David Ingram @ingram@mastodon.social
Engineer, ham radio operator, emergency service volunteer
« Dear #Dickson, do you like your #penaltyrates? Do you know Peter Dutton voted 8 times to cut them? You only have to vote once to kick this dickhead to the curb at the next election. #qldpol #auspol
https://www.penaltyratesrecord.com/dickson »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/MissDissentEats/status/1013364541877440512
The depths of winter in Brisbane. Who'd live anywhere else? https://t.co/B2yaZq65TX
Time to remove all of my content from @500px. Shame, as it was a good site with genuine feedback and discussion. https://t.co/d3gBF9PAGW
« So, 500px, which positioned itself as a Flickr alternative, has announced they're deleting/removing access to all Creative Commons photos on their site. Like, tomorrow. https://support.500px.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005097533 NO warning. »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1012506276671164416
« So a young female producer loses her job at Sky while filthy sub human men get to keep their platform spewing filthy subhuman misogynist hate. Absolute scum @SkyNewsAust »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/noplaceforsheep/status/1013514198372904961
Trump starts a trade war AND wants to increase arms exports. Pissing countries off and then expecting them to spend billions in return? Not going to happen! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-airshow/trump-sends-high-level-team-to-push-exports-at-farnborough-airshow-sources-idUSKBN1JR1IL
« Tomorrow, Sun, is Alexanderson Day, when Grimeton Radio Station in Sweden fires up its Alexanderson alternator to transmit as SAQ on 17.2kHz VLF. This is last surviving high frequency alternator CW transmitter from pre-electronic transmitter era: http://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2018/06/29/saq-transmits-today/ #hamr »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/theRSGB/status/1013028123120566273
« The money that Stockholm University saves at the cancelled agreement with Elsevier will be used to publish research in full #openaccess journals.
https://www.su.se/english/library/about-us/press-information/2.42247/stockholm-university-gives-researchers-more-support-to-get-published-in-full-open-access-journals-1.392523 »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/SPARC_EU/status/1013018162395262976
« Russians engineer a way to beat slot machines — for which the casinos have no defense. Insanely interesting piece here by @brendankoerner: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-slot-machine-cheat-casinos-no-fix/ https://t.co/CAc5JqW9AI »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/1013136626124550145
Some interesting cyber-archaeology looking at the earliest domain names. My work's email domain is in the oldest 30 .com list. https://www.cambus.net/oldest-domains-in-the-com-net-and-org-tlds/
Everyone should have a VPN handy. Never know when you're going to need it... https://t.co/qSHvFl1V8t
« Ugandans again run to VPN as social media tax starts to bite http://observer.ug/news/headlines/58064-ugandans-again-run-to-vpn-as-social-media-tax-starts-to-bite.html »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1013329404171186176
« Quick photos of the @facebook ad campaign in local bus shelters - I’m left wondering ‘well who is our friend then?’ 🙄🙃 #digitalrights @DigiRightsAus https://t.co/Q9Hged6X7z »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/ariadne_syd/status/1013296483121094656
« Dear @ANZ_AU your ads appear on SKY NEWS who have denigrated Sarah Hanson-Young, a woman, a mother and an Australian Senator.
Your ads help fund this misogyny, take a stand withdraw your ad $$s
#auspol
https://twitter.com/slpng_giants_oz/status/1013246097949487105 »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/slpng_giants_oz/status/1013282815725584384
Why does a deactivated Office 365 even stay on the computer? Ran the Office Removal Tool which is meant to expunge all settings. Click-to-run fail? https://t.co/DTcosZHRSE
« Animals who look like they’re about to release a chart topping single: THREAD👇👇👇👇 https://t.co/e0ppWraWR4 »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/PersianRose1/status/1012673304564396032
Changing from Office365 sub to a HUP Office 2016 licence shouldn't be hard. But it is. No wonder people move to LibreOffice instead.
« Civility. https://t.co/17FiknNi77 »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/1013143226688200707
Do you have an interest in technical standards? @IECStandards now supports public commenting. Get an early look and provide feedback. http://www.iec.ch/comment/ https://t.co/tS8FpGuMKr
« Mothers + daughters #EQUALSinTech with #DigitalLiteracy training in #Palestine http://news.itu.int/connect-a-school-connect-a-community/ #ICT4SDG https://t.co/RNn2GkHnQ0 »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/ITU/status/1012668253435564032
« The 2017 #solareclipse captured our attention – but how did it affect our electric #grid? An NREL study finds that power system stability and reliability were unaffected even with a 6GW temporary loss of #SolarPower ☀️ http://bit.ly/2J5jNtb https://t.co/5C63BqTZT2 »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/NREL/status/1012772793094729729
« In July of 1958, Jack Kilby of @TXInstruments made history when he conceived the idea of the integrated circuit. You could say that this was the starting point for #MooresLaw. Learn more about this historic event: http://bit.ly/2NbqQ6i via @IEEESpectrum »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/IEEEorg/status/1012825581220777985
