PaulWay

I'm a six foot tall ape descendant in Canberra, Ngunnwal/Ngambri country. I work for a tech company, mainly in Python and on Linux. In my spare time I read, turn wood, go for walks, play with technology, 3D print, play keyboards with friends, and ride a motorbike. At of this post, no-one is currently trying to drive a bypass through my home...

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2026-04-20 02:56:28 GMT

I just watched a guy get onto a motorbike wearing a hoodie, shorts, slip on shoes, and an open face helmet. I really wanted to tell him that when he has his accident, to not blame anyone else for his injuries.

2026-03-19 20:27:44 GMT

Imagine being overtaken on the hills by a semi-trailer.
Imagine the semi being able to maintain highway speed so well it actually gets checked by the RTA for possibly being underweight or speeding.
Imagine a 480km round trip of 35 tonnes GVM producing no CO2 or other emissions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqWG2kgOKE
That's what we should be looking at now that fuel prices are going up.
#EV #windrose #trucking

2026-02-15 00:56:29 GMT

Fantastic to see @npub1tkd…0l9s getting coverage for his fight against Services Australia on the ABC this morning:
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sundayextra/sunday-extra-15-february-2026/106292166
It's hard for campaigns like this - that are actually important for our personal security but are 'niche issues' fought by individuals against big government departments - to keep momentum and get a wider audience. Great to see the ABC, as well as Crikey, pick this one up.

2026-01-27 10:22:22 GMT

Hey #opensource and #freedom lovers in #australia . You need to hear about @npub1tkd…0l9s 's request to get the source code for the MyGov token app. https://openmygov.au/
He needs funding: https://www.pozible.com/project/mygov-app-source-code-foi-review-1/updates
Why does this matter? Because you trust the MyGov token app to secure your access to MyGov services. It _should_ be a very simple thing to do - there are already well known public standards for implementing this. But then, if that's the case, why are Services Australia claiming that this would 'endanger national security' to release the source code?
Let's hope it's as simple as: because someone might get embarrassed to have their code published.
Because at the moment it's going to cost Fraser a fair bit of money to get anywhere on the appeal to the Administrative Review Tribunal, especially when they decide that this is so secret that it has to be discussed under the "Intelligence and Security Jurisdictional Area".
Anything you can donate to help Fraser out helps here. Unfortunately, with Pozible, it's an all or nothing thing - either he makes his goal, or he gets nothing.

2025-10-01 00:56:48 GMT

Attention all #canberra locals - the ACT Woodcraft Guild is having its annual exhibition and sale at the National Botanic Gardens over this (long) weekend:
https://www.woodcraftguild.org.au/event/annual-exhibtion-2025/
It's a great chance to see local makers and what they make, from ordinary people like me to real professionals. And on Monday afternoon I'll be demonstrating making spinning tops!

2025-08-14 21:59:06 GMT

We had a person ask our EV group recently about carrying a battery in their EV for long road trips so that in case of running out of power they can use the 'jerry can' to top up and get to somewhere to charge.
This is an enticing idea but I want to tell you all the ways it's not necessary.
Starting with the first, maybe non-obvious one that your best chance for help is: another EV with vehicle-to-load. This is a (relatively slow) siphoning of energy from one car to another. And now you don't have to carry a 25-kilo battery.
And the second, perhaps similarly non-obvious one: every single power point is a charging station. Unless you're driving between Hay and Booligall, you're probably spending that last 20% of your range driving past people's houses, and driving through small towns with shops. You've probably passed more than a hundred power points in that time. You can go to any one of them and ask (nicely!) to recharge. Pay them for the privilege!
Thirdly, the car will warn you - copiously - in the last 20% of your range that you need to find a charging station. In many models they will start offering to navigate you to a charger. They'll tell you when your remaining range is nearing that needed to get to the nearest charger. Believe me, you will not get to 2% and not know about it.
Fourthly, if you really really get to that last mile - and I have - your EV will not suddenly stop. It will try one last trick - limping home, running on low power to save the battery but get you home. I've done this because I was ten kilometres from home. And, yes, in that distance I could have gone to three chargers - I just wanted to get home. Once a petrol car has conked out it is not limping anywhere.
Fifthly, the main cause of this fear is the legacy of the relative scarcity of fuel stations. You don't have one at your hotel, at your cafe, at the caravan park. So you have to get to that next petrol pump in the next town, and then and only then can you fill up. This is no longer the case with EVs. You charge up at your hotel or AirBNB, you charge up at your lunch venue, you charge up while shopping. It is much easier to keep your EV charge topped up. You don't need to buy an expensive fast charger for home, or only rely on DC fast chargers. You have many many more opportunities to take on more energy.
This is the mind shift people need to go through when getting an #ev .

