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Sydney folk, your local Surplus-Alladins-Cave Website-Stuck-in-1999 is https://www.oatleyelectronics.com Brisbane folk: if we have one, PLEASE TELL ME! (It’s me, isn’t it?) From: @Unixbigot https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/114079081290070695

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Why am I utterly unsurprised by this? Not by cops abusing access privileges, or even by other cops busting them, but by their dismal failure to tackle cybercrime that isn't right under their collective nose while the Home Office idiotically does the equivalent of trying to ban lockable front […]

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USD$92 #SavedYouAClick I’d buy that if i hadn’t spent twice as much on something half as good a year ago. From: @cnxsoft https://noc.social/@cnxsoft/114081076647537581

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"And finally, where do you see yourself in five years time?" "Hmm." The candidate pondered. "Is this where I say in your place?" "If you—" "But frankly, I'd prefer a remote island, and sheep my only neighbours." "Well..." The interviewer winked. "Nothing wrong with being an #optimist." […]

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“Why did you choose this Linux distro?” “ChatGPT told me it was the best” #cannot #even

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“Ho, traveler what good news from the outworld” “Little good, I am afraid. I have much of the other ki–“ “–no, thank you. Only good. We ask refugees to leave the other kind at our border.” “Well, the I heard that the mastodons are returning to the plains” “Capital! Welcome to our forest” […]

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Hey #Melbourne folks, local surplus aladdin's cave Rockby Elec have big ass lithium iron-phosphate batteries in their weekly sale (cc @jpm https://www.rockby.com.au/Rockby/Mailer/MADD0925_1.cfm

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Life is what you make of it.

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I remember hearing in the 80s that once all the easy fossil files had been extracted the world might have to turn to marginal deposits such as oil-shales. I wondered whatever happened about that. TIL that’s what fracking is. (And also that “oilmen” omit the K from the term). Natural gas, the […]

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“Ho, traveler what good news from the outworld” “Little good, I am afraid. I have much of the other ki–“ “–no, thank you. Only good. We ask refugees to leave the other kind at our border.” “Well, the I heard that the mastodons are returning to the plains” “Capital! Welcome to our forest” […]

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I’ve always, when taking a blouse from the to-be-folded-pile¹, done this thing where—if the item happens to be inside-out—locating the label and the sticking my head through the neck-hole, then de-inverting the garment over my body. The rather small number of people who have ever watched me get […]

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More Jedi propaganda disproven

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What the FUCK? WebCentral.au (my domain registrar) is telling me they have an old canceleld ABN associated with my account, and cannot renew the domain until I update it. They want to charge me $120 to update it. Anyone know if this is AuDa bullshit or WebCentral bullshit?

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Normalize asking “were you a mediocrity hire?”

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I’ve always, when taking a blouse from the to-be-folded-pile¹, done this thing where—if the item happens to be inside-out—locating the label and the sticking my head through the neck-hole, then de-inverting the garment over my body. The rather small number of people who have ever watched me get […]

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You always felt kind of sad when walking past an overgrown, sometimes half-buried railway line. So much work went into connecting communities and providing a network of low-cost transport, that you feel a rip in your heart over your grandparents act of letting the vines of connection on wither […]

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(A repost for #solarpunk and #resilience folk of today’s edition of my #PowerOnStoryToot series) — You always felt kind of sad when walking past an overgrown, sometimes half-buried railway line. So much work went into connecting communities and providing a network of low-cost transport, that […]

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I noticed someone mentioning that they couldn't afford "How Git Works" right now. we have a "buy one give one" program where we give away 1 free copy for every zine sold. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy of How Git Works if $12 is a lot for you […]

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You always felt kind of sad when walking past an overgrown, sometimes half-buried railway line. So much work went into connecting communities and providing a network of low-cost transport, that you feel a rip in your heart over your grandparents act of letting the vines of connection on wither […]

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NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

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“Hey look, your circuit board is on the news!” Normally that’d be cool but this time it was my open source phased array eddy-current inducer using JLCPCB’s new Barium-Copper-Mendelevium superconducting track process. Any time there's a new manufacturing process that reaches market there's a […]

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[heckin extra aussie spiders] Via my kid to the family chat with the warning “Not for [eldest sib]” New giant funnel web species. Video contains entirely appropriate swearing. https://youtube.com/shorts/vy3rncs8DsY

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Julie Packard, outgoing Executive Director of Monterey Bay Aquarium and one of its founders, has an open letter in defense of #NOAA and ocean science https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/defense-noaa-ocean-science-julie-packard-w6d2c/ #Monterey #MontereyBayAquarium #Science #Oceanography #Marine […]

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“Hey look, your circuit board is on the news!” Normally that’d be cool but this time it was my open source phased array eddy-current inducer using JLCPCB’s new Barium-Copper-Mendelevium superconducting track process. Any time there's a new manufacturing process that reaches market there's a […]

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This is how an Australian journalist dog-whistles “they were black” when the court has suppressed identification of the minors alleged to have crimed. Locals will hear the dog-whistle loud and clear. This media narrative is why my 80yo parents keep their doors […] [Original post on aus.social]

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My uncle used to manage a zoo. The family lived on site (on the second story of the reptile house, but that’s not important right now¹). My then-teenaged cousin was enlisted to care for an orphaned Wallaroo (aka rock wallaby, like a fluffier miniature kangaroo, and yes of course she named him […]

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For the DOGE, I stand here for him: what bullet points to him from the people? Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my people; an' if your MAGA's highness Do not, in grant of all demands at large […]

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I always find those long nosed truck-buses you see in USA media hilarious. Youse ought know the rest of the would is sniggering at the quaintness. In my town the municipal transport provider does the school runs using the same air conditioned, comfortable green energy buses as for all other […]

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"Chat GPT told me that it can't alter its data set but it did say it could simulate what it would be like if it altered it's data set" NO. It has no idea if it's telling the truth or not and when it says "I can simulate what this would be like" This guy is pretty sharp about philosophy but […]

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I nearly wrote “Microsoft Trams” just then, and feel like I came awfully close to copping a cruise missile from the Catgirl Navy.

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Gettin’ Big Boris out for some experiments.

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Gettin’ Big Boris out for some experiments.

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For the DOGE, I stand here for him: what bullet points to him from the people? Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome The mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my people; an' if your MAGA's highness Do not, in grant of all demands at large […]

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GitHub is joining the 2FA No Repeat Challenge! We sent a challenge notification to the Donkey Kong Game and Watch you got for your fourteenth birthday had in 1985. Respond to the challenge on this device or click HERE to receive a challenge on the Centipede arcade machine at the corner milk bar.

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I always find those long nosed truck-buses you see in USA media hilarious. Youse ought know the rest of the would is sniggering at the quaintness. In my town the municipal transport provider does the school runs using the same air conditioned, comfortable green energy buses as for all other […]

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You pronouns should contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, at least one symbol except “ or ;, the scent of rosewood, a cuneiform poem and a SHA256 hash.

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The disadvantage of living on a mature planet is how tedious it makes nuclear power. After 5 billion years the soup of spicy fresh supernova juice that formed us is tuckered out. The best elements have decayed away. Ol' reliable Uranium is still here, but past its prime. The proportions of […]

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