Tony Nicholson
@tonynicholson.bsky.social
Australian. Computer Engineer. Into Networking, Security, macOS, Raspberry Pi, Windows & retro computing. Border collie owner & ball thrower. Drives an electric vehicle. Follicular lymphoma survivor. Living sustainably on Awabakal land (Lake Macquarie NSW)
Looks like we’ll have wait a while for the southerly buster in the Newcastle/Lake Macquarie area… #hothothot
December 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Looks like we’ll have wait a while for the southerly buster in the Newcastle/Lake Macquarie area… #hothothot
The proposed laws on hate speech could very well backfire on those it’s supposed to protect. Will the protected ones be able to sprout hate speech on others that they deem inferior (other skin colours, tribes, religions)? #auspol
December 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The proposed laws on hate speech could very well backfire on those it’s supposed to protect. Will the protected ones be able to sprout hate speech on others that they deem inferior (other skin colours, tribes, religions)? #auspol
When I see a news site posting starting with “Everything you need to know about…”, I just scroll on past. It’s waste of time and they really don’t tell me “Everything”. How about a summary of the story/article before the link? It can’t be that hard! #movementforlessclickbait
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
When I see a news site posting starting with “Everything you need to know about…”, I just scroll on past. It’s waste of time and they really don’t tell me “Everything”. How about a summary of the story/article before the link? It can’t be that hard! #movementforlessclickbait
Yup. Not the media narrative we’re being forced fed. The wonderful @cathywilcox.bsky.social nails it.
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yup. Not the media narrative we’re being forced fed. The wonderful @cathywilcox.bsky.social nails it.
WTF… This confirms there are no sane people left in the 🍊 🧍♂️ administration. Not being able to measure and research the Earth’s climate is a threat to us all.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
WTF… This confirms there are no sane people left in the 🍊 🧍♂️ administration. Not being able to measure and research the Earth’s climate is a threat to us all.
I see precious metal prices are near an all-time high. A Troy oz of Gold is over AU$6500 and Silver just pushed through AU$100. Might be time to cash in those 1966 50 cent pieces (80% Ag) as they’re worth over $34 each! Is it nearly #AIbubbleburst time? www.perthmint.com/invest/infor...
Live Australian prices gold, silver, platinum | Perth Mint
Live chart and prices for AUD/USD gold, AUD/USD silver, AUD/USD platinum, AUD/USD palladium. Live tables for what Perth Mint pays for gold, silver bullion.
www.perthmint.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I see precious metal prices are near an all-time high. A Troy oz of Gold is over AU$6500 and Silver just pushed through AU$100. Might be time to cash in those 1966 50 cent pieces (80% Ag) as they’re worth over $34 each! Is it nearly #AIbubbleburst time? www.perthmint.com/invest/infor...
A journalist needs to ask one of the imaginary being’s “chosen people” why they are better than the rest of us and deserve special treatment. I suspect the answer will have something to do with wealth and property.
December 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A journalist needs to ask one of the imaginary being’s “chosen people” why they are better than the rest of us and deserve special treatment. I suspect the answer will have something to do with wealth and property.
“Biggest mass shooting event in Sydney…” — some journalists need to do some research into what happened in the late 18th/early 19th century after those convict ships arrived on the Eora nation’s custodial lands. What happened after those decrees by Lachlan Macquarie?
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
“Biggest mass shooting event in Sydney…” — some journalists need to do some research into what happened in the late 18th/early 19th century after those convict ships arrived on the Eora nation’s custodial lands. What happened after those decrees by Lachlan Macquarie?
Just updated the 💻 , iPad, 📱, TV, and ⌚️. Make sure your Apple iThingies get the latest updates.
Apple has released emergency updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack" targeting specific individuals.
Apple fixes two zero-day flaws exploited in 'sophisticated' attacks
Apple has released emergency updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack" targeting specific individuals.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Just updated the 💻 , iPad, 📱, TV, and ⌚️. Make sure your Apple iThingies get the latest updates.
