🚓 "Please provide evidence the car does not use leaded fuel."

It's an electric car.

🚓 "Please provide evidence of the fuel used by the car."

wat

One of my favourite* things is explaining cloud concepts to enterprise infosec compliance checklist people used to physical datacentres with traditional servers and networks.

I have worked on bank IT systems. "Bank-level security" is not the reassuring phrase you seem to believe it is.

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It's basically another "a lot of time has passed, and the information is of little value now" situation, so they're less scared of people finding out what they were up to.

Random #FOI update news: DEWR have basically agreed I was right about most of my material complaints about their claimed exemptions about the Points Based Activation System https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/business_case_for_the_points_bas#incoming-27779 from 4 years ago.

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This Jepsen report on what seems to be a slopcoded database is amazing. Unsafe at any speed. https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4#discussion

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The fact that you can't tell the difference should disqualify you from a position of power or authority.

It's not "lovingly handcrafted" it's professional engineering, you amateur-hour dilettantes flooding the zone with hastily constructed bullshit.

[A lot went into local ACT govt for a bit, apparently, not just other federal agencies.]

"An algorithm used by the federal government to assess the level of care older Australians are entitled to is unreasonable, unfair and lacks human oversight, according to a damning investigation by the commonwealth ombudsman.

The investigation also found transparency recommendations from the robodebt royal commission have been ignored."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/26/damning-investigation-labor-algorithm-tool-aged-care-assessment

Well yeah. You think the abusive Victorian-era "undeserving poor" mentality was limited to half a dozen SES in DHS? Where do you think all the robodebt enablers went to rehab their careers?

Brief test of the aircon to try to avoid discovering a) it's broken right when we need it and b) we're trying to get it fixed at the same time as everyone else.
Also lots of free* electrons around at the moment.

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It has never been more obvious that a *lot* of software developers are credulous marks that will commit fully and immediately to whatever shiny new toy they just saw.

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Almost forgot my greeting. Been a busy morning.