he/him vi/vim Vintage 319 ppm CO2 #biochar #realIntelligence Musician since the beginning, oddball, techie luddite, biochar entrepreneur/evangelist, MMT proponent, deep green, outspoken, cantankerous af neurodivergent. Life goal: to see billionaires go extinct. Tolerance is a social contract. #noindex
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Last Notes npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…u45k That was a cornerstone of my argument and was echoed by another board member in support. I've done a good-faith trial of LLM-generated literature reviews and it took me far longer to check their work than it would have taken for me to just do the damn thing (albeit maybe using the chatbot to give me a "short list" to work with at the beginning, but I'm getting so dogmatic about the whole thing that even that could be a bridge too far). npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: #AI ethics intersecting nonprofit governance this morning...sigh. I sit on the boards of some different organisations, all of which are directly or at most one layer removed from direct climate mitigation efforts. LLM usage has been creeping into board activities, in the form of note-taking and meeting summaries, and now we have a question before one committee about doing academic literature reviews. I responded by stating my personal opposition to everything that AI represents, and cited the energy use and carbon emissions as major objections. I also raised the issue of intellectual property theft and the extra work required to vet sources, saying that it might wind up costing the society more volunteer work than it saves. At this point there's a member agreeing with me, and quite explicitly. So far a few others have weighed in with a far more equivocal stance, a couple even saying that we shouldn't put a "political" stake in the ground on this subject. I'm genuinely conflicted as to how I proceed in the discussion. Part of me is ready to pitch my toys and take a hard line, but I know that this is probably not the hill to die on. I guess a formal motion and vote is the procedurally sound thing to do, and those of us have have strong opinions on the matter can go on record with our opposition. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: I have a simple hypothesis for the memory hole of weather forecasting websites: They don't want to be graded on their work. Rather than treating it as an opportunity to improve both their computer models *and* the expert interpretation of observations that guides predictions, they disappear events as soon as they happen. I do lots of forensic work in my #sysAdmin life. Most problems that I solve would be intractable if I didn't have good error logging. You need to understand history to avoid repeating it. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Of course a denialist govt would try to ensure that the next generation is unaware and therefore susceptible to their narratives. Too bad it won't work. Kids are amazingly clever and good at finding out stuff that isn't taught in classrooms. https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/climate-change-omitted-from-new-science-and-social-science-curriculums/ npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…ja5s I'd file this under "arguments for public rubbish/recycling collection as superior to privatised services" myself. At least councils are required to be responsive and transparent (even if it's sometimes a mission to get them to act this way). Also, when you look at the resource misuse of multiple truck trips covering the same streets it really reinforces the case that overlapping provision is suboptimal. I think we have five different providers operating in my village and it does my head in. Everything ends up at the same tip. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…97mg Of course it's a video....;-) npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…92lc Where does he get the 22-27K range? That's ridiculously over spec for most residential systems. Your high quote of 13K is far more realistic for a grid-tied setup and about what I would assume the average household. I had a 4.4 kW system installed for less than 15K nearly six years ago and it's paid for itself. The same money would get at least 1.5x the power now. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…av6q You're lucky to get them in the depths of winter. Must be a really healthy patch. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: It seems like no one is doing this. Everyone is falling all over each other to be the first, use it as much as possible, and sack as many qualified staff as they can. But are any of them doing due diligence? Just the really basic stuff: What is the value of a machine that cannot produce the same output when given identical inputs? What is the ROI from a process that burns resources at a rate that cannot be measured, because nobody knows how many tokens a given unit of work will consume? How stable is the business model of a company whose cost to provide the service is tens or hundreds of times greater than the revenue they're making from their customers? How long will it be before some truly aggrieved people start loading up cheap consumer drones with explosives and flying them into data centres? npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Someone should pay me to sit in an advisory role to a govt or corporate body that is trying to figure out "#AI policy." I'm serious. I would just pose some basic questions and require clear answers with accompanying evidence to support any decisions. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…9h8n I'm certainly not looking forward to the next renewal. Another big premium increase is on the way. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…97mg Put the personalities aside and see who's got the policy that you care about. The important thing right now is getting the fascists out so we can work on fairness and justice again. That's not going to happen overnight, and it's definitely not going to come from the weak appeasement machine of Labour. But even if none of the opposition parties tick all your boxes, think about how another three years of full-on racism, climate destruction, and hate for the marginalised is going to go down. Try to find a party that's better than that. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Sure, I say to my eldest, I'll set you up a blank Wordpress instance so you can build an ecommerce site. Check back in an hour and I'll give you login details and whatever bit you and your partner need to get going. What could possibly go wrong? Well, you'd think that by choosing a mature, well-established microblogging and self-publishing platform all the teething issues and weird kinks that were present, oh, 10-12 years ago, like redirect loops, poor SSL handling, and outright hostility to reverse proxies, would all be pretty well solved. Spoiler alert: They aren't. I'm seeing the same stupid shit in 7.0 that was around in the bad old days. Redirect hell and 405 errors are still very much a thing and the amount of forum bandwidth devoted to "solving" these persistent failures is phenomenal. And all this is above and beyond the stench that has been coming from the project since Mullenweg started his inane power plays and set about destroying the community. Why is WP even still a thing? npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…e8mx "This is my body, stored under an Alpine glacier for you." npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…7an5 @nprofile…wvag Never mind what a completely unsustainable hot mess Azure is. I wouldn't use that environment to host a quick and dirty demo, let alone bet my business on it. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…0v7k I'm self hosted as well and got an email from them today. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…wvag Like myIRD, for instance. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Sysadmin question: Has anyone out in fedi land found how Isentia scrapes online content? User agent identifiers, etc. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…xpag @nprofile…yne8 Get a time machine and send the unfortunate appliance owners back to the moment when they purchased the things, and guide their purchasing decisions to something a little more robust. Rob a bank so that they can afford it. If only. The adage of getting what you pay for is still sort of true for consumer goods, but the bigger problems are systemic. We don't have enough transparency into how things are designed and manufactured. There are zero incentives for companies to use generic, standardised subassemblies for field repairability, and not much in the way of cradle-to-grave accountability, let alone requirements for circularity. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…f4xa About 30% of our electorate is likely to fall for that. But I don't think this particular can is able to be kicked that far into the future. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…lhv6 I would propose locusts for the ones that arrive in swarms. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…cjww Mayday npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…kmut Usually it's because the server is getting hammered by bot traffic. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…kt0j And not a single "backups were airgapped and only pulled from prod, impossible to push." npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: It's pretty damn difficult to have a worldview of radical abundance when scarcity is all around. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Ecuador and El Salvador are some other exciting possibilities. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: So, yesterday I found out: A close friend has been diagnosed with breast cancer; Another close friend and colleague's brain tumour, in remission for three years, is growing again; My eldest is pretty certain they're going to move to Melbourne in a year or so. All in all, a pretty big closeout to what has been mostly a downer of a month. On the upside, I spent much of the day with some good friends my ex had alienated. We talked radical mutual aid, resilient energy systems, and pruned fruit trees. I think I'll be doing lots of this in coming months. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Nicola Willis thinks everyone should get a pony. All the other countries in our refined fuels supply chain are implementing conservation measures and even rationing, but Willis and her team are glued to some alternative fanfic that has everything coming right any day now. I hope her plans include looking for work come November. Because she obviously doesn't have any for the country. #NZPol https://archive.is/fqNWG npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: For decades, NZ pastoral systems were described by agronomists worldwide as a "miracle"...temperate climate, decent soils, and ample rainfall meant that a farmer could keep a pasture in permanent cover with a mix of ryegrass and clover, and get a profitable yield of milk, meat, and fibre by grazing stock outdoors year round without any off-farm inputs. It was sustainable (if you ignore the fact that much of the land was stolen) and provided the basis for a thriving export trade as well as feeding a growing nation. The humble clover plant was the key to all of this, with its symbiotic rhizobial bacteria happily taking atmospheric nitrogen in and turning it into soluble nitrates at just enough of a rate to feed the grasses. As long as you didn't overstock or abuse the soil through poor management, the system could keep ticking over indefinitely, with maybe a bit of seaweed or rock dust from time to time to top up the mineral levels. Of course, capitalism had to wreck all of that. As dairy intensification became the trend in the 1990s, industrial farming was the model and synthetic fertilisers, especially urea, began to dominate and push out clover from pasture mixes. And