Nostr notes by decryption

if you're good at writing documentation, please for the love ...

2026-04-16T03:29:35+02:00

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/

oh hello there random sensor near my house ...

2026-04-01T02:44:54+02:00

oh hello there random sensor near my house

are little 10" laptops still a thing? would like something to ...

2026-04-01T02:27:25+02:00

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

someone from sweden designed a few cheeky stickers that I printed ...

2026-03-30T02:26:35+02:00

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

oh no, lobster pricing ...

2026-03-28T00:07:48+01:00

oh no, lobster pricing

Did not expect to see a really old painting of the creek near my ...

2026-03-26T03:36:00+01:00

Did not expect to see a really old painting of the creek near my house in the art gallery of nsw

didnt even occur to me it's malware (of course it is, what ...

2026-03-16T12:16:59+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…zhdj
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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

well that's a new one from cloudflare - i didn't wanna ...

2026-03-16T11:55:16+01:00

well that's a new one from cloudflare - i didn't wanna see that website this badly

had some spare space on a sheet so made some #MARCHintosh ...

2026-03-06T02:39:46+01:00

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

besides the raspberry pi - are there any good SBCs with 512MB/1GB ...

2026-03-05T02:51:43+01:00

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?

whipped out the camera to get a pic of the red moon ...

2026-03-03T13:01:34+01:00

whipped out the camera to get a pic of the red moon

another day, another set of country bumpkin councilors use their ...

2026-02-27T21:59:09+01:00

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

if you're australian and would like a couple of the SLOP ...

2026-02-26T07:18:00+01:00

if you're australian and would like a couple of the SLOP stickers joey castillo (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

datacentre project status so far for those who give a shit: - ...

2026-02-20T06:23:06+01:00

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

and now comes the slightly annoying part of getting multiple ...

2026-02-16T01:29:09+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…62p2
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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

got quotes from Megaport and Aussie Broadband for "DIA" ...

2026-02-16T00:56:19+01:00

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

my mouse is deteriorating - this is probably a sign to “touch ...

2026-02-12T05:59:07+01:00

my mouse is deteriorating - this is probably a sign to “touch grass”

did a bit of research into shoving servers into a refrigerated ...

2026-02-11T00:49:21+01:00

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

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

2026-02-09T02:48:24+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…vmtj
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I just used the calculator here https://calculator.aws/

anyone potentially into this? I’ll store your HDD in my server ...

2026-02-09T01:47:46+01:00

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

for anyone curious, it's cheaper to entire warehouse than a ...

2026-02-08T06:54:56+01:00

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

someone posted a photo of a Philly cheesesteak sausage from Aldi ...

2026-02-07T07:34:57+01:00

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

boooo valve's steam machine has been delayed due to RAM & ...

2026-02-05T04:38:07+01:00

boooo valve's steam machine has been delayed due to RAM & SSD pricing boooo

https://aftermath.site/steam-machine-frame-delayed-ai-data/

the place I work is after a senior software engineer - good ...

2026-02-02T08:02:05+01:00

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

at least they acknowledge it - i wonder what's holding them ...

2026-01-27T04:45:02+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…nj36
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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??

soft launching a little business i've been thinking about for ...

2026-01-21T08:02:36+01:00

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/

anyone know if the IKEA TIMMERFLOTTE temp & humidity sensors ...

2026-01-15T23:39:15+01:00

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

you do need IPv6 if you’re using an Open Thread border router ...

2026-01-11T09:28:56+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…4lvx
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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.

i didn't have IPv6 on my network at all - which is why the ...

2026-01-11T09:11:24+01:00

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

2 movies a year is more than the average Australian!

2026-01-07T09:21:53+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…4uzy
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2 movies a year is more than the average Australian!

so many good movies at the best cinema in the world ...

2026-01-07T06:51:03+01:00

so many good movies at the best cinema in the world

check out what's on the big screen behind the warmongers ...

2026-01-06T00:20:59+01:00

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

i have bad news - exercise works :( i started going for pointless ...

2026-01-05T00:50:00+01:00

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

anyone used Arctel as their ISP? the 500/50 plan for $65/m for 12 ...

2026-01-02T08:02:05+01:00

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/

The EU going to make its own digital payments network - awesome ...

2025-12-29T23:27:51+01:00

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

sorted all my CDs in alphabetical order, artist, then album and ...

2025-12-26T03:31:31+01:00

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

new management can’t spell ...

2025-12-22T23:42:45+01:00

new management can’t spell

Waited 2 minutes for a train at State Library, transferred to ...

2025-12-21T05:27:20+01:00

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

oh wow, anna's archive "backed up" Spotify! they ...

2025-12-20T23:40:20+01:00

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

would anyone like some DDR3 RAM? yours for $5 & I'll post ...

2025-12-18T02:07:20+01:00

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!

still got this nice Motorola Edge 30 5G Dual SIM (128GB) ...