2025-07-13 03:28:01 GMT

Copying one 256GB NVMe drive to a 512GB NVMe drive over USB 3. Maintaining a solid ~300MB/sec. Remember when that would just take days or weeks?
What is also remarkable is that the rest of my system is completely stable and working normally. I remember a time when any IO used to slow the system down, even in Linux. Not to mention trying to use a modem in Windows 3, where moving the mouse would lock the serial interrupt so the modem transfer would stall. Fun times.
Now to find out if there's any way to resize the NTFS partition on that drive without making Windows all upset.

2025-06-29 22:13:35 GMT

I'm going to echo @npub1tve…vfd0 here - the USA is now basically a dictatorship that its public doesn't really want to believe is a dictatorship:
https://johnquigginblog.substack.com/p/the-end-of-us-democracy
I remember reading someone commenting in 2014, I think, about how there would be no obvious sign that the USA's democracy was failing at the time, but the signs would only be obvious in hindsight. Historians would point to some event or person and say, "This was one of the key decisions that caused the USA to slip into an authoritarian dictatorship".
Remember, this was the time of the Tea Party, of unrelenting opposition to everything Obama did. It was a time where the Republican party pushed the USA to the brink of failing to pass its budget simply to make it look like the Democrats were 'the baddies'. It was a time where the Republican party showed that it had abandoned any semblance of co-operation, and was only interested in destroying anyone and anything it disagreed with.
I work for a company with its headquarters in the USA. I talk to those people living there. And the thing that disappoints me, to be honest, is that they keep on going and hoping that 'this all won't affect [them]'. Any half competent student of Germany coming up to WWII can see exactly how that attitude played out for the German public: ignoring the killings and the imprisonments and the regime setting itself up with no opposition and no supervision.
To the people in the USA who I know I say: get out while you still can.
Because you think you'll have plenty of time. You think you'll be able to find another country that will take you on your time-table, when you need to leave. You think you're never going to need to leave because you're as American as anyone else, or you live in a nice town, or you have good friends, or it's going to be so difficult.
I don't think we're going to end up at another world war as the end-point; I don't think the USA is going to seriously invade Canada or Greenland or China or Mexico or anyone else.
I think the end point is that the vast majority of USAdians will find themselves struggling to earn enough to keep themselves clothed and fed, while they watching the Republicans and its cronies enriching themselves. They'll discover that protest is illegal and that people they know have 'disappeared' into prisons or worse. They'll find that they - as immigrants or as same-sex couples or as mixed-race families or as just ordinary citizens who don't slavishly follow the Trumpublicans - are targeted for vigilante violence.
The real problem for the USA is that all the real money is going to already flee. Bezos and Musk and Buffett and Gates and so on will just move to New Zealand or Lichtenstein or a Caribbean island; their money will already be in international banks and trusts and funds that the USA can't touch. The Republicans will squeeze the poor people tighter, but the rich people will have already have left.

2025-05-02 00:46:56 GMT

I love the Internet. I love that someone has gone to the effort of making this site:
https://democracysausage.org/federal_election_2025/m
See what's on offer in your electorate! Go to the best sausage sizzle. Get the best cakes. Also, vote. 😃

2025-04-22 21:33:11 GMT

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What did they expect to happen?
I'm always amazed at how the 'small government' liberals will absolutely call on 'the government' when they want help. They'll absolutely expect 'the government' to fix up the problems caused by companies. They absolutely expect 'the government' to step in and protect the people.
And then as soon as whichever government has had to step in and fix the problems of capitalism says 'hey, how about we stop the problems at their source and stop the companies that are causing these problems', ooooooh suddenly it's all 'big government' and 'states rights' and 'get out of my life'.
I don't think they even realise their own hypocrisy.
It's like there's this magical separation in their minds between 'the government' that helps people and 'the government' that regulates companies.

