Ash K

This account and its views are personal obvs. #Brisbane, #Australia

Website: https://ashk.au
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2026-07-04 01:02:02 UTC

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-04/federal-government-rejects-un-lgbtqia-recommendations/106866788

2026-05-05 23:23:47 UTC

I'm trying my hardest to get the word “mouthfeel” into our corporate lexicon. ‘Yeah, the mouthfeel of this design is excellent,’ or ‘this workflow has an abrasive mouthfeel’. Please join me!

2026-04-04 03:53:36 UTC

Some dataviz for the sake of it. aus.social pulling the weight of Australian fedi by the looks. Ping me if you wanna beta test.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/344/364/796/025/350/original/fa263b369994aa8f.webp

2026-04-02 00:51:18 UTC

RE: https://bne.social/@phocks/116332184683840142
Stellar work. I wonder when the next space-faring baked good record will be set.
#note16hs…wtnh

2026-04-01 11:08:34 UTC

🏳️‍🌈 Brisbane Queer Tech meetup for April: come hang out with me and make some IRL friends at the Ship Inn. I figure most peeps on fedi are a little bit tech, so no issues there. Are you in? RSVP at https://luma.com/bs5smgmw?utm_source=fedi and pass it on :)
#Brisbane #btub #BNEfediMeetup

2026-04-01 02:40:22 UTC

My neighbour has been leaving their dog at home and she's clearly an anxious pup. Barking nonstop. But when I go talk her she'll calm down for a bit. Anyway she was going off again so I went and spoke to her and told her some calming words, then she disappeared behind the fence for a moment and came back with her teddy and fyi my heart melted.

2026-03-31 08:35:47 UTC

My desktop needs more rams. Anyone got any DDR4 they want to get rid of for not lots?

2026-03-28 03:02:54 UTC

New chargers at Glasshouse/Wild Horse. Evie is charging 79 cents a kilowatt. Current spot price is negative ten cents. Decent business model if you can get it.

2026-03-26 08:01:14 UTC

Couldn't work out why the hand dryer wasn't working. It's a paper towel dispenser.

2026-03-24 09:28:57 UTC

I need to come up with some late-80s-early-90s era wardrobe for a party. Not sure where to start.

2026-03-14 21:15:00 UTC

Iran's strikes on data centres show vulnerability of AI expansion https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/iran-war-ai-technology-data-centres/106443004 #link

2026-03-08 03:00:47 UTC

As I angle myself into the car to avoid smacking my head on the wet roof, the arseprint recognition detects my presence and the systems come alive. At once the wipers, still on the highest setting, displace all the water from the windscreen efficiently into my face.

2026-03-06 13:05:41 UTC

lol, but also yes. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley #link

2026-03-06 10:29:30 UTC

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nahhh not sushi haha

2026-03-06 08:59:03 UTC

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and the sushi roll didn't hit the floor so i can still et it 😌

2026-03-06 08:58:30 UTC

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(not entirely true, but it did hurt and I thought it was funny)

2026-03-06 08:57:59 UTC

Thew my back out trying to catch a dropped sushi roll covered in mayonnaise between my thighs

2026-03-05 13:18:23 UTC

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is there some kind of polymarket for this?

2026-03-04 03:20:52 UTC

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ah that makes sense doesn't it. Thanks for indulging my dumb question 😇

2026-03-04 00:45:06 UTC

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that's a good trick. But I'm curious, is there a reason not to use variable bitrate encoding?

2026-03-03 12:45:04 UTC

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beautiful, you got the possumnal eclipse

2026-03-02 12:01:30 UTC

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cheers. Will give it a try

2026-03-02 10:44:17 UTC

My SecretLab chair has stopped chairing. Just keeps leaning back and back and back forever until you tip over onto the floor. It's outside of their stated warranty period but I've emailed them anyway because come on.

2026-03-02 08:12:23 UTC

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sounds right

2026-03-02 04:04:41 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@CosmicRami/116156853321794275
@npub1mz7…uk0e We may be able to see this at Pendulum tomoz. Love some good moon content.
#note1d9y…jndn

2026-02-28 23:52:45 UTC

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😇 thank you, lovely

2026-02-28 13:44:00 UTC

Having a cheeky Pepsi Max Caffeine Free before bed.

2026-02-28 11:43:56 UTC

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thank you very much, you're both the loveliest of people <3

2026-02-27 12:25:14 UTC

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lemon, it's... oh yeah.

2026-02-27 07:23:50 UTC

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oh wow that's wonderful news.

