decryption

Writes about computers for a living. Mucks around with computers for fun. Australian.

website: https://decryption.net.au

Public Key

npub187d524jd9mwqnv0jp0w4esmym9n6k8rgx7x6uav3txd8alszrzqsaueh70

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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Last Notes

2026-07-12 23:31:27 UTC

Most of the stuff I posted over the weekend has been sold/claimed. Here's what's still around (thread coming!)
All prices are negotiable if you think they're not fair. Pickup is from Bacchus Marsh, or if you're around VIC/MEL I can probably drop it off to ya.
If you're interested in anything DM me here, or contact me on Signal/email - https://decrypton.net.au

2026-07-09 06:27:20 UTC

ooh someone uploaded a bunch of APC mags to the internet archive last week (beat me to it, haha)
https://archive.org/details/@chickenman

2026-07-02 02:29:51 UTC

1Password, ProtonPass, Bitwarden/Vaultwarden, the multiple versions of KeePass - is there a cross platform password manager I'm missing? LastPass isn't even worth looking at is it?

2026-06-23 11:22:54 UTC

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ive been using an apple TV as the hub and yeah, wouldn't surprise me if apple are being cheeky

2026-06-23 11:14:34 UTC

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gotta say im very unimpressed with matter - it's more of a ballache than zigbee, but it's supposed to be better??

2026-05-15 00:02:18 UTC

still selling my 90-bay supermicro servers - lowered the price to $2850ea or both for $5000! full specs and details here: https://decryption.net.au/supermicro.html
tell your friends!
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2026-05-10 03:49:53 UTC

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it's also still bizarre to me that people will pay for a newsletter, but not for a website - it's the same thing, but better! the psychology behind it is so confusing to me

2026-05-10 03:44:50 UTC

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yeah, the site is still under construction - used to have a few samples there previously

2026-05-10 02:47:21 UTC

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i think i'd like to start publishing it on the web too - email is just getting too unreliable these days - need to think about how to lock it down so only paying subscribers can access, but also not having to use a bloated CMS that locks me in to that platform (i.e: Ghost or Substack or Beehiiv)

2026-05-10 02:29:52 UTC

it's finally happening (today I hope, but lets see how much of a pain in the arse it is to implement)
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2026-05-07 01:25:58 UTC

ugh spammers have found my sizzle free trial form - I was hoping I could avoid having a captcha or similar, but it seems impossible now

2026-04-16 01:29:35 UTC

if you're good at writing documentation, please for the love of god come work with me so I don't have to do it - 4 days a week, full remote (Australians and I think NZ only) $100k/yr and a very chill team
https://assemblyfour.com/careers/documentation-specialist/

2026-04-01 00:44:54 UTC

oh hello there random sensor near my house
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2026-04-01 00:27:25 UTC

are little 10" laptops still a thing? would like something to slip into my bag that's roughly the dimension of an iPad Air (180mm high x 250mm wide, 20mm thick) so I can get into a terminal, a text editor and a web browser on the go - doesn't need to be powerful or fancy

2026-03-30 00:26:35 UTC

someone from sweden designed a few cheeky stickers that I printed and posted today - I’ll print whatever you upload! https://laptopstickers.store
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2026-03-27 23:07:48 UTC

oh no, lobster pricing
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2026-03-26 02:36:00 UTC

Did not expect to see a really old painting of the creek near my house in the art gallery of nsw
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2026-03-16 11:16:59 UTC

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didnt even occur to me it's malware (of course it is, what would pasting a text string into Terminal do lol), I just assumed it's some new bullshit cloudflare is doing so I took a screenshot and closed the page - i went back and it did it again
copied the text and pasted it in to a text editor and this is what it is
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2026-03-16 10:55:16 UTC

well that's a new one from cloudflare - i didn't wanna see that website this badly
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2026-03-06 01:39:46 UTC

had some spare space on a sheet so made some #MARCHintosh stickers - anyone want some in return for a donation to the ACMS (www.acms.org.au)? If there is I’ll spin up a little site to collect addresses
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2026-03-05 01:51:43 UTC

besides the raspberry pi - are there any good SBCs with 512MB/1GB of RAM that can run Alpine Linux and/or OpenBSD without any fuss?

2026-03-03 12:01:34 UTC

whipped out the camera to get a pic of the red moon
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2026-02-27 20:59:09 UTC

another day, another set of country bumpkin councilors use their big fish in small pond dick swinging status to deny the rest of us good things when it comes to renewable energy, its so disheartening
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-28/misinformation-kills-narrabri-community-battery-project/106120264

2026-02-26 06:18:00 UTC

if you're australian and would like a couple of the SLOP stickers @npub1pf3…uep8 made - i am printing them on demand and shipping them for free if you donate a few bucks to Western Health
visit my website to order em :)
https://slop.decryption.net.au
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2026-02-20 05:23:06 UTC

datacentre project status so far for those who give a shit:
- agreed to pricing and terms from interactive (42ru rack, 4kw power & 1x cross-connect) & aussie broadband (1gbit DIA & /28 subnet) for a total of $2626/m inc. GST, been waiting all week for them to send me a contract to sign, silence since monday arvo
- will have 30RU & 2kw spare for a while, worked out I can sub-lease this out to anyone interested for about 60c per watt per month (e.g: if your server uses 150W it's $90/m inc GST) with unlimited fair use of the 1gbit link, your own IP address, OOB/console access via tailscale and your own access card to the rack/DC
- waiting for CPUs & RAM to arrive from overseas to fill up one of the supermicro servers, ETA for CPU is 5th March, ETA for RAM is monday
- waiting to hear back from various aussie supermicro partners if they can get me an NVMe kit for my server, going to keep scouring EU & US sites in the meantime
- mucking around with virtfusion instead of proxmox for the BYO HDD idea, seems great for what i need, hope it doesn't throw any surprises at me while I'm testing it
- catching up next week with a former colleauge who is the smartest network engineer I know to get some tips & sanity check my network design so I don't fuck it up when people start paying me (i've been off the tools for a while!)
- pretty much decided on an Arista 7050TX-64 as a switch (48x 10gbps RJ45 ports & 4x 40gbps QSFP+ ports) and OPNsense as a router, I still need to decide on a cheap, but power efficient 1RU box to that has at least two 10gbps SFP ports to run it on
- building a website & community forum, along with some documentation
- eta for starting to move gear into the DC is april 13th

2026-02-16 00:29:09 UTC

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and now comes the slightly annoying part of getting multiple quotes - telling the other companies that missed out you aren't going ahead and dealing with the "oh but why, anything we can do?" offers

2026-02-15 23:56:19 UTC

got quotes from Megaport and Aussie Broadband for "DIA" (direct internet access) coming in today that will be enlightening - also been on the blower with digicor to get a quote for an NVMe enablement kit for the supermicro server, that should come in today too but the sales guy couldn't promise anything because supermicro have been prioritising big hyperscalers (*cough* AI *cough*) instead of smaller customers

2026-02-12 04:59:07 UTC

my mouse is deteriorating - this is probably a sign to “touch grass”
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2026-02-10 23:49:21 UTC

did a bit of research into shoving servers into a refrigerated shipping container - it's a solid idea and can work but there's too many unknowns:
* perfect size for servers - can fit 400RU
* insulation means efficient use of cooling
* relatively affordable @ $30,000 once off vs $30,000/yr
* can be placed anywhere, noise not a problem
but some bad bits:
* need to pay more to get the container customised for cable entry (at least 1x power & 1x data)
* would get internet connected to a building (need permission from building owner), then run fibre from NTD/router to container outdoors - expensive
* same with power - need to run power from building to container, few thousand bucks all up
* finding a property that would let me do this, has enough spare power and in ABB's fibre footprint
datacentre still looking like the best option
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2026-02-09 01:48:24 UTC

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I just used the calculator here https://calculator.aws/

2026-02-09 00:47:46 UTC

anyone potentially into this? I’ll store your HDD in my server for $1/day so you can store your backups offsite cheap, a third or fourth copy of your files - more you store the cheaper it is
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2026-02-08 05:54:56 UTC

for anyone curious, it's cheaper to entire warehouse than a rack in a datacentre and you can use the warehouse for other stuff too
48RU with 6.6kw of power:
$2700/m @ Micron21
$50/m for OOB access
$1300/m for 1gbit transit
$53,460/yr inc GST
150sqm warehouse western Melb:
$2640/yr - 2000/500 "business" NBN
$30,000/yr for warehouse rent inc outgoings
$14,000/yr - 6.6kw 24/7/365
$46,640/yr inc GST

2026-02-07 06:34:57 UTC

someone posted a photo of a Philly cheesesteak sausage from Aldi - I’m sure it tastes good but damn that’s unappealing on a plate
https://www.reddit.com/r/AldiAustralia/s/sECvLYJu3j
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2026-02-05 03:38:07 UTC

boooo valve's steam machine has been delayed due to RAM & SSD pricing boooo
https://aftermath.site/steam-machine-frame-delayed-ai-data/

2026-02-02 07:02:05 UTC

the place I work is after a senior software engineer - good people, full remote
https://assemblyfour.com/careers/senior-software-engineer/

2026-01-27 03:45:02 UTC

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at least they acknowledge it - i wonder what's holding them back? is there that much juice for their comedy on X that not using it would cause them distress??

2026-01-21 07:02:36 UTC

soft launching a little business i've been thinking about for a few months - give me $20 and a dozen or so images and I'll post you die cut stickers for your laptop
https://laptopstickers.store/

2026-01-15 22:39:15 UTC

anyone know if the IKEA TIMMERFLOTTE temp & humidity sensors act as a Thread repeater/router (not a border router) to help weaker signal devices further away?
https://applink.ikea.com/tY8M9r9M4w--00618950--au--en

2026-01-11 08:28:56 UTC

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you do need IPv6 if you’re using an Open Thread border router for the pairing process - at least that’s what the logs in Home Assistant keep whinging about.

2026-01-11 08:11:24 UTC

i didn't have IPv6 on my network at all - which is why the new Matter devices didn't work, they need IPv6!

2026-01-07 08:21:53 UTC

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2 movies a year is more than the average Australian!

2026-01-07 05:51:03 UTC

so many good movies at the best cinema in the world
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2026-01-05 23:20:59 UTC

check out what's on the big screen behind the warmongers during an active operation - not a map or a live camera or anything useful, it's fucken X, in multiple tabs - that's what's important to these cretins
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2026-01-04 23:50:00 UTC

i have bad news - exercise works :(
i started going for pointless 30-45min walks each day and in those weeks I lost around 1kg a week - last week I couldn't be fucked and spent most of the time at the computer and i only lost 200g

2026-01-02 07:02:05 UTC

anyone used Arctel as their ISP? the 500/50 plan for $65/m for 12 months is too good of a deal to pass up as long as the speeds and latency aren't dog shit
https://arctel.com.au/

2025-12-29 22:27:51 UTC

The EU going to make its own digital payments network - awesome stuff, australia should do the same so I don't have to give like 3% of everything I earn as a sole trader to Stripe/Visa/Mastercard. I'd rather give 0.5% to the RBA, or even better, make it "free" and genuine public infrastructure like a road as a way to put more money in the wider economy doing more productive things rather than in payment processor pockets)
https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html

2025-12-26 02:31:31 UTC

sorted all my CDs in alphabetical order, artist, then album and made a list on the computer - now I can buy more and not accidentally buy ones I already own
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2025-12-22 22:42:45 UTC

new management can’t spell
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2025-12-21 04:27:20 UTC

Waited 2 minutes for a train at State Library, transferred to Ballarat train at Footscray with a 1 minute wait - folks, this is public transport perfection in the best state in the country

2025-12-20 22:40:20 UTC

oh wow, anna's archive "backed up" Spotify! they downloded 256 million songs - roughly 300TB - so you could technically, make your own spotify at home! would easily fit in a 2RU server, hmmmmm
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

2025-12-18 01:07:20 UTC

would anyone like some DDR3 RAM? yours for $5 & I'll post it for free - I have no use for it but it's too good to go into e-waste!
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2025-12-06 05:22:51 UTC

still got this nice Motorola Edge 30 5G Dual SIM (128GB) smartphone for sale if anyone is keen - you can have it for $125 posted. Runs LineageOS, can be totally de-Googlefied!
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2025-12-02 04:48:04 UTC

