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Misinformation-Superhighwayman
@damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Misinformation-Superhighwayman, Writer, Photographer, Maker, Arduino-wrangler, Synthesizer-dabbler, Cyberflâneur, Cyclist.
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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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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
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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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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In which @benno pitches the next bryan cranston AMC crime drama
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Happy Life Day to those who celebrate — particularly all you fans of the "Star Wars Holiday Special".

#starwars #starwarsholidayspecial #lifeday
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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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 […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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
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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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
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
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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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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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 […]

[Original post on aus.social]
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The existence of hiccups implies the existence of hiccdowns.
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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
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
October 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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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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
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]
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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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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running docker on a raspberry pi
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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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not all heroes wear capes
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM