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• Post #4425336

  I wasn't expecting this weekend to be a romance weekend, but babe just asked if we can schedule a @GrapheneOS install!!

• Post #4425335

  Hey folks, letting you know that the #Newkind Australian Social Change Conference is coming up, running from 30th Sept through to 4th October this year in Dja Dja Wurrung Country, in Redbank, Victoria. This is genuinely one of the best events I've ever attended, and I'm very fortunate to be speaking again this year. The event prices includes all meals, entertainment, and a place for you to camp, with an option of tent hire available. The conference is family friendly. I&#39...

• Post #4371665

  I'd forgotten that I wrote Harry Potter and the Australian Bureau of Statistics some ten years ago, but since I'm getting AO3 kudos I'm guessing it's #census time again. https://archiveofourown.org/works/7728838 #census2026 #census26

• Post #4298423

  Me: "Did you know that if you're in the vacuum of space, your lungs continue to do gas exchange, but because there's no air they just strip all the oxygen out of your blood? You've got something like 12 seconds before you're unconscious from hypoxia." Kids: "Wait, you were scared of the ghost story we told you by a fake campfire, but somehow you're okay knowing *this*!?" #parenting

• Post #4259865

  An Australian supermarket is distributing Disney licensed figurines, and I almost died when I heard a child say "I guess I'll trade my Woody for Anxiety". #parenting

• Post #4162257

  Ugh, I'm migrating a jellyfin instance across to an entirely different operating system (Windows to Linux Container), and it does not want to be straightforward. https://jellyfin.org/

• Post #4128779

  Happy Australian Emergency Test Alert Hour!

• Post #4000021

  Finding https://www.worseonpurpose.com/ to be an interesting read. #enshittification

• Post #3974609

  I have such mixed feelings looking at us going through the collapse of western civilisation. On one hand it has the possibility to do a lot of good, to reduce much of the inequity that western civilisation maintains. But on the other hand, the transition can be rough, and I want people to be okay. Collapse rarely happens all at once, and so I desperately hope for a transition that's as smooth as it can be, but I know there will be shocks along the way. The biggest thing I worry about is...

• Post #3948251

  Okay, so I'm happy for them to say they found some fuel for the Apollo CSM. I'm willing to forgive Ed doing a wild untethered throw rather than just driving up next to the CSM and handing it over. I'm happy at a stretch for that to somehow be enough fuel for the CSM to get back to Earth. However my ability to suspend disbelief has been completely shaken by the CSM somehow having its RCS replenished as well. Even if this is an alternate universe, I find it hard to believe the RCS and...

• Post #3883294

  Hey Australian homelab friends. If you want an ex-enterprise PowerEdge T630 server with 48TB(!) of storage on-board, 6 spare bays for whatever you want, dual power supplies, and capacity for up to (checks notes) 1.5TB of RAM, then this could be for you. (NB: Only 32GB RAM installed) You can get the price down to $750 if you sign up for ebay's free premium trial, and apply the 'TAX17' voucher. I then cancelled my trial, because I don't do subscriptions. Otherwise chuck in TAX15 t...

• Post #3873478

  Coming out of a short depressive episode, which is good. This one wasn't subtle. Absolutely nothing brought me any joy, which at least made it easy to recognise as brain chemistry and not anything else. Bae, bless her heart, asked if my depression was from all the C++ I'd been looking at, and I had to explain it was instead the other way around.

• Post #3849684

  Hello C++ friends, is there an equivalent of perlcritic or phpstan for C++? Plenty of compilers and linters will give me warnings when I'm doing things wrong, but I want something that says "what you're doing is fine, but best practices would be to…" Thank you in advance!

• Post #3778037

  @dexter@bsd.network : Questionable Content is a web comic that's been continuously running for over 20 years, and Comic Rocket is a now rather old website from very good people that helps you keep track of where you are in your web-comics. Unfortunately, the Questionable Content (QC) website got hacked a while back, and was down for a while. It's now back, but due to changes in the HTTP Response headers it would no longer load in Comic Rocket. Of course, QC also offers an RSS feed, and...

• Post #3777916

  Hey folks, I don't know if any of you played Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (BARIS) back in the early '90s, but I thought you should know there's an updated version under an open source (GPL) license for modern operating systems: Race Into Space¹. Being a 1990s game, you absolutely want to read the manual² before play. You also need to be prepared for the 1990s aesthetic, where any sort of animation and sound effects were considered cool AF. May you go to (a 1990s simulation of...

• Post #3774501

  Hello web friends! Anyone have any experiences (positive or negative) or scandals around the #Requestly Interceptor plugin? Looking at using it for stand-alone personal use. Thanks! https://github.com/requestly/interceptor

• Post #3758076

  Finally got a shingles vaccine in my arm. Much less unpleasant than the chickenpox party¹ my parents took me to in the 80s. Although I think I could have been patient zero at the pox party. I was too young to remember. — ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party

• Post #3707628

  Hey folks, superb base-building game Against The Storm is free-to-play this weekend. It gets overwhelmingly positive reviews, and rightly so. The game is *extremely* well tuned, with options to give yourself extra challenges or breathing room as suits your playstyle. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336490/Against_the_Storm/

• Post #3705502

  The kids aren't here and I intend to spend the entire day asleep underneath a cat. #parenting #schoolHolidays

• Post #3621466

  This shouldn't surprise me in the least, but goodness my driving instructor is pro-driving.

• Post #3387596

  Heck yes!! #Naarm #Melbourne's favourite zine distributor, #StickyInstitute, is back! #zines https://melbourne.askapunk.net/event/sticky-institute-diy-zine-store-launch-party

• Post #3359170

  Today's delightful nerd deep dive reading was this post on how to make your own soldering flux from pine resin: https://northcoastsynthesis.com/news/homemade-traditional-resin-flux/

• Post #3331679

  I have no idea if my SAD lamp outperforms a placebo, but because the placebo effect is very real, it doesn't have to.

• Post #3330589

  I have to send a boring email and of course my brain is convinced that it's the end of the world. #ADHD

• Post #3329851

  Another "disposable" vape found, another rechargable lithium battery for me. #RepairCafe #Solarpunk

• Post #3324028

  [butterfly-meme.png] Is this security?

• Post #3297513

  Me: "Okay, I've found my safety gloves, so now I can use the kitchen hatchet." Mr 9: "Can I use the axe?" Me: "I'm sorry. It's dangerous. That's why I had to find the gloves." Mr 9: "Can I just hold the coconut while you open it?" Me: "No, I'm sorry. Holding it is actually the most dangerous part." Mr 9: "But I'll hold it really well!" Me: "Oh, it's not that. It's what happens if I slip with th...

• Post #3273234

  Hey X-COM (2012) friends. Some of you may remember what *really* made this game amazing was the "Long War" mod, from Pavonis Interactive, with the X-COM creators themselves stating¹ "We're basically a 20-hour tutorial for Long War, and that's okay." It was that good. Pavonis went on to create the incredible game Terra Invicta², but did you know that Long War continued to be improved upon by Ucross, as the Long War Rebalance project? It's good, like really *real...

• Post #3110618

  Me (reading parenting book): "Huh. It says here a good question to ask your kids is 'if you could change one family rule, what would it be and why?'. That's funny, because I don't think we have family rules." Kids: "Yes we do! We have one family rule!" Me: "We do!?" Kids: "Yeah! The rule is not to give you any ideas!" Me: 😮 #parenting

• Post #3089499

  I get there are some industries that require people to be chronically LinkedIn, but this feels a bit ridiculous to have on a 'meet the team' page…