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ive never had an R2E2 mango - I really need to buy one of each type I can find and do a taste test

2025-12-02 04:28:45 UTC

fuck it, having a second mango of the day

2025-11-26 23:35:51 UTC

if you're into 70 year old carpentry magazines, I uploaded a couple to the internet archive this morning
https://archive.org/details/@decryption522
#scanning
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2025-11-25 05:40:51 UTC

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I got myself a Corsair Frame 4000D case and it is good for the price!
https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/pc-cases/cc-9011290-ww/frame-4000d-modular-mid-tower-pc-case-cc-9011290-ww

2025-11-24 20:47:33 UTC

good deal on YubiKeys if you need em, 30% off the 5 NFC ($63) & 5C NFC ($69) - local Sydney pickup too if you're in the third best city in Australia
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/935889

2025-11-24 00:14:12 UTC

A little tip for anyone who has a large ATO bill to pay - Officeworks has a $1000 pre-paid Visa with a $9 activation fee and paying the ATO with a Visa debit card incurs no fee.
To pay a $115,000 tax bill (capital gains tax from selling a property for example):
* Spend $116,035 on the pre-paid Visas at Officeworks. That'll get you 261,078 Amex rewards points (can be converted to 116,035 Qantas points if that's your airline of choice).
* Pay the ATO $10,000/day (the max they take is 10x payments a day), so it'll take 12 days to pay em.
* $1,035 goes to the pre-paid Visa issuer in activation fees vs 0% paying via BPay, but you get 116,035 Qantas points at a rate of 0.79c per point.
* It's also better than Sniip which works out to 1.88c/QFF point, or paying directly with the Amex at 2.9c/QFF point.
It's better to buy gift cards when Woolworths/Coles has a sale so you get bonus Flybuys/Everyday Rewards points on top, or when there's a $0 activation fee sale, but those are rare these days, plus they're often only on $100 or $250 cards. A 115x $1000 cards are way less hassle to pay the ATO with than 1150x $100 cards!

2025-11-21 22:16:34 UTC

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/115573492038595258
reminder that i will be around melbourne tomorrow to pick up some stuff to scan - so if you have books/magazines you want to get rid of but would be sad if they ended up in the bin without being digitised, then DM me and we can work out a time for me to pick them up :)
#note1cqx…whx3

2025-11-20 02:50:10 UTC

i need to reboot this computer but it feels bad to ruin this uptime
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2025-11-19 00:18:56 UTC

i'm gonna be out in eastern melbourne this sunday - so if you have heaps of old books/magazines you want to get rid of so I can scan them, I have space in my car to pick them up! DM me if you'd like me to visit
more details: https://scan.decryption.net.au
#scanning

2025-11-12 20:52:56 UTC

the NTP foundation (yeah the time thing) is begging for scraps of cash, like a few thousand dollars - a low level manager at amazon, google, apple and meta could each whip out the corp credit card, give them $5k each and problem solved, but no, they're too far up their own arse to do that
https://www.ntp.org/

2025-10-22 01:32:02 UTC

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wow - I wonder if that dock is actually a virtual display? I've seen a few cheaper docks use DisplayLink instead of the computer's actual GPU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayLink

2025-10-11 07:47:56 UTC

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i need a higher resolution version of this (you know why)

2025-09-29 01:40:41 UTC

anyone seen a good calculator for working out the size and payback period for a home battery?

2025-09-24 07:15:59 UTC

got old issues of APC magazine lying around? give them to me so I can scan them for the internet archive - I made a list of the issues currently missing, share this post and maybe we can find them and complete the set
https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/apc-callout.html

2025-09-23 05:11:45 UTC

my brain is cooked trying to keep up with my dad's appointments and medical shit after he had a stroke a few weeks ago, how the fuck would anyone manage without like, a functioning family around them to do it all while they slowly recover

2025-09-22 05:36:54 UTC

I hope Macquarie bank fix their app icon soon. It’s awful.
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2025-09-20 04:16:35 UTC

anyone seen a nice outdoors 5G modem and wifi unit? Something I can attach to a high point outside to get 5G and then share it via wifi for use in a shed/house

