I think we need to ask them to not (only) use X for support posts. They have every other platform for their marketing.

Thank you. That looks perfect. I’ll give it a shot.

The Dingo was created as a capstone engineering project for the Bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University. This video was created as part of the project’s formal assessment and hence has been framed in a manner to suit those requirements, however, it gives a good overview of the whole project and what was achieved.

Code for the Dingo: https://github.com/Yerbert/DingoQuadruped
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3d CAD: (Solidworks) https://grabcad.com/library/dingo-robot-quadruped-2

Total cost is ~$1300 AUD. Full BOM can be found in the GitHub

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, on the heals of everyone copying our teen social media laws, Australia we’re to introduce a mandatory per token royalty for copyright holder not proved to be excluded from the training data, and everyone in the world were to follow suit.

We’ve got to assume anything ever written, photographed, spoken, or recorded has been scraped, so the burden of proof needs to be to prove it wasn’t used or derived from.

Otherwise all copyright is dead. Why can an AI company steal work, but someone else not?

If Men at Work can be sued for taking a riff from a kids song, then surely

It’s no surprise that those with money who are being impacted are making as much noise as possible. It really irked me when there was all that startup meme rubbish, mainly because of how misleading and disingenuous it was.

But, I think there is room for improvement. I take the view that two of the main problems Australia has are:

1. lack of personal financial security because people don’t live in their own homes, part of which is the cost of living issues, homelessness, and just general fear which leads to a lot of the right wing opportunism.

2. Poor business environment, caused by high operating costs (see point 1 - it’s the same cause) and poor funding environment. This in turn leads to a lack of sovereign capabilities, meaning we buy foreign services riddled with surveillance (see electric cars, online services, government services contracts, etc).

What we need is housing not to be used for speculation, and high investor returns, and have it used for providing security and shelter to people.

We need that money to now be put into Australian businesses. Specifically new and small businesses, but really, any business that actually does things in the world, employs Australians, and adds to our national capability.

Make a carve out for those businesses (not just startups) so the tax sector incentives building Australia’s capabilities, not rent seeking, not speculation, not investing in foreign assets.

Australian made 3D filament. I’ve not tried yet, but I’ll be soon.

https://3dfm.au/

I almost feel the idea of being “emasculated” is a made up mislabeling of a feeling born of something else that’s going on in the person’s life.

I’m about as a heteronormative male as you’ll find, but I can’t say (in my adult life) I’ve ever felt negativity about the role I play in the house, family, etc, and I do a lot of the child raising, house work, etc.

The negative feelings I get are around not being “useful”, or appreciated, or given the space to do the things I do to recharge.

To me, the whole point of having kids is to raise them, teach them, hang out with them, help them, enjoy their company, etc. if you just want to go to work to provide for them, I’m not entirely sure having kids was such a good idea. Kids need your love and attention, and they are only here because you brought them here.

Of course, I know some people have no choice, and that is sad. And sometimes you think you want one thing, and it doesn’t feel right when you get there. But I’d hope neither of those things should get tied up in gender roles.

Maybe we just need some more openness about these things so we get some good role models, and reassurance we’re doing the right thing?

Parenting is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and it’s very different person to person, family to family, and a far stretch from the fantasy that’s shown on TV. Made harder by the way we’ve structured our societies.

It definitely is from the perspective of energy, but I think these mobile surveillance devices are their own national security threat. Admittedly, this applies to all modern cars, but EVs probably get away with more -sneaky- smart features that have unverifiable data handling.
There’d need to be some very hard core vetting and attestation to be even remotely trustable.

I’ve had that same silent Snap install issue, except for Docker CE. Anytime my dev containers die I know where to look.