2026-02-27 04:44:52 UTC

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ah silly me 😝

2026-02-27 00:37:13 UTC

The garbage truck is still decorated with Christmas tinsel

2026-02-26 14:07:24 UTC

You know, just private security goons incidentally shining their spotlights into my bedroom at midnight. When it became clear they weren't going to fuck off I got dressed and went out to exchange polite but firm words. They saw me walking up and drove off.

2026-02-26 11:13:29 UTC

I can't have opinions publicly, but it really feels like certain elements are trying their damnedest to turn things to shit and it's BOGGLING

2026-02-26 00:40:27 UTC

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Annoying. The website says they have a 24 month warranty. I should really have followed it up end of last year when it started happening.

2026-02-26 00:37:31 UTC

The power button on my Shokz OpenRun Pros went mushy and stopped working after a year and a half. Shit product, generally. But I can still use them by jamming a screwdriver in the space where the mushy plastic button used to be. Bit cyberpunk.

2026-02-25 21:45:22 UTC

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My problem is I tried an oled screen just one time and now I'm super jealous 😆

2026-02-25 19:25:38 UTC

It's early morning and I can see the halos from local dimming on my Macbook Pro. This thing really shouldn't feel this cheap.
#FirstWorldProblems

2026-02-25 08:10:47 UTC

I have a stonking headache in some fuck set off the fire alarms through the entire complex.

2026-02-25 01:41:42 UTC

I always thought of Venjent as a sort of drum & bass meme stock, but then I hard this track and it changed my mind. Until I saw the video and I'm right back there again (in a good way). And I've been earwormed all week. EDIT: strobe warning https://youtu.be/FbR6qd10t-c
#NowListening

2026-02-25 00:51:09 UTC

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hahaha well that's humbling. Thank you

2026-02-24 04:57:07 UTC

Somehow it's 3pm and I've just had lunch and barely done anything today. Birthday week off is going well.

2026-02-22 05:12:17 UTC

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glad to hear 🥰

2026-02-22 05:12:06 UTC

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thx ✨

2026-02-21 23:12:18 UTC

These charts show the price patterns that have landed Coles in court https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-22/coles-grocery-pricing-down-down-accc-court/106355492
#link #DownDown #Coles

2026-02-19 10:30:29 UTC

bne fedi hangs. Was great to see/meet folks. Thanks for coming!
#brisbane
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/096/810/906/232/789/original/e1dfaea147bd30a2.webp

2026-02-18 13:33:18 UTC

I'm sleeping with the curtains open, the light of the city turning the ceiling amber and the walls blue. I can see four stars from my bed, and the red towers of Mt Coot-tha blinking away. Life is alright.

2026-02-18 09:26:53 UTC

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Came home from the gym to see they've drilled holes in all the trees to put up helpful, laminated “no parking” signs. As you do.

2026-02-17 23:05:07 UTC

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Thanks, it should be a nice little staycay

2026-02-17 21:17:32 UTC

RE: https://bne.social/@ash/116054766603142584
I've booked myself a little staycation in the city tonight. Kind of looking forward to it.
#note17dk…msjy

2026-02-17 03:10:07 UTC

turns out you can get quite a significant performance boost if you break the code and stop anything at all from loading

2026-02-16 21:45:42 UTC

bne.social is getting smashed by asshole bots again. This time all from DigitalOcean, with bog standard Chrome user agents so there's no easily blockable pattern. I don't want to, but I think we're going to have to put Cloudflare in front because dealing with this is a huge waste of human lifespan.

2026-02-15 07:18:40 UTC

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holy shit is that an open source project name or what 😂

2026-02-14 23:18:02 UTC

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Josh are you joining standup?

2026-02-14 22:58:03 UTC

The thing I appreciate about Mastodon is when I want to quote post a funny toot in context it doesn't work in my app, so I have to open it in the browser. But it's the wrong browser, so I go to the URL bar and copy it again, paste it into the right browser, but it's the wrong server. So I open up my server, go to the search box and paste the URL to find the post, but the user has turned off quote posts.

2026-02-14 21:20:08 UTC

'I am shocked': Unpacking One Nation's spectacular rise in the polls https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-15/story-lab-one-nation-polling/106322978
#link #AusPol

2026-02-13 12:04:24 UTC

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Look at that beautiful webp og:image. I am embarrassed it took this long to realise what the issue was.

2026-02-13 04:25:55 UTC

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haha i'm glad

2026-02-13 04:23:09 UTC

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but MacOS is really annoying?

2026-02-12 12:00:47 UTC

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🤤 amazing. Sounds like a great little treat.

2026-02-12 10:24:26 UTC

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ooh what's this recipe now?

