iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

still meets the brief for confusing the moment, so well done you ... :)

Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Charles M Schultz is credited as saying "you don't have to worry about the world ending today - it's already tomorrow in Australia" or similar ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

a very clean production setup there, I'm assuming this is Nat's handiwork? *golf clap* is there a description of the kit you use somewhere online? istr a 360 degree camera for some shoots but that seems to have gone by the wayside ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I once made a stranger sitting opposite on a hot train laugh out loud in response to a question my wife had asked me about the taste of the half-bottle of warm lime lemonade I'd just finished ... "Green" I replied

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

love the fact that text search works in the pdf - that's massive

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

similar moment had by a lot of folk when selecting from a list of countries for their VPN egress points ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

weeell, they'd never lose it in a carpark and neither would it ever get stolen, so ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

even text-mode-only boobs were good enough back in the day ... none of those fancy colour emoji like they have now ...

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 03/06/2026

Zipfiles really are so magic. I just downloaded a couple of dozen of 40 mb files. Chuck them in cloud storage, unzip them. 20 min later, I find out that my internet is running slow because my computer is uploading 45 gb worth of map data.

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

oh there are ".zip bomb" files which are a few bytes in size but due to a quirk of how you can manipulate their internal structures will unpack into many many GB of zeroes ... my favourite quirk is that their metadata is at the end of the file, so you can just play a .zip file containing .mp3s ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

... can one inadvertently free() it once too often and Mordialloc just disappears?

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

had me in mind of the TFL drive from Contact ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

@ferfuxache.com steam day on the WSR now mjch.net/pub/wsr.html

mjch.net

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

make sure you get them to acknowledge that you want an "abolishment" once they've removed it - otherwise, your valid account will mysteriously attract bills because they'll just estimate your usage ... feckers ... that's what happened to us

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

... holy fsck that does look good ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

that said, charging a few hours overnight at 3kW a few nights a week is totally fine for my use-case ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

apparently the Leaf is the downmarket BEV and I don't think there's any thermal management on them at all ... at least, not ours anyway ... also, if you are looking at an EV, be sure you understand how it charges - the AC port on mine is 1ph ... tops out at 7kW iirc - 3ph is 21kW, but DC 80-120kW

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I got my 2022 Nissan Leaf precisely because it could do V2G, but only via the high-current DC ChaDaMo port ... despite trials in Canberra and Adelaide the box with the gubbins to connect it to the the house was *almost* available in Victoria - then JetCharge opted to go with CCS2 and here we are ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

ours has almost exactly the same colouring ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"grotions name beinces" ... words to ... nah, no idea ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Voyager 2 won't reach the same distance until 2035-10-25T15:22:25+11:00

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

nice little sim of Voyager 1 and 2 showing that Voyager 1 is now over 23 light hours away from Earth - by shuttling the simulation back and forth it looks like it will reach 1 light day around 2026-11-18T21:16:07+11:00 ... boggling that humanity has thrown that far science.nasa.gov/mission/voya...

science.nasa.gov

Where Are Voyager 1 and 2 Now? - NASA Science

Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos.

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

*hugs* ... tbh I laughed when I got to "introverted bog hag" ... :)

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

... it was also fsck-off humid, so there's that ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Teal'c: "things will not calm down, Daniel Jackson. They will, in fact, calm up."

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

ooh ... any public info on that?

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I'm hoping at some point I'll do some actual FPGA programming on it but so far I've hit ENOBRAIN when I try ... one day

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

it includes the 'minimig' core which implements a variety of Amiga systems in there but I haven't yet managed to get that up and running - you need the ROMs which are still licensed (I have bought them, I haven't figured out how to drive it yet)

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

that was the best Ivanova episode

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

that's my usual question to fans - who's your master?

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

ooh ... big fan of the book, how does the film hold up?

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

read somewhere a review that if this were screened on a plane, the audience would still walk out ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

... that is a hideously familiar frame grab, but I can't place the film ... what's it from?

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I'm impressed that you can lay hands on an 18y old photo file, regardless of the actual image you took ...

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

so close ... Wordle 1,673 2/6* 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

also, your discounted price seems to be UK-only - Amazon won't let me purchase via that link, sorry

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ok, so I'm slightly confused by reports that there are multiple versions ... I have the ebook on Kindle, my son has an Amazon print copy ... your recent release came after both of these editions, how does the new one differ? or is this some meta-story thing going on ... ;)

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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 04/01/2026

Timeline synchronicity

A screenshot of Two skeets back to back,

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social • 8h
So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

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Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com • 10h
This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA
Peace Prize winner

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

ok, so I know there will be typography nerds among my online social group who might already know about this, but if not, enjoy typographica.org

typographica.org

Typographica

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

lucked out today Wordle 1,658 2/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Melbourne Ska Orchestra is headlining Wangaratta’s NYE celebrations tonight youtu.be/CVyJkKKfRFs?...

youtu.be

Melbourne Ska Orchestra - Get Smart (Official FULL Version)

YouTube video by Melbourne Ska Orchestra

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Malcolm Herbert @mjcherbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

ok, interesting live stream of an "Earth view" app showing the New Year around the globe ... YouTube being YouTube there may be ads at some point and you will want to mute it with extreme prejudice, but it does tweak my appropriate-visualisation-appreciation gland ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS-c...

youtube.com

🔴 LIVE: Global New Year Tracker 2026 🌍 3D Earth Countdown & Space Facts

YouTube video by Interstellar News Hub

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