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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

What level of yak shaving do you reckon this puts me at on this fine Saturday?

A digital Vernier scale with its battery compartment open.

Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I think I might need to be more specific about what gets backed up. This is *just* my user directory clocking in at nearing 2TB.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Last week, ABC management took issue with the head of our union publicly defending the right of journalists to access information about who owns and runs companies. Why the ABC wouldn’t support that is unclear. The threat of disciplinary action raises further questions. / @meaa

Don’t silence journalism.
Defend press freedom
Defend union rights
News headline clipping: fight erupts between union an ABC’s head of news
I support Michael Slezak.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

for anyone who needs to hear this: outlook approves if you declare email bankruptcy.

An empty inbox which says: "What a productive day! You've accomplished a lot"

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

Woolies claims in their Delivery Unlimited renewal notice that we've saved $2,264. But that didn't seem right so I just counted it up. We've had 13 deliveries in the past year. At $15 a pop, that's $195. And at $149/year for the subscription, that'd make a saving […] [Original post on bne.social]

A feedback form asking: What's your main reason for cancelling today?
Quality of fresh produce
Delivery experience
Substituted or missing items
Subscription cost
Minimum spend per order
Delivery times or options
Other reason
Other reason is checked with the note: Honestly? All of the above. But what tipped the scales is deceptive marketing in the renewal email.

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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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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

Not exactly what I'd call high quality visits though. No complaints though, I still think it's a cool idea and very much like that it exists, thanks @kagihq. And to be fair these stats aren't much worse than the non-kagi referrer visits.

Graphic showing bounce rate is 99% and average visit duration is 5 seconds.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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

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 · 17/08/2026

@posts I stand corrected. Still going to bed though.

An error log entry: "Error sending accept while handling quoteRequest request."

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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 · 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 · 09/08/2026

Anyone know what this red dotted boundary is when you search 'brisbane' on Google Maps? Because it's definitely not the LGA.

A screenshot of a map of south east Queensland with a red boundary around much of Brisbane, but other local government areas too.

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

I have a pretty decent #LunarEclipse viewing window hey.

A view of the full moon just above the horizon over a city landscape framed by a window.

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Simon Elvery @simon.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

What could the answer possibly be!?!

Health
Why climbing ladders can have serious consequences for older
Australians

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