Does ActivityPub even share the user’s IP address with other nodes in the network?

No this is not in the specification.

A malicious instance could in theory distribute this information but it would be non-standard. Of the 2 systems I’ve studied - Mastodon and Lemmy - neither do this.

Are they talking about your IP address or the service’s?

In this scenario they would be talking about the IP address(es) of the services.

Yes, by design: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/accounts/

IMO, the problem is not them taking the information per se, but in abusing that info to further the massive surveillance apparatus that harms society.

I remember installing XFCE on an old Pentium 3 tower some office had stored under the stairs. It was like magic - the system just… worked again?! It was the first time I successfully installed Linux and it felt so fast. With Windows the thing barely worked.

That became my younger sister’s first computer. The tower and monitor etc. all just stayed on the ground and we played games on it together. Eventually I found an ethernet card and learned how to plug it in. I ran an ethernet cable from our modem through the house along the floor. Then we could go on Myspace and send email to each other.

Can’t believe my parents were ok with tripping over all that stuff, ha!

is it even lower demanding than i3?

Probably not. XFCE provides more than just a window manager; it’s a whole desktop environment. That said, it would be interesting to see quantitatively what the difference in system resource usage actually is.

Haha yeah actually I wonder whether people actually did ask this when Linux started making the rounds. If I read the history right BSD was already almost 15 years old at the time!

Given such an essential service, I personally don’t think it’s important they are turning a profit. But is it run efficiently? I have no idea and this article doesn’t really go into it. Had a quick search and found Australia Post’s Efficiency of Delivering Reserved Letter Services. Haven’t read it in full yet but first glance looks interesting.

And from some quick digging, I found that every year their revenue increases:

2022 $8864M
2021 $8208M
2020 $7499M
2019 $6990M
2018 $6877M

From their annual reports page: https://auspost.com.au/about-us/news-media/publications#annual

A related fun talk on performance testing is Performance Matters by Emery Berger.

Maybe some relevant discussions here: https://github.com/orgs/cutefishos/discussions

Maybe we just need to call it “budgeting hack”, not “financial planning”.

News and business analysis for Professionals in International Education

The fact that a website like this even exists hints at a big fat racket going on.

“And I think the temperature is being created for political reasons often – not because it’s inherent in the discussion.”

Spot on. I’m so out of the loop with non-binary gender things. However even I can see it is sad to see people’s identity be thrown around in political folly.

You can’t make the public watch things they don’t want to. And no one wants to pay for something they’re not interested in or want.

It’s frustrating that this was never mentioned in the article. It was never covered why income is what it is.

This article is reporting on a survey run by the the so-called Australian Sports Foundation. From their own financial report:

The objective of the Sports Foundation is to raise money for the development of sport in Australia.

So it’s an unsurprising conclusion. If there was a similar foundation, also pulling in $47 million per annum, for a similar activity people do out of passion rather than necessity such as… I dunno… “Australian Spoon Tapping Foundation”? That foundation’s CEO would probably be more than happy to give a soundbite for the media. But elite spoon tappers don’t have a foundation nor do they really identify as spoon tappers.

There is an interesting story here, though. I think some people assume that elite athletes equals mega dollars. But that is not the case. An interesting article that actually informs and entertains the public could:

1. report on the average income of elite athletes
2. give an insight on what most elite athlete’s lives are really like; how they survive earning less than $23K/year.
3. explain why their income is low

Instead what we’ve got here is a headline implicitly stirring up feelings of injustice, some comments from some CEO, some nothing numbers with no context, and finally an actual comment from an actual athlete (right at the bottom of the article?!).

Fair enough. Hopefully you can keep using those scripts even if nobody else uses them.

Yes I’ve personally argued against automation, too. Particularly when something is clearer to just be written down in a checklist-like format, to be followed by someone with domain expertise.

“nice legs” No not like that!

Absolutely - and there’s way more of them now than 10 years ago! Shit quality, disposable, cheap stuff. Popular for clothes, homewares, small furniture, bits and pieces for around the house.

But maybe you personally don’t have to write the docs or packaging stuff; if you publish it as open source, others can have a go themselves! :)

Thanks for sharing. I did a bit of work for a NOC and know exactly what you mean about letting real work slip through your hands. I wasn’t directly responsible for managing the alarms, but it felt strange to be writing software streamlining the workflow. All the time I spent I felt like I could have just helped the technicians actually solving problems they faced in their day to day - to stop the alarms going off in the first place!

Agreed. Why can I buy this t-shirt for $4.50? https://www.kmart.com.au/product/plain-crew-neck-tee-s140827/

I don’t know whether I watch these for the footage or for the hilarious audio of people’s reactions.