2025-12-06T06:22:51+01:00

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!

ive never had an R2E2 mango - I really need to buy one of each ...

2025-12-02T05:48:04+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…9934
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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

Nostr event nevent1qqsxg3a43r7xg5twvw0l3skh2jxlas3atuads47jt48rd6kz3778nvszyqlek32kf5hdczd37g9a6hxrvnvk02cudqmcmtn4j9ve5lh7qgvgzwhqfz5

2025-12-02T05:28:45+01:00

fuck it, having a second mango of the day

if you're into 70 year old carpentry magazines, I uploaded a ...

2025-11-27T00:35:51+01:00

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

I got myself a Corsair Frame 4000D case and it is good for the ...

2025-11-25T06:40:51+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…m60f
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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

good deal on YubiKeys if you need em, 30% off the 5 NFC ($63) ...

2025-11-24T21:47:33+01:00

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

A little tip for anyone who has a large ATO bill to pay - ...

2025-11-24T01:14:12+01:00

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!

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/115573492038595258 reminder ...

2025-11-21T23:16:34+01:00

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 :)

quoting
note1cqx…whx3

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

i need to reboot this computer but it feels bad to ruin this ...

2025-11-20T03:50:10+01:00

i need to reboot this computer but it feels bad to ruin this uptime

i'm gonna be out in eastern melbourne this sunday - so if you ...

2025-11-19T01:18:56+01:00

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

the NTP foundation (yeah the time thing) is begging for scraps of ...

2025-11-12T21:52:56+01:00

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/

wow - I wonder if that dock is actually a virtual display? ...

2025-10-22T03:32:02+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…c64n
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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

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

2025-10-11T09:47:56+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…e282
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i need a higher resolution version of this (you know why)

anyone seen a good calculator for working out the size and ...

2025-09-29T03:40:41+02:00

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

got old issues of APC magazine lying around? give them to me so I ...

2025-09-24T09:15:59+02:00

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

my brain is cooked trying to keep up with my dad's ...

2025-09-23T07:11:45+02:00

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

I hope Macquarie bank fix their app icon soon. It’s awful. ...

2025-09-22T07:36:54+02:00

I hope Macquarie bank fix their app icon soon. It’s awful.

anyone seen a nice outdoors 5G modem and wifi unit? Something I ...

2025-09-20T06:16:35+02:00

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

Tim Berners-Lee wrote this in 1999. 26 years later: ...

2025-08-26T14:06:06+02:00

Tim Berners-Lee wrote this in 1999. 26 years later: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-prevails-landmark-antitrust-case-against-google

im seeing more and more of this type of person on ozbargain, ...

2025-08-22T00:09:06+02:00

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

i want a youtube channel where an owner builder tries to build a ...

2025-08-20T07:03:49+02:00

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

its wild how email is so incompatible with the modern world than ...

2025-08-16T06:51:19+02:00

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

saw this on Facebook - slightly concerning that nazis are gonna ...

2025-08-07T10:24:06+02:00

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

what type of fucked setup is the SRO running where you can only ...

2025-08-04T14:15:38+02:00

what type of fucked setup is the SRO running where you can only log in between 2am and 10pm??

please enjoy this photo of my desk from I think 2004 (maybe 2005) ...

2025-07-23T07:35:31+02:00

please enjoy this photo of my desk from I think 2004 (maybe 2005)

that's it folks, the world wide web was nice while it lasted, ...

2025-07-23T06:44:46+02:00

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/

Dostoyevsky, bro, I am 40 I already feel old I don’t need this ...

2025-07-21T08:55:48+02:00

Dostoyevsky, bro, I am 40 I already feel old I don’t need this man

tempted to buy this and read it while flying business class on ...

2025-07-21T01:48:04+02:00

tempted to buy this and read it while flying business class on the way home

gough lui got his hands on a copy of that clear Lorde CD - ...

2025-07-12T01:27:35+02:00

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/

And don't forget - shit like this is what is killing news as ...

2025-07-11T13:16:24+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…lyl4
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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.

ugh, I hate how Kagi is pitching its new news aggregator - it ...

2025-07-11T13:15:11+02:00

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.

May have been nerd-sniped by @npub1lgd…63y5 into a project ...

2025-07-09T09:17:52+02:00

May have been nerd-sniped by Adam ♿ (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.

This slipped under the radar - age verification for search ...

2025-07-02T00:32:36+02:00

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

someone's made an ssh client for macOS 7/8/9 - nice ...

2025-06-26T07:47:22+02:00

someone's made an ssh client for macOS 7/8/9 - nice

https://github.com/cy384/ssheven

Sam Altman posted this to his blog: "People are often curious ...

2025-06-11T02:00:31+02:00

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.

having to use a git workflow to make a post is just as annoying, ...

2025-06-10T07:53:03+02:00

In reply to nevent1q…f526
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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

I really need a new blogging platform. I love how cheap and fast ...

2025-06-10T07:23:42+02:00

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

this this guy more appropriate for an ESP32? ...

2025-06-09T07:24:06+02:00

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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

I am a total noob when it comes to this, but, if I want to attach ...

2025-06-09T07:13:04+02:00

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)

Gadgetbridge looks really cool, lets ya use stuff like a Huawei ...

2025-05-25T13:24:51+02:00

Gadgetbridge looks really cool, lets ya use stuff like a Huawei or Xiaomi smartwatch without their god awful apps

https://gadgetbridge.org/

huge piss pick up service

2025-05-13T09:36:15+02:00

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huge piss pick up service

thinking about becoming a coffee guy, with the fancy equipment, ...

2025-05-11T00:29:11+02:00

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

what I wanna know is how do these sites stand up financially? are ...

2025-05-09T08:16:41+02:00

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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?

Say what you will about Tesla (there's a lot to say), but ...

2025-05-09T08:11:25+02:00

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/

another good article about AI slop and how the right wing has ...

2025-05-08T01:00:38+02:00

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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/

the white house entering its AI slop era is one of the saddest ...

2025-05-08T00:56:31+02:00

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

i have been informed by @npub1lgd…63y5 that $4299 mesh wi-fi ...

2025-05-05T14:21:48+02:00

i have been informed by Adam ♿ (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

also it is ridiculous facebook is the only place the council ...

2025-05-01T04:38:28+02:00

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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!

someone stole solar panels from a toilet block currently being ...

2025-05-01T04:31:46+02:00

someone stole solar panels from a toilet block currently being built in my local area :(

samsung's Android is so bad

2025-04-17T03:38:36+02:00

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samsung's Android is so bad

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2025-04-17T03:18:38+02:00

really wanna try a folding phone, i think it would be cool

voice assistants are really handy for lots of people that ...

2025-03-31T02:50:02+02:00

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voice assistants are really handy for lots of people that aren't as physically able or can't understand how to use a computer/device - voice assistants and privacy aren't mutually exclusive!

@npub1sda…s240 nice story in the conversation! ...

2025-03-31T01:05:52+02:00

Kathy Reid (npub1sda…s240) nice story in the conversation!

https://theconversation.com/everything-you-say-to-an-alexa-speaker-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-today-252923

Anyone had luck ripping “Copy Controlled” CDs? Or should I ...

2025-03-27T03:24:08+01:00

Anyone had luck ripping “Copy
Controlled” CDs? Or should I just give up and pirate some FLAC rips and keep these for listening in a CD player only?

ivory is very nice imho and a native mac app (i pay for it on iOS ...

2025-02-11T01:08:15+01:00

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ivory is very nice imho and a native mac app (i pay for it on iOS and iPad, so it's good to have a consistent experience across those other devices too)

I've also got three apps on my Mac for social media now. ...

2025-02-11T00:50:02+01:00

I've also got three apps on my Mac for social media now. Ivory for Mastdon (very good), Bluesky running in a Safari web ap p (works but I don't like it) and Croissant for posting to Bluesky & Mastodon (lame iOS app cross-developed for macOS, I could replace it with a small website). Ridiculous.

Someone please buy this computer off me for $400 - I'm happy ...

2025-02-08T02:01:29+01:00

Someone please buy this computer off me for $400 - I'm happy to deliver it you this weekend if you're in VIC/MEL. Perfect gaming rig for the kids. Will do 1080p gaming easily.

AMD Ryzen 5700G APU & Cooler Master Hyper T4 cooler
ASUS PRIME B550M-K Mainboard
32GB DDR4 3200 RAM (2x 16GB)
512GB Samsung 970 Pro SSD
Antec VSK10 case
SilverStone Strider Essential 600W PSU

Also have a Dell PowerEdge R220 for $150. E3-1225v3 CPU 16GB DDR3 ...

2025-02-04T04:04:11+01:00

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Also have a Dell PowerEdge R220 for $150.

E3-1225v3 CPU
16GB DDR3 ECC RAM (4x 4GB)
2x 2TB 3.5" HDDs
iDRAC 7
1RU, just 395mm deep

Makes a really great Plex server! Also happy to deliver to you if you're in VIC/MEL or you can come pick it up from me in 3340. Not keen on posting, would cost like $40-$50, not worth it for such a low cost item.

Selling my short depth Dell rack servers, simply not using em ...

2025-02-04T04:02:56+01:00

Selling my short depth Dell rack servers, simply not using em these days and need the cash.

Dell PowerEdge R210 II - $70
Celeron G530 CPU
8GB DDR3 RAM
2x 1TB 3.5" HDDs
iDRAC 6
1RU, just 395mm deep

Happy to deliver to you if you're in VIC/MEL or you can grab it from me in 3340.

hell yeah - the pebble watch is coming back ...

2025-01-27T22:14:34+01:00

hell yeah - the pebble watch is coming back
https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back