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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

[bad news; e-bikes] This is awful news, but good job to the Guardian for correctly assigning the actions to the rider (not to the inanimate object they were riding, as too often happens). #cycling

News headline: Australia news live: five-year-old seriously injured after being struck by an e-bike rider in Sydney.

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"Trump's new AI website confirms he lost the 2020 election." I just don't care. Children are being deported, alone, without due process. People are being held in terrible conditions. Protesters are being shot. Protections are being eradicated. Wars are being waged. Elections undermined. Yes […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

There's not enough #woodworking in my feed. Any recommendations?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Just walked past one of the ambient TVs at work that just plays loops of promo sizzle reels and had to double take to check that the reporter on screen wasn’t Philomena Cunk.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Out tonight seeing the kid in another show. She’s a guitarist but has been talked into filling in on the bass. Has never played bass before. I’m somewhat nervous on her behalf.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The great Lego resorting is well underway.

A bird’s eye view of a young boy sorting a large pile of lego.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

elvery.net seems to have been added to Kagi's small web index (kagi.com/smallweb). 😳

A table from a website stats interface showing 92% of referrals coming from kagi.com

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm testing out some options for self-hosted photo sharing (that are quicker than rolling my own, which is what I really want to do). Any opinions? So far Immich seems ... okay? photos.usabilityproject.com/share/1…

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: bne.social/@simon/117294848319547433 We've had some really great audience feedback on this piece! It's awesome to hear about people (men in particular) having conversations in their workplace about how work culture and employment agreements are setup for a two parent, one […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

How did The Beatles end Hey Jude when they played it live because I'm pretty confident they didn't loop na na na na na na na for like 15 minutes?

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Which Australian capital city is closest to you

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

When both parents work, we're short 814 hours a year, on average. New from our team: there literally aren't enough hours in the day ... and women still get a raw deal (though the share of care is slowly, slowly moving closer to equality) […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Ugh, this is higher than ideal. I wish it were possible to fund the purchase of new storage without first screwing over millions of people to become a billionaire.

A notification saying that a NAS storage pool is 95% full.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Just tried to book my car in for a service by *shock* calling the service centre. "Did you reply to the SMS with your preferred dates?" "No, but I'm calling to book it in now." *audible sigh*

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I wonder if a fine sprinkling of salt and cashew dust is good for my keyboard. I assume so.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

A bunch of websites I run now have Singapore as the top country for visitors and this curious pattern. I wonder where the bots live (and what time they're awake)? (This is from whatdoyousuggest.net — I can't imagine what the bots want with it, tbh.)

A chart showing day of week and time of day statistics for web traffic. There's a clear pattern of visits at 2am, 8am, 2pm and 8pm.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I have been successfully annoyed by the needful (online training).

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I used to routinely hit up the random article link on Wikipedia. But now my favourite way to discover new things on Wikipedia is to just watch this stream go by for a bit until something catches my eye. elvery.net/prototypes/wikipedia-edi…

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: elvery.net/links/1843228614 Spent the weekend listening to Simon & Garfunkel thanks to this.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I'm opening Microsoft Teams again. How's your day going?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

dear lord, i'm hunting disk space again. is this normal?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fesshole/117200231… I wish I could initiate this competition in my house. We currently have at least four unfinished tubes. It's like the second a new one appears in the house someone opens it.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I continue to find normal words that are straight up missing from the macOS Dictionary.app. Unintuitively, the word unintuitive doesn't get a red underline even though it's not in the dictionary.

A search for the word 'unintuitive' with "No results"

A screenshot of the composition of this post showing 'unintuitively' getting a red underline to suggest it's misspelled while 'unintuitive', despite being missing from the dictionary, is deemed fine.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Found another thing LLMs are trash at: knowing what features are supported by what browsers. It's also another thing we have a robust (mostly, I think) non-AI solution for. Where would we be without caniuse.com?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out why macOS was putting a bunch of pops and clicks into my music which seemed sort of tied to use of input devices (keyboard, trackpad), but not consistently. It was the Simulator app where I was testing in iOS. Closed that and immediately audio quality […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

The requirement to re-validate with msft single sign on for every damn product every damn day is a non-trivial drain on productivity and morale.

