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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Wanting to watch some Star Trek TNG, as a reference for a model I'm working on. Turns out, you just can't stream it in AoNZ any more. None of the platforms carry it*. So I'm left reverting to the high seas. Honestly‽ Who the hell thought splitting all the media onto different platforms […]

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crafty.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy @crafty.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 13h

#HelpWanted #BoostsOK In case you hadn't worked it out, I'm now working on the #USSEnterpriseD. This kit has the windows premoulded into the plastic, but they're about 0.8mm wide, and about 6-7mm tall. I need to find a way to transpose them through to the inside of the plastic, so I can mask […]

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🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 15h

Following a reminder I got on Instagram, nows a good time to to some desensitisation work with your dogs in preparation for fireworks season. I use this play list while they have meals open.spotify.com/album/4poJuT...

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Calm Pet - Desensitizing Sounds for Animals, Volume 1 - Album by Calmsound | Spotify

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Still thinking about the speaker who told us yesterday that Merck would outsource regulatory compliance to AI agents so they could focus on their core competence of making drugs.

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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do you come third in a two person race?

Graphic showing the set up for a tv leaders debate, with the split for who won the debate. The numbers show 49% for Chris Hipkins, 27% undecided, and 24% for Luxon.

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's the kind of auroras right now where it just looks like a greenish smudge to your eyes, but then you take a photo and it's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE Please enjoy this lovely instrument (a camera) that lets us see a bunch of colours too faint for our eyeballs!

A nighttime scene, with silhouetted trees in the lower corners of the photos, and bright green auroras across the horizon, with some pink and red pillars above, almost blocking the Milky Way, visible vertically across the sky.

Same idea as the previous photo, but now the green in the lower part of the sky is also reflected by a small pond.

More bright green auroras with red and pink pillars above, the Milky Way sticking up out of the middle, and a bit of green reflected in a small pond with silhouetted trees.

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Lucky ✨ @lucky.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Does anyone in NZ have a homebrewed Wii or Gamecube and would be willing to help me with something? I have an old GC memory card that may or may not have save data from the Sonic Adventure 2 Chao Garden of a Chao I raised with my childhood friend Owen, who died in 2017. I'd really like to […]

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 04/10/2026

still odd how giant new zealand outlets like 1NEWS report on a story like this, going out of their way to minimize webworm's involvement. to be clear: we led the reporting, & there WOULD BE NO REPORTING if we hadn't broken the story after a year of research: www.webworm.co/multiverse/

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

DON’T ever forget this. Pass it on: #nzpol

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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Aotearoa peeps, I want to get some stickers made, top quality and weather proof. I would appreciate your recommendations Chur chur

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Pat @pat.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Weekend project idea: Mixtape. A web app for making someone a mixtape the old way. You pick every song yourself; no suggestions. Each side has a hard time limit. It goes to one person only, with a short note on the inlay card. The person you give it to knows it's from you and sees the song […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Wow, #RNZ really did a bad one with their article about the Stuff debate. Starting with the caption on the photo, stating it's the "first _televised_ debate". It wasn't televised. Then, their entire analysis is "We threw it in AI to get a transcription, then counted the things", basically... So […]

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/10/2026

aaactually… imagine adding a rule to chess that any piece (or if this change is too OP, only certain pieces) may in lieu of a move choose to be struck by lightning and turn to stone, at which point it's replaced with an immovable block that can't be passed through by any other piece (except knights)

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I received an email yesterday from ncscadvisory@ncsc.govt.nz, reading "TLP:AMBER Kia Ora, We are writing to you on behalf of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). (U//TLP-AMBER) According to a trusted partner, an unidentified cyber actor demonstrated probable unauthorized access to the […]

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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

🆕 blog! “Are LLMs still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks?” Last year I ran an experiment to test the ability of modern LLMs to correctly answer a relatively straightforward question. Every single one of them got it wrong. Some missed information, some made up false statements, none were […]

