Posts by Moz
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
I work for a company that manufactures burglar alarms, and we are seeing a slight increase in installs, but I expect our actual installers are going to start copping it if Australia follows Aotearoa down that path. Lots of burglaries normally means lots of alarm system responses and repairs.
Our Italian customers are already grumpy because air freight is “we’ll see what we can do” right now so their just-in-time ordering habits are not working well for them. But we don’t exactly have a paratroop wing of the company so there’s not much we can do for them.
The good news is that I write software so I've been working from home for the last two weeks. I visited the office once, on Saturday, to enable remote desktop on my work PC (and turn it on, normally I turn if off when not in the office since I can work from home without it).
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
That made me laugh. Thankfully we have plastic money that’s designed to be laundered… the government was even more prepared than we knew!
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Neil, I was thinking of all the burglars who are now faced with most houses being occupied all the time. And they can't exactly drive round looking for targets if the streets are empty. What are they supposed to do?
A quick snap of rush hour in Wiley Park, Sydney. I think the traffic is lighter than usual but it's definitely not Auckland's empty streets.
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
Not easy coming up with unique name
There are quite a few band name generators online... "Chicks Dig Tomatoes" works...
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let the baby chickens out into the tomato bed yesterday. Since then I've got a cheap IP camera so now a bunch of friends and family are watching the wee cheepers in real time. Sadly you mob will have to live with delayed digging.
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I watched Tiki Taane’s livestream on Saturday, that was also awesome (“Free entry, no dress code, all ages, byo”). But oddly a lot of the discussion ended up being about his dog. Exemplified by his ad, where he had to dub in a bark because the dog just looked at him and went “man, I’m sleeping here”. Famous musician, dog just sees an annoying noise and no food.
Ad is on youtube, concert requires failbook login.
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Oooh, but importantly: I have baby chickens to supervise. So there has been a great deal of sharing of videos of chicks doing what they do. Mostly flashing their cloacas at the camera... like a lot of people at the moment they spend their days sitting round the house eating, cheeping and excreting.
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Deborah,
I’m attribute at least some responsibility for my long term career trajectory to this site
We is suitably proud of you :)
I’m doing fine in self-isolation, have a job that lets me work from home and a boss sufficiently vulnerable to the clue-bat that he’s willing to allow that. I moved back to my house (was renting near work) just before things got serious so sadly had to buy groceries the weekend of the toilet paper panic. Not fun. OTOH, I can afford to buy extra groceries, and have my spare rooms empty rather than renting them out, so save your pity. One of my team has just returned from Japan and is in quarantine at home with their family… it’s a bit tricky in that house. Other cow-orkers are listening to talkback radio and reading far right websites, so the office is still full of coughing people whining about the smell of hand sanitizer. But Australia is not yet in lockdown, probably, sort of. The thing that started at midnight is sort-of-lockdown, but it's very soft by world standards.
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Legal Beagle: Pandemic Preparedness and…, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Pelosi’s term will have ended 17 days before Trump’s
I am informed that Pelosi is not up for election this year, they do that half-each-time thing. So she'll still be in place.
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Legal Beagle: Pandemic Preparedness and…, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
The current system seems vulnerable to denial of service attacks/ballot stuffing, and a credential leak or hack would be a disaster. If we ran the whole election that way the temptation for someone to do the latter would increase significantly... the saving thing right now is that hardly anyone uses the electronic option so changing the election outcome that way is almost impossible. Likewise "fill out the voting paper and have your racist uncle drop it off at the polling booth for you" doesn't scale too well.
Take that away and you have a full online voting but without the normal safeguards. Over here we're still recovering from the AEC fiasco in WA where even re-running a single electorate is a bit ugly.