as any junkie knows, the first hit may be free but every one after that costs more. Now we have a sector addicted to nitrogen, mainlining stuff shipped halfway around the globe and turning its back on the leakage into groundwater and rivers. The excess nitrogen also "burns up" soil carbon stocks and decreases microbial diversity along with the resilience of the grass. And the feed quality of the pasture goes down, turning to the equivalent of junk food and causing metabolic imbalances in the animals that eat it...most current-day dairy farmers have never seen cow shit that isn't liquid. So maybe the crisis in the Middle East is a blessing in disguise. Just like it's supercharging transition around the world, maybe it will catalyse some major changes here. #biochar #regen https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2604/S00394/biochar-can-help-farmers-weather-the-fertiliser-crisis.htm npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…5w5c Ed Zitron often goes digging for this stuff and he almost always says nope. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: One of my favourite things about rainy spells in autumn is the profusion of weird fungi. These popped up the other day, and so did a bunch of basket fungus. https://o.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/116/450/816/875/000/874/original/be49a02239ea9d24.jpg npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…hq00 I dunno...it would be a nice start, I guess. They've got a long list to start working through. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: So, here is what South Korea (one of our main suppliers of refined oil products) is doing in response to the Middle East situation. Hint: It's nothing like what we're doing. We have truly got the most incompetent, feckless, drooling bunch of craven slaves to ideology running the place and boy does it show. The North Korea of the South Pacific. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/south-korea-solar-power-renewables-revolution npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…8d6j A little. I'm kinda brassed off at their age verification nonsense but they haven't rolled it out to me yet so I'm still on it. It's my main mode of comms to my kids, so I don't want to get rid of it. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…8d6j I'll miss you. Also I'm hanging out to see the boat through to completion. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…49eq If I'm ever required to enter details, I will be Ricardo Cabeza, born 1970-01-01. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: I've already reduced my personal footprint. I don't do business with billionaires. I deleted my accounts with all the social media sites, shut down my AWS instances, and moved my Kiwisaver out of all US equities. How much impact has any of this had on CO2 levels in the atmosphere? Sweet. Fuck. All. The only we turn this thing is to change the system, and the only way we do that is with radical accountability for everyone who profits from our collective misery. Don't tell me to take individual action. I've been doing that most of my adult life and I can see the results. I'm taking names. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…td4u I've known Nathan for years and his head is definitely screwed on correctly. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…xpw3 I've certainly been seeing an order of magnitude or more in terms of what I call "do not want" traffic on a large media site that I admin. This is a rough metric comprising bots, scrapers, LLM trainers, and script-kiddie rattlers of locks (lots of SQL injection attempts and Wordpress exploits well past their use-by date). It got bad enough in the past week on one site that I overcompensated with the AWS WAF countermeasures and made an editor's day miserable...he kept getting flagged for exceeding volumetric thresholds and booted out with 403s. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…xpag That's a really unflattering photo of the billionaire vampire. I thought all that child blood was supposed to keep him youthful and shit. He looks like he's circling the drain. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Let's see if I've got this right: 0. In the beginning, the Strait of Hormuz was open and free to transit, and it was good. 1. Fascist superpower launches unprovoked and unlawful act on Iran. 2. Iran exerts control of the strait, blocking key shipping lanes. 3. Global economy, hyperdependent on cheap and readily available fossil fuels, goes into panic mode. 4. Fascist superpower realises it's made a boo-boo and badly wants the strait open again. 5. Ceasefire declared and Iran reopens the strait, albeit under conditions. 6. Fascist superpower doesn't like the conditions, so it blockades the strait. 7. Global economy says WTAF dude? I cannot for the life of me see how any of this plays out in favour of the fascist superpower. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…xypt Would love to but I'm on the wrong island and Sunday looks to be a bit dicey weather wise. Should be great down there, though. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…xypt Is this the site where they cleared all that contorta pine a few years ago? npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…0z4m With zero safeguards or protections of data sovereignty, I presume. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…9g8s Given the unique status of the orange stain as someone who lost money owning a casino, it stands to reason that this and insider trading are the means his crowd has chosen to institutionalise plunder. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…pg4v You really couldn't ask for a worse person in that role. Brown simply does not measure up, and once again the country has been shortchanged npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: P.S. Now would be a really good time to accelerate your transition to clean energy, too. XOX npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Dear nations of the world: If you're salty about #Ukraine blowing up Russian oil infrastructure, that says to me that you're PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM. Don't buy stuff from genocidal warmongers and support their genocidal warmongering. End of. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…8d6j I'm coping with the fruit glut* by taking lots to our local pātaka kai. Also drying heaps of apples because they keep forever. *exception to this: feijoas npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…8d6j I can send you some bulbils if you like. DM me. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…kxuf Got chickens? npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…8d6j I've been gradually upping my onion game. I grow a few red ones for slicing, and I'm trying to increase the brown harvest (not easy). What has come through for me, though, is the humble walking onion. More of a shallot, keeps better than brown, and grows like the proverbial weed. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…kxuf Nice and round. That takes a bit of skill. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…cnd4 The monks inside are doing Pythagorean chants. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Compare this (admittedly suboptimal) experience to what it's like to be trapped in a plane on the tarmac for three hours because of a major snafu at the terminal. Yep, I did that once at DFW and it was unpleasant. They ran out of water, snacks, and paper towels, and somehow the flight attendants still treated everyone nicely (even the handful of people who started acting like dicks). Trains rock. And roll. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…eqsh An entire civilisation is about to find the pod bay doors are shut. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…t0wy @nprofile…xypt I'm waiting for the feasibility study on a cable ferry powered by the immense tidal currents. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…xypt Congratulations. My mouthful of coffee nearly ended up across the room. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…0z4m They're just reinforcing the weak-to-lacking leadership vibe with this approach. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…unhv I had to ditch Google Authenticator a few years back when it would not allow me to move to a different phone. If I use a 2FA solution, I need to have some confidence in the vendor or control the underlying mechanism. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Madeleine Chapman did it again. 20/10, only a couple of clangers, and even the comments are worth reading: https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/27-03-2026/all-170-chip-flavours-in-new-zealand-ranked-from-worst-to-best npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…2uej Does the Pahiatua railcar still run for nostalgia's sake? I should know the answer to this because it would go past us. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…2e2r I've been shouting this from the rooftops for ages...it also reduces our CO2 emissions for the win. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…pp76 Leveraging core competencies all the way down to bottom of the cliff. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: About as useless as what I expected from the incompetent lackeys. Folding under pressure. Sober assessments of the damage to Gulf infrastructure are pointing to a 1/3 reduction in supply coming from that region with 2-3 years required to rebuild. And that's if nothing else gets blown up. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…xpw3 I stayed with some friends last month when I travelled to the South Island for a festival. One of them told me all about how he's gone all in on vibe coding. The thing that struck me most was how he described the cognitive burden of wrangling the various agents when he was doing a "session" lasting 5-6 hours in a typical case. He said after he wrapped up each time, he was utterly spent and couldn't do anything requiring focus for the remainder of the day. Didn't sound much like a net positive to me, especially since he's still attempting to vet the code and integrate it himself. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…2uej Mind you, there's still steam if we really needed a boostrap energy source. Mackwell has a clean biomass boiler that can run on slash. https://mackwell.co.nz npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: 'With economic forecasts being downgraded, is this a wartime-style crisis where business and government need to work together in a new way? “Absolutely, yes,” Jones says.' The trucking industry and fuel distributors are in complete accordance that we need extraordinary measures, and every day we wait makes the consequences worse. But Luxon and his string-pullers have yet to show up with anything more than platitudes, homages to individual choice, and wishful thinking. https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/26/truckies-worry-as-diesel-slows-to-a-trickle/ npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…0z4m That will keep me from using them for a bit longer, I suppose. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…sywy I do this sort of thing for people from time to time. What I like to do is start with a load profile to establish demand, because a lot of them are looking at off-grid systems. You're grid-tied so demand's not the driver. So we look at what sort of supply is realistic. What does your roof look like and are there any trees or other buildings close by in the E,N,W quadrants? npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…cun7 It's not as if there's a way to use magic like sunlight, you know. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…9tgn Same, and I would say it's been mine for a while now. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…srmn They also want to remove other mission fundamentals, like honouring Te Tiriti, ensuring accessibility, countering disinfo, and harm reduction. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…m6w0 That seems like a pretty major oversight. DHCP only, too, so forget about putting them into a DMZ. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…y50c @nprofile…a8pz It's always a good idea to keep the legacy system in place. If you've got one. I saw a farm not too long ago that had no interior fencing whatsoever. None. For bulls. So if their internet (or the Halter subscription) ever goes wonky, that will be a lot of fun sorting out. 🤡 npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…pp76 Briscoe's has given me low-grade ick for years. Now I'll just not go there. Fixed. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…us5p Flip to TPW mode to see the atmospheric rivers. Then go to Ocean -> SST for the heat sources. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…yzxf That only shows that the numpties at Treasury don't understand how fiat currency even works. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…0z4m Edit to add: "If you're older, Pākeha, own several properties, and have ties to the fossil energy, mining, or fishing sectors. Bonus points if you deny scientific consensus based on evidence." npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…a8pz Ve notice that Old Macdonald has made remarks about Herr Kommisar. Vould be a shame if his cows wandered over to Nigel's farm.... npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…mqr3 Welcome to the unitary executive, a figleaf for monarchy that was ostensibly the foundation of the republic. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…jjdu I don't think we talk enough about how the algorithm is deployed to affect users' mental health. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…a8pz I used to think Halter was pretty neat, but then they went all in on the slopification. I'm also not a fan of farm management systems that depend on remote servers...connectivity falters and your stock are everywhere they're not supposed to be. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…t3ug never mind who started it npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…2uej There's also a connection to Wairarapa linking up at Woodville. Railcars are the obvious way to run passenger services where demand is lower. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Not only does Aotearoa have to contend with yet another extreme weather system drawing its energy from an overheated Pacific, but has anyone been following the path of Narelle? I swear that puppy is looking like an emergent consciousness and saying "I wanna see if I can affect the whole coastline of Oz." npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…d60a Surely someone is keeping a list of the victorious conclusions. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…l70y Iran's refutation of the so-called negotiations. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…9s4q The whole franchise, along with its grotesque creator, is dead to me. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Good evening! What's your fave #AngineDePoitrine song today? Mine's ABABA HOTEL. It might be tomorrow as well. That is the most infectious 7/4 groove in fucking existence. https://youtu.be/AHbdYT8U_r4?list=RDAHbdYT8U_r4&t=2675 npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Glad to help make the case for Waka Kotahi walking back National's asinine speed limit increases. But the submissions website is broken. https://nzta.govt.nz/safety/driving-safely/speed/state-highway-speed-management/speed-limit-reviews-under-the-2024-rule/targeted-speed-limit-reviews-manawatu-whanganui-region npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…5mvz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ES00DLNcXA npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…fh5u Give me a hundy and I will tell you on any given night the best place to dine so as not to bump into either of these bellends. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…l70y This pesky little fact does not change the immense profits a group of insider traders just made. They'll sell before the markets react. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…2pcx Relatable. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Saag paneer, only with halloumi instead. #fusionCuisine npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Good top-level analysis and spot on with respect to the fact that markets will only make the problem worse (like they already have). However, I tend to rate Trenberth highly but was gobsmacked that an atmospheric scientist would suggest that small wind turbines mounted on residential roofs are a good idea from an ROI standpoint. They're really, emphatically not, unless you live on a ridgeline with no other trees or buildings nearby. And in that case, the noise transmitted into your living quarters will drive you around the bend and make you wish you had put the thing on a tower like normal people do. https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/nzs-energy-dependence-wont-be-solved-by-the-private-sector/ npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @nprofile…45lt It's the low hanging fruit of disinfo. Even if our entire grid was fossil generation, it would still make sense to drive EVs on energetic, economic, and climate grounds. But we all know that facts never sway the trolls and haters. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: If only they had teamed up that sweet helicopter money with some wealth taxes. They could even describe it as "revenue neutral" for the punters and pundits who are too thick too understand that govts don't need taxes in order to spend. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, I guess. npub1k28rqf06yvxluy5w370vdslhr63z25fap338a3knjhy547dvcatq2ylww0 Phil Stevens :tinoflag: Of all the no-brainers out there, this is one. We could at least add a small incentive to EV use with the stroke of a ministerial pen.