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bcshort, 10 days ago to photography

And Flickr just picked up my photo to include in their daily explore featured pool :)

That makes 2 of my last 3 photos making their featured stream :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vk7ben/53715090021/in/explore-2024-05-12/

#photography #flickr #aurora

bcshort, 11 days ago to Tasmania

An Absolutely stunning, one in a lifetime solar event has occurred over the weekend. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be taking a photo of an Aurora lighting up the whole sky near where I lived.

#flickr #aurora #auroraaustralis #hobart #tasmania #australia #photography

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vk7ben/53715090021

bcshort, 3 months ago to Twitch

As much as I like Mastodon on principle, with easy 95% of #streamers active only on Twitter, I miss being able to interact with many of the streamers I watch or for events like the streamer awards, that is occurring right now.

#twitch

bcshort, 3 months ago to Tasmania

Stunning Sunset tonight over Hobart

https://pixelfed.au/p/TribesmanJohn/657167005051609865

#tasmania #hobart #sunset #photography #australia

bcshort, 4 months ago to apple

Getting really sick of #Apple #Music’s shit where the songs you add to your label regularly become “No longer available in your country/region” due to licensing - yet a quick search of apple music shows they are, but the album they are on has changed.

It’s not a new phenomena, and Apple clearly states in it its policy’s this will happen when copyright holders make changes. Annoyingly this is the same for iTunes and purchased digital media too.

For me theres also the whole philosophical debate that you will always own physical media, but being physical you need somewhere to store it, the overheard of digitising it, the fact it will degrade/corrupt over time and having to buy a whole album just for that one song you like.

A devil and the deep blue sea situation.

eloquence, 6 months ago to infosec

#infosec community, what general security news RSS feeds do y'all monitor beyond, e.g.,

Ars Technica
Threatpost
Krebs on Security?

bcshort, 6 months ago to random

@shellsharks are you interested in a revised RSS Feeds List, with dead sites removed? Inoreader for me at least is reporting 259 of the feeds in the OPML export as dead URIs?

shellsharks, 6 months ago to infosec

For #infosec folks out there, what’s your routine/strategy for “staying current” in the field? I’ve written about my daily reading routine here for anyone interested.

https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/11/06/keeping-current-in-infosec

#cybersecurity #nablopomo #mondayblogs

Gina, 6 months ago to fediverse

#Fediverse please help again. How many days should one stay on #Tasmania? 🇦🇺🏝

bcshort, 7 months ago to apple

Well damn, I just fixed a problem thats been plaguing my the last 6 months.

Up until just now, Every time I rebooted my Mac Mini with the Dell Monitor attached via USB-C Display Port, it would hit the login screen and then kernel panic and reboot. looping.

Unplug monitor, wait for login screen, plug it back in, it was fine. HDMI - fine too.

So what was the issue? Logitech Bluetooth USB Dongle for my MX Keys KB + Mouse.

Issue occurs when dongle is plugged in via monitor, or directly plugged into mac mini. Unplugged, no issues with monitor.

The main problem now is in pre-boot environments before the Apple BT Driver loads - I'm thinking FileVault password and maybe a lesser degree - recovery partition. I'm thinking maybe just having spare keyboard for those situations.

If anyone can confirm if the Logitech MX Keys can be used to enter a password without using the Logitech usb dongle, it would be appreciated (I've already read plenty of older documentation suggesting it cannot)

#apple #macmini #dell #logitech #monitor #bug #bluetooth #usb

bcshort, 8 months ago to geopolitics

Another one of ABC's “It your fault as the Consumer” articles. The takeaway from this is our clothes are made overseas and you should wear synthetic fibre clothing longer.

I think the message should be try and buy local if possible, natural fibre clothing. We should be approaching retailers to encourage a shift towards non-synthetic fibre clothing, and we should be asking why the government does not do more to help the local clothing industry.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-29/polyester-t-shirt-lifecycle-carbon-emissions-environment/102726502

#climatechage #clothing #abcnews #capitalism #economy

bcshort, 8 months ago to Twitch

TIL a userscript extension is available for Safari on iPad/iPhone.

One of the big things I was missing between desktop and mobile device browsers was the ability to run tampermonkey-like scripts, and now I can :) It also means I can remove some apps that have a better web browser + userscript experience than their actual apps (yes, looking at you #twitch)

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/userscripts/id1463298887

#browsers #userscripts #ipad #iphone

bcshort, 9 months ago to Tasmania

Another horrible Winter's day in #Hobart. It's an utter struggle. I don't recommend coming here.

#tasmania #australia #photo

bcshort, 9 months ago to random

That moment when you are in an online meeting while working from home, and a daddy long-legs spider drops on a web 10cm from your face....

bcshort, 9 months ago to Twitch

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like there is a significant shift in streamer popularity on #Twitch happening in the last 6 months.

So many streamers I watch are reducing their streaming hours, or have left entirely. Everyone wants to be a vTuber now.

Streamers I used to regularly see getting up to 6-7k viewers a stream now are lucky to get 2k.

Sure, some of it can attributed to post-covid, but it just seems like streamers who weren't able to make bank during covid are now giving up, and those that did don't need to stream any more.

#streaming

bcshort, 9 months ago to Tasmania

#Hobart was looking pretty damn good at lunchtime today.

#tasmania

maxleibman, 10 months ago to random

Look, I’m not following the controversy about whatever it was that ran in the The Sun, but I do have an earnest question:

The people who keep posting about it and self-censoring by typing “The S*n”—what the hell do they think they’re accomplishing?

Grow up. It’s not fucking Voldemort.

bcshort, 10 months ago to australia

For those who have not seen it, the #Platypus Guardian not only is a fantastic story, but the quality of the filming is amazing.

Full Documentary on https://iview.abc.net.au/show/platypus-guardian

#australia #tasmania #documentary

bcshort, 10 months ago to infosec

In case you haven’t seen this already, you should :)

https://neal.fun/password-game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/the-password-game-will-make-you-want-to-break-your-keyboard-in-the-best-way/

#infosec #password #brainteaser

bcshort, 11 months ago to photography

Mid June is always a special time in Hobart with the Annual Dark Mofo Festival.

The Spectra installation by Ryoji Ikeda has been a regular landmark of the Festival and can been seen well over 100kms away on a clear night.

it always brings me a sense of joy to see it. A beacon of happiness for me.

#Spectra #DarkMofo #Tasmania #Hobart #photography