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Robin

@eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy
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Formerly NZ, now in NL. Working in Java but really I prefer Perl. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ teh.entar.net/@eythian, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Paul @plwt.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
@eythian That is going to make #FOSDEM really awkward.
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 3h
The SNL "news" map background has removed Belgium. #SNLUK
Map of Europe without Belgium. Or the Isle of Man for that matter.
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Atle 🧇🧅 @atlefren.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Bill Watterson: fortsatt like relevant!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Bought a CD for the first time in a very long time. Now I've discovered that the 90s hi-fi system that I only use with an old Chromecast audio can't eject the CD tray any more.
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
> “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let […]
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
•Advance voting is 17 days away •Election day is 29 days away •There are just 16 days left to make sure you are on the electoral roll. •You can check you are still on it or register as a new voter using the link below, It only takes a couple of minutes #nzpol 💚🖤❤️ […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
A very interesting #kohacon26 talk from the Turkey national library showing their gigantic Koha usage.
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Keith D @keithduthie.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
The Juice Media has hit the nail right on the head yet again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRP1kw3EG7U #nzpol
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
This is a really interesting article about the technological history of betting. It also makes the claim that #Aoteara #NewZealand had the biggest calculating machine at one point. computer.rip/2026-05-31-totalisator…
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the totalisator
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
a tall crane against the twilight sky
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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
King 👑
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago. The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely […]
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Paul Schoe @paulschoe.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Personal anecdote on this same topic: the risk of #cloud storage at #Microsoft. For over 10 years, I had a Hotmail account as my primary email. Communications, both for business and personal, subscriptions, everything went via this email. Then I got a new computer and activated Windows 11 […]
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Lina Lastname @lina.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
new blog post! lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa i hijacked some telephone infrastructure of a few islands over the span of multiple months; and accidentally logged information of a few hundreds of thousands of phone calls going to military bases in the process.. it's a really really […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
So the other day I stopped my router/DNS adblocker resolving the hostnames that clients report themselves as via DHCP to IPv4 addresses because it was causing issues (everything that other hosts should be accessing has a real-world DNS name and SSL was getting upset in some cases - long story […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
I found a #bittorrent tracker that is #IPv6 only: asnet.pw
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
🧠 The man who invented IQ tests warned you not to take them too seriously. Alfred Binet created the first practical intelligence test in 1905, not to rank people, but to identify which schoolchildren needed extra help. He called the idea of fixed, unchangeable intelligence "brutal pessimism" […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@sjvn/1169649717198… Typical performance review
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
The #Amsterdam council is a lot smaller than I expected if they can fit in there.
a red phone box with the sign at the top saying "Gemeenteraad"
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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
You meet a man on Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh & say its a girls name. He shoots you. You have died of dissin Terry.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024. All the pixels, now served by convenient Undeground connections, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/540… #photography
A large industrial building with four prominent smokestacks at each corner, across a river at night.
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026
So #Android has a new feature where your phone can take a message if you don't answer or decline a call (like an answer phone, magical!) I just discovered that the default "leave a message after the beep" message on my phone is in French. I guess because I did the Android upgrade when I was in […]
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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Yip yip yip yip, uh huh, uh huh
Amazon listing for a teal throw pillow, the picture shows it draped over a chair. It looks like Muppets yip yip martians
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
Had a longish train ride today, so spent a few hours and migrated @ExhibitExplorer from #Gitlab to @Codeberg . Most of that time was learning the new CI/CD system to ensure the auto docker-deploy stuff still works, but even that was pretty straightforward. The code now lives here […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
Had a longish train ride today, so spent a few hours and migrated @ExhibitExplorer from #Gitlab to @Codeberg . Most of that time was learning the new CI/CD system to ensure the auto docker-deploy stuff still works, but even that was pretty straightforward. The code now lives here […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
The #Eurostar offers a whole 300MB of WiFi data. What is this, internet for ants?
screenshot of the Eurostar portal page telling me I have 269MB remaining of 300
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
@burak I knew it as a nickname for the dentist from when I was a kid - dunno where I picked it up from, the term is a bit older than my generation, so it was probably an older relative or something who said it to me. I thought it might have been a general British-English-derived term, but seems […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
Because I had a dental checkup today, wondered where the term "murder house" came from, and had time in the waiting room, I looked it up and found this interesting article from #MOTAT […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
RE: teh.entar.net/@ExhibitExplorer/1167… My grandparents had a crib in Te Anau when I was young, I remember visiting this in the 80s.
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henk ✅ @henk.waag.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
‘Are you receiving me?’ Article in @DeGroene on "Experimenting with emergency communication" @waag, in collaboration with the Municipality of @GemeenteAmsterdam investigates the technical feasibility of mesh network technology with citizens […] [Original post on waag.social]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017. All the pixels, none of the news, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/323… #photography
An early 20th century office building, with setbacks and a clock tower, at night.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026
OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
A bad day out with a #slinky
a metallic slinky at the bottom of some outdoor stairs, all tangled up in the base of the stair railing
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Joris (dwz) @fedi.djoris.nl · 17/05/2026
#Meshtastic can be addictive. Since yesterday I see nodes and messages from the south of Germany for some reason: "Servus!" Even France, sadly juuuust shy of the Swiss boarder near Basel. All with just a €20 radio on my balcony (with a €30 antenna)
map showing around 60 nodes from Rotterdam mostly to South-East
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026
"CARTWHEEL" Tower, Fort Reno, Washington, DC, 2020. All the pixels, with absolutely no secret government bunker underneath, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/495… #photography
A cylindrical tower, dark brick with a lighter upper section, resembling a water tower or agricultural silo, on a hilltop. Radio towers are visible in the distance. A barren tree is at left.
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Marcel Waldvogel @marcel.waldvogel.family.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
"I never expected to find my news […] on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. […] But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026
Tree, Red Rock Canyon, NV, 2011. All the pixels, no entry fee or pass required, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/576… #photography
A small windswept tree on an overlook above a canyon, with mountains in background.
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026
Anyone need a pile of bricks. Probably off the back of a truck.
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026
@burak Oh I get that, but there was a lot of noise about it that's now vanished. I guess the need for stock-pumping or whatever purpose there was for it has now gone.
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026
Is it just me, or has the whole "data centres in spaaaaace!" stuff totally vanished now?
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Valère @valere.hostux.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026
I Left Port 22 Open for 54 Days: An SSH Honeypot Study 🍯 :term: read.hostux.net/share/69edb942e0c66… arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-2…
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I Left Port 22 Open for 54 Days: An SSH Honeypot Study
The SetupHere's a thought experiment: what happens if you just... put a computer on the internet and wait?Not a real computer, of course. A fake one. A honeypot — a Python script pretending to be an Ubuntu 22.04 server running OpenSSH 8.9. It looks real. It feels real. It accepts every password you …
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
Oh yes my next pair of @TechConnectify socks have arrived!
Kodak looking socks!
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Chris Siebenmann @cks.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
I admire how the Canonical server installer for Ubuntu 26.04 appears to "support" mounting the install image/tree over NFS. On the one hand, it definitely works! On the other hand, the moment Canonical's installer starts running it decides to take down the network to reconfigure it (or ask you […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
Ooh new episode of #From is out, it's been a while
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Joris (dwz) @fedi.djoris.nl · 16/04/2026
If I think we're friends and you share my biometric data with Amazon for your #Ring camera, we're no longer friends. (I already am a very tolerant friend, who begrudgingly sometimes rings camera doorbells) […]
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Robin @eythian.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
#DigitalNZ is back. Thank you to the team there! @ExhibitExplorer
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te reo word of the day @te-reo-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
Kia ora tatou: Hello everyone
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