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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6m

In the game Half-Life 2 there was an adversary controlled by a head crab who would grab smaller crabs off his back and throw them at the player. In totally unrelated news I noticed a spider beside the pool and its abdomen looked quite fuzzy and bigger than I’d expect. It had hundreds of tiny […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Today there are 54 thriving karo #pittosporum plants. I checked one and all its leaves fell off. Oops. They’re hard to tell if they’re alive because they stay green and glossy for a long time. The sign they’re doing well is fresh leaves at the top […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Brown sticks and soil in the background. Glossy green plant. Lighter green and less glossy leaves at top are fresh. Lower leaves are tending a bit more yellow and chewed and sad looking

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Has anyone braved the WPA2-Enterprise or whatever other tomfoolery schools in Aotearoa New Zealand are doing and got their NetworkManager-controlled controlled laptop onto the WiFi? Specifically asking for "SHC_BYOD" if you're familiar with that.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

You can tell if a client trusts your web server's SSL certificate by doing a packet dump and looking for an inbound packet that sets a fatal alert, description Unknown CA. tcpdump 'port 443 and tcp[... +5] = 0x02 and tcp[... +6] = 0x30' It's not perfect because sometimes those bytes are in the […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

What's the best emoji response to an incriminating message? I'm reading a dry court room report that someone responded "100" to their co-conspirator. What would I write back? "emoji of man stroking his chin but also pointing at a cloud bearing the logo of a software brand that is cycling […]

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

“Don’t use that program. Use software from ______! It’s user friendly and enterprise grade!” Well I’ve just received a face full of UUIDs and back traces from little known software vendor called … um … “Microsoft”?

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

If I had a Tim Minchin I'd go back and turn off autocorrect.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

You gotta get onto Home Assistant and do all this sort of thing: @essjax

Three meters showing 99% self sufficiency and 27.3kWh net export to grid

In the month of October the garage consumed 158kWh

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I went to post an adorable moss photo but pixelfed.nz was taking a nap @xrobau

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Checking the trail cam. Couple of deer. A hunter came through about 11 hours after this one was spotted.

It’s all brown and green with hardly anything to see until you notice a deer looking for a snack

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Some kind #train person has uploaded a video of the steam train that visited the Waikato on Saturday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d4XITLuyvo

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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

🎵 I'm Charging on Sunshine Wo-ooah, I'm Charging on Sunshine 🎵 #EssjaxEV

A charging port, plugged in, on a Geely EX5. Blue sky and green hills in the background. The car looks a bit dirty but that just a reflection of the concrete driveway.

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

01:38 murder cat, who during the day time is very friendly and has made lots of friends and is visiting all the neighbours, has been safely returned to his owner on the far side of town. He had hopped into a tradie’s car and rode all the way over here. Not the first time, it seems!

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

You’ll never guess what attacked our ducks last night at 01:38!

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Future Sprog @futuresprog.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

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 · 17/10/2026

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

Being able to crawl the entire World-Wide Web and keep an up to date copy was a solved problem. Workers, caches, queues, backoff. It was understood. And then the fucking #AI bot makers have made a steaming pile of poo that repeatedly demands the same content -- unchanged -- again and again […]

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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

A third major raid on December 12, 1941, hoped to snare 1,000 Parisian professionals. The obsolete Tulard files only yielded 743 correct addresses. To round out the numbers, foreign Jews were picked up at random on Paris streets. Where was Carmille? Where […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

Text from the book:

But only 3,022 Jews were arrested. For three more days, the authorities tried to locate more Jews. The inefficient operation only netted 609 on August 21. Then on August 22, they located 325 more. On August 23, as the word spread and Jews everywhere in the District tried to disappear, only 122 Jews were nabbed. The total for the four days was 4,078. The men were sent to the Drancy transit concentration camp. Paris was shocked and outraged because the raids seized both foreign and French-born Jews.134 But for the Germans, it meant the updated data from Tulard was profoundly inefficient.
A third major raid on December 12, 1941, hoped to snare 1,000 Parisian professionals. The obsolete Tulard files only yielded 743 correct addresses. To round out the numbers, foreign Jews were picked up at random on Paris streets.

Where was Carmille? Where were his Holleriths?

By the end of 1941, numerous Vichy officials had concluded the elaborate census of June 1941 conducted in both zones was completely nonfunctional.
A new one was needed.

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

This typesetter clearly has an issue with the letter “f”. “financial”, here as “capital W nancial” “afforded”, as “a capital V orded”

Text on a page, with a capital W instead of the letters f i

More text, this time with V instead of f f

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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

That’s exactly how it works and National are incredible at picking the dates and numbers that look good for them. “We will have more hospitals than 3 years ago!” “What happened 3 years ago?” “Nothing was canceled. Ignore that.” Everywhere you look it’s the same story. How many Cook Strait […]

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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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