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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Happy computer upgrade day at work to me 🥳 (M5 Max 👀) Let the setup and configuration adventures/woes begin!

Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Feeling kinda nostalgic for the days of StackOverflow actually. Humans helping humans to code. Might start using it again more. But then again, it's probably overrun with AI slop now like the rest of the web. Oh well. 🙃 www.ericholscher.com/blog/2025/jan/…

StackOverflow chart showing its rise and fall.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

9 years 💒 Thank you Amy for being the most wonderful wife and mother. What a trip it's been. All the love in the world. 💖

Wedding photo. Josh and Amy getting married.

Just married photo of car driving off into the distance at night.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

SpongeBob voice: *six hours later* CHEST OF DRAWERS!! 😮‍💨

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

New coffee machine who dis?? Old Sunbeam steam frother system completely died. They tried saying it was out of manufacturer warranty, but I hit them with the old Australian Consumer Law stern email and got this one as an upgraded (paid the difference) replacement. Excited to brew up some beans! ☕

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I just wanted to share this majestic picture of our dog Misty running through the creek the other day (also me in the background). Feel free to enjoy!

A dog splashes toward the camera through a shallow, shimmering creek.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I swear some people on here kinda need to take a step back and touch grass or something. Getting called a "fucking shithead" for a position I have never held about a story I didn't write that also doesn't say the thing I'm being accused of thinking lol Chill […] [Original post on bne.social]

Screenshot of quote post:

Kim Crawley (she/her) kimcrawley@zeroes.ca

Look at this fucking shithead

thinking the Magic 8 Ball slop bot is

sentient...

Joshua Byrd @phocks

#NoAl

1h

New from our team: How a 'swarm' of Al agents hacked another company, in the Al's own words.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Who here likes our brand new IKEA countertops? 💁

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Some people wouldn't drink this water?? What is the world coming to?!?

Dirty water from a tap with the caption, "Some people won't drink the water in this state. Fixing the infrastructure could cost $5b".

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Well, our kitchen and bathroom are now just empty husks. Check out our makeshift garage kitchen camp out haha.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Dragon theme birthday party plus disco in the garage went well. Glad she had a great time with her friends. Less hectic and less minor injuries than last year too so that's a plus! 🖤🤍🩶

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Thanks Nemo great #chess tip. This really helped me a lot! 😆

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Turns out this is a finance/econ account now. This from Kyla Scanlon's "In This Economy: How Money & Markets Really Work" ..... yeah, pretty much. 🫰

Two highlights in a book:

"People shouldn’t have to become real estate speculators in order to live a comfortable life."

"By allowing the already rich to prevent the value of their [housing] investments from ever going down, the developed world has sleepwalked into an unenviable situation: one of stratified incomes, reduced opportunities, and worse outcomes for everyone."

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

This chart is nuts. So in December of next year we might be back to where we were in 2011 (if we're lucky)...

Real wages chart showing steady incline up until COVID then sharp decline then a slow uptick until we finally, possibly, reach 2011 levels again.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Ummmm what? Isn't the whole point of passkeys to make passwords obsolete? I miss the days of websites where you can just log in without jumping through a million hoops. :psyduck:

A dialogue box saying I need to enter my password when I use this passkey.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Before I put my trusty Lenovo ThinkPad T480s on eBay I thought I might see if anyone here in #Brisbane (or #Australia willing to pay postage) might be interested in acquiring it. Other i5 8th gen 16GB RAM 512GB SSD T480s on eBay are going for around $400+ AUD. So […] [Original post on bne.social]

ThinkPad T480s in the sunlight on a desk.

ThinkPad T480s on the BIOS screen, showing details.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Proud coder-dad moment! Vada wanted to learn how to make her own video games this weekend, so we are just starting to learn how to draw things on the screen in Lua on the Picotron fantasy computer system. 🧑‍💻 www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

Kid with long hair typing on a ThinkPad computer. On the screen is Lua code.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Managed to pick up a pretty decent bargain on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 14 inch to replace my aging T480s, and I just checked out the default Windows 11 install size, and it is ... a whopping 65.6 gigabytes!!! 👀 Needless to say I'll probably be installing Linux on here pretty soon.

Screenshot of Windows 11 disk drive space usage showing 65.6 GB of Used space.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

In case you missed this one from us yesterday. We charted the rise of illegal tobacco from 2016 to today. Over 80 percent of nicotine consumed in Australia now comes from illicit sources. What can we do about this? The experts are divided […] [Original post on bne.social]

Area chart showing legal (blue) nicotine consumption and illicit (yellow/orange) nicotine consumption. The legal amount declines over time from 2016 to 2026. The illicit amount increases over time dramatically.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Not gonna lie I'm enjoying my new 8bitdo SN30 Pro controller a whole heck of a lot, mostly because it reminds me of my days playing Mario All Stars and Street Fight II Turbo on the Super Nintendo in my room way back when.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Number 475 on my Rolling Stone top 500 albums of all time countdown is ... "Sheryl Crow" by Sheryl Crow from 1996. Weird that I hadn't actually heard this album before in its entirety, but the songs all seemed very familiar, even the ones that weren't big hits […] [Original post on bne.social]

Album cover showing Sheryl Crow on her self-titled album, moodily looking at the camera.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Look what I found at the city library over lunch

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Number 476 on my Rolling Stone top 500 albums listen is ‘Kimono My House’ by Sparks from 1974. This wasn't really my kind of thing, but I gave it a go a few times. It's pretty fun and weird. But happy to be moving on to some Sheryl Crow next up! […] [Original post on bne.social]

Album cover for Kimono My House by Sparks, featuring two women wearing patterned kimonos and traditional makeup against a yellowish-green background, with green text reading "SPARKS / KIMONO MY HOUSE" across the top.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

I decided to migrate a site over to Codeberg and the next thing I know the whole site is down hahah 🙃

503 Service Unavailable screenshot of Firefox.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Oh, so this is maybe why all the US tech bros are freaking out about

Screenshot from an LLM ranking service showing the new kimi-k3 beating claude and chatgpt etc at the top of the coding leaderboard.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Was just listening to this episode of The Economy Stupid and was extremely surprised to hear this economist actually saying great stuff that makes 100% sense and wanted to know who it was (Richard Denniss) and as an added bonus I spotted my name in the show notes […] [Original post on bne.social]

Screenshot from podcast episode about a wealth tax. The podcast is The Economy Stupid. And the episode is called "Why not tax wealth, and why not start with billionaires?"

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I know it's not nice but can't I have a little schadenfreude as a treat sometimes?

Reddit post describing buying SpaceX stock at $176 and now it's at $138. They want to know if it will go back up. They bought because a friend told them to. The first comment is "Don't listen to that friend in the future."

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Sorry to inform everyone that I think I'm becoming a "radio guy" and I just picked up this cute little Sangen digital radio refurbished on eBay and I love it.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

LOL at this message on Tusky. Muting this hashtag as a warning to all other hashtags they better watch their backs! 👀😆

Muting Brisbane hashtag as a warning message on Tusky.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

For our final night in Hobart my cousin gifted us a stay in a fancy cabin on the mountain with a bath tub on the deck. Didn't quite get a chance to use the bath, mostly due to it being about 5 degrees outside, but we woke up to a spectacular moonset over the ridge.

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Made a friend at the wildlife sanctuary today

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Average seats but the show is great ❄️🧊

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Just finished reading "Station Eleven". It was pretty wonderful. Now I get to watch the television series. Can't wait!

Station Eleven cover with tents at night all lit up and the quote: "Hell is the absence of the people you long for."

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