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I've always found it difficult to find a complete historical set of federal electorate boundaries across all redistributions, so I downloaded data from the Australian Parliamentary Handbook and made one: github.com/wragge/historical-federa… #maps #digitalHumanities

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GitHub - wragge/historical-federal-electorate-boundaries

Contribute to wragge/historical-federal-electorate-boundaries development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Today’s Saturday Paper yarn about #ICAC mentions intercepted #WhatsApp messages. I’m very curious about how this interception works given that WhatsApp is somewhat famously end-to-end encrypted. Do we know the answer to that? #security

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Friends, it has been an absolutely hectic day — much of it spent looking too closely at the latest in an ever growing list of mass-casualty disasters linked to climate change. This is what my team published […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Harvard is now selling a 700 USD course taught by LLMs trained on their facultiy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/business… (I don't know what's worse: Harvard's open disdain for education and standards or the suckers who pay 700 bucks for it.)

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I have a Gen 1 iPad mini which I believe maxes out at iOS 9.3.5 or there about. Is there any way to get it to understand a wider variety of audio codecs so I can repurpose it as a wired interface for my digital music collection?

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1171428… This is a trick question because the creation of GenAI only happened because of gambling by people in board rooms instead of casinos.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

RE: elvery.net/links/1827037238 Would you look at that! I think I finally fixed the ability to quote posts from @posts (and a couple of other ActivityPub bugs to boot!

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

RE: elvery.net/links/1825452243 I'm assuming a large part of being an expert witness is to advocate for your client's point of view while avoiding being accused of doing just that. Kind of funny that AI has pulled that into the daylight so thoroughly.

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@simon I'm disappointed that no cafes etc have dropped it yet. I hope we won't have to argue the point over and over after 1 October.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

My latest internet bill is the first payment I've spotted with no credit card surcharge fee (which won't be allowed after October 31 in Australia). There's 91 cents a month I'll use wisely to offset the rising cost of living 🙃 (seriously though, I'm glad they're gone — transaction costs should […]

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

RE: elvery.net/links/1817889341 Still thinking about "milkfish". I removed every bone, read every word, but probably won't do it again. coyote.computer/milkfish

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

RE: elvery.net/links/1819513799 I think I've just made it possible to quote posts from @posts. Anyway, yolo! I'm off to bed.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Don't know what happened, but OneDrive just absolutely going to town for the past 24 hours or so.

A graph showing uploads and downloads for the past hour. It shows nearly 90GB of downloads.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

[Slight parallax effect in a video.] Woah! It’s the What Would @colingourlay Do emoji in “3D”, right there on my home screen.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

By most measures my wife is an active, successful, and highly acclaimed author. She has published three books, has won multiple prestigious awards for her writing and works relentlessly to further her career. She's notable enough to have a Wikipedia entry. But […] [Original post on bne.social]

Three books — Nightingale, Ordinary Matter, and Trick of the Light — are displayed, each held in a hand.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I decided to individually log requests for non-existent content on elvery.net. This was a mistake but there is some gold in there. The script kiddies are alive and well.

A log entry that says the file 67.php has been requested 6 times.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Just in case, like me, you have a perverse desire to keep up with what our national broadcaster is publishing about AI, there's a feed for that (or you could just follow @camwilson, I guess). www.abc.net.au/news/feed/13876586/f…

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Joshua 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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8 @octarine-wiggle.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

If this isn't the correct basis for hybrid #woodworking then I don't want to be right youtu.be/5HMTn6eIEuc #solarpunk

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Maybe because I'm not in Sydney but I have had trouble understanding the intensity of coverage around Kyle Sandilands. I get why it's interesting to people but the whole thing just feels disproportionate. Having said that, I feel this is worth a (short) story. Feels extremely embarrassing.

A picture of NSW Premier Chris Minns on Kyle Sandilands' new show. The studio looks makeshift and the vibes are not good.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Wind has arrived in #Brisbane right on time for the #Ekka.

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