ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

They... they let it read The Onion 🤣

From Scarlett Johansson re OpenAI stealing her voice:

@simon_diamond

See this?

@dgar 🔗 https://aus.social/users/dgar/statuses/112467119440187197
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The existence of Norway implies...

“I could rewrite #curl”

Here's my collection of some less cheerful quotes to keep me firmly grounded. Blogged three years ago today:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/

A few more from Friday night / Saturday morning. The first one is looking east with Bennachie on the skyline #Aurora #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

Should you wish to watch the eSafety Commissioner vs X Corp in the Federal Court of Australia today, it’s at 1030 AEDT (in about 45 minutes) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYBUmsonfPg

Bitwarden on mobile has been improved!

https://news.itsfoss.com/bitwarden-passkeys-mobile/

Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a Douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂

Every autumn, the larch pines turn orange, and the smiley face stands out.

As it's been 20 years since I made the original, I thought I'd recreate my "Monitor Slapping" GIF. Except now I'm slapping myself through time....

I keep seeing this article posted about how a place in the UK is eliminating apostrophes in street names to avoid database issues.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

In Australia, we adopted a policy of doing exactly this, but way back in 1966. The only logical explanation here is that at some point an Australian DBA got their hands on a time machine.

did you know that the default Windows 10 desktop background is a photo, not a digital effect?

it's a Kvant Spectrum laser projector with Saturn 9000 scanners beaming light into a sheet of transparent acrylic with black cardboard masks.

there's even a short video showing an animated show variant of it here: https://www.precisionlasers.com/projects/windows10

From a friend's discord

#infosec #starWars

I am strongly considering buying this highly offensive shirt. Should I?

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#StarTrek #StarWars #DoctorWho

The Earth's "magnetic north" is the place that the north end of the magnetic needle in your compass points towards. But the north pole of any magnet is only attracted to the south pole of another magnet, because that's how magnets work.

Which means the north pole is actually a south pole.

Good morning.

struggling with git issues this morning... Fortunately looking over the git cheat sheet from @b0rk got me out of the hole 😄

https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112288027169476498

The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words -- Anon

You've just been Ohhhh Big Stretched 🐶

Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)