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david

@david@theblower.au

IT geek of many trades, hobby Blacksmith, cook and photographer hailing from the southern end of Queensland (Australia)
Beware, I am a fully qualified Dad Joke practitioner.

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nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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At what age did you start writing code as a programmer or software developer?

david,
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@nixCraft My first paid coding job on an actual real system was at about 17 years old. (Porting some routines from a Vax to Oracle on Xenix).

nixCraft, to fediverse
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For the past several weeks, whenever I post any media, I always take the time to add ALT text to it. Although it may be a little time-consuming, I believe it is important to describe the media for those who are visually impaired or have accessibility concerns. Do you also add ALT text to your media for accessibility reasons?

david,
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@nixCraft absolutely. I have my mobile client set to prompt if i forget too.

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    david,
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    @jpmens One of the rare Europeans I know that has travelled these sorts of distances by road. ;-)

    david,
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    @jpmens We'll be doing a similar kind of distance in Oct/Nov on our trip to and around Tasmania from Brisbane. (1880km or so BNE -> MEL, ferry across the Bass Strait, couple of thousand kms touring around Tasmania, and then another 1880km home). The BNE -> MEL legs will be done in two stints, BNE -> SYD; SYD->MEL (and reverse obviously).

    Sheril, to australia
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    I took this photo last year at Curtain Fig National Park in .

    This spectacular strangler fig is nearly 165 ft (50m) tall, with a trunk circumference of 128ft (39m) & estimated to be >500 years old!

    david,
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    @Sheril It's pretty amazing eh? So is the other large fig down the road, The Cathedral Fig.

    Massive fig tree with a wooden raised boardwalk next to it. Some people walk along the board walk and read the sign nearby, completely dwarfed by the tree.

    ash, to random
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    My long suffering cans broke in a second place. Can probably still fix it with tape. But I'm starting to think it's time to replace em

    david,
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    @ash @phocks I'd previously repaired my son's headphones with duct tape and paddle-pop sticks. So no judgement here.

    david,
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    @ash if you have a soldering iron, you might be able to plastic weld that crack back together. Or there’s always superglue (cyanoacrylic).

    frogglin, to random
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    Back from the shops, my father is inspecting my shopping and mumbling about it. You don't have to eat it, dad.

    david,
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    @Quokka @frogglin @LifeTimeCooking that sounds like something made up by people who can’t taste coriander for what it is (delicious).

    jpmens, to random
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    david,
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    @jpmens By carefully writing a title that warns of the content without actual using any of the triggers that might be in the content.

    A job, clearly, for a public servant.

    david, to baking
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    When life gives you lemons…

    …Bake an Italian Lemon Custard Tart

    A top down view of A lemon custard tart in a glass pie plate on a cooling rack. The tart is lined with a sweet lemon pastry, filled with lemon custard, and the top is surrounded by discs of overlapping pastry, and then the whole thing dusted with icing sugar.

    david,
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    The recipe:

    Custard :
    500ml. milk
    2 eggs
    4 tablespoons cornstarch
    6 tablespoons sugar
    80 g. mascarpone
    1 lemon 🍋 (juice)

    Cook to a thick custard, cool, add the cheese and lemon juice. Stir well.

    Pastry:
    1 egg
    120 g. sugar
    lemon zest 🍋
    320 g. Flour
    6 g. baking powder
    140 g. butter

    Reserve 1/3 of pastry for top (clinkered rounds, around the edge).

    30min 180ºC.

    Allow to cool until set.

    david, to random
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    Currently running the new macOS Sonoma beta off an USB-C connected nVME drive in order to try out the game porting toolkit.

    Who'd have thought 10Gbps was so slow.

    david,
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    Whoohoo It actually works.

    Valheim, running on my M2 Max laptop, at better frame rates than I get on my dedicated windows gaming machine with dual 6 core xeon processors, and an AMD RX6600XT graphics card, all while doing that via a translation layer.

    david, to random
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    How’s your morning? Mine has started with one dead tyre and one flat spare tyre.

    Very flat spare.

    david,
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    Got back to that car tonight to go home, original spare was flat again. Glad I bought a new spare this morning.

    A screw stuck in the spare tyre

    david, to random
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    English, why are you so stupid?!

    Bimonthly definition in the Oxford dictionary:

    Occurs twice a month OR every two months.

    How is that remotely useful as a measure of time?

    david, to random
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    I love it when a subtle prank gains a life of its own.

    Someone put up a genuine warning poster for assassin beetles (not actually a threat but yeah, can hurt).

    I added the King Beetle, missing poster; and over the last week it’s gradually got added to by persons unknown.

    david, to random
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    Things I should know better by now…

    Always test the cables before going to all the effort of cable management.

    I installed and made very neat, a 4m DisplayPort cable for our big boss today (luckily on leave) only to find after, it was a dud cable and didn’t actually work. D’oh!

    david, to random
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    I got home to find a chicken in my yard. It is a fine chicken for sure, very sure of itself, beautiful plumage.

    I do, however, not own any chickens.

    david, to animals
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    is on.

    david, to food
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    I ran out of biscuits so I had to bake some more, and because I accidentally put in too much butter, they ended up spreading which as an happy accident means that they are perfect for ice-cream sandwiches.

    An ice-cream sandwich consisting of two biscuits with ice cream in between, being held between fingers and thumb off my left hand.

    david, to random
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    Adventures in G4 Powebook land. Installing Mint Linux onto an external sata hdd connected via firewire.

    david, to random
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    TIL you no longer (since 2004!!!) need to specify the jJzZ switches to tar to deal with the various compressed formats, it just works it out itself.

    eg: tar tvf somearchive.tar.gz
    tar tvf someArchive.tar.bz2

    etc

    david, to animals
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    Pepsì has come to stay for 2 weeks this time. Here he is occupying my lap and preventing me from playing computer games.

    david, to random
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    You infrequent reminder that if you can glue googly eyes to your rubber ducks you should glue googly eyes to your rubber ducks.

    david, to random
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    I also made shortbread.

    david, to random
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    Apparently birds have evolved the ability to fly without wings now.

    david, to random
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    It seems someone has caught a mouse outside our build room at work this morning.

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