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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Bloody hell some cats were having a proper fight last night. I wonder if there’s anything left??? Please keep your cats indoors! (This looks like my workspace part way through stripping a possum for fur.)

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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20h

The renewables "debate" is so tedious because they are literally cheaper now even before factoring in coal/oil/gas subsidies. And anyone debating that wind/solar/battery does more environmental impact (including noise, visually, ect) is just having a joke or mentally ill. I think the only real […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Penguin Colony is currently on special on Steam. It’s also cheaper if you buy it in a bundle with the developer’s previous work, Umurangi Generation. Ngāi Te Rangi designer Naphtali Faulkner store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/… […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Quite like that the audio for this mix is taken from the board in such a way that you don't hear the MC or any ambient crowd noises. Fred V | Live at Liquicity Festival 2025 Don't tell the MC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7DokowHDEo

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive By offset_plug Oct 4, 2026 morewrong.lol/?post=overdose-offset… Excellent critique of the Effective Altruism folks and their methodology.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Here's a good usage of those tracking links in emails: Twitch sent me an email: we can see you're not clicking on these notification emails so we're going to stop sending them. Thank you! YES!!! Technology working for us. (Actually, I do react to the emails but I use the bookmarked link, not […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

in retrospect, a huge chunk of my approach to OSS boils down to "I cannot be made responsible for things I do not control, _and I should be made responsible for things I do control_ ". I also try to apply the same fairly to others

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Trying to figure out why the tank isn't filling despite the rain. Oh, it's all going into the overflow. I guess the normal pipe is full of sediment (or spiders). Now to figure out how to clean it.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

After dark last night walked around the house. It was crispy underfoot with snails. I gathered a bucket of them (CookieTime Xmas Cookies, for scale). Gave them to the chooks this morning and they were suspicious. Then a chook flicked one with its beak and […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Six chooks and a plate of snails on luxurious green grass

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Out for a walk this morning and found a cute widdle bunny wabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) dead on someone’s driveway. Killed by a cat or a car, can’t determine which. Here in town? Impressive range.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

We have to stop this stupid war on Iran. I had some Pam's dates and they were terrible and soapy. Then I tried some Woolworths dates and they were dry and hard. We need real Iranian dates. These other countries just cannot grow them properly.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Ok ... so ... yesterday I had audio and today I don't. Has something changed with AirPlay / AirTunes? Reading off the wire: RTSP/1.0.403 Forbidden Content-Length: 0 Server: AirTunes/980.77.2 Sending from PipeWire/1.6.9

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I'd happily trade all the AI bots crawling my websites for the Yandex bots crawling my websites. One of them knows about rate limiting and respecting robots.txt. The other is a steaming pile of poo.

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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/13/0 “Now that desk looks better. Everything’s squared away, yessir, squaaaaaared away.”

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

On the 9th I checked rainfall data since the beginning of the year: 2026: 842 mm 2025: 1,058 mm 2024: 925 2023: PARTIAL DATA Make of that what you will. My rain tank is about half full.

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Isaac Freeman @isaacfreeman.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The Green Party has released AI policy today as part of our general election campaign: www.greens.org.nz/ai_policy I’m pretty happy with it. There are some things I’d word differently for a more technical audience, but as something going out to all voters I think it strikes the right […]

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Rob Connolly 🇳🇿 🇬🇧 @rob.webworxshop.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

'We don't work for AI': Greens vow to regulate artificial intelligence - www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1858931… "Nothing about this technology is inevitable, neither the claims of existential destruction by tech […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

First swim of the season. 21 degrees. Feels colder than thermometer suggests? I have now finished defrosting afterwards.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2023

the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016) www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#…

Screenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads:

Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented.

[149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I don’t often share photos of my children, and certainly never without their permission, but just this once. Enjoy!

The beautiful snowy slopes of Ruapehu. There are no humans easily visible but if you zoom and enhance multiple times there are approximately four darker pixels on a ridgeline in the center of the photo. That’s them. Oldest is on right.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Some of my lavender. 3 different varieties.

