Happy Voron news! I finally had some time to look at it again on the weekend and realised the print bed screws were all loose! 🤦‍♂️ Since tightening those it's been solid, and I just printed my first non-calibration print in ABS this morning. Hopefully smoother […] [Original post on aus.social]

Re: last boost https://chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803252590 That LLM-generated OCaml PR is a textbook illustration of open source in the era of vibe coding... It's got everything: - PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it. - Copyright […]

12 months ago, I realised that I was not living out my own values. As a whānau, we committed to a #nobuyyear2025 where we only bought essentials. A year ago, I had a 3 year old who was almost impossible to take shopping because she would beg for every random toy […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Podcast interview with the late @burgerbecky recounting the infamous 3DO console port of Doom: https://corecursive.com/doomed-to-fail-with-burger-becky/ Becky later posted the source on GitHub, there are even set photos from the abandoned FMV cutscenes in the "art" directory! […]

Finally visited the Jirrahlinga Dingo Conservation and Wildlife Centre yesterday, after living nearby for almost eight years. I patted a baby wombat, but the highlight of the visit was while a keeper was talking to us and his radio went off: "Uh... can Bettongs […] [Original post on aus.social]

Held our second Co-op AGM last night (and first since we raised member investment to buy The Hub). We were a little worried about getting 10% of 560 members for quorum, but over 90 showed up! Great night, and we've now opened our AGMs with a dance performance […] [Original post on aus.social]

ZIRP was a disease that ate our infrastructure and now we're dealing with the symptoms

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

FWIW I've got some backups on Verbatim M-Disc BDXL discs which have a ten year warranty and "projected lifetime of several hundred years" with some bold statements about not even requiring archival storage conditions to reach this (see part way down this FAQ: https://www.mdisc.com/faq.html ) […]

so I’ve been reversing the classic mac os usb stack and I found a credits easter egg of sorts. The OHCI controller driver emulates a hub device, which uses the OHCI root hub registers on the back end. The USB device string descriptors for this emulated hub […] [Original post on labyrinth.zone]

This thread makes me so sad: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446 The goal of open source should be to empower people, not to make them feel like they have no agency and their work doesn't matter.

Stopped to charge the car in Yarawonga and the charging stations were also the start point for today's Lake Malwa Rod Run. Slightly awkward nosing around gorgeous idling hot rods to get into the charge bay!

«When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president. […] So, yeah, peer review deez nutz» 🤣 This is brilliant! Hi, It’s Me […]

Love this mini documentary about the Pedal People rubbish collection co-operative in Massachusetts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahXgey1sK4 https://pedalpeople.coop/ #cooperatives #bikes

My criteria for giving free ads is no fash shit, no scams, no popups (spyware cookie warnings count as popups), NSFW has to be not on the home page, no corpos (my friend if you're selling monster romance epubs or knocking out circuit boards in your shed then you're not corpo you just wanna eat) […]

This is where the Effective Altruist Brain spins up to full frequency: because climate change isn't the only or most significant problem, that means we need to start firing emissions goals into the sun. This is why EA ends up so frequently directly helping corporate wrongdoing and fossil fuels....

Home server's HTTPS front end crashed at midnight last night. Coincidence or hidden AWS dependency? 🤔

I 3d printed some things! By which I mean, I 3d printed some printer calibration objects! One day I will 3d print something useful, you just wait and see! #voron #3dprinting

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

🦊💻 "If an EV is unaffordable for you, why not simply send your butler to mechanic school"

Toyota EV converted an AE86 Corolla Levin with a manual gearbox, clutch, flywheel, and electric motor detuned to match the original 4A-G engine characteristics. https://youtu.be/DE2oDKguy3Q Stunning effort, looks like it'd be super fun to drive. #ev

Ah, Spring in central victoria: out in the garden, while it's raining, putting frost covers on plants because its going to clear up and get very cold later tonight. In four days the forecast is for 30C.

