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Hinc Silvae, Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:11:41 +0300 last edited: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 09:14:49 +0300

Stan Grants discusses NZ attacks

In the wake of the terror attacks in Christchurch, the ABC's Global Affairs Analyst Stan Grant discusses the war on identity.

or
This copy at youfoobs

NZ Terroism Bastardry Stranded beliefs Radicalisation

Syncronicities synchroneity and other "non linear effects"

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:20:33 +0300

Australian wind turbine listening device prepares for commercial launch

The 2.0 version will also benefit from a collaboration between Ping and South Australian IoT satellite communications company Myriota, enabling the acoustic monitor to transmit data into the cloud from almost anywhere on Earth regardless of cellular network connectivity.

Final trials of listening devices that monitor the health of wind turbines will take place in coming months ahead of a commercial launch mid year.

meanwhile... back at the bullshit factory

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:37:49 +0300

Scientists slap down Australia government over fake climate claims
If only hubris , deliberate ignorance, cronyism and rolling fuckwittism could be used for something useful.

Group of 28 climate scientists, academics and energy industry veterans release a joint statement fact checking the federal government’s “unbelievably misleading” claims on climate…

Climate Energy Environment Neighbours AUSPol

Extra Terrestrially Stupid

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:32:15 +0300

ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It

The good news: TLS 1.3 is available, and the protocol, which powers HTTPS and many other encrypted communications, is better and more secure than its predecessors (including SSL). The bad news: Thanks to a financial industry group called BITS, there’s a look-alike protocol brewing called called ETS...

Security Encryption Misnomers101

Gopher an ALT web view of the internet

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Sun, 17 Feb 2019 07:30:45 +0300

Gopher
is Fast and Efficient
(( and slightly Out Of Band. ))

The Independant Federated Fediverse

Noun
A document retrieval system from the 1990's.
Gopher is offered as an extra protocol by some networks. [pg]

While still Internet based (TCP/IP) Gopher is "off the Web" and surprisingly flexible. (enough of both to be a quietly useful medium)

Gophers live on Port 70 and are persistent little critters. :)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 March 2015) [foldoc]:

gopher

<networking, protocol> A {distributed} document retrieval system which started as a {Campus Wide Information System} at the {University of Minnesota}, and which was popular in the early 1990s.

Gopher is defined in {RFC 1436}. The protocol is like a primitive form of {HTTP} (which came later). Gopher lacks the {MIME} features of HTTP, but expressed the equivalent of a document's {MIME type} with a one-character code for the "{Gopher object type}". At time of writing (2001), all Web browers should be able to access gopher servers, although few gopher servers exist anymore.

{Tim Berners-Lee}, in his book "Weaving The Web" (pp.72-73), related his opinion that it was not so much the protocol limitations of gopher that made people abandon it in favor of HTTP/{HTML}, but instead the legal missteps on the part of the university where it was developed:

"It was just about this time, spring 1993, that the University
of Minnesota decided that it would ask for a license fee from
certain classes of users who wanted to use gopher.  Since the
gopher software being picked up so widely, the university was
going to charge an annual fee.  The browser, and the act of
browsing, would be free, and the server software would remain
free to nonprofit and educational institutions.  But any other
users, notably companies, would have to pay to use gopher
server software.

"This was an act of treason in the academic community and the
Internet community.  Even if the university never charged
anyone a dime, the fact that the school had announced it was
reserving the right to charge people for the use of the gopher
protocols meant it had crossed the line.  To use the
technology was too risky.  Industry dropped gopher like a hot
potato."

—(2001-03-31)

Hot Potato or not Gopher is (apparently) still a useful "out of band" method for sharing information.

RFC 1436 is quite digestible.

[pg] the tildeverse and pleroma for instance , but there will be others.

Peter Gossner

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 07:59:07 +0300 from Diaspora

Highway to the Gopher Zonepleroma and tildesites usually support the gopher protocol.about pleroma

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:49:10 +0300

Solar wings to make debut at Avalon air show - The Lead SA

Composite wing technology featuring inbuilt solar cells with the ability to triple the flying time of drones will be exhibited for the first time at the Avalon aviation expo this month. Sign up to receive notifications about new stories in this category. Thank you for subscribing to story notifications. South Australian company Praxis Aeronautics h...

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:38:30 +0300 last edited: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:45:57 +0300

15 Years bumping about on the dusty planet next door.
Thanks Opportunity (and all who sailed her).
You truly were an inspiration and a massively successful explorer.

Opportunity: NASA Rover Completes Mars Mission
by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on YouTube

At least we know exactly were you are.
Hopefully we get to see you all boxed up under glass at some point.

You literally rocked at your job.

Say G'day to Spirit for us. ; >

Mars Opportunity NASA Exploration

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:44:51 +0300

The Australian -MarketingMaggots- Gruberment
Amazeballs Mediocrity and Jacksters of Shitfuckery.
Making Your Aunty _their_ bitch.

