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bigiain

@bigiain@aus.social
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Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd.

Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.)

So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

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Joined April 16, 2019
Pronouns:
I think of myself as he/him, but will not get offended if you use something else.
Work:
They call me "Tech Director". I worry about security, privacy, data, & cloud architecture.
Home:
Gadigal Land (never ceded), Sydney Australia

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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · 5d ago
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @scott@carfree.city
@scott@carfree.city They’ll be Leven Four Autonomous Driving in six (Elon) months! (Note: Elon Minths are a unit of measurement only used in Tesla earning calls, and generally one Elon Month represents somewhere between 2 years and eternity) @minmi@sfba.social
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 31, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
@xssfox@cloudisland.nz I wonder what the "weapons" were? Did they find illegal firearms? Or a poor kid with a screwdriver in his pocket?
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 26, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt That's a big pentlobeiapod in the middle there.
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 26, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @nihilistnomya@aus.social
@nihilistnomya@aus.social I am now singing "I think the monkey's comin' out to play": https://youtu.be/9W5o33yqRec
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 17, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
Maybe the reason llms work so well for programming is because everyone just wants a CRUD app, and really we had a system that already worked for that Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
@xssfox@cloudisland.nz I reckon maybe 70 or 80% of the work I've "shipped" since 1995 could have been done using FileMakerPro - which I used for the first ever "database backed website" demo I built in Dec 1995. (We were a Mac shop, not a Windows shop - so same same but different.)
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 03, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
@xssfox@cloudisland.nz What are a main costs? Just web/api requests? Can you maybe aggressively cache things behind a cdn, trading off “realtimeness” to reduce expensive api requests?
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 01, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Virginicus@universeodon.com
@Virginicus@universeodon.com Fair call. That was a rough year, with Prince passing a few months later as well… @larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org @davefischer@hachyderm.io @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 01, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @libroraptor@mastodon.nz
@libroraptor@mastodon.nz Reminds me of the story about Gandhi: “What do you think of Western civilization?” “I think it would be a good idea.” @deepmud@mas.to @ktdoggett@c.im
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 01, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @davefischer@hachyderm.io
@davefischer@hachyderm.io In my head at least, that was Abigail on comp.lang.perl.misc - it quickly became shortened to "the endless September". (For anyone who wasn't around at the time, September each year was when new college students in the US got their first access to the internet - and for a while after they started all the existing usenet people/groups needed to coax and coach all those newbies about expected norms and behaviours. When AOL gave the general public internet/usenet access in 1993 - that turned into a continuous and unrelenting deluge of newbs and "ruined everything"...) @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jun 17, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @chaucerburnt@aus.social
@chaucerburnt@aus.social Are we _sure_ "Frodo" wasn't HIM in a gorilla suit? @Jyoti@mas.to
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jun 05, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @unnick@booping.synth.download
@unnick@booping.synth.download My eyes skimmed over that and then went "Wait. What? Posix pronouns? Blushing???"
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 15, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social

RE: @abstractcode@eigenmagic.net

So @1password@1password.social are now vibecoding their service. :facepalm:

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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 13, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social

@sortius@infosec.exchange Deleting your posts shitting on me? Classy as fuck dude... Carry on with your "I used to work in a cafe" superiority complex and your suopermarket coffee beans ego.

