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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]

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:heart_cyber: JesseBot :they_them: @jessebot.social.open.engineering.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

It remains wild to me just how bad AI generated _anything_ looks when you're a subject matter expert in that thing. Similarly, it remains really sad to me when I see Claude "generate" code, and then find the project from 8 years ago that it completely word for word stole from. I assume LLMs […]

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Eastern Water Dragon we saw this afternoon while on a walk, near the confluence of the Merri Creek and Yarra River. Those colours and stripes are such a wonderful camouflage, so I think I was lucky to notice it when it moved. #EasternWaterDragon #WaterDragon […] [Original post on aus.social]

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

This is farked. Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices. And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse: "Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This is more of a comment than a question. There's a post going around, in which the author asks for suggestions about choosing software with some specific, niche requirements. The wording is clear and concise. You can tell the author knows what they're talking about, has already had a solid […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Square Throw Pillow Cushion Cover Case Pillowcase Self-inflating Whoopee-cushion with Jocular Curse for Belligerent Sofa of Pyrolytic Relaxation Supremely Oxidative Combine Multiple Designs in any Home Decor for Hypergolic Emotional Bonding over Satan's Goonsack […] [Original post on aus.social]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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Ugly Reykjavik @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm sure there's a good reason this door has two handles. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #door #red

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Today's affirmation message: Your hack doesn't have to look beautiful. It just has to work. That's what gives your hack true beauty.

A macro photo of an LED Strip stuck on to a piece of aluminium extrusion.

This LED strip is in horizontal orientation, and approximately 10mm high. It's been manufactured with a series of 5050 SMD LEDs (0.5 X 0.5 mm surface mount device light emitting diodes).
In the middle of this photo is a section of the LED Strip with a series of tiny copper pads, like on a printed circuit board. They're labelled "+12V", "G", "R", "B" to significantly what each pad is for: connection points for a "common anode" arrangement with positive 12 Volts power, and individual connection points for the ground for each of the RGB power rails for the LEDs.
In this installation, a large blob of solder has been applied to bridge together all of the RGB pads. In other words, applying power to any part of the circuit will deliver power to all of the LEDs equally. There's no need for complicated circuitry to mix colours if all you want in a hurry is white light.

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Coles should update their jingle to "Down, down, our webservers are down." This morning the Coles website is down again, and it appears it's not a transient glitch. This is less than two months since the last major incident that caused significant downtime. Funny how Google and a couple of […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Yeah, felt a few oscillations lateral shiftiness in that earthquake. Geoscience Australia reports the earthquake was magnitude 4.8, at a depth of 10km, and centred near Leongatha. #Earthquake #Australia #Victoria #Melbourne #Geoscience #GeoscienceAustralia

Screenshot of earthquake report at https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/

It's cropped to show just a map of southern and central Victoria and some of the sea off to the south. Melbourne is roughly in the middle of the map. There's also a large red dot to indicate the location of the earthquake. It appears the earthquake was centred near the town of Leongatha in Gippsland, 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne.

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@zzt Great, somehow you've earwormed me with the oh-so-cheerful "99 Luftballons" by Nena.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Huh. A YouTuber designed from scratch their own custom microprocessor, and got a batch made, just for fun (and views). I knew that custom PCB design and manufacture has been cheap and easy enough for hobby projects for some time now, and that FPGAs existed and could be used for custom digital […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The nearest local cafe changed ownership and name recently. Haven't tried them yet, but they've had a couple of months to get their act together. Their idea of a "menu" consists of fewer than 10 photos, and their "website" is a link to Instagram. We get fabulous coffee beans beans from a […]

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 20/09/2026

there's not many things that get me going so fast as hearing that LLMs are useful as accessibility tools. they aren't. where they somehow work, they are _at best_ adequate. and it's never done with accessibility as a main goal, usually just something half made-up to make the detractors shut up […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

"On your knees; hands behind your head!" "You haven't even bought me dinner" *Thwack* "shut up, convict. Where's the grow room?" "" "Speak!" "You told me to shut up" "Oh a wiseass. We'll find it—our Agents profiled your electricity use and heat emissions. We /know/ you've got a grow lab […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@Unixbigot @abstractcode One day at my local hackerspace, there was an Open Day so the public could check-out what goes on, parents could tag along with their eager kids, new members could sign-up, and so on. One man there stuck-out like a sore thumb. After doing a lap and squinting at 3D […]

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Zawinski's Law, 2026 Edition: Every program attempts to expand until it can have some pointless fucking AI shit, that nobody asked for, shoehorned into it