2025-02-11 22:37:10 GMT

While you're at it pronounce all words that end in 'cles' like they rhyme with 'Pericles' or 'Socrates'. Articles. Cubicles. Bicycles. Muscles. Pinnacles. Spectacles. Testicles....

2024-12-05 22:08:10 GMT

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My opinion here is that Trump has found an important strategy. It is: 'declare that he's going to do something that will harm someone else, and then put himself in the position of "benevolent master" that must be beseeched to not harm that other, and then demand loyalty from the people he's threatening.'
It is a twisted kind of genius. It doesn't matter what unhinged idea he has - invading the moon, turning all whales into dog food, putting tariffs on all imports, moving the White House to Mar-A-Largo, deporting all immigrants, declaring New York State to be a terrorist organisation, or whatever. The sensible thing would be to say: we're not negotiating. We're not even taking it seriously. It's a stupid idea and will be proved as such.
And the press is riding the tiger here. They know half of his ideas are stupid. They know the other half is dangerous. But they can't afford not to report on every brain fart he comes up with. He absolutely knows this. They think they're riding him, but he is absolutely riding them.
Personally I've given up on the USA. People keep on treating it as if it's some towering impregnable castle, an edifice simply too big to fail. And this ignores all of the failure - since 2001, when terrorists were able to strike at one of the great symbols of the USA, and 2007, when we found that all those banks were too big but failed and they were bailed out by the taxpayers, and 2016, when we found that a failed businessman and known fraud, cheat, abuser and liar became president because more Democrats were too apathetic to vote.
I'd much rather other nations - especially countries like Canada, Mexico, Australia and Japan, pay less attention to every brain fart that Trump uses to stir people up because they're not paying attention to him enough, and pay more attention to their other allies - each-other, China, Europe, India, and so on.

2024-12-05 21:44:27 GMT

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Obv AI generated art.

2024-12-04 20:25:33 GMT

https://chuffed.org/project/117264-emergency-bill-and-food-relief-while-workers-strike-for-safety-at-woolworths-warehouses
Woolworths and Coles are posting billion dollar profits, but apparently they can't afford to pay their workers?
The Colesworths duopoly has had an insatiable greed about it for decades. Squeeze the producers, squeeze the suppliers, squeeze the distributors, squeeze the workers, squeeze the customers. Post price rises then pretend to cut them. Demand only the best and force suppliers to dump stock rather than sell it to others. Even hoarding the land to prevent competition.
It's got to stop.

2024-12-02 02:18:22 GMT

*sigh*
I had an accident on my electric motorbike in July. Repairs on that have been complicated by Energica going into receivership in October. I need to have a meeting with the repairer to work out what we can do to get the bike repaired and on the road again.
To cover my lack of a motorbike in the short term I spent some money and bought a second-hand motorbike. I am lucky that I can afford this.
First day - first afternoon - I have the new bike and someone backs into it in a carpark and then drives off without checking it or leaving their details. The front wheel now points about 10 degrees to the left of where the steering is pointing.
Fortunately someone saw this and took down the details, and then waited in the foyer for someone wearing motorcycle gear to show up. So I have the details, and have filed a police report.
But I still have no motorbike to ride 😞

2024-11-21 07:14:23 GMT

We are all one short step away from being milkshake ducked.
Everyone has secrets. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone is imperfect. Everyone's has an unpopular opinion that they don't think it's that problematic but in the wrong hands could be blown out of proportions.
Don't cast the first stone. Don't cast any stones. Offer the hand of friendship instead.

2024-11-14 20:50:38 GMT

This is just brilliant:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/14/onion-info-wars-alex-jones?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Onion has bought "Infowars" and will turn it into 'a very funny, very stupid website'.
I'm glad Alex Jones is in the 'find out' stage of his fuckery. I hope this galls him every step of the way. I hope every asset he has, every thing he's tried to hide away, every joy he has in life is taken and sold and repays the damage he's caused. I hope this damages him.

