Roe V. Wade

People who think these post-nominals are academic qualifications and various medals and honours would be surprised to learn they’re actually the graffiti crews he’s affiliated with

One of the few things I'm _not_ mad about regarding the proliferation of LLMs: This trend of websites offering a "download this page as Markdown" button (to paste it to your LLM, you see!). In so many ways, LLMs mirror humans, such as in how they work better when fed info in particular formats!

Last month, I was going over my finances and saw that I’d had my highest-earning month in years. I turned to my partner. “That’s more than you earn in a month!” I said, surprised. My partner works full-time as a site reliability engineer. They work from home two days per week and commute to […]

Via @EFA: www.miamiherald.com/living/artic... "Your Smart TV May Be Taking Screenshots Every 15 Seconds." Copy of Twitter thread on how to disable this: threadreaderapp.com/thread/20444... I already had this turned off, but this renews my consideration to disconnect it from the network entirely!

Stop 👏🏻 emailing 👏🏻 OTP 👏🏻 codes 👏🏻 instead 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 prompting 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 passwords! Latest culprit is Netflix. I have a password. It's in my password manager. Ask for it before sending me an unsolicited email and making me dig for the "just use a password" option! 🤬

This is such a shitty dark pattern (unsurprising, from a major supermarket). If you're not paying attention, you could easily thing these "I'm Perfect" onions are more expensive because they're "higher quality", rather than because they're twice the quantity, by weight, than the other option.

FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

A UNSW-led audit of nearly 200 school-endorsed apps has found most begin harvesting children's data within seconds - often contradicting their own privacy policies and exposing gaps in oversight by education systems, app developers and regulators www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

A few weeks ago, I got into a debate about taxes with a digital nomad on LinkedIn. He was hyping up Próspera, a "Special Economic Zone" in Honduras offering low-tax residency for remote workers. With its 5% personal income tax, he posed it as an alternative to "high-tax countries or rigid […]

One of the solutions proposed - I am not kidding - is "writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks." It's really funny imagining a software engineer being like "woah...like automating the boring stuff, you might say?"

the rare duck-billed platypup

Reading specs of the new MacBook Neo (www.apple.com/au/macbook-n... ). With an A18 Pro CPU (same as iPhone 16 Pro), it seems a great entry-level Mac if you don't need a lot of grunt, but want the flexibility of macOS over iOS/iPadOS. My main surprise is the USB 2.0 USB-C port. Recipe for confusion!

TFW you find and squash a 14-year old bug: www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libsp...

There’s a total #LunarEclipse coming tomorrow evening and the east coast of Australia, NZ and the Pacific Islands are in a grand position for it! Looks like we have a bit of cloud in Sydney but it may be patchy. Best part of the show is between 10-11pm. Max eclipse at 10:33pm. 📸 timeanddate 🔭

@openvibe.social FYI I'm seeing this bug on v1.15.0, iOS 26.3/iPhone 16 where hashtags or mentions (or links?) are shown without white space separation.

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

TIL that despite being _the same person_, it appears I cannot be logged into the ATO as both an individual, and the director of a business. I'm not surprised, just disappointed.

When everyone talked about quitting tech and becoming farmers that was not what we meant

> An error occurred accessing your remote calendar Victorian public holiday dates: 404 Not Found www.vic.gov.au/ical lists iCal URLs which keep changing! The current one is www.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul... Just get a better CMS and use a consistent URL; you can do it, Vic Gov, I believe in you! 🤦🏻

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Spoiler: Even the short-term ephemeral productivity gains turn out to just be a) people taking on tasks they have no business doing (like managers coding), b) people working longer hours because they're having fun dicking around and c) people trying to do 800 tasks at once.

Relax, bread department

being this genuinely delighted by little childrens dumb antics is such a huge green flag

And wonderful to see the staff at the albatross center taking such good care of them. Here, egg-weighing time. Which gives you a sense of scale for these massive, beautiful birds.

honestly baffling to see newsletter writers move to patreon of all platforms — it doesn’t allow people to own their relationships with their subscribers, so it’s almost impossible to move anywhere later! i can only assume patreon must have paid them upfront to make it worthwhile.

I love this for me. #Melbourne

Courts should treat biometric locks as equivalent to password protection, EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @TheIntercept.com. “Your constitutional right against self-incrimination should not be dependent on technical convenience or lack thereof.” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/...

At the #ScoutsVictoria Leader of Adults conference in Williamstown today! As usual, we're operating on Scout Time! 😂

I often misjudge my volume and speak too loudly. I appreciate people gently pointing this out. Today on the bus while I chatted to another passenger, someone from the back of the bus crouched *uncomfortably* close to my face to say their wife had a headache. Mixed feelings about that experience.

Love travel and telling global stories that matter? Don’t miss this live virtual masterclass taught by a seasoned travel journalist this February. You’ll get 10 years of industry knowledge distilled into actionable steps to turbocharge your work and walk away […] [Original post on remotequeer.co]

Our January newsletter is out! 🎉 New location, open Calls for Proposals, and all the updates you need. 👀 👉️ Link in the first comment.

Big big thank you to Vercel supporting DDD Melbourne again in 2026. Make sure you say hello to the fine folks, they're great supporters of the tech community, and we appreciate them and love their work. 👏 👉 🎟️ Make sure to get your tickets for DDD Melbourne: www.dddmelbourne.com/tickets

Every word of this article is a delight. There are some great anecdotes about working for real tip lines. yarnspinner.dev/blog/hint-li...

"Across the country, renters are living in properties with no insulation, poor sealing, broken or inadequate fans or no cooling options at all. Others technically have air conditioning, but they are in such extreme rental stress they can’t afford to turn it on."

Teenagers *are* known for ravenous appetites but surely there are other ways.

Clothing too comfortable? Maybe you should try shopping at …

**If you're an employer seeking a "senior cyber gardener"**, please take a look and ping me if you'd like to chat **If you're employed at an org that you think might be a good fit**, please also ping me and let me know pls #boost4reach, thank you! 🙏 💕 #EverythingOpen #EO2026 (2/2)

hi #EverythingOpen friends 👋 (a brief thread 🧵) **I am currently looking for a new role in the cyber security genre** 🎉 I've just posted my info on the #EO2026 **Jobs BoF** page on the wiki (I'm not publishing the link, if you're here you know where to find it 😜) #boost4reach pls! (1/2)

More conference venues should have hammocks. #EverythingOpen

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

I have just discovered a hairline crack in my phone's screen protector, and I have no idea how it happened. Yet again though, I'm very thankful for this screen protector!

"Here’s a friendly reminder about our lounge access dress code", says the email from Qantas. clicks link "Error 404: dress code not found". Welp that sounds fun!

get in girlies, we're talking surveillance! we're talking the fantasy of automation propped up by humans! we're talking unfulfilled promises of tech to reduce household labour! we're talking funwashing of robots made for warfare!

Today's toy: atlogin, an OIDC provider for the AT network, compatible with Tailscale custom OIDC. Try this: login.tailscale.com and login as user "<your-bsky-handle-without-the-@>@at.apenwarr.ca". You'll join my test tailnet (ACL isolated from other users). Source: github.com/apenwarr/atlogin

Good morning to y'all Today I hit you with a Sneak attack haiku.

That Grok still has payment processing, when everyone I know — artist or gamer or adult creator —lives in constant fear of deplatforming and debanking over the mere hint of impropriety, is utterly mind-blowing.