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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

If you're speaking a smaller language, prepare for more of this as companies decide LLMs without verification are good enough. I'd rather read English! In fact in many spots I have to mentally translate this broken pseudo-Finnish to English anyway so that I can understand it and its idioms.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

RE: masto.ahlcode.fi/@nicd/116011979666… The future of translation. This is Microsoft Translator's own page, and they've decided to machine translate it (and a bunch of linked pages) to Finnish. The result is something to behold. Nearly all compound words are separated, it's full […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Saw a comment about Bitcoin "losing value" and I'm like nah, the price has gone down. The value was always far lower (and mostly to criminals at that). Anyway I reckon it has far further to fall, hopefully way below the cost that justifies mining more, and I shall be making Nelson Munz ha ha […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

I mismeasured and actually has 12 kg of fruit. So I decided to go for it and make enough to distill into what I hope will be plum brandy. I averaged out the responses here and elsewhere, did some more research, and ended up doing this: - washed the fruit and left in solution of sodium […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Agenda - bake bread - water garden - spray citrus trees - clean fermenter and other equipment - pulp plums and get them going - nap - go to comedy show

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

[finance rambling] Read someone writing about gold the other day who talked about "the fundamentals" of gold price. Gold does not have fucking fundamentals. There is no cashflow associated with owning gold. It is purely speculative... ... and yet in comparison with Bitcoin, it's pretty […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

[nzpol] Reflecting on how one of John Key's strategies for knobbling Labour when they started to get traction on something was to adopt a weak form of it. I wonder sometimes if that reinforces the "small target" strategy Labour has in opposition now.

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

I bought a small container of brushable superglue. As soon as I got the container out of the blisterpack, its label fell off...

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Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @phil-stevens.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Just in time for Wellington's fleeting "real summer" cranking up this weekend, all the south coast has become a raw sewage spill. If only some govt with the gift of foresight could have passed a law to use the Crown's balance sheet and superb credit to help councils pay for upgraded and […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

Some loud bangs outside last night. Decided they were not firearms and there was no other noise so left alone. Talked to neighbour just now. It was fireworks several houses over. Someone called the cops. Cops turned out in force.... to another house close by where a Mongrel Mob member lives […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

Do you have a good home plum wine recipe? If yes, please share. Because I have nearly 10kg of ripe plums and access to more, and the right equipment for home fermentation. Difficulty: this lot'll spoil in a day or two...

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Sooner or later we are going to think less of QEII when the Andrew shitbaggery has really sunk in. Is it possible she had no idea? I doubt it.

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

It's a weird place that we're in. These technofascists are openly announcing that they intend to build a surveillance and control system that would make George Orwell or Aldous Huxley turn in their graves. They openly state that they're against democracy, because it limits their "freedom" to […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Life in the 5th Age wasn't easy for an immortal half-elf, but work as a tour operator paid the bills.

The back of a tour bus, with a custom license plate reading "ELROND"

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

[nerd shit] People are probably bidding on this "supercomputer" just to rip out the sweet 5TB of DDR5 RAM... www.number8.bid/auction/1747/item/n…

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Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: @niall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Boost for reach please! Does anyone know of a turnkey 'de-bigtech' solution, service or facilitator? My attempts have stalled and fallen into the 'too hard' basket. I am willing to pay. Not sure how much.. what's your price? Preferably NZ based but most locations except USA and hell considered […]

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Robin Forlonge Patterson @rfpatterson.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

"How the Atlas Network is shaping your life, even if you've never heard of it" By business reporter Gareth Hutchens www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/atla… (accessed via Substack)

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Yesterday I found this proposal for improving the transport network of Christchurch city, NZ, drawn on a footpath in chalk. It's brief, but good. flic.kr/p/2rUsBSV #graffiti #bikeTooter #Christchurch #nz #bikes

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human and bicycle

I found this drawn in chalk on the footpath by the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River. Artist unknown.

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

I am infuriated. Roger is a cantakerous 83 year old at the best of times. He has angry sores on his legs which a very painful - a 9 or a 10 he says - and a community nurse has been coming to dress and tend them. Talked to her outside and it's taken weeks to get him to comply with directions and […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

[nerd shit] I am one of those happy Gnome users who is generally completely unbothered.... except today I discovered a) there is no simple way to set a preferred terminal app through the GUI b) the dconf-editor app sternly tells you the key it provides is deprecated c) Nautilus does its own […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

We have a lot of books at home. Enough that I think organising them by call number would make sense... ... is this madness? And assuming I don't care, where's the best place to look up numbers? And would Dewey be the best for the simple home librarian?