[Framework] Eesh, I don't know why I decided to look at that forum discussion thread again. Nearly 500 posts, some classic fash apologia/equivocation/etc getting rolled out by their "supporters". Even the person who started the thread (in a very reasonable and a measured way) has a recent post […]

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

Depressing number of anti-AI celebrities inadvertently reposting fake cute animal videos on Instagram clearly labeled "Sora" and it's obvious they don't know and fuck we're really cooked when it starts to come to unlabeled riot footage nefarious actors (the regime) are going to start pumping out

Greatly appreciated "Cancelling Async Rust!" talk by @rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv5Cy1R7r4 A systemic examination of async cancellation issues in Rust, with a bunch of practical advice. I was superficially aware of the issue, but learned a lot from their talk! #rustlang

Qualcomm buying Arduino feels like they watched the Intel Galileo flop and thought "what if this time Arduino can't walk away?" https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes. (this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

Another laptop rescued from the Windows 10 shutdown and e-waste with Linux Mint! My friend only uses her generic 2014-era HP laptop for web browsing and LibreOffice. It struggled to boot to the desktop with 4GB of RAM under Windows. Popped an extra 4GB of RAM […] [Original post on aus.social]

🪿 "Wow, so many updated Arch packages today!" 🐐 "Many updated packages, or Haskell package churn again?" 🪿 "Haskell package churn... again"

Mastodon now works on Servo 👀 That def. wasn't the case as of like a week ago!

there is going to be an unstoppable, ultra-massive tsunami of AI-for-good type stuff, and particularly 'AI for climate' at new york climate week this one has will i am and google aiforgood.itu.int/event/ai-for...

Turns out I am not the only person paranoid enough to have asked this question https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingsuggestions/comments/1n37n8a/are_we_getting_farmed_by_some_bot_questions/

Dev boards are getting fancy... I bought one of these Waveshare ESP32-H2-DEV-KIT-N4 boards to help debug a client Thread project. For $6AU I saw a single USB port and expected it'd use the ESP32 internal USB Serial/JTAG Peripheral feature. Nope... this thing […] [Original post on aus.social]

I see the #pyconau talk videos are being posted. 🎉 Now I just need to put aside half a day to catch up with them all... If only there was a place I could go to where all I did was sit and watch conference talks. Maybe wander around and talk to other interesting people in between. I don't know […]

If Xerox has the "mother of all demos" then #meta had the "divorced dad of all demos" https://mastodon.green/@gcluley/115226991386720159

proposal: make the lifetime single-quote marker in Rust a combining acute accent before: 'arr, 'num, 'obj (boring, americano-centred) after: árr, ñum, öbj (delightful, festive, welcoming)

lol, I was gearing up to have a fight with Google's warranty people over the failed charge port on my 25 month old Pixel 6a phone... The slightest movement would cause the USB plug to fall out. Port looked, fine even under magnification. Decided to gently dig around in there with a pin anyway […]

"Ultimately, progressive people are just as susceptible to soothing messages as other groups. Being told that we don’t have to change anything about our lives for the systemic change we all desire is an appealing message—it paints a comfortable picture of the path to a better future" SOLID POST

"Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape" https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/ Truly, we live in an age of absurdly wasteful wonders. (Although the vapes aren't running Android. Yet.)

Saw "But Also John Clarke" in local theatre this week. Heartfelt and hilarious, thoroughly recommend if you're thinking of seeing it. https://youtu.be/aqpU6qRXmYo

due to unforeseen circumstances, I'll be presenting my absolute banger of an op-ed, "The Death of Consequences" at #pyconau this weekend. There will be commentary. https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/7XVERX/

They're so close to a breakthrough...

Huh, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've seen a real estate listing for an astronomical observatory. It's the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, a radio telescope that operated between 1965 and 2023. Along with the remains of the telescope you get a […] [Original post on aus.social]

Did you guess what was in the pan? So, excitingly, nylon cable glands dye really well with ordinary fabric dye. This way I get to keep a big stock of grey ones and choose later what I need for a project. Also, using dye is fun and makes you feel like you're […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I'm back again. Yes, I'm looking for more book recommendations. Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written between 1976-2000 (inclusive), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written in the last […]

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

You vs the circuit board she told you not to worry about. #electronics

[Weapons grade earworm] I'm in the Quiet Carriage on the VLine train home from Melbourne and there's a kid who has played the whole of Baby Shark on their tablet. Three times so far. Can't get mad, it's too absurd.

"when I tell this story to my now adult children, I struggle to convey how weird it was. I realised belatedly that they never experienced existing with technology without it being the default expectation that it's hostile to you and it's spying on you all the time. For them this has been the […]