Posts by Moz
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I've just realised that there's a complete album of all my friends online:
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/(my response to Charlie Stross claiming that his sock puppet accounts were real people and he had photos of them)
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Awesome, deserves to go, uh, viral.
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My employer in Australia is being very blunt: I can choose to work from home, but if there are any problems I have to come in to the office. Any costs incurred are entirely mine, and I should be grateful that they are being so reasonable about my silly panic. If Russel gives us a rant thread I have things to say about their attitude 🤬
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Things are getting serious here, they’ve closed outdoor gyms! Also, households of more than two people are now strongly discouraged. If you’re a couple with three or more kids it’s time to pick the two you like most and take one each :)
the Government is now strongly advising against indoor or outdoor gatherings with more than one other person. But Mr Morrison said the measures were not yet legally binding.
So it’s like Aotearoa, except without the legal protections for people who would like to follow those instructions.
Can someone pop down to parliament and run off a few copies of that nice Ms Ardern for us? One per state and a couple for Canberra would be a good start (I actually think she could get elected here).
Here's an acapella classic to cheer you up:
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
internet in Australia
Don't you go bagging out my pigeons, man. They're doing the best they can in the circumstances. And anyway, we have fibre to the neighbourhood so it's much faster now than when they had to go all the way into the city every time.
More seriously, we're lucky it hasn't rained much so most of the copper network has been able to operate. Can you imagine being self-isolating with kids and no internet? The sounds from next door suggest of it it's not much fun self-isolating *with* internet. One coworker lives in an internet black hole and their connection went down for a few hours (there's a cellphone tower at the bottom of the valley and the internet POP is in the same place... if one goes down chances are the other will too).
Resiliency is the same thing as wasteful duplication of services. So we don't have that.
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to BenWilson,
They’re not allowed to come back in once they leave. So they have to be really, really certain that they have somewhere to go before they leave the marina. They could probably enter Aotearoa, since we’re not quite as sticky about being legally married as France is, but Aotearoa is quite a long way to sail in one go.
There's a lot of stuff being sorted out on the fly for edge cases like small boats, and while it's generally the case that people are being reasonable it's also possible to hit a series of not-reasonable in a row if you're unlucky. I get the impression they were ringing marinas and negotiating with quite twitchy cops for most of a day before they found somewhere. Negotiating as in "driving in circles just off a visitors dock while two cops made very sure they did not touch land or anchor"
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The beak mask thing works quite well as a DIY filter mask as well, lets you have thicker filters with more area to increase effectiveness. Filling the void with sweet-smelling herbs is optional. And the look definitely encourages social distancing :)
I also love that it is exactly 12 hours behind us
I don't. We have customers in Italy and they occasionally ring us to explain their problems. So now we have an on call phone that gets... {ahem} left in the office during the pandemic. I suppose technically we still have it.
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to ,
For my simple brutal stuff inkscape is awesome. But not everyone likes their graphic design done by an engineer. For images paint.net works surprisingly well, at least at the bumblefunkery level I live at..
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Russell Brown,
I was struggling a bit with the shared path. Fewer pedestrians but it's hard to leave a decent distance when there's more than one of them.
I felt that as well as ringing my bell I should be crying "unclean, unclean"
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Owen Foster,
I live on my boat
I have a few friends and follow some youtubers on boats, and you lot who are already in place are in many ways lucky. The poor sods who were mid-ocean are finding it tricky to get into port if they’re not arriving in their country-of-citizenship. Most lockdown laws don’t account for the literally ones of people so affected.
Sailing Zatara crew just got back into Aotearoa before the lockdown but now they can’t get into most places if they leave, and even sailing within the country is a bit tricky. So they might be spending the lockdown in Auckland.
Which beats one couple I know who were on a two day mooring on an island in Italy when the lockdown hit. They legally couldn’t stay there, but also couldn’t leave. And they didn’t have provisions for more than a few days anyway. They got out of it, but because they’re a mixed-citizenship couple they don’t have a home country to go to – wherever they go one of them will probably be rejected (and is that a bet you’d take… sail for a week, get told “you can come in, the other can’t”). So now they’re in a marina in Italy for as long as it takes. Well, until their money runs out and then who knows what will happen. Marinas are expensive!