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Useful systems nerd. He/him/they. Expert dilettante and pathological interest-haver.

Bayside :) The one in Straya. Boonwurrung Country.

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it's usually the fucken WAF
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
if you want to, you can bid on my auction for a tonne of cool NOS vintage Nixie things www.ebay.com.au/itm/30651899...
Nixies! IN-12A IN-15A IN-17 INS-1 K155ID1 The vintage tube bundle of your dreams | eBay Australia
10 × K155ID1 – hard to findBCD to decimal decoder IC to drive Nixie tubes. Makes building any nixie clocks of your dreams possible, and straightforward! 4 × Nixie tube IN-17 – a beautiful and tiny nix...
www.ebay.com.au
September 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’m auctioning a whole lot of Android: Netrunner stuff at the moment, including a quality Core Set and every deluxe expansion (unopened.) Check them out if you’re interested! ebay.us/m/9QOcME
Android: Netrunner, Revised Core Set + Red Sands + Kitara & MANY EXTRAS! | eBay Australia
This is it: the fastest way to get into Android: Netrunner! Every Revised Core Set card and Cycle card is already sleeved with official Android: Netrunner sleeves. 1 x COMPLETE cycle ofRed Sands. Crim...
ebay.us
August 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
am I broken?
August 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pots 🤔
June 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
one quilt block down, 29 to go!
December 27, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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December 5, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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The social media age ban has landed and it's a dogs breakfast. It bans young people creating age appropriate accounts with controls like no DMs, limits on ads, data restrictions. The obvious outcome is many will simply use an adult account with none of those protections.
November 21, 2024 at 12:20 AM
“Durian Durian”, just a really bad Duran Duran cover band
November 17, 2024 at 5:29 AM
think BoM just DoS'd shop.bom.gov.au by sending out an email saying the 2025 calendar is available 🙃
shop.bom.gov.au
October 16, 2024 at 11:12 PM
man, using diceware for everything really makes writing the passphrase down on a post-it note more difficult
September 19, 2024 at 2:14 AM
re-purposed this old friend into a dedicated NTP server with built in GPS hardware
September 5, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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New epic photo of Phobos over Mars - lurking around Olympus Mons! (2024-07-13)

Full size image 140 MP: flic.kr/p/2qdsc1g (it's huge)
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw data: ESA/DLR/G.Neukum-FUBerlin

ESA Mars Express - New Data Release
Orbit: 25919
Filters: ND3+GR3+BL3 🔭
September 1, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
August 31, 2024 at 2:00 AM
built myself another Seiko "mod" (it's a fake Seiko) this morning :) I think this is my favourite so far, and the best executed
August 31, 2024 at 4:53 AM
thanks for the handy list of services you wish didn't exist, I guess?!
August 29, 2024 at 2:05 AM
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one thing I've never really been clear on is why I sometimes get traffic inbound on my external-facing network interfaces, coming from RFC1918 addresses…like, how does that work and how does it make it through my ISP's (AussieBB) network?
August 26, 2024 at 6:00 AM
one thing I've never really been clear on is why I sometimes get traffic inbound on my external-facing network interfaces, coming from RFC1918 addresses…like, how does that work and how does it make it through my ISP's (AussieBB) network?
August 26, 2024 at 6:00 AM
Got this off the first test roll through my freshly serviced Rolleiflex T. Black cats are difficult in natural light!

Rolleiflex T, Rollei RPX 400, Rolleinar 2, Ilfosol 3
August 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
love it when you boil eggs and none of them crack
July 30, 2024 at 2:39 AM
is there a bigger professional "ick" than rampant self-promotion?

foul american-inspired corporatism
July 30, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
July 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM