Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed
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0·2 hours agoGovt responds to fuel shortage by pushing the price down, thereby increasing consumption and maintaining dependence.
This is fine.
I don’t know. Last I saw was a PR languishing for years.
0·7 hours agoSure. But still nothing like some countries - https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/feb/23/uk-food-security-cyber-attack-riots-tinderbox-analysis
This is an attempt to work around the lack of support for groups in Mastodon.
Anyone who wants tags.pub to be a thing should just use the threadiverse instead.
Short term:
Free public transport.
Free bikes for everyone.
Begin emergency repairs on any old busses that can be pressed into service.
Implement a priority system for who gets fuel:
Tier 1: healthcare, emergency services
Tier 2: food production & distribution
Tier 3: essential infrastructure (power, water, telecoms)
Everything else: on yer bike, son (or heavily rationed)
Ration fertilizer. A lot of it is wasted, currently.
Daily govt briefings - what’s happening, what is being prioritised, what people should do. Maintain clear communication and transparency.
Medium term (but start NOW):
Electrify all busses.
Trams. Melbourne is going to need a lot more of those.
Repair neglected railways.
Move freight by rail and ship as much as possible.
Build cycling infrastructure. Secure places to park many many bikes next to train stations - big sheds.
Remove regulatory barriers for local food production, farmers markets. Encourage urban gardening, local trade networks.
Plant corn fucking everywhere - ethanol.
Strategic reserves of critical medicines, etc.
Diversify food production - for local needs, not for export market needs.
Like deer in the headlights.
0·2 days agoIt’d stop them launching ships to lay mines, or launching midget submarines and naval drones, which is a start. It might keep the Iranians too busy fighting on land to aim at ships. It’d basically be an open wound for USA though - completely unsustainable.
Then there’s the fantasy of naval escorts for tankers. Each tanker would require a couple of ships to shadow them (anti-air, anti-sub, anti-drone) for the entire length of the gulf (not just the strait) and in normal times 120 tankers pass through there every day. You’d need a fleet ~400 ships strong, running 24/7 (no repairs or rest). And it only takes one hit from an anti-ship missile and hundreds of sailors die. So that ain’t happening.
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To do that they’d need to occupy 1000+ kms of extremely rugged coast. That’s quite a commitment…
You could install Nextcloud on the VPS, configure Nextcloud to store things in S3, and use Nextcloud’s apps on the clients. And have Nextcloud provide webdav services and use your client OSs native webdav tooling.
251·2 days ago“this meeting could have been an email” --> “this app could have been a website”
Sometimes they mean “make the share market go down”, while the share market is just a graph of rich people’s feelings about the future.
The biggest similarity for me is that the govt will wait and wait, too scared to do anything that might “harm the economy”. Until it’s too late.
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0·3 days agoThere are a lot of owls. But also cat, dogs, etc - https://piefed.social/topic/wholesome
I couldn’t get past the second level :(
And then there’s the helium supply shortage, on top of that - https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html
0·3 days agoI am employed by a tiny software dev shop that develops a few apps used in education. No AI at all, unless I proactively choose to and pay for it out of my own pocket.
We’ll all be riding bikes in a couple of months anyway.
Might as well do it in a controlled and measured way rather than leave it to the market which will mean some assholes hoard it while people die from a lack of ambulances, etc.