Honest Government Ad | The ABC
by thejuicemedia on YouTube
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#Australia #Wankers #ShitFuckery #MSM

Peter Gossner

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:45:32 +0300

Totes safe for work.

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:51:11 +0300

And so, as the electoral countdown ticks down,
the same creaking old machine of Australian politics rolls on.
As the old saying goes: the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Its rank and smelly and best avoided, and you know that is what "THEY" want you to think ,
so gloves, goggles, googles and gas masks on "fellow Ozstraylyans" their about to crank it to 11.

Pencils ready: it's time for Politics 2019 Bingo!

With a federal election looming, we can expect a lot of tried and true tactics from our politicians as they desperately try to win our votes.

#democracy101 #Australia #Spin #Bingo #resilience #fuckwits

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:38:50 +0300

The Vomit Principle ?
See your Spin Doctor

An Australian Examination of political / business spin...
(the principles are portable)

Roll out the focus groups here comes an election.

Trust Me, I'm An Expert: how to spot the work of a political spin doctor this election season

There’s a small army of spin doctors behind the scenes of an election campaign, finessing every utterance so it fits with the overall strategy. Today's episode is all about the art of political spin.

#podcast #politicalSpin #bullshit #Australia #MSM #Marketing #Propaganda

Peter Gossner

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:58:54 +0300 from Diaspora

Focus and accent is Australian but the principles seem portable across almost any jurisdiction.

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:25:49 +0300

An Essay on Empathy and the enabling forces of creativity.
and your exercise regime for Stepping Into the Future

Moral imagination is creative.
It helps us to find better ways of being.
It’s a form of empathy that encourages us to be kinder and more loving to ourselves and each other.

“Beauty is truth, truth, beauty – that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know,”

--Keats

How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination - Openforum

Violet Paget (1856 – 1935) was
a Victorian writer who published under the more gender-ambiguous
Vernon Lee.
Known as one of the cleverest women in Europe, as well as for her preference for dressing a la garconne,
Lee coined the term “empathy”
after noticing the physical absorption of her partner,
Clementina Anstruther-Thompson, while viewing a painting.
...
Whether it’s a painting, or a patchwork quilt, when we create something, we step into the future, we trust in the destiny of our own creations. We learn to trust that we can create our own reality.

Peter Gossner

Hinc Silvae, Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:00:21 +0300

Update to PeerTube Glossary entry :
#Fediverse #Glossary #tildetown

G l o s s a r y:

noun
1: an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized
field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a
text on that field [syn: {glossary}, {gloss}]
—WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

With a little feature creep and no parent document to be appended to.

each entry attempts a graduated definition of its subject.

It tries to be agnostic.

It is intended for the interested user.

Developers may also find it useful. (side effect)

Glossary For The Independant Federated Fediverse

Image/photo

Peter Gossner

Вудсайд, Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:51:14 +0300

This Years Lamb Add ... made me smile.. bro.
It _may be a little antipodean_ even with the short history section (6) ...

New Australia land Australian ad calls on Oz and NZ to unite with Ardern as PM 1 NEWS NOW
by One News New Zealand on YouTube

That is the smell of Unity My Antipodean Friends ... Give 04 a call :)

Peter Gossner

Вудсайд, Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:04:59 +0300

On Cuttlefish Chromatophores and Heuristics

To camouflage, cuttlefish do not match their local environment pixel by pixel. Instead, they seem to extract, through vision, a statistical approximation of their environment, and use these heuristics to select an adaptive camouflage out of a presumed large but finite repertoire of likely patterns, selected by evolution. The biological solutions to this statistical-matching problem are unknown. But because cuttlefish can solve it as soon as they hatch out of their egg, their solutions are probably innate, embedded in the cuttlefish brain and relatively simple.

( I would have said functionally elegant, but that would be verbose )

Elucidating Cuttlefish Camouflage - Max Planck Neuroscience on Nautilus

The unique ability of cuttlefish, squid,and octopuses to hide by imitating the colors and texture of their environment has fascinated natural scientists since the time of Aristotle. ...

...this work opens a window into the brain of animals whose lineage split from ours over 540 million years ago. Cephalopod brains offer a unique opportunity to study the evolution of another form of intelligence, based on a history entirely independent of the vertebrate lineage for over half a billion years.

Capturing 60 Frames Per Second of Very High resolution images in natural environments... over weeks ... consistantly ... identifying individuals ... Not getting eaten ... (or eating the subjects) ...
Sheeze what took em so long .

Peter Gossner

Вудсайд, Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:25:54 +0300

ESCRI-SA - Dalrymple Battery Project

ElectraNet's 30 MW 8MWh large-scale battery at Dalrymple substation will demonstrate how energy storage can strengthen the grid and improve reliability for the lower Yorke Peninsula. The battery energy storage system is being built next to, and connected to, ElectraNet's Dalrymple substation, seven kilometres south-west of Stansbury.

