There's a John Scalzi collection on #humblebundle but it seems to be unavailable in Australia due to book publisher geo nonsense. Fortunately there are VPNs. #scalzi

Spiral.

My @smh @theage cartoon.

computers were a mistake, networked computers doubly so

Marketing email from Sipeed on their new "world's first AI-native" KVM.

"And in 2026, the dawn of the AI agent era, we went further. The Agent-Ready NanoKVM-Go+ gives your AI agent the power to operate devices at the physical level "

AI-native KVM? Fuck no. #sipeed #kvm

Freeburgh Streamside Reserve VKFF-3690 / POTA AU-4571 was a beautiful spot to get on air from. #pota #WWFF

I took my radio to the park for my first POTA/WWFF activation today. I worked a bunch of VKs on 40m SSB eager to help an activator fill the log, much appreciated.

After that I did some listening around on other bands. I couldn't believe how good the conditions and noise floor were compared to working from home. EU and US stations were booming in on 20m.

Lots of fun, will be back for more. #pota #WWFF #hamradio

The future we got

Back in 1992, working IT support at a bank, someone asked me if I was going to reboot the printer. At the time, I thought this was hilarious. Now it sounds completely natural. #it #printingsucks

PayPal requires your password to be 8-20 characters in length. Not longer. No concerns at all. #paypal #fail #infosec

In email just now: "Lock in the complete Code Flow platform before GitKraken pricing evolves on Sunday."

Pricing... evolves? Interesting wording.

and also this. Jira