A burst of pink and purple flowers on green stems, smelling so delicious

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Nice to see some politicians suggesting more {trains,taxes,bikes,solar} if elected. Great. Thank you. Good idea. Now about the last 3 years where you *were* elected and you spent your time increasing mining, subsidising oil exploration, hurting minorities, vilifying minorities, stripping […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This is a short video of a logging dam being released in a rain forest. A colossal number of logs being transported downstream. The same sort of thing was done before in Aotearoa New Zealand with our native forests being shredded for lumber. There are still remnants of such dams in the […]

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Deb E. @debe.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I assume electric keyboards count, too… Bo Burnham "Welcome To The Internet" youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU #JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic

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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

There's a truck full of sunshine grabbers on my driveway and a bunch of noisy chaps on the roof. It's happening. #SolarPower

A truck and trailer with boxes marked "Solar"

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I worked at a bank and had spent many weeks working on upgrading software and servers because of Heartbleed. Towards the end of the financial year they put out word there was some budget left over for software we needed, does anyone have any requests? I sent them the OpenSSL Support services […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Can’t believe there’s a floating point rounding error in Sharesies and the goddamn bullshit chat bot makes up some patronising responses.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[Computer stuff] Pondering surgery on cacert.pem Could cat the additional cert on the bottom. Or grep for a representative line first. Or just replace the entire file with a pristine copy?

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A certain party has ignored the No Circulars sign on my letterbox to deliver a pamphlet about how wonderful they are. They have 10 carefully selected points of which 7 could be considered good but 1 is pretty racist under the veiled language. If this pamphlet was the totality of their actions […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Out at a tourism hot spot today and an international visitor had taken a tumble and was being carted out on a stretcher. Their companion was following along behind documenting the whole thing, filming excitedly. Good on them. If I was being carted off to hospital during my great overseas […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Does anyone know any interesting #radio frequencies around Ruapehu / Whakapapa (RF70SR). The Kakaramea and Taihape repeaters are either silent or out of range. What about ski patrol? UHF 11 476.675?

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Broadcaster Julian Wilcox chosen as new head of Māori Language Commission Jones [said] Wilcox brings a “deep knowledge and practice of te reo Māori” and a “proven track record of leadership across both Māori and public sector settings”. “The Māori Language Commission plays a vital role in […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Early bird, pictured here with worm, has had one of her tail feathers tousled and is wearing it at a rakish new angle. #Turdus #bird

A female blackbird or thrush with a worm in her mouth.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

This toot has emotions and has demonstrated sentience: 😔 Cheer up, toot 😄 Tada!!! Looking for investors in my Sentient Toot With Emotions company. Enquire within. No time wasters.

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Hell yeah! Choo choo mfers! 🚉 If I wasn't already locked in for a green vote, these would certainly do it. ✅✅💚 Green Party announces plan for passenger rail between major NZ cities […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The disadvantages of having an #EV Fast chargers are dangerously close to delicious dining options.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Huh, the US finally going all in on its support of SI. Did not expect that. Welcome to Système international d'unités! We’re going to have a metric ton of fun!

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

People of Aotearoa who have #solar installed recently, Did you have issues with the installation and who helped you get it resolved? Did you have to use the CGA or another person to get it all sorted out? And broadly what was the issue? Replacement of metering equipment, transformer upgrades […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

First of the month. Check your #solar import and export tariffs are correct. Today I lose the PowerCo 7c/kWh peak time export bonus since it's no longer winter. I also discovered there is a sneaky "off peak" higher tariff between 2100 and 2300 every […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Octopus import tariffs and daily charge: 20 cents at night, 29 cents at off-peak.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Well excuse me, Mr Farmer. You are supposed to make hay whilst the sun *shines* and today is quite overcast. ☀️!=☁️

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Games are rotting our children’s minds. Just yesterday one of them played a mission in Star Wars Outlaws where you’re required to start the engine of a crashed starship. It required four levers (in sequence) and scaling the outside of a reactor. Very unrealistic. Perhaps technology is better […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I visited Facebook today to share this video: youtu.be/bRP1kw3EG7U While I was there Facebook invited me to reshare something I posted a year ago, so congrats me for avoiding their website for a whole year? #NZpol

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