2025-08-26 12:06:06 UTC

Tim Berners-Lee wrote this in 1999. 26 years later: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-prevails-landmark-antitrust-case-against-google
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2025-08-21 22:09:06 UTC

im seeing more and more of this type of person on ozbargain, reddit and other internet communities and i wish they'd just shut the fuck up
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2025-08-20 05:03:49 UTC

i want a youtube channel where an owner builder tries to build a normal 3 bedroom house in a metropolitan area of australia that adheres to the current national contstruction code

2025-08-16 04:51:19 UTC

its wild how email is so incompatible with the modern world than the SPF, DKIM and DMARC stuff all pass as a genuine paypal email
https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/115033629085131732

2025-08-07 08:24:06 UTC

saw this on Facebook - slightly concerning that nazis are gonna be in my part of the world, I hope they have a bad time here
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2025-08-04 12:15:38 UTC

what type of fucked setup is the SRO running where you can only log in between 2am and 10pm??
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2025-07-23 05:35:31 UTC

please enjoy this photo of my desk from I think 2004 (maybe 2005)
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2025-07-23 04:44:46 UTC

that's it folks, the world wide web was nice while it lasted, time to pack it up and go back to printed material I reckon - the incentives to put anything up on the web now are so slim, why would anyone do it? why do I do it??
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

2025-07-21 06:55:48 UTC

Dostoyevsky, bro, I am 40 I already feel old I don’t need this man
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2025-07-20 23:48:04 UTC

tempted to buy this and read it while flying business class on the way home
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2025-07-11 23:27:35 UTC

gough lui got his hands on a copy of that clear Lorde CD - intense nerding ahead
https://goughlui.com/2025/07/11/analysis-lorde-virgin-cd-clear-disc-release-will-it-play/

2025-07-11 11:16:24 UTC

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And don't forget - shit like this is what is killing news as an industry. People read these LLM summaries instead of the actual news (that a human wrote - most of the time at least) and that's it. How are the news sources supposed to make money off this to fund the actual journalism? It's fucked.

2025-07-11 11:15:11 UTC

ugh, I hate how Kagi is pitching its new news aggregator - it looks like they're sucking in a bunch of RSS feeds from news sites, findign the most popular stories then using an LLM to summarise it
https://kite.kagi.com/
"Kite reads public RSS feeds of thousands of (community-curated) world-wide news sources and distills them into one perfect daily briefing. You get every critical perspective and timeline in just 5 minutes. That's it. No endless scrolling. No attention hijacking. Because we deserve better."
A 5-minute "perfect" daily briefing is laughable and an insult to journalists. But then again, technologists have nothing but disdain for journalists and most of them have warped views on what journalists do.

2025-07-09 07:17:52 UTC

May have been nerd-sniped by @npub1lgd…63y5 into a project today (in a good way - might be just the thing I've been waiting for).
A not for profit/co-op that people who also hate Facebook can donate to and it funds the server, storage & bandwidth costs for non-commercial communities to migrate away from Facebook groups, along a team of people (i.e: me, maybe someone else if it gets popular) to do the backend server nerd stuff so they don't have to and don't have to pay for it either.
I don't know if that's the only stumbling block for groups to get the fuck off Mark Zuckerberg's shithole slop factory - the Facebook network effect is strong - but it’ll remove one less barrier.

2025-07-01 22:32:36 UTC

This slipped under the radar - age verification for search engines in Australia to start in "no later than six months" after the “Internet Search Engine Services Online Safety Code (Class 1C and Class 2 Material)” was accepted by the eSafety Commissioner a few days ago. They're gonna require age verification for way more than just social media.
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/australians-to-face-age-checks-from-search-engines.html

2025-06-26 05:47:22 UTC

someone's made an ssh client for macOS 7/8/9 - nice
https://github.com/cy384/ssheven

2025-06-11 00:00:31 UTC

Sam Altman posted this to his blog:
"People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon."
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
In December 2024 OpenAI announced that they do around 1 billion queries per day.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313097/chatgpt-300-million-weekly-users
That means ChatGPT is using 340-400MWh of energy per day. That's not as bad as I thought to be honest (if you believe Altman). Old mate doesn't mention the data used to train/infer the models though.

2025-06-10 05:53:03 UTC

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having to use a git workflow to make a post is just as annoying, lol - I just want to paste some markdown into a text box and press post, lol

2025-06-10 05:23:42 UTC

I really need a new blogging platform. I love how cheap and fast hand coding all the HTML is, but damn it's a pain editing the meta tags for open graph, updating the index and editing an RSS feed each time I want to spew some words into the world

2025-06-09 05:24:06 UTC

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this this guy more appropriate for an ESP32?
https://www.jaycar.com.au/duinotech-arduino-compatible-active-buzzer-module/p/XC4424

2025-06-09 05:13:04 UTC

I am a total noob when it comes to this, but, if I want to attach this
little piezo buzzer from jaycar
https://www.jaycar.com.au/mini-piezo-buzzer-3-16vdc/p/AB3462
to this ESP32 dev board
https://www.espboards.dev/esp32/esp32-c3-super-mini/
which pin do I solder the red and black wires to? red to GPIO1 and the black to the GND?
(also lol the piezo buzzer cost me more than the ESP32)

2025-05-25 11:24:51 UTC

Gadgetbridge looks really cool, lets ya use stuff like a Huawei or Xiaomi smartwatch without their god awful apps
https://gadgetbridge.org/

2025-05-13 07:36:15 UTC

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huge piss pick up service

2025-05-10 22:29:11 UTC

thinking about becoming a coffee guy, with the fancy equipment, expensive beans and all that shit

2025-05-09 06:16:41 UTC

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what I wanna know is how do these sites stand up financially? are they loss leaders to sell cars (maybe, but they're open to all EVs, so it's not like you need a Tesla to use them) or do they genuinely make money and Tesla is the only company operating in Australia with the knowledge and capital to invest in the sites of this size?

2025-05-09 06:11:25 UTC

Say what you will about Tesla (there's a lot to say), but they're still the only company serious about building proper EV fast charging sites on the busiest routes in Australia - they're currently building a 20-stall site in Goulburn and a 12-stall site in Coolac (in addition to 12 in Yass and 16 in Albury), both along the Hume in desperately needed locations. Chargefox & Evie are doing sweet fuck all along the Hume in comparison. BP & Ampol doing even worse.
https://thedriven.io/2025/05/08/teslas-next-supercharger-hub-to-feature-solar-and-megapack-battery-at-iconic-hotel/

2025-05-07 23:00:38 UTC

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another good article about AI slop and how the right wing has embraced it
"In a short time, a full half of the political spectrum has collectively fallen for the glossy, disturbing visuals created by generative AI. Despite its proponents having little love, or talent, for any form of artistic expression, right wing visual culture once ranged from memorable election-year posters to ‘terrorwave’. Today it is slop, almost totally. Why? To understand it, we must consider the right’s hatred of working people, its (more than) mutual embrace of the tech industry and, primarily, its profound rejection of Enlightenment humanism"
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

2025-05-07 22:56:31 UTC

the white house entering its AI slop era is one of the saddest and most pathetic things ive ever seen - I'm not a hardcore catholic but the trump as pope thing kinda offended me, not because it's blasphemous or anything, but because it's so disrespectful, which honestly, is the key theme of Trump - the disrespect is the point, that's their motivation for everything they do
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-presidency

2025-05-05 12:21:48 UTC

i have been informed by @npub1lgd…63y5 that $4299 mesh wi-fi kits exist at JB Hi-Fi, absolutely fucking wild, you can get ethernet & multiple APs installed for that cash
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/netgear-orbi-be27000-quad-band-mesh-wifi-7-system-3-pack
https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/114/455/196/742/782/333/original/ce45c4d22805a3b6.png

2025-05-01 02:38:28 UTC

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also it is ridiculous facebook is the only place the council posts this stuff - make your own blog and cross-post to other platforms from there you idiots!

2025-05-01 02:31:46 UTC

someone stole solar panels from a toilet block currently being built in my local area :(
https://mediacdn.aus.social/media_attachments/files/114/430/227/428/298/001/original/3c1036a5657ff8ab.png