2024-11-13 06:21:14 GMT

Started reading 'Artemis' by Andy Weir. Very good so far.

2024-10-24 07:27:59 GMT

Just a little bit of roughing down this afternoon.
Got some chunks from a friend's 50 year old Apricot tree.
https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/113/361/212/371/385/666/original/4104819e8bad3761.jpg

2024-09-25 04:40:09 GMT

How does a people person explain to a tasks person that he's trying his best to answer their questions and doesn't take offence at them being direct.
Asking for a me.

2024-09-22 04:16:27 GMT

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I think this just comes down to the Golden Rule.
Would John Wills like it if his personal information was posted online? Would he like it if his wife received LinkedIn posts telling her to tell him to stop harassing people?
And would he like it if he was trying to find a property to live only to find that the conditions of his property restricted his movements and made him clean a part of the property he did not use at all?
John Wills can fall back on the 'they said nasty things about me' excuse all he likes, but it's still up to him if he then retaliates. And if he retaliates in a way that is illegal, then he should face the law, just as the people who threaten his staff should face the law.
John Wills needs to realise that this is what having a public business is all about. Businesses trade on their reputation. If you don't want a bad reputation, then maybe not even agreeing to rent out an awful property John Wills would never live in might be a good way of preventing that.
I think what this also demonstrates is that there is a pent-up frustration in the community both with landlords with restrictive requirements, and with businesses that happily go incommunicado as soon as they have any problems. We're frustrated with the asymmetry of power between real estate agents and landlords who demand all your personal details up front before even touching you, and tenants whose requests for repairs or help go unheard.
Businesses, especially real estate agents, need to realise that their already tarnished reputation is not helped by this kind of flexing of power. I wonder if the Real Estate Association will take John Wills to task - or congratulate him....

2024-08-31 02:44:53 GMT

Well, this is a kind of a first for me. I've just sent out a media release.
It's for World EV Day in Canberra:
https://aeva.asn.au/wevdc
AEVA is the Australian 'owners group' for EVs, and we've been around for over 50 years now!
The event is at CIT Fyshwick, which runs courses training car mechanics in how to maintain and repair EVs safely. They're going to be running tours of the facility so if you want to see how mechanics get trained come along! You'll also get to see a wide range of EVs and get to ask questions of the owners.
And then at 11:30 we'll drive off around Parliament House 🙂 🚗 🔌

2024-08-15 23:21:23 GMT

Last night I went to the Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary concert in Canberra.
10/10 can recommend.
Firstly, the sound was excellent. No distortion, no need for the ear plugs I'd packed just in case it was too loud. Every instrument came through clearly and without harshness or interference.
Secondly, the skill of the musicians was top quality. These people can really play - from Jay Stapley on electric lead guitar, Maxime Obideau on a range of electric and acoustic guitars as well as mandolin, Lisa Featherston on bass and vocals, Kwesi Edman on electric cello, and Will Miles and Murray (someone) from Sydney on percussion and of course Robin Smith on keyboards. Anyone who can follow the complex key and time signature changes through Mike Oldfield's various pieces is working hard, and they aced it.
Little shout-out to the unnamed and unacknowledged sound guy who was tuning and feeding guitars to Maxime throughout, crouched down hiding behind the grand piano. Top work there mate.
Thirdly, this was a showcase of Mike Oldfield's compositional skills over the years. I'm not an expert - and I suspect more than a few people in the audience were - so I can only say I recognised Tubular Bells 1 and 2, To France, Moonlight Shadow, Family Man, and probably some parts of Hergest Ridge, Amarok, Songs of Distant Earth, finishing off with Sailors Hornpipe, and maybe some others I've forgotten at the moment. Mike at his best was a genius composer and instrumentalist - anyone who can go for complex time and key signature changes in one part of Tubular Bells and can just lock in a 20 bar melody and play it over and over adding instruments without ever losing the melody or phrasing has really achieved a vision. While I'd love to have heard more from my favourite albums - Crises and Incantations - I don't think that was a failing.
Overall, if you love music and musicianship this is a concert for you. Go see it.