD that utilities relocation costs so darn much of the project budget and schedule

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

I believe last Everything Open I was talking to a guy over dinner who worked for a state government that shall go unnamed and he mentioned that their agency learned pretty much exactly that lesson the hard way a few years back

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

trying to find a video I have on my list to watch that's downloaded to my home desktop. look in ~/videos. see a total two files, a ripped copy of Dr Strangelove and a Facebook campaign video from Amye Un's first run for the Darwin City Council

(it's in ~/Videos, capital V)

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

forget the Greens, why aren't you starting the Time Cube Party of Australia

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

have you tried to put it in a sub or petition yet

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

article title sounds very cringe but also substantively the industry tactics they describe are extremely evil so

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

I do not wish to think about our bus factor

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

and as the person responsible for onboarding and offboarding committee members, I do not have a proper checklist for this yet. also half the shared accounts we have are managed by different people, associated with different individuals' phone numbers, etc

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

but that's assuming said SaaS *has* proper multi-user team support. not at all true

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

it's very frustrating trying to run a volunteer group's IT in a way that remotely resembles modern security practice - money is tight, so the incentive is always there to use a SaaS platform's single user free tier and share passwords rather than sign up for the team plan

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 2d

why is it so hard and annoying for small volunteer groups to set up proper shared email inboxes

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 3d

This request brought to you by my /boot partition no longer being big enough to hold more than two kernels and initramfses, and it being not impossible but annoying to expand it

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 3d

What's the current best practice suggestions for someone who wants something capable of being a home NAS, that's small/cheap/quiet and preferably maximally open source?

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 6d

ah, right, I see your point - so yes, NSW not having a class action system is driving work towards the FCA

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 6d

state supreme courts all have federal jurisdiction too, and plenty of the Vic class actions (based on my quick perusal of the current matters) are obviously federal matters

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 6d

I get the impression that the FCA has become more and more prominent over the last couple of decades. Is my impression right and is their class action procedure a part of that?

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 6d

This post brought to you by baseboard management controllers

Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 6d

An annoying amount of my time at work, by which I mean a non-zero amount of my time, is occupied by manual certificate management

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