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• Post #4417849

  Objective-C, the language of the future https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

• Post #4185151

  The dreaded steam driven leather clad lurgy.

• Post #4185150

  Probably bird flu. Or ebola. One of those.

• Post #4185149

  Yesterday all 6 seasons of The Expanse were on SBS. Now it’s just the 1st 3. WTF.

• Post #4185148

  Oh I bet it was the stupid Apple TV showing me Amazon. Goddamnit.

• Post #4185147

  No more World Cup. No more Expanse. And a cold. It’s sure all coming up Mikey.

• Post #4185146

  People are converting bloated websites into markdown. For the benefit of the AI. *Life finds a way .gif?*

• Post #4185145

  3 devices run Java

• Post #4185144

  Don’t understand it, but don’t see it surviving: “Oracle, as the corporate sponsor of the OpenJDK Community, is working to draft a full policy governing the use of generative AI tools in OpenJDK contributions. Oracle will propose that policy to the OpenJDK Governing Board in due course. Until that policy is in place, the Governing Board has approved this interim policy: Contributions in the OpenJDK Community must not include content generated, in part or in full, by large language models…”

• Post #4185143

  It’d be a cruel irony if Java was what we were left with.

• Post #4185142

  Daylight savings, but for zero days.

• Post #4185141

  “This would be serious for the leader of a major political party.” Or the leader of the Liberal Party. #auspol

• Post #4185140

  “The pickaxe book” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593275919/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_pDbkAbKGE08EV

• Post #4185139

  Claude's had a name change on Github so my log search wasn't working Claude <noreply etc became Claude Fable 5 <noreply etc at some point, maybe also other version numbers. so git log --all --grep="@anthropic" And hey presto. Prompted by finding Hammerspoon (a Lua scripting engine for the Mac) earlier this week. Alas they had their first Claude commit earlier this month. So, not them then.

• Post #4185138

  We come in low out of the rising sun see *swooping hand motions & vrooom dakakakaka noises*

• Post #4040515

  “When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation.” DHH. For anyone still using Ruby, Rails, etc. https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

• Post #3944519

  Newspoll ON 30 ALP 30 LibNat 19 Green 12 Other 9 The Australian (the paper) is thrilled. #auspol

• Post #3943239

  Oh man daylight. Been sitting in the dark for three hours, it’s dazzling.

• Post #3823353

  The inclusion of the miscellaneous “single issue“ category to include a bunch of right wing causes (incel, anti vax) in with the left, seemingly to bump up the left’s numbers & help both sides the thing, seems kind of desperate. I guess that’s the centrists now. Desperate. Australia does the same. That Venn diagram is purest middle management muddle. Extremists, a field guide. Bonkers. https://www.protectuk.police.uk/threat-risk/threat-analysis/threat-left-wing-anarchist-and-single-issue-...

• Post #3818203

  What a tool. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/anthony-albanese-promises-fast-track-approvals-for-datacentres-to-shore-up-ai-investment

• Post #3800336

  “Rubio invoked images of US border patrol agents and elected leaders being “dragged before an international court” and tried by judges from around the world…” Great idea! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/marco-rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court

• Post #3613247

  Hahaha there it is. Brazil falls apart now like they did against Germany that time. 7-0 beckons. #worldcup

• Post #3592614

  Good riddance to bad rubbish. #worldcup

• Post #3281873

  mac_portacl isn't loaded by default? Out of the box any user can bind to any port? I mean easy enough to change, but surprising. #freebsd

• Post #1984710

  For the kids: “Star Wars” is a movie from the 1900s.

• Post #1889884

  3:30pm. Friday. Time for cert problems. But of course.

• Post #1889883

  Cert problems are following me around. Fix the other one & decide to play with Agate on FreeBSD. There's a pkg, cool, that'll save me a ton of fiddling with config locations &... nope, doesn't like the certs I roll on the Mac I use for that. Sighs in 'it worked on Debian'. (But wondering if it's an Agate change rather than an OS one..)

• Post #1889881

  Tooting from an undisclosed ballroom.

• Post #1889880

  A “sustained, cross-border attack”. Not one of those half arsed local jobs.

• Post #1889879

  Over at the Aus, Greg Sheridan has his knickers in a knot. “What the Trump assassin’s manifesto reveals about the educated left is terrifying”. OK, I’ll bite… According to Greg, the manifesto “repeats mainstream left-liberal critiques of the Trump administration and of Trump as “pedophile, rapist and traitor”. These terms are grotesque. They arise from paranoid fantasies about Trump’s association with Jeffrey Epstein, immigration policies and military campaigns.” Lolz. #uspol #auspol