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Did someone say exploitative resource extraction by foreigners destroying our ecosyst-

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

I might just be out of touch with who's who in the industry, but I never heard of the International Online Crime Coordination Centre, and they don't seem to have a website or a Wikipedia page, and ioc3.org redirects to a security vendor's site. I feel suspicious […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Just want to gloat briefly that I got a solid rimu bookcase, 2m tall and 1m wide, on Trademe for $300. Drove out to Waikuku and picked it up this morning. Similar ones are at second hand dealers for more than twice the price, and new ones (admittedly shiny and free of dings) around a grand. A […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

I find the US practice of electing positions in their justice system very wrong, but if I had to do that, I would definitely vote for this guy (who is organising a coalition of district attorneys to go after ICE operatives) […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

[food, meat] Daughter and bf have one more night here before they fly back to UK. Asked her what she wanted: picanha. Weather is looking good for bbq tomorrow night so as of now, I have a whole rump cap in the fridge, from my fave butcher, waiting for […] [Original post on microbe.vital.org.nz]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

Hannah's bf has an Oxbridge accent and sounds not unlike Stephen Fry. The cat is terrified of him, because he is quite tall and clompy. He is understandably upset by this as someone who loves cats. He just tried to tempt her by holding out a treat, and saying in a low soft voice: "Clawdia, good […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

Reading Helen Macdonald, _Hawk_, a book about (among other things) taming a goshawk, falconry, losing a parent, the sad queer history of T H White, and escaping present troubles and broken relationships by retreat to the wild and solitude. A book bound awaken the feelings.

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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 27/01/2026

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

New Zealand people who have got visas for India recently... did you do it via the High Commission here or use the online process via Indian govt site? Does it make a difference in turnaround time?

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pandoc @pandoc.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rustaceans/1159357… No matter your stance on projects created with LLM-tools, please remember that these new converters would not have been possible without the manual work that went into pandoc. The project here is a comparatively pleasant and positive […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Oh boy “Desperate for books, NVIDIA contacted Anna’s Archive—the largest and most brazen of the remaining shadow libraries—about acquiring its millions of pirated materials and ‘including Anna’s Archive in pre-training data for our LLMs’,” the complaint notes […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

[food, meat] I got a whole lamb neck from the butcher because there happened to be one in the display tray. It is currently slow roasting in the oven with aromatics, white wine, different herbs from the herb garden and some tomato. I took the cover off 5 minutes ago so it can brown, render more […]

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Dave Moskovitz (((❤️))) @davemosk.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

When the world is inspired by Mark Carney, New Zealand offers Todd Muller. Kiwi as. Trump is reshaping the world. New Zealand’s best response is keeping its head down writes Todd Muller […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Picked up daughter and bf from the airport this afternoon. Everybody is heading off to bed now, we're all well fed and warm, the house is full, it's great.

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Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @phil-stevens.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

As yet another atmospheric river hoses down large expanses of the country, not only do we get precious little media coverage of how excess heat in the waters of the Coral Sea translates into misery for places like Northland and Tairawhiti, but our official state meteorology website has this […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

[nerd shit] Time to get off my arse and implement blocking at ASN level. I can easily afford the cost of bad actors' bad actions but it annoys me unreasonably how RUDE they are. So in the bin they must go.

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

[nerd shit, enquiry ] I would like to understand firewalls better than I do, particularly on Linux. What online resources would you recommend for someone who kinda sorta gets it but probably should go back to first principles?

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Lucky ✨ @lucky.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

I love this new thing where websites no longer provide any useful information. The NZQA website made me talk to a chatbot to find my national student number. The chatbot couldn't find it and offered to help me email them. Then it couldn't email them either.

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

[mistreatment of autistic person] This Ask Metafilter question terrifies me. tl;dr new carer thinks child is much more capable than anyone has realised and no one believes them. If correct, this is horrifying for the child (and the worker). If wrong, this is a car crash waiting to happen […]

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Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman @stephen.microbe.vital.org.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

What could explain Shane Jones caring about protecting marine life from exploitation? Ah, well, you see, here there's a racism angle. And there's no commercial interest to upset. (Yes I know it says "immigrants" but I don't think nostalgic Cockneys seeking whelks are what Jones has in mind […]

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