Don’t click ads - to make sure their business model breaks…
A new AMOS infostealer campaign is abusing Google search ads to lure users into Grok and ChatGPT conversations that appear to offer "helpful" instructions but ultimately lead to installing the AMOS info-stealing malware on macOS.
Google ads for shared ChatGPT, Grok guides push macOS infostealer malware
A new AMOS infostealer campaign is abusing Google search ads to lure users into Grok and ChatGPT conversations that appear to offer "helpful" instructions but ultimately lead to installing the AMOS info-stealing malware on macOS.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Don’t click ads - to make sure their business model breaks…
Hiding the threat won’t make it go away. I dread to think how long it will take the world to recover from this. Maybe after it’s all burnt, flooded and blown away.
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hiding the threat won’t make it go away. I dread to think how long it will take the world to recover from this. Maybe after it’s all burnt, flooded and blown away.
All politicians are like pigs with their snouts in the trough. If they get all expenses paid for both them and their spouse/family, then there is no need to pay them such high salaries. The “guidelines” need scrutiny and revisions to pare back the entitlements. I’ll volunteer to do this for free.
Anika Wells claimed more than $8,500 for family travel to Melbourne during AFL grand final weekends over three years
Anika Wells claimed more than $8,500 for family travel to Melbourne during AFL grand final weekends over three years
Exclusive: Labor’s minister for communications and sport has stood by her use of family travel expenses as within the rules
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Anika Wells claimed more than $8500 in family travel expenses to Melbourne during AFL grand final weekends in 2022, 2023 and 2024, when she received free suite tickets to the matches.
The minister for communications and sport has stood by her use of family travel expenses as within the rules, but the Coalition opposition is demanding reforms to expense rules and an inquiry into Wells’ spending by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority, the parliamentary body which tracks and reports politicians’ spending on travel and office expenses. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
All politicians are like pigs with their snouts in the trough. If they get all expenses paid for both them and their spouse/family, then there is no need to pay them such high salaries. The “guidelines” need scrutiny and revisions to pare back the entitlements. I’ll volunteer to do this for free.
Status update: Staying cool inside with a cuppa and a (large) slice of Yummy Kitchen Celebration cake whilst listening to Handel’s Messiah on ABC TV. It’s a bush fire Smokey 37°C outside even after the 26km/h Nor’easter (or Novocastrian sea breeze) has started to cool things down.
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Status update: Staying cool inside with a cuppa and a (large) slice of Yummy Kitchen Celebration cake whilst listening to Handel’s Messiah on ABC TV. It’s a bush fire Smokey 37°C outside even after the 26km/h Nor’easter (or Novocastrian sea breeze) has started to cool things down.
Only if you’re doing something dodgy would you want make records of important conversations with business lobbyists disappear. What happened to ethical and open? #auspol
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Only if you’re doing something dodgy would you want make records of important conversations with business lobbyists disappear. What happened to ethical and open? #auspol
Great stuff Whitepages! Everyone now needs physical copies to look up someone they know to confirm their address - can’t do it online anymore. I wonder if it was slurped into the large language model “AI” slop machine. Was there a heads up this was going to happen?
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Great stuff Whitepages! Everyone now needs physical copies to look up someone they know to confirm their address - can’t do it online anymore. I wonder if it was slurped into the large language model “AI” slop machine. Was there a heads up this was going to happen?
Not so good news for anyone with a WhatsApp account. I’m not one of them I think - but who knows what happened when Meta took control and merged the bookface mega advertising database.
Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting.
WhatsApp API flaw let researchers scrape 3.5 billion accounts
Researchers compiled a list of 3.5 billion WhatsApp mobile phone numbers and associated personal information by abusing a contact-discovery API that lacked rate limiting.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not so good news for anyone with a WhatsApp account. I’m not one of them I think - but who knows what happened when Meta took control and merged the bookface mega advertising database.
Don’t you just love the latest co-pilot version of lookout (Microsoft Outlook) automatically moves e-mails from the Microsoft Insiders team about the web site refresh directly into the Junk folder! #EnshitificationOfAI
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Don’t you just love the latest co-pilot version of lookout (Microsoft Outlook) automatically moves e-mails from the Microsoft Insiders team about the web site refresh directly into the Junk folder! #EnshitificationOfAI
The answer to the question “When will electricity prices go down?” is “Never”. That’s how privatisation and capitalism works!
If the Libs and Nats want an alternative then they can leave political life and setup their own energy company —using both their own and their donor’s money and go for it!
If the Libs and Nats want an alternative then they can leave political life and setup their own energy company —using both their own and their donor’s money and go for it!
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The answer to the question “When will electricity prices go down?” is “Never”. That’s how privatisation and capitalism works!
If the Libs and Nats want an alternative then they can leave political life and setup their own energy company —using both their own and their donor’s money and go for it!
If the Libs and Nats want an alternative then they can leave political life and setup their own energy company —using both their own and their donor’s money and go for it!
They’re still trying these 30 year old scams. Sounds believable that an orphan priest would leave me a fortune and get a nun to act as his legal representative an they picked my email address at random. 🤪
![An e-mail from “Rev. Sister Mary Thomas” [using a Gary Riley Gmail address] from the Cotonou Benin de Republic is announcing out of the blue that a Rev. Fr. Clement Sandy (an orphan) has died and left me US$6.5 million in his will and requests my contact details.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:56xt2s2256smoqzmkpu2be32/bafkreiatn6dzqq4pa2npkv5sbdog5wdfmz6lwzjrz75jerztsovci2qfti@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
They’re still trying these 30 year old scams. Sounds believable that an orphan priest would leave me a fortune and get a nun to act as his legal representative an they picked my email address at random. 🤪
Great! A 24.8 MB clock app update. Who are the “many people” that want “Focused Sessions” and just how is this going to help us to “stay focused and be more productive”? Microsoft #13523 evidence that they have well and truely lost the plot! #WindowsBloat
September 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Great! A 24.8 MB clock app update. Who are the “many people” that want “Focused Sessions” and just how is this going to help us to “stay focused and be more productive”? Microsoft #13523 evidence that they have well and truely lost the plot! #WindowsBloat
Spring timeline cleanser that has a faint smell of vanilla!
September 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Spring timeline cleanser that has a faint smell of vanilla!
Happy 3rd birthday car! Mostly powered by home solar PV. Maintenance costs for the last year… $40 for wiper blades and $60 for in cabin filters.
September 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Happy 3rd birthday car! Mostly powered by home solar PV. Maintenance costs for the last year… $40 for wiper blades and $60 for in cabin filters.
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August 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Yep. Ditch the current fuel excise and diesel fuel tax rebates in favour of a road user charge that’s fair and reasonable for all users of public roads.
MEDIA RELEASE:
Road User Charging must be Universal
A universal, mass × distance road user charge for would serve the same role as fuel excise. A pay-by-use system which is proportional to the impact driving has on society and infrastructure.
www.aeva.asn.au/files/4297/
Road User Charging must be Universal
A universal, mass × distance road user charge for would serve the same role as fuel excise. A pay-by-use system which is proportional to the impact driving has on society and infrastructure.
www.aeva.asn.au/files/4297/
August 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Yep. Ditch the current fuel excise and diesel fuel tax rebates in favour of a road user charge that’s fair and reasonable for all users of public roads.
Everywhere I search online for factual information I’m finding that it’s infested with large language model chat-bot “AI” rubbish. “AI” is the latest pandemic threat to anyone with a brain that accepts what it spews out without questioning its validity.
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Everywhere I search online for factual information I’m finding that it’s infested with large language model chat-bot “AI” rubbish. “AI” is the latest pandemic threat to anyone with a brain that accepts what it spews out without questioning its validity.