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ajft

@ajft@aus.social

he/him scruffy monkeyhanger sysadmin cyclist
Not here to fuck spiders.
Current location: Melbourne, Boonwurrung land, Aus

Profile image is a cartoonish circular purple monster, paws above its head to be scary, generated long ago by MonsterID

Header image is a view along a dirt road into the Otways rainforest

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ajft, to retrocomputing
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Happy World Floppy Disk day to all who celebrate (5.25”)

Yeah yeah, 'merkin dates I know, just accept it and be amused

ajft, to melbourne
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PSA people

23:52 ┄┄┄┄┄ ○ Full Moon (AEST)

get yer howl on

vga256, to random
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more hilariously good TRS-80 software from the archive

Bedlam puts you in the role of a patient in a mental facility whose only goal is to escape

having worked in a psychiatric hospital in a previous life, i can confirm that (a) this is a rather uncharitable view of hospitals and their patients, and (b) 🤣

the answer/interpretive key for the mental health exam: classic!

ajft,
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@vga256 I used to have this game on my coco! Never got anywhere at all with it

decryption, to random
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My main beef with the Pixel 8a is that it's a slippery fucker. Did nobody at Google hold this phone in their hands??

ajft,
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@decryption you're assuming that they don't want you to drop it break it and have to buy a new one...

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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So, over in the astronomy world there is some consternation about a tweet from eminent satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.

Apparently "Starlink Precipitation" is now a thing. And yes, you got that right, Starlink precipitation is pieces of Elon Musk's fucking internet satellites raining down from space.

See also this post from @carlysagan: https://mastodon.social/@carlysagan/112448150797509408

ajft,
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@mastodonmigration @carlysagan the old ones among us have been here before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T98zUD9K3Q

timrichards, to melbourne
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As much as I'm enjoying this sunny weather, it does seem disturbingly warm for this time of year. Usually by mid-May it feels icy in Melbourne.

ajft,
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@timrichards was somewhere around 7⁰C at 7 this morning, so there's been a few chilly ones (nerdishly checks bike commutes for May '23 and '24)

2024-05-13T08-14: Feels like 10°C, Humidity 94%, Wind 2m/s
2024-05-11T08-18: Feels like 14°C, Humidity 89%, Wind 1m/s
2024-05-10T08-04: Feels like 13°C, Humidity 94%, Wind 1m/s
2024-05-07T07-50: Feels like 11°C, Humidity 91%, Wind 1m/s
2024-05-06T08-05: Feels like 10°C, Humidity 94%, Wind 1m/s
2024-05-04T08-14: Feels like 7°C, Humidity 94%, Wind 0m/s
2024-05-03T08-05: Feels like 7°C, Humidity 92%, Wind 0m/s

2023-05-30T08-03: Feels like 13°C, Humidity 80%, Wind 1m/s
2023-05-29T08-03: Feels like 11°C, Humidity 79%, Wind 1m/s
2023-05-23T08-08: Feels like 10°C, Humidity 77%, Wind 3m/s
2023-05-22T08-12: Feels like 8°C, Humidity 82%, Wind 2m/s
2023-05-20T08-21: Feels like 10°C, Humidity 85%, Wind 1m/s
2023-05-19T08-36: Feels like 9°C, Humidity 87%, Wind 2m/s
2023-05-16T08-06: Feels like 12°C, Humidity 85%, Wind 2m/s
2023-05-15T08-05: Feels like 11°C, Humidity 81%, Wind 1m/s
2023-05-13T08-14: Feels like 9°C, Humidity 91%, Wind 0m/s
2023-05-12T08-06: Feels like 9°C, Humidity 84%, Wind 1m/s
2023-05-09T08-05: Feels like 11°C, Humidity 87%, Wind 1m/s
2023-05-08T08-00: Feels like 9°C, Humidity 88%, Wind 1m/s
2023-05-05T08-06: Feels like 10°C, Humidity 67%, Wind 4m/s
2023-05-04T08-30: Feels like 10°C, Humidity 87%, Wind 0m/s
2023-05-02T08-02: Feels like 11°C, Humidity 86%, Wind 0m/s
2023-05-01T08-06: Feels like 10°C, Humidity 87%, Wind 1m/s

timrichards, to Korean
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Note: it's "yea or nay?", not "yay or nay?" (Though the pronunciation is the same.)

