RE: https://bne.social/@phocks/115782773039811928 Because they don’t play by the rules and will disembowel you.

Merry Christmas 🎅

This is fucking stupid and I hate it. Anyway, this is my last complaint for the day. Gonna cook up a storm pretty soon. Hope you eat well today.

There are not enough mince pies in my mouth.

RE: https://bne.social/@simon/115768769970413544 Now: bed.

Extracting a ~800GB tar ball on the NAS during a heatwave maybe wasn't a great idea.

It's looking like it'll be a 100% Nagi Christmas dinner.

This is a new one: redirected to error-report.com for having an ad blocker. Feels like a dark-pattern.

I have thoroughly filled the system drive on a home server. It's mostly filled with a Postgres database running in a Docker container. It's so thoroughly filled Docker doesn't even let me stop the Postgres container. What to do?

Just paid a big plumbing bill and voluntarily gave them a bonus. This is unprecedented.

it's my first day of holidays but I somehow found myself browsing the website abc.net.au/news what is wrong with me?

I miss synchronised radio and TV broadcasts.

Snicko's reputation in the dirt.

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

yes, I am printing yet another dragon

I really want to like the macOS Mail app. I have tried it over and over again through decades of updates. It's still rubbish.

A genuine argument over office stationary is unfolding. Happy Monday!

Corbin: “All the wickets have fallen in the night session, that’s the theme of this test. 13 of 25 have fallen under lights.” Come talk to me about numbers on Monday, mate. 😅 #ashes

Hi @kagihq — do you have any documentation on why Orion wants this permission?

Temperature so far today feels merciful.

My spicy take of the day: Bring. Back. Administrative Assistants. For fucks sake, have people in the office who are literally professionals in drafting and editing memos, scheduling meetings, figuring out travel, coordination with other folks, hell, making a good cup of coffee. It's IMPORTANT […]

The best team in Australian digital journalism is looking for a newbie*. Come work with us! https://careers.abc.net.au/en/job/505140/digital-journalist-story-lab * Not necessarily an actual newbie — some experience would help, but you should apply regardless!

Shopify checkout screen making the marketing 'opt-in' (even though it's checked by default) hidden when it's checked! I'm relatively confident this is in error, but honestly, who bloody knows. The web is so full of hostile tactics.

because getting air conditioning installed immediately isn't an option i've decided to construct a makeshift wind tunnel to work from for the rest of the day

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115621214067500053 Unidirectional cowardice

Never attribute to malice (without strong evidence) what can be attributed to incompetence. But an update to QParents that makes it all but unusable six days before a teacher strike and a 'system failure' when trying to tell them our kids won't be be crossing the […] [Original post on bne.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115594769638350306 Gonna try three of these things today.

Feeling queasy now I've learned that Google is not only now offering Gemini ambassador certificates to teachers but also awarding students and *children* to be corporate AI mascots. Coercive normalization of commercialized digital education. blog.google/outreach-ini...

Things children should not be allowed unsupervised access to: 1. Blu tack 2. Sticky tape 3. whatever the hell was used to make these marks …

Cowards. (Also, why on earth should journalists grant health ministers anonymity!?) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/anthony-albanese-tells-states-to-rein-in-hospital-spending/106017654

I'm in the market for an extremely set-and-forget, no subscription, PoE security camera that I can setup to store footage on a NAS. Any suggestions?

I 100% read this as 'loser' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/macho-appeal-of-fossil-fuels-in-a-world-struggling-with-net-zero/106011600

Want a guaranteed interesting start to your day? Load this up and click the first link that piques your interest. https://elvery.net/prototypes/wikipedia-edits/ #wikipedia

In 2017 the Coalition was calling carbon capture and storage (CCS) a "proven technology" in an argument to allow the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in fossil fuel projects […] [Original post on bne.social]

> "He took a beat to have lunch – medium steak with German mustard and a horiatiki side salad." lol ... I think I might do the same right now, but I'll go for banh mi I reckon […]

The yak shaving really gets me down some times. This morning: See a PR with a diff I'm confused about → go to look at the code in the repo → can't find a file it references, decide I'd better `pnpm i` → that requires a login to the package repository → run the login script → realise I need to […]

lol

I'm back on the news horse today after seven weeks. Should be interesting*

It was lovely seeing and/or meeting some internet people tonight :flower:

Tomorrow I tile. #officeworkerrenovates

Water and Wind A water fountain at Southbank, the steady stream of water blown in to a spiral by the wind #brisbane #meanjin #southbank #water #waterFountain #fountain #wind

Hello #network people. I’m running a ~35m network cable from my unit to my garage. What kind do I want?

Day 31: big milestone. #officeworkerrenovates

All set for waterproofer on Monday after the specified 48 hours cure time. No. More. Rendering. My only worry is the 1 billion per cent humidity forecast between now and Monday (and the ongoing worry that the whole thing could just fall off the wall). #officeworkerrenovates

About every 6-12 months my grandmother's iPad just stops fetching email. Only a circuitous journey through multiple rounds of re-entering the exact same details has ever worked to fix it. Fucking infuriating.

Definitely a bit of a “not sure I know what I’m doing” day today. Nevertheless, progress was made. #officeworkerrenovates

This is the beginning of week six of #officeworkerrenovates

Hey #queensland / #brisbane #woodworking pals — where do you buy your veneer products? Interstate (where there are more) options appear to have absurd shipping rates for a single role of edge banding.