“It is clear that grid-scale energy storage has a role to play in our future energy mix. ESCRI demonstrates that utility scale batteries can deliver a range of market services and back up power when it is needed.”

The ESCRI battery will work with the 90 MW Wattle Point Wind Farm and local rooftop solar PV, to provide backup power to the households and businesses on the Yorke Peninsula in the event of power outage.

South Australia (and its energy network) has been enduring a near record heatwave (along with much of the eastern Seaboard) , so far the increasingly renewable grid has stood up well to the task.

Peter Gossner

Woodside South Australia (we have a grass strip airport :), Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:12:32 +0300

The Australian Edition of "PV Magazine" has a couple of good news stories this morning.(AU)

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/
The first is the announcement of an effective electric motor in the Pratt and Whitney PT6 class.
Designed as a CERTIFIED aircraft engine that is able to be retrofitted to existing air-frames or use in (better matched) purpose designs.

This promises to reopen many regional air routes, at least in principle.

MagniX powers forward with electric light commercial aircraft plans

Solar PV is boosting regional economies by providing cheaper electricity to off-grid or edge-of-grid communities and industries; soon it could power cheaper electric aviation services. In three years, Gold Coast company MagniX expects to be selling a commercially available certified electric aircraft engine that will reduce the cost of flying light commercial aircraft by between 50% and 80% per operating hour.

Of course rolling out the regional infrastructure , cheap as will be, will be fraught, with politicians pissing on tyres and incumbents resistance. (natural enough the latter , rankly inevitable the former).

Peter Gossner

Вудсайд, Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:44:14 +0300

Alan Cox wrote the following post Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:08:45 +0300

IMHO it makes a lot of sense.

If you look at the early history of Unix there were a lot of detractors who said (rightly but without understanding the true economics) that Unix couldn't succeed because - Assembler was faster - Operating systems custom designed for the hardware were faster

They were wrong because by that point machines were big enough that C was fast enough, portability was a win, rapid development was a win, and algorithmic improvements usually left you only a few small hot spots that needed hand tuning.

The same is happening again only this time the debate is about whether having a secure basis for your OS is worth the cost of Go (remembering that while Go performance is lacking in some areas it's also mostly fixable).

Hopefully whatever replaces Linux will be written in something more sensible than C

New media Models settling in

Peter Gossner

Australia, Tue, 13 Nov 2018 02:25:09 +0300

The Media landscape continues to reshape itself.

The site is actually owned by 29 funds and would cost even less if not for their principled stance on some key revenue issues: They refuse to accept ads from the Big Four banks because they don’t share their values; they refuse to sell TND user data to third parties, which is something traditional media outlets do routinely; and, of course, they refuse to put up a paywall believing, as British editor Alan Rusbridger recently wrote, that truth shouldn’t live in a gated community.

In its past two monthly measures of Australian news sites, Nielsen has estimated The New Daily’s digital audience as bigger than that of The Australian.

The New Daily celebrates five years of freeing the news

The New Daily turns five today. That may not sound like a lot to some, but in the here-today, gone-tomorrow world of media, it might as well be a centenary.

#Australia #News #MSM #SuperFunds #PensionFunds #pensionFunds

Words in Federated Space

Peter Gossner

Вудсайд, Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:17:54 +0300

The Fediverse and Beyond !

Focused on concepts usage and activity around Social Media, in Distributed Networking. The intention is (also) to explain Jargon and illuminate linkages around distributed silo free networking.

Fediverse - Wikipedia

Fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is the ensemble of federated servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging or websites) and file hosting. On different servers (instances), users can create so called identities. These identities are able to communicate over the boundaries of the instances be...

#fediverse #glossary #federation #indieweb #socialmedia #networking

Be The Change

Peter Gossner

Вудсайд, Mon, 12 Nov 2018 07:10:02 +0300

To put the costs of transition in an unusual light. In real terms a 5kW solar system with a 10 kWh battery costs as much as a television did in 1958. In seven years 70% of Australian households found the money to buy a television.

If 70% of Australian households and small business premises found the money to buy a battery and they were connected into a vast virtual power plant, that would provide about 40 GW/80GWh peak supply so every generator, wind turbine, hydro dam and solar panel in the country could go offline for 2-3 hours before we ran out of power.

In conclusion if the federal government goes to sleep on the electricity industry (and NSW wakes up) it is probably a good thing. Any new federal policies are likely to be costly, out of date long before they are introduced and counterproductive.

Heresy: The government’s lack of electricity energy policy is probably a good thing - Openforum

The lack of coherent Federal policy on electricity is probably a good thing, and any new federal policies are likely to be costly, out of date long before they are introduced and actually counterproductive.

#energy #environment #battery #solar #wind #Australia #NSW