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

"Hey, it's not as bad as when The Sisters of Mercy played at the Corner Hotel in Richmond in 2012!" That's a refrain some black-clad fans of live music in Melbourne know from experience is a damning comparison. The venue's acoustics and mix were so bad that people who'd listened to "Floodland" […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@davidgerard For a moment, when I read your post, I found myself wondering if AI pushers are so superstitious they have to say "The Scottish Data Centre" for fear of invoking a curse that results in a witch placing a hex on a tombstone to mess-up a data store or something like that.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I didn't know you played guitar? I don't; what makes you think that? The "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker on the case Ahahaha— no. This one uses a different process. #TootFic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@Unixbigot I didn't know that screw-drive "nudger" was an option, but as a left-hand person myself it makes intuitive sense and looks good for ergonomics, so I'll keep it in mind. Thankyou very much for the heads-up! My generic digital calipers are "good enough" for hobby use. Most of the time […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Phil Tippett studio in Berkeley closing; memorabilia and movie props up for grabs www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/p… Phil Tippett is a genius of stop-motion animation and special effects, and I think it's […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

The problem of fascists in Open Source Software projects has become so bad that some vim users are considering using emacs. #Neovim #fascism #OSS #OpenSourceSoftware

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry has passed away at the age of 80. I'm sad to hear such a charismatic actor has gone, and I'm grateful he was so prolific. As a tribute to Tim Curry, I suggest you perform your very best Evil Laugh. Project it from your diaphragm, at full volume, with your head thrown back, your mouth […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Dear online bookshop: no, I am not paying $85 plus $10 delivery for an eBook.

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The Gneech! Awww Yeah @the-gneech.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Well ouch.

Screenshot of a post by someone named arahir:

"i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of
alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@davidgerard A problem with using computers as random number generators is that they're pseudorandom. Patterns start appearing. Given the same seed, they can produce the same "random" number. Someone used a pseudorandom code generator to extrude an app. Someone else, using practically the same […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@Unixbigot It may be illegal but isolated cases are rarely policed, and it's been happening for a looong time. One of my grandparents had a ring made from a curved coin with a band attached at the sides to make a perfect circle. I seem to recall the coin was minted as Australian (post English […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

CitiPower outages map: www.powercor.com.au/power-outages-a… The map of the affected area has a counter called "Total unplanned customers off supply". Given the number of people who live in the suburbs affected, I think they might be understating the scale […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Power-outage seems to be affecting many inner-north suburbs of Melbourne, as well as some in the inner-east and inner-south. Good luck fixing it, CitiPower. #Melbourne #PowerOutage #CitiPower

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Rosanna Sibora @rosannasibora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”. An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

For a person who calls himself a science educator, and has self-awareness of the scope of his online influence, it's sad to see Hank Green admitting that he's been using an LLM to "help" write the scripts for his videos. Hank Green's hand-wringing and "Yeah, but"-type justifications look […]

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

The AusAlert Test was a missed opportunity to send a public broadcast in the style of @scarfolk to everyone's phone, such as "For more information, please turn over." #AusAlert #Scarfolk

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

@stib @Unixbigot "These days we call it the Finger-Lopper 50, though its brass nameplate recalls a time before it lost a couple of digits."

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

So one person, with questionable views, is aiming not only to rewrite the night sky -- but in the process gain unfettered control of our heavens? Grego initially responds quite carefully. “You know, there’s a legal discussion about at what point does that become appropriation, if you’ve put so […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

I saw one of these planes at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, and I knew they had a reputation for dissolving the pilot but I never appreciated just how insane the setup was until at 11:08 I involuntarily blurted FUCK OFFFFF! youtu.be/wVxtHLTJXTA?t=11m0s&si=tra…

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

@Unixbigot There's nothing quite like hypergolic propellant to get the blood flowing.

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Vale, Sam Neill, an actor with wonderful range and a reputation for thoughtfulness. ‘A true gentleman’: actors, directors and leaders pay tribute to Sam Neill www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/1… #SamNeill

Screenshot of a post on Twitter by Sam Neill in reply to Jayfuz.
The image is a screenshot from "Event Horizon". On the right side of the screen is Laurence Fishburne. On the left side of the screen is Sam Neill. On the upper arm of his uniform is an Australian flag. It's been annotated with a yellow circle and arrows. The flag has been updated to have the Aboriginal flag, instead of the Union Jack, in the upper left quarter. This position is known as the "canton" and signifies honour and superiority.

Text of reply by Sam Neill:

This is indeed so. And I wouldn't do it any differently today.

Text of the post by Jayfuz (🗣️Rufus, but Jay) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Jayfuz:

Today I learnt:
For the Sci-Fi Horror film 'Event Horizon' Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

HAHAHA FUCK SpaceX just launched a nuclear powered satellite. www.space.com/space-exploration/lau… Sounds like this particular satellite is tiny and doesn't have a lot of tritium on board but HOLY […]

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Tips for ethical AI use: 1. Don't

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

It’s fascinating to live in a time where the majority of global consumers are just fed up and hate everything new on the market. Hate removal of physical media Hate forced AI Hate video surveillance in cars and homes Hate micro transactions Hate digital subscriptions What a time to be alive!

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