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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 13, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Relevant: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/speaking-of-robot-bartenders/ This from the comments hit me hard: "Yeah, the age of that idea actually being fun seems to have passed." h/t to @jwz@mastodon.social
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 13, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems I am currently focusing on projects that fundamentally rely on soldering irons and hot glue, instead of just code. (Although I fear the day that ChatGPT’s $1,000 per month “Pro Real World” plan includes a pair of six fingered robot arms.)
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 12, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @anon_opin@mastodon.social
@anon_opin@mastodon.social You should also be required by law to have all empty seats filled with clowns.
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bigiain
bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 08, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @twipped@twipped.social
@twipped@twipped.social I'm assuming that the "Pro-Life" attitudes apply. "Radically pro-transgender" means: We will jail anybody who doesn't do what we do. We will; jail anybody who helps anybody else. We will allow you to die instead of receive appropriate, safe, and necessary medical care. You _will_ become transgender!!! @cstross@wandering.shop @soatok@furry.engineer
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 07, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @sugar@goblin.camp
@sugar Cannot reproduce. WONTFIX
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 07, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social And if you were born sufficiently before about 1970, you'll end that with: " ... All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die"
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 01, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay They must have Simple Minds. https://youtu.be/9hRAXUsqjDM?t=121
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 01, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net
@stilgherrian Boom ti ti ti tish. https://youtu.be/pRgHYWOtqqc?t=11
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 29, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Mustardfacial@infosec.exchange
@Mustardfacial @catsalad Can you grab me a dozen or so different .aws/credentials?
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 28, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @layoutSubviews@mastodon.social
@layoutSubviews@mastodon.social I predict these "upgrades" will go very very badly. The NSW State government does not know how to computer. (And the federal government too.) I'd bet reasonable money on it being over a year late, and at least doubling it's proposed $820million budget. I wonder which Big 4 Consulting Partner is ordering a new yacht after landing this contract?
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 28, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @casuscalamitas@spore.social
@casuscalamitas BRB. Getting some "Opinionfluencer" business cards printed. @stilgherrian
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 28, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net
@stilgherrian Cheese is awesome! (Is this a subtoot about mpesce???)
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 24, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Ralph@hear-me.social
@Ralph "The method was 'wishful thinking'." The methodology was 'lying to potential investors'. Or perhaps - the methodology was institutionalised fraud. @paco
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 23, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social

Stupid Qld cops (ACAB) and politicians (sold out to radical Zionism):

