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Misinformation-Superhighwayman
@damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
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Misinformation-Superhighwayman, Writer, Photographer, Maker, Arduino-wrangler, Synthesizer-dabbler, Cyberflâneur, Cyclist.
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damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
UPS emailed me to say they're about to deliver a parcel "Sat, 12th April". Or, maybe part of their system is cursed and uses middle-endian date format, which screwed-up how about part of their system parses dates, and the parcel is due to arrive today? 🤷🏼‍♀️
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
A photo gallery from the 10-year construction of the Melbourne Metro railway line, for gunzels and umarell, from @wongm:

https://wongm.com/2025/12/metro-tunnel-ten-years-in-the-making/
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
The day has only just begun, yet I already find myself brainwormed by Rob Zombie's "Dragula".
December 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Oh look, Arduino immediately turns evil after being acquired by corporation with doubleplusingood track record of openness. This is my shocked vid/pid: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/adafruit_makers_unhappy_with_arduino/
Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino
go.theregister.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
In which @benno pitches the next bryan cranston AMC crime drama
benno gesticulating below a screen that says "Breaking Stuff"
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Happy Life Day to those who celebrate — particularly all you fans of the "Star Wars Holiday Special".

#starwars #starwarsholidayspecial #lifeday
An illustration of four Wookies, possibly a family. They're wearing bright red robes for a special occasion: Life Day. They're standing in a semicircle, and are holding a glowing, white ball. The background is a forest setting, depicted with vertical lines in various shades of green. The left side of the image is a black background with a white circle. Inside the circle is text; a combination of English , reading "Life Day", and glyphs I cannot decipher that are presumably a writing system of a Wookiee culture.
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #ai and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow […]
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hachyderm.io
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy
Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science

This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface
Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required meticulous planning to pull off.
www.livescience.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Doctor Who legend Tom Baker, 91, dons iconic Fourth Doctor costume as he receives MBE in style
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-tom-baker-costume-mbe-newsupdate/

#doctorwho #tombaker
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
If asked "Where do you see yourself 12 months from now?", it's difficult to give a better answer than "One light-day away from Earth."

https://www.iflscience.com/on-november-13-2026-voyager-will-reach-one-full-light-day-away-from-earth-81432

#voyager1 #nasa
On November 13, 2026, A Human-Made Object Will Reach One Light-Day From The Earth For The First Time In History
It took the spacecraft nearly five decades to get there. It takes light a day.
www.iflscience.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
The thing about immortality is the perspective; over the course of eighty billion years we watched the universe expand and thin, dimming as more and more galaxies accelerated beyond the visible horizon. Those of us who didn’t give in to ennui or retreat into simulations eventually saw the words […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Major train, road delays after truck strikes two bridges near Melbourne CBDhttps://amp-9news-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.9news.com.au/article/0a45a33a-3355-47f0-8ba6-8aaa4751d608

Usually it's the other way around, and @MontagueStBridge collects two trucks in one day!
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Is it just me, or is YouTube glitchy today? The "Playback Speed" feature is broken on multiple desktop browsers.
Has Google gone to war against web browser adblockers/plugins again?

#youtube
November 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
Before another planet smashed into ours and formed the moon, Earth was a primitive lava hellscape sometimes called “proto-Earth.” Now geochemists have uncovered ancient rocks in Greenland, Canada and Hawaii with telltale potassium signatures that don’t match modern rocks or meteorites […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
I’m featured in issue 95 of Make Magazine (@makemagazine). They picked¹ my most mad-scientist out-take from the photo shoot as the hero image, of course! The article is about how I (ab)used esphome and ESP-skainet to add voice control to my workbench gadgets.

¹ […]

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The opening two pages of a magazine article. The background picture is a posterized montage of my gadgets and me wearing one of them in my head and laughing maniacally. I am unironically wearing a white lab coat.
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
The existence of hiccups implies the existence of hiccdowns.
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Gluten sensitivity: It’s not actually about gluten
https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/october/gluten-sensitivity-its-not-actually-about-gluten

Lead researcher, University of Melbourne Associate Professor Jessica Biesiekierski, says there's a popular belief that most people with […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Looks like the weather just hit this neighbourhood. The Bureau of Meteorology is projecting wind gusts later this afternoon over 90 km/h.

#weathertoot #melbourne #melbourneweather #wimdy
Victorian Wind Speed (knots) and Direction chart by the Bureau of Meteorology, recorded 2:00 PM EADT. Red patches indicate wind of 40 knots or more along the southern coast of Victoria, Port Philip Bay, and Melbourne. Source: https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/victoria/central/bvic_pt042-melbourne 128 km Melbourne Doppler wind chart by the Bureau of Meteorology, recorded 2:04 PM EADT. Dark blue patches north-west of Melbourne (toward the doppler radar) and bright red patches south-east of Melbourne (away from the doppler radar) indicate an intense north-westerly wind of around 40 km/h with gusts of approximately 90 km/h. Source: https://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR02I.shtml
October 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
AWS us-east-1 had a wobble, and that's causing a cascade of sad times for websites and infrastructure that rely on the internet, such as Signal. And a fair chunk of Mastodon.

Amazon cloud platform and several other websites experiencing outages […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security.

https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
How I Bypassed Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
blog.pixelmelt.dev
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
If you use Google Search, you may notice they've inserted a new "AI Mode" on the Search Results page. This fresh piece of enshittification consumes prime real estate in the UI: the first menu item. It's another example of a Big Tech company pushing AI hype and […]

[Original post on aus.social]
Screenshot of the Google Search results page. The image is cropped to draw your attention to the header. In the top left is the wordmark logo for Google. To the right of the logo is the field for the search term. The next row down is a series of menu items that filter the type of search. The image is annotated with the addition of a bright red oval to highlight the first item in the menu, "AI Mode". This new malfeature appeared today or very recently, and it's been crammed into the UI in the first place in the menu. I think this a Deceptive Design Pattern: it's likely you'll click on it by accident because you're accustomed to using the first item in that menu due to years of experience training your "muscle memory". Previously, this menu had options for "All", "Images", "Shopping", "News", and so on, with a drop-down menu on the right side called "More" that contains additional options that are used less frequently.
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
The layout of this paper is expert level trolling!

https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5765/4629
View of Optimal Line Length in Reading — A Literature Review
journals.uc.edu
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
running docker on a raspberry pi
Shipping container loaded on top of a small wooden stern boat which it is clearly too big for
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I guess I haven’t clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.
October 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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tak.notapattern.net
not all heroes wear capes
one of those annoying gas station screens that plays obnoxious audio at you while you’re just trying to get some overpriced gas in peace, except you can’t because we live in a capitalist dystopian nightmare where every surface must be yelling at you at all times. something is scrawled on one of the otherwise unlabeled buttons. what is it…? close-up of the button, alongside which someone (HERO) has helpfully scrawled “MUTE” in permanent marker. readers, i pressed the button and i am here to tell you that it WORKED and i was able to spend the next few minutes in blessed, silent contemplation of how much it costs to fill the gas tank of the vehicle i am forced to own because of decades of under-investment in public transit infrastructure
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM