Ben
@hardy.sydney
Hackin' glyphs, landin' luderick, and slingin' code
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Public health framed as warfare doesn’t heal anyone. It just gives the state more dangerous tools and fewer questions. Words matter. Especially when force follows them.
#SnarkyOrwell
#BiglyBrother
#DoubleSpeak
#WordsHaveMeanings
#MinistryOfTruth
#SnarkyOrwell
#BiglyBrother
#DoubleSpeak
#WordsHaveMeanings
#MinistryOfTruth
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Public health framed as warfare doesn’t heal anyone. It just gives the state more dangerous tools and fewer questions. Words matter. Especially when force follows them.
#SnarkyOrwell
#BiglyBrother
#DoubleSpeak
#WordsHaveMeanings
#MinistryOfTruth
#SnarkyOrwell
#BiglyBrother
#DoubleSpeak
#WordsHaveMeanings
#MinistryOfTruth
oh damn, Leftfield is playing the Enmore in March
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
oh damn, Leftfield is playing the Enmore in March
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#Java 26 enters rampdown phase 1 today, which sets its feature set in stone. The latest inside Java Newscast goes over the full list (don't click, it's boring):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX5...
All Features in Java 26 - Inside Java Newscast #102
YouTube video by Java
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#Java 26 enters rampdown phase 1 today, which sets its feature set in stone. The latest inside Java Newscast goes over the full list (don't click, it's boring):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX5...
ME: ok.... important meeting but working from home, try to look intelligent
DOG: YES NOW IS THE TIME TO SUICIDALLY FUCK WITH ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
DOG: YES NOW IS THE TIME TO SUICIDALLY FUCK WITH ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
ME: ok.... important meeting but working from home, try to look intelligent
DOG: YES NOW IS THE TIME TO SUICIDALLY FUCK WITH ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
DOG: YES NOW IS THE TIME TO SUICIDALLY FUCK WITH ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
what if it always was a panopticon?
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
what if it always was a panopticon?
yeah so back into the crochet after a multi-decade absence, making bags for partner's fam's kiddos. here's the base of the first one started. pretty uneven but hey i'm pretty rusty.
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
yeah so back into the crochet after a multi-decade absence, making bags for partner's fam's kiddos. here's the base of the first one started. pretty uneven but hey i'm pretty rusty.
IBM VGA 9x16 monospace font for programming. You're welcome. int10h.org/oldschool-pc...
Font: IBM VGA 9x16 - The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
Font: IBM VGA 9x16, from the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
int10h.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
IBM VGA 9x16 monospace font for programming. You're welcome. int10h.org/oldschool-pc...
I've decide to take up macrame with Ethernet cables and LEDs.
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I've decide to take up macrame with Ethernet cables and LEDs.
big science news: "light doesn't just illuminate matter, it magnetically influences it." phys.org/news/2025-11...
New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its electri...
phys.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
big science news: "light doesn't just illuminate matter, it magnetically influences it." phys.org/news/2025-11...
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I don't have any skin in the game on this, but if anyone is using the OTel Zipkin exporter and you would like to continue using it, you should let the OTel folks know: github.com/open-telemet...
Deprecate Zipkin exporter by lmolkova · Pull Request #4715 · open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification
This PR intends to gather feedback on Zipkin exporter usage and possible deprecation.
What inspired it:
The transformations documented in zipkin exporter are not followed in practice (e.g. otel-j...
github.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I don't have any skin in the game on this, but if anyone is using the OTel Zipkin exporter and you would like to continue using it, you should let the OTel folks know: github.com/open-telemet...
⏰ #Sydney #Ingress Agents! Join us for the next
🪐 Ingress First Saturday meetup, 6 Dec 2025.
⬇️ in Sydney's beautiful BOTANICAL GARDENS! 🌴🌺🌳🌵
🍔 More info/rego are here:
🔗 fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e...
✅ We need 10 people before Nov 26th, so register ASAP!
🫶 Thanks, see you there!
🪐 Ingress First Saturday meetup, 6 Dec 2025.
⬇️ in Sydney's beautiful BOTANICAL GARDENS! 🌴🌺🌳🌵
🍔 More info/rego are here:
🔗 fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e...
✅ We need 10 people before Nov 26th, so register ASAP!
🫶 Thanks, see you there!
#IngressFS @ Fev Games
fevgames.net
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
⏰ #Sydney #Ingress Agents! Join us for the next
🪐 Ingress First Saturday meetup, 6 Dec 2025.
⬇️ in Sydney's beautiful BOTANICAL GARDENS! 🌴🌺🌳🌵
🍔 More info/rego are here:
🔗 fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e...
✅ We need 10 people before Nov 26th, so register ASAP!
🫶 Thanks, see you there!
🪐 Ingress First Saturday meetup, 6 Dec 2025.
⬇️ in Sydney's beautiful BOTANICAL GARDENS! 🌴🌺🌳🌵
🍔 More info/rego are here:
🔗 fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e...
✅ We need 10 people before Nov 26th, so register ASAP!
🫶 Thanks, see you there!
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I can’t remember the ending of this Black Mirror episode but I’m sure everything turned out well for everyone in the end
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I can’t remember the ending of this Black Mirror episode but I’m sure everything turned out well for everyone in the end
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
You ain't. Got no. Back. Bone.
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
You ain't. Got no. Back. Bone.
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@irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, reveals AI slop being used by #ScienceDirect, and, unsurprisingly, getting it wrong.
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, reveals AI slop being used by #ScienceDirect, and, unsurprisingly, getting it wrong.
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
"Stochastic regurgitation" is just the best term for what these programs do.
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
God i sometimes wish I still lived in LA. 13 magical years. I love Sysney tho.
Ingress turns lucky number 13 next Sat. 🎈 If you’re in LA and want to meet up to walk a new DTLA mission banner together, save the date: Sat Nov 15 at 2:00 PM starting at the JANM steps in Little Tokyo (near the Metro A, E lines). I’m planning to walk to the Bonaventure and back, so wear sunscreen.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
God i sometimes wish I still lived in LA. 13 magical years. I love Sysney tho.
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You can do anything at ZomboCom
In November 1999, the Zombo dot com website was created as a parody of the creative, but, largely pointless flash intros, which were trending at the end of the 1990s. Welcome... to ZomboCom.
#WebDesignHistory
#WebDesignHistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
You can do anything at ZomboCom
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if you're a veteran agent or a new recruit who has never played ingress before, this is a really good time to start. 2X AP and 2X hack output starts this friday until nov 24. if you're in la this sat 11/15 2pm, come hang out with me downtown: luma.com/09d0q4eu
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
if you're a veteran agent or a new recruit who has never played ingress before, this is a really good time to start. 2X AP and 2X hack output starts this friday until nov 24. if you're in la this sat 11/15 2pm, come hang out with me downtown: luma.com/09d0q4eu
No joke I would love a month off work to play Factorio and go fishing
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
No joke I would love a month off work to play Factorio and go fishing
Currently blasting Maroochydore QLD with Cocteau Twins
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Currently blasting Maroochydore QLD with Cocteau Twins
Fuck I hope i didn't miss 28 Years Later in the cinema
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Fuck I hope i didn't miss 28 Years Later in the cinema
osx running out of file handles? pump up the jam: www.chrissearle.org/2016/10/01/t...
Too many open files on OSX/macOS
Using launchd to bump max files - similar to sysctl on linux
www.chrissearle.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
osx running out of file handles? pump up the jam: www.chrissearle.org/2016/10/01/t...
Hooray for #crashes! Crashed the way home. Fairly beat up but I'm ok, and my #bike is OK. It was the stupidest of crashes too, changing lanes and going over one of those white painted lane markers. Except it was 1.5cm thick, grabbed my wheel, and down I went. This was Flinders St southbound. #sydney
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hooray for #crashes! Crashed the way home. Fairly beat up but I'm ok, and my #bike is OK. It was the stupidest of crashes too, changing lanes and going over one of those white painted lane markers. Except it was 1.5cm thick, grabbed my wheel, and down I went. This was Flinders St southbound. #sydney
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No Kings Day rebranded as “Hate America Day.” The Ministry of Irony must be working overtime. What could be more American? That was literally what we were founded on!
#SnarkyOrwell #BiglyBrother #NoKingsDay #Doublethink #DystopianHumor #AbsurdistTruth #ModernMadness
#SnarkyOrwell #BiglyBrother #NoKingsDay #Doublethink #DystopianHumor #AbsurdistTruth #ModernMadness
October 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
No Kings Day rebranded as “Hate America Day.” The Ministry of Irony must be working overtime. What could be more American? That was literally what we were founded on!
#SnarkyOrwell #BiglyBrother #NoKingsDay #Doublethink #DystopianHumor #AbsurdistTruth #ModernMadness
#SnarkyOrwell #BiglyBrother #NoKingsDay #Doublethink #DystopianHumor #AbsurdistTruth #ModernMadness