https://youtu.be/M5w5CV-m50I?si=x8huYizTJLCL-b9_

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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 17, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Unixbigot@aus.social
@Unixbigot BRB. Gonna vibe code an extension to GasTown that uses Shodan to find public AI ChatBots, then abuses their LLMs to run coding agents!
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 16, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @mia@hcommons.social
@mia Congratulations! That sounds fun!
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 14, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca
@mhoye This reminds me of Block Together and Gamergate and Randi Harper. Very similar problem and solution from 10-12 years back on Twitter. @thisismissem
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 10, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
@hacks4pancakes I did not get to pet any cats today, so I’m jealous of your day…
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Apr 09, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social
@wezm Looks like I will be upgrading my Ubuntu24.04 machines at home to 25 on the weekend...
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Mar 25, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @su_liam@mas.to
@su_liam@mas.to “Trickledown” @MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us @Daojoan@mastodon.social
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Mar 25, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Daojoan@mastodon.social
@Daojoan@mastodon.social … this is a post about Firefox.
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Mar 20, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @benh@mastodon.scot
@benh@mastodon.scot You must be new here. (Where “here” is “the internet. @jwz@mastodon.social @dangillmor@mastodon.social
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Mar 07, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @mia@hcommons.social
@mia I just _know_ there’s some techbro arsehole reading that and already working on his “AI powered surgery” startup pitch. “Disrupt the inefficiencies of the ten year medical training industry!”
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Mar 06, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @VictimOfSimony@infosec.exchange
@VictimOfSimony@infosec.exchange Yeah. As I see it there are two important implications. 1) the original authors/copyright holders could pursue them. And 2) anybody else could take the code and do whatever they want with it, because the AI rewrite cannot be copywrited. I reckon there’ll be more hilarious unintended consequences from the second. @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Mar 06, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @VictimOfSimony@infosec.exchange
@VictimOfSimony@infosec.exchange The "can't copyright it" is the one I'm pondering. As I understand it software licences are build around the concept of owning copyright in the code. And recent US legal rulings are saying you cannot copyright LLM output. So can you even licence an AI generated codebase? I _think_ the recent US Supreme Court decision to not re hear a lower courts ruling that AI art cannot be copyrighted) means that AI software also cannot be copyrighted for the same reason - "that it wasn't made by a human author" ??? @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Feb 26, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @mjd@mathstodon.xyz
@mjd @amenonsen I find it lacks bacon, sausages, and to a slightly lesser extent hash browns and baked beans. And cheese.And it’s missing the entire cereal vector with its associated fruit and yoghurt accompaniments
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Feb 21, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @ifixcoinops@retro.social
@ifixcoinops@retro.social Insert that xkcd meme that’s been going around this week, with “some people only own 2 or 3 domains” “and a dot io version of at least one of them”
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Feb 17, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @jwz@mastodon.social
@jwz @rstevens I’m starting to harbor a borderline conspiracy theory that all the ex cryptocurrency grifters who are now AI (cocaine) grifters have worked out they don’t need AI to _work_, because what the whole industry/bubble is actually designed and being used for, is to create artificial scarcity in real world resources instead of magic internet beans. If you have a conspiracy/consortium that can create artificial scarcity for things people and companies need by controlling global ram and hard disk supply, you can price gouge everybody and make usurious profits. If you own contracts for all the electricity and water in places you claim to be building data centers you can profit from that. If you can price ownership of the means of computation out of reach of anyone not part of your consortium everyone else will be forced into renting compute from data centers, many of which your consortium controls. If you prop this up with circular paper value only contracts and agreements between you global consortium members there is no legal jurisdiction that can easily hold you to account for racketeering or conspiracy. Perhaps the reason AI doesn’t work is because it only needs to work in the context of investor demos and to get techbros hooked thinking they’re gonna be part of the “getting rich” phase when AI shows its real potential “within 6 to 12 months”.
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Feb 09, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @LeBonk@wetdry.world
@LeBonk@wetdry.world My approach would be to combine the two programs. The Flockyou code lets you have a list of MAC address prefixes - which is effectively the same as device manufacturers - technically "OUIs" - and have it detect them.. I'd use that to scan for Ring's MAC address prefixes then when one is found have the deauth code from esp32-wifi-penetration-tool deauth the detected Ring device from it's Wi-Fi network. So it's combining the two codebases (or parts of them), and running it all on one ESP32. @adastra1930@mastodon.social @Viss@mastodon.social @zog@jauntygoat.net @blogdiva@mastodon.social
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jan 17, 2026
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @adastra1930__dup_21983@mastodon.social
@adastra1930@mastodon.social You can build a device that de-auths a Ring camera’s WiFi, for under $10. Here’s a good start: https://ambientnode.uk/wifi-deauth-esp32/ Combine that with this, tuned to Ring’s MAC address prefixes: https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/flock-you @Viss@mastodon.social @zog@jauntygoat.net @blogdiva@mastodon.social
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Dec 24, 2025
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @fabio@manganiello.eu
@MaSven@chaos.social I had that turn out to be useful last week, when my boarding pass in Apple Wallet kept updating the departure gate number and boarding time when weather delayed everything. @fabio@manganiello.eu @OddDev@floss.social
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Dec 24, 2025
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop “Inoray they eat bald people like me first.”
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Nov 25, 2025
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop
@cstross@wandering.shop @davidgerard@circumstances.run Hmmm, for some reason the concept of LLMs as "reusable object oriented (english) language components" popped into my head. ChatGPT as NPM, and it's users blandly importing leftpad.js into their work documents...
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jun 06, 2025
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @Flash@mastodon.world
@Flash@mastodon.world Next minute, SpaceX launches a couple of hundred drones out of the back of parked Cybertrucks, which attack the shitty second hand 747 the Saudi's gave to Trump.
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · May 08, 2025
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
@xssfox@cloudisland.nz Yay! I'm "normal"!!! (I saw a bumper sticker about 20 years ago that still lives in my brain. "Normal people scare me.")
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Mar 20, 2025
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @endrift@social.treehouse.systems
@endrift@social.treehouse.systems I'd include my Kindles, my AppleTVs, my iPod Touch (which still works great) and my PlayStation too. I sometimes laugh at all the screen sizes I have at hand, my smartwatches, my iPod Touch, my phones, my small tablet, my kindles, my large tablet, my laptops, my desktops/monitors, my TV, and my projector...
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bigiain @bigiain@aus.social · Jul 28, 2023
bigiain
@bigiain@aus.social

Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
 I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd. Turns out I don't seem to talk much coffee or motorcycles here. (Not entirely sure why? I do motorcycles pretty comprehensively on web forums, but I guess I'm not geeking about coffee much online these days.) So mostly non-gaming geek stuff, infosec, privacy, music. Some days mostly snark.

aus.social
Replying to @nickwedig@dice.camp
@nickwedig@dice.camp Also Hollywood: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the words everybody else has ever created, and feed them into our tools to make movies and TV shows without needing writers. Everyone: Hang on, wasn't it you guys that made sure all those words you're using are covered by that same copyright rules you tall us makes downloading your movies illegal? Hollywood: Hollywood: Copyright laws are for _us_, not for _you_!
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