ajft,
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@timrichards yeigh aw neigh :P

decryption, to random
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i wish i was as cool as this guy

ajft,
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@decryption @danielbowen I'm just curious why his pistol is in front of his right arm (hook), rather than the left (hand that can pick it up)

melissabeartrix, to random
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I want to drive my truck where I want

He should be fined a lot more

Hugz & xXx

https://au.news.yahoo.com/big-fine-owner-ripped-mangroves-062704306.html

ajft,
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@melissabeartrix he should be made to reinstate it to how it was

decryption, to random
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    ajft,
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    @decryption AI (tm) filtering

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    ajft,
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    @decryption https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/jobs/jobs-australia/latest-release seems to imply it is jobs in the area (or I may be reading it wrong)

    timrichards, to random
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    The meteorologists seem particularly baffled this summer. I keep noticing days (like today) when the temperature only gets to 5° or so below the forecast maximum. Also it's raining, which I think it wasn't supposed to.

    ajft,
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    @timrichards Kid's interschool sport was cancelled at 9am "due to forecast extreme weather". Just got home from the after-lunch bus. Forecast seems to have completely missed the target for here, only around 30 if that

    flockofnazguls, (edited ) to random
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    ajft,
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    @flockofnazguls slackware godknowswhatnumber and kernel 0.99pl4 seems to be the number I do remember

    ajft,
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    @flockofnazguls 12 or 13 5.25" floppies, laboriously ftp'd

    Wolfie_Rankin, to random
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    "This sandwich is a bit tough"

    Forgot to peel the paper off the brie slices

    ajft,
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    @Wolfie_Rankin @timrichards i once made a toastie without peeling the plastic off both sides of a cheese slice. First bite. "What is this odd texture..." It hadn't melted the plastic, but everything else was gooey and bonded to it, so straight into the bin

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    ajft,
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    @decryption @devopscats would approve

    pezmico, to cycling
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    Every time someone complains that "they built a cycleway and no one uses it"....

    ajft,
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    @pezmico Here's a magnificent example in Burwood East., Melbourne (via @andreaspiefke)

    ajft, to random
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    sigh you know that thing where you remove all the tracking info from a URL as you bookmark it ... well sometimes that info. is the access key that you need to read it

    timrichards, to Travel
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    Here's an achievement - I haven't been to any of these. Not one. TBH I have a predilection for the ugly but fascinating places, like Warsaw (sorry Warsaw but you know it's true).

    Camera ready: The world’s 14 most beautiful towns

    (maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/inspiration/camera-ready-the-world-s-14-most-beautiful-towns-20240125-p5f02l.html

    ajft,
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    @timrichards I've been to Gruyeres, has the HR Giger museum (which was shut when I got there) but the adjoining bar was still open

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    @decryption i've wondered about the legality of those, does it open the shop to defamation claims if the person has not been convicted of anything? We've got a bunch of similar pics on a local shop, albeit black & white. My fave is "CHEESE STEALER!"

    ajft,
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    @decryption beware the cheese stealer!

    ajft,
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    @decryption I do wonder if these are "doxing" within the meaning of the act (note, I don't think there is such an act yet). They're publishing info. on specific people who have not been formally convicted of any crime

    ajft,
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    @decryption everyone loves a good witch-burning/pile on, it'd be unostrayn not to

    timrichards, (edited ) to melbourne
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    E-bike hire still being used responsibly I see.

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    @timrichards experiment for you. Pick it up, move it to be parked against the bike hoop. Stand unobtrusively nearby and wait. Amazing how often people will kick them, push them over or get unreasonably angry at them

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    @timrichards to be useful you've got to be able to get one and use it. Having dedicated parking spots might work in the CBD, but would spread them too thin to be any use in inner suburbs. Dedicated parking spots would be a co$t to the council and probably, god forbid, remove the almighty car park space (cue tabloid uproar)

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