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

So let me get this right... SpaceX's "successful" orbital launch of Starship lost an engine in flight, was cut from a planned six orbits to two (and SpaceX isn't saying why), neither part is reusable, and the top part blew up on splashdown.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

New Zealand makes cervical cancer screenings free for all women aged 25 to 69. Until now, 55% of eligible women paid NZ$35 to over NZ$100 a visit, a cost that hit younger women hardest. The free screenings start March 2027; the move backs New Zealand’s goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2040 […]

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Marty | 123NZ & TravelGeek @digigeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Larry on #AI 😁 Great to see the "age verification" questions of #LeisureSuitLarry again. #RetroGaming

Leisure Suit Larry' age verification questions... Artificial Intelligence is:
A) Computers pretending to be human
B) Humane pretending to be computers
C) An oxy-moron
D) A blow-up doll

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Wayne Myers @conniptions.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Ok soooo... let's say a person was finally getting around to actually deleting their Instagram account instead of just talking about it and moving everything over to some Fediverse thing instead... what's the slop-free Pixelfed alternative that person should be looking at? #fediverse

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“It never occurred to us that our system that has exclusive control over the pod bay doors would take control over the pod bay doors” seems like something you might have thought about a bit more before you connected it to the pod bay doors.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

If you don’t want your system to be able to lock people out of the pod bay doors, you can just program or configure it to not have the capability to lock people out of the pod bay doors. This remains true whether your system is written in assembly language or C++ or Python or uses some fancy […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is absolutely fantastic. As Chlöe says, politics is just a game to some politicians. A way to exert power and line themselves up for comfortable well paid jobs in the future. They can’t fathom that not everyone is like them. This shouldn’t come as a shock but I’m voting ✅✅ @greens.org.nz

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

You know when you see somebody on television singing the US national anthem and they're taking it, and themselves, absurdly seriously, to the extent that it becomes indistinguishable from parody? I feel like LinkedIn has that same energy

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Mythology Monday 🐣 @mythologymonday.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

That concludes our theme of furniture. Thank you for posting your cursed, blessed, and magical furniture! This is your host @AimeeMaroux signing off. Join us next #MythologyMonday for the theme deafness and silence! 🦻

A bronze tripod supported by three goat-legged fauns.

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Lucky ✨ @lucky.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It's nice that the app for my cat's new litter box lets me set my gender to a custom field

An app that has allowed me to set my gender to "you are a litter box app dude"

a screenshot showing that setting my gender to this has broken the user interface a bit so now the word Gender is spread over two lines

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

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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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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/1173… We should absolutely be paying attention to our indigenous communities overseas for signals on how our own might shortly be impacted as well.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The double standard between barely mediocre middle-aged white dudes and literally any woman with far greater credentials would be comical if it wasn't so blindingly and consistently reinforced. Cry him a river I guess.

Screengrab of Stuff's headline article that quotes Luxon saying "I've got no idea" with a simultaneously vacuous and smugly indifferent look on his face.

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William Godsoe @godsoewilliam.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This anti-prohibition poster hits hard: nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/anti-… #NZpol

1920's (ish) poster of a kiwi bloke kicking out uncle sam. Text "Quit- a failure and a farce in america... vote for continuance"

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helen @helen.systerserver.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

"Chlöe Swarbrick is now more trusted to manage the economy than Nicola Willis." well, duh!! 😂 www.thepost.co.nz/politics/36108162…

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Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: @niall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I enjoyed hearing this guy's thoughts. Bruce Schneier @ Defcon on hacking AI: youtu.be/eEBv0STiYhI #Defcon #AI

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

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So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

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This historic deal is a huge win for the United States and the American people. Thanks to President Trump’s vision and leadership, this historic agreement permanently guarantees U.S. security interests in the Arctic at zero cos...

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

That's so interesting.

The average person eats one and a half bananas in their sleep every year.

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fritzoids @fritzoids.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@fritzoids/117291136419377025 The old gym at my children's school is being torn down and so the construction workers are wearing FFP2 respirators and disposable hazmat suits because they are removing mineral wool from the roof of the old gym and putting it in bags. I am […]

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