2026-02-12 10:20:24 UTC

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It might be 😭

2026-02-12 07:57:11 UTC

Looking a bit grey
#BNEWeather
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/056/588/574/748/963/original/bcb1fd11fbc19c91.jpg

2026-02-12 06:00:23 UTC

RE: https://bne.social/@ash/116042850402966379
I feel like maybe there's a middle ground though, you know
#note1fz6…pdng

2026-02-12 05:14:29 UTC

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Oh that's weird, why is the land the same colour as the water? Completely threw me for a second there 😆

2026-02-12 01:32:10 UTC

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Ah brilliant. I might switch my blogue to webp then. Thanks for your braininess

2026-02-12 00:57:58 UTC

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Nice. Your Mastodon fix was to allow webp right? Or just the Guardian's implementation of webp?

2026-02-12 00:21:26 UTC

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I just realised I'm publishing my og:images as avif, is that why they never show up? Do I need a JPEG fallback?

2026-02-12 00:13:23 UTC

“We are writing to inform you that on Wednesday from 10pm to 6am we will be operating noisy machinery outside your bedroom to shift the display home for our million dollar shoeboxes and there's nothing you can do about it so tough titties.”

2026-02-11 23:20:59 UTC

Every so often the LLM manages to do something that I would not in a million years. Today that is "fit maplibre globe to screen", which is surprisingly difficult
https://ashk.au/2026/02/12/fit-a-maplibre-3d-globe-to-the-available-screen-size/
#blog #maplibre

2026-02-11 10:13:17 UTC

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can't wait

2026-02-11 08:28:59 UTC

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no, not that thing!

2026-02-11 06:42:20 UTC

waht should i do?

2026-02-11 04:56:34 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@lukasm/116050114780877915
are you ready?
#note189w…9ykf

2026-02-09 22:41:54 UTC

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the rains are 'ere!

2026-02-09 21:42:56 UTC

It is not a miserable enough in Brisbane. Sure it's grey and brooding, but “shower or two” is not enough showers to me.

2026-02-09 13:18:04 UTC

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😆 so so bad

2026-02-09 03:33:06 UTC

Apple, what are you doing.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/038/560/802/075/534/original/3102e3ce044ab2ad.png

2026-02-08 06:36:25 UTC

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It has been an absolute trial and taken a week but the tube is changed.

2026-02-07 02:59:28 UTC

Are these gall wasps? #GardeningAU
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/027/103/868/039/234/original/41d8beeac908e8dc.jpg

2026-02-06 07:18:33 UTC

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'sall good

2026-02-06 07:08:22 UTC

RE: https://bne.social/@ash/115977105987120004
One week to go. Are you an LGBTQIA+ in Brissie and want to meet some new peeps, do some networking, or just have a drink on the boulevard? You should come :)
#note1978…d057

2026-02-06 07:03:28 UTC

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yucky

2026-02-06 05:07:29 UTC

Gross!

2026-02-06 01:37:33 UTC

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you get it!

2026-02-05 23:22:37 UTC

Sometimes you have to accept that the ship has already bolted, and the horse has sailed.

2026-02-04 13:02:43 UTC

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yeah but up for a swim tonight. Walked from the ferry.

2026-02-04 10:50:00 UTC

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thanks Josh

2026-02-04 10:37:08 UTC

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We're at the selfie portion of the journey
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/011/911/079/441/591/original/7ac6e20c52d4a72d.jpg

2026-02-04 10:10:10 UTC

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Soundtrack is the new The New Pornographers https://youtu.be/4-U0U4zTj3g

2026-02-04 10:07:13 UTC

$4.98 at Bunnings, a pack of Babybel and the CityCat home.

2026-02-04 09:21:22 UTC

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ohhhh yea

2026-02-04 08:47:42 UTC

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oh Mersey Valley is great. Haven't had that in ages

2026-02-04 07:56:50 UTC

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ohh yeah! What's your go to?

2026-02-04 06:47:58 UTC

Yum, fresh bread! Will you have…

2026-02-03 13:43:04 UTC

“I'll just get 32 gb of ram, I can always upgrade later.” I'm kicking myself now I'm making the pretty graphs and RAM trades higher than gold.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/006/977/605/343/926/original/1edaaae4a0281fba.png

2026-02-03 10:28:37 UTC

I reckon if there's a hell, it's under the fluorescent lights of Chemist Warehouse, 30 minutes to closing time.

2026-02-01 23:16:19 UTC

Will the RBA increase interest rates tomorrow? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-02/will-the-rba-lift-interest-rates/106286450
#link

2026-02-01 12:38:11 UTC

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Oh cool, that would be awesome. I've been adding "advisory" to the ones that are more just vibes, and "exclusive" to the ones that have actual bike lanes https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycleway#Dedicated_bicycle_lanes

2026-02-01 12:24:26 UTC

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haha you're off the hook then, this was 4101. But you're welcome to use my map as a quality control 😆