Gus
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Big ol' nerd. Interested in electronics, reverse engineering, open source, repairing things, cooperatives, bikes.
Variously part-time as: MicroPython maintainer […]
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@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
· Dec 8
A 'broken' property market spurred hundreds of locals to buy a building
For its passionate members, saving a historic goldrush-era pub to protect their cooperative was about "economic democracy" and keeping the property out of developers' hands.
www.abc.net.au
Our Community Investment Co-op got a write up from the ABC!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-08/castlemaine-cooperative-privatisation-economic-democracy/106103270
#cooperatives
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-08/castlemaine-cooperative-privatisation-economic-democracy/106103270
#cooperatives
My FAIR TRADING LEGAL PRODUCT BUILT BY AU STANDARD sign is raising a lot of questions already answered by my sign.
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
My FAIR TRADING LEGAL PRODUCT BUILT BY AU STANDARD sign is raising a lot of questions already answered by my sign.
It's annoying when a product is clearly designed for repair, but there's no spare parts...
This is a Clipsal bathroom exhaust fan. The fan assembly comes out with 7 screws total, the internal connections are all screw terminals, and aside from being filthy the […]
[Original post on aus.social]
This is a Clipsal bathroom exhaust fan. The fan assembly comes out with 7 screws total, the internal connections are all screw terminals, and aside from being filthy the […]
[Original post on aus.social]
February 10, 2026 at 9:51 PM
It's annoying when a product is clearly designed for repair, but there's no spare parts...
This is a Clipsal bathroom exhaust fan. The fan assembly comes out with 7 screws total, the internal connections are all screw terminals, and aside from being filthy the […]
[Original post on aus.social]
This is a Clipsal bathroom exhaust fan. The fan assembly comes out with 7 screws total, the internal connections are all screw terminals, and aside from being filthy the […]
[Original post on aus.social]
Jay Leno's tedious rambling aside, the forthcoming Slate low cost electric pickup truck looks really promising https://youtu.be/L6_9_HHLOSY
A small ute with a usable bed size and *no screens* in the dash? I hope they do a right hand drive version for Australia...
#evs
A small ute with a usable bed size and *no screens* in the dash? I hope they do a right hand drive version for Australia...
#evs
February 4, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Jay Leno's tedious rambling aside, the forthcoming Slate low cost electric pickup truck looks really promising https://youtu.be/L6_9_HHLOSY
A small ute with a usable bed size and *no screens* in the dash? I hope they do a right hand drive version for Australia...
#evs
A small ute with a usable bed size and *no screens* in the dash? I hope they do a right hand drive version for Australia...
#evs
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive […]
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive […]
Original post on mastodon.me.uk
mastodon.me.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive […]
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive […]
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i tried Dune 3D earlier today.
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
SolveSpace still excels at being minimalist and polished (it […]
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
SolveSpace still excels at being minimalist and polished (it […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
January 30, 2026 at 5:10 PM
i tried Dune 3D earlier today.
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
SolveSpace still excels at being minimalist and polished (it […]
as an ex-maintainer of SolveSpace, my conclusion is that Dune 3D is the spiritual successor to SolveSpace: same solver, similar (but more powerful) workflow, significantly more powerful geometric kernel
SolveSpace still excels at being minimalist and polished (it […]
TFW you make a careful code review of someone's PR submission and you're pretty sure they've replied back with LLM slop. :bunnesad:
(Very confident, lots of mostly-relevant dot points, much of it sounds technically plausible but not fully correct.)
(Very confident, lots of mostly-relevant dot points, much of it sounds technically plausible but not fully correct.)
January 28, 2026 at 10:34 PM
TFW you make a careful code review of someone's PR submission and you're pretty sure they've replied back with LLM slop. :bunnesad:
(Very confident, lots of mostly-relevant dot points, much of it sounds technically plausible but not fully correct.)
(Very confident, lots of mostly-relevant dot points, much of it sounds technically plausible but not fully correct.)
I've had this Sanyo dynamo-powered headlight on my bike for eight years, but it'd been disconnected for about five of them...
Finally wired the hub dynamo back up over Christmas and light was dead!
(Little #bike #electronics #repair🧵)
Finally wired the hub dynamo back up over Christmas and light was dead!
(Little #bike #electronics #repair🧵)
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 AM
I've had this Sanyo dynamo-powered headlight on my bike for eight years, but it'd been disconnected for about five of them...
Finally wired the hub dynamo back up over Christmas and light was dead!
(Little #bike #electronics #repair🧵)
Finally wired the hub dynamo back up over Christmas and light was dead!
(Little #bike #electronics #repair🧵)
[Victorian bushfires]
My friend Tess runs a microdairy as part of the Harcourt Organic Farming Coop. She's written about their experience two Fridays ago, when the surrounding region went up in flames.
https://sellardairy.com.au/2026/01/as-the-ash-settles/
My friend Tess runs a microdairy as part of the Harcourt Organic Farming Coop. She's written about their experience two Fridays ago, when the surrounding region went up in flames.
https://sellardairy.com.au/2026/01/as-the-ash-settles/
January 19, 2026 at 5:51 AM
[Victorian bushfires]
My friend Tess runs a microdairy as part of the Harcourt Organic Farming Coop. She's written about their experience two Fridays ago, when the surrounding region went up in flames.
https://sellardairy.com.au/2026/01/as-the-ash-settles/
My friend Tess runs a microdairy as part of the Harcourt Organic Farming Coop. She's written about their experience two Fridays ago, when the surrounding region went up in flames.
https://sellardairy.com.au/2026/01/as-the-ash-settles/
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Fans of Adafruit may recall a couple of months ago that one of the key people at the company made a series of posts on social media (including Mastodon and BlueSky) that looked awfully like online harassment. Besides some unprofessional stuff like name-calling, there were more serious […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
January 14, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Fans of Adafruit may recall a couple of months ago that one of the key people at the company made a series of posts on social media (including Mastodon and BlueSky) that looked awfully like online harassment. Besides some unprofessional stuff like name-calling, there were more serious […]
Worthwhile as always watching @bunnie and @Xobs's talk from #39c3 about the Xous memory protected embedded OS.
https://app.media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system
https://youtu.be/DaWkfSmIgRs
Something that consistently impresses me about their projects […]
https://app.media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system
https://youtu.be/DaWkfSmIgRs
Something that consistently impresses me about their projects […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
January 11, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Worthwhile as always watching @bunnie and @Xobs's talk from #39c3 about the Xous memory protected embedded OS.
https://app.media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system
https://youtu.be/DaWkfSmIgRs
Something that consistently impresses me about their projects […]
https://app.media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system
https://youtu.be/DaWkfSmIgRs
Something that consistently impresses me about their projects […]
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Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 11, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
“In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]
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RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115863080846737985
Exactly. I don't care too much about the "unicorns", I want small to medium companies that do one thing really well, everyone is fairly compensated and can go home early on Friday.
Exactly. I don't care too much about the "unicorns", I want small to medium companies that do one thing really well, everyone is fairly compensated and can go home early on Friday.
phpc.social
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115863080846737985
Exactly. I don't care too much about the "unicorns", I want small to medium companies that do one thing really well, everyone is fairly compensated and can go home early on Friday.
Exactly. I don't care too much about the "unicorns", I want small to medium companies that do one thing really well, everyone is fairly compensated and can go home early on Friday.
Stumbled on the Shell Game podcast: I'm listening to the first season from 2024 where the narrator creates an AI voice agent as himself, hooked up to ChatGPT, and sends his "persona" out into the world. I expected it'd be insufferable, but although it's disturbing on multiple levels it's also […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
January 6, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Stumbled on the Shell Game podcast: I'm listening to the first season from 2024 where the narrator creates an AI voice agent as himself, hooked up to ChatGPT, and sends his "persona" out into the world. I expected it'd be insufferable, but although it's disturbing on multiple levels it's also […]
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[Geopolitics reckons - Venezuela, structural racism]
I guess what grates me about the "imagine if Greenland/Taiwan/Canada is next" takes, is that they carry the implication that the fact this is ACTUALLY happening in Venezuela is expected, or not as bad as it would be if it affects […]
I guess what grates me about the "imagine if Greenland/Taiwan/Canada is next" takes, is that they carry the implication that the fact this is ACTUALLY happening in Venezuela is expected, or not as bad as it would be if it affects […]
Original post on mastodon.nz
mastodon.nz
January 6, 2026 at 2:50 AM
[Geopolitics reckons - Venezuela, structural racism]
I guess what grates me about the "imagine if Greenland/Taiwan/Canada is next" takes, is that they carry the implication that the fact this is ACTUALLY happening in Venezuela is expected, or not as bad as it would be if it affects […]
I guess what grates me about the "imagine if Greenland/Taiwan/Canada is next" takes, is that they carry the implication that the fact this is ACTUALLY happening in Venezuela is expected, or not as bad as it would be if it affects […]
Thoroughly enjoyed the Hacking Washing Machines talk video from #39c3. Had expected it'd be about IoT stuff, but it was mostly about old fashioned diagnostic protocols! Some great reversing efforts.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
It did dawn on me that if we had good […]
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
It did dawn on me that if we had good […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
January 1, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed the Hacking Washing Machines talk video from #39c3. Had expected it'd be about IoT stuff, but it was mostly about old fashioned diagnostic protocols! Some great reversing efforts.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
It did dawn on me that if we had good […]
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines
It did dawn on me that if we had good […]
Lovely video about a man running a second hand bike shop in a tiny upstate New York town https://youtu.be/1-0q-VYYcgI
December 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Lovely video about a man running a second hand bike shop in a tiny upstate New York town https://youtu.be/1-0q-VYYcgI
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At a family gathering, watching adults try to correct the #actuallyautistic kid - with a special interest in #geography - who was claiming that Canada borders Denmark.
Wrong, get rek't adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
(and that's how I learned that Canada does, in fact, border […]
Wrong, get rek't adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
(and that's how I learned that Canada does, in fact, border […]
Original post on xn--8r9a.com
xn--8r9a.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
At a family gathering, watching adults try to correct the #actuallyautistic kid - with a special interest in #geography - who was claiming that Canada borders Denmark.
Wrong, get rek't adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
(and that's how I learned that Canada does, in fact, border […]
Wrong, get rek't adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island
(and that's how I learned that Canada does, in fact, border […]
The NSW Transport Regional bookings website is pretty close to the website you'd make if you didn't want anyone to take a train, ever.
December 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The NSW Transport Regional bookings website is pretty close to the website you'd make if you didn't want anyone to take a train, ever.
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MAN DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKEN IDEA HOW MUCH PETROL IT TAKES TO RUN A CAR
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
MAN DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKEN IDEA HOW MUCH PETROL IT TAKES TO RUN A CAR
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE
AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY
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@projectgus
I operated a lab of IBM DOS computers in a school library. To keep little fingers away, the server was on the carpet under a table. Each day about 120 children traipsed in to use the computers.
One day the server shut down, so I called the technician. He set the server on some […]
I operated a lab of IBM DOS computers in a school library. To keep little fingers away, the server was on the carpet under a table. Each day about 120 children traipsed in to use the computers.
One day the server shut down, so I called the technician. He set the server on some […]
Original post on musician.social
musician.social
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
@projectgus
I operated a lab of IBM DOS computers in a school library. To keep little fingers away, the server was on the carpet under a table. Each day about 120 children traipsed in to use the computers.
One day the server shut down, so I called the technician. He set the server on some […]
I operated a lab of IBM DOS computers in a school library. To keep little fingers away, the server was on the carpet under a table. Each day about 120 children traipsed in to use the computers.
One day the server shut down, so I called the technician. He set the server on some […]
Suddenly reminded of an e-waste story: about 13 years ago I spotted a high end gaming PC at the tip. Less than two years old, pretty expensive component choices for the era.
Took home, powered up. The CPU fan immediately ran 100%, and it froze mid-boot. OK, we know why it was treated as e-waste […]
Took home, powered up. The CPU fan immediately ran 100%, and it froze mid-boot. OK, we know why it was treated as e-waste […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Suddenly reminded of an e-waste story: about 13 years ago I spotted a high end gaming PC at the tip. Less than two years old, pretty expensive component choices for the era.
Took home, powered up. The CPU fan immediately ran 100%, and it froze mid-boot. OK, we know why it was treated as e-waste […]
Took home, powered up. The CPU fan immediately ran 100%, and it froze mid-boot. OK, we know why it was treated as e-waste […]
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Also, not for nothing, but... this puts the lie to GamerGate-style arguments yet again.
One woman appears in one video game: KERP POLITICS OUT OF MY GAMEZ
A literal arms manufacturer makes a literal game console using scrap metal from literal weapons of war: *crickets*
One woman appears in one video game: KERP POLITICS OUT OF MY GAMEZ
A literal arms manufacturer makes a literal game console using scrap metal from literal weapons of war: *crickets*
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Also, not for nothing, but... this puts the lie to GamerGate-style arguments yet again.
One woman appears in one video game: KERP POLITICS OUT OF MY GAMEZ
A literal arms manufacturer makes a literal game console using scrap metal from literal weapons of war: *crickets*
One woman appears in one video game: KERP POLITICS OUT OF MY GAMEZ
A literal arms manufacturer makes a literal game console using scrap metal from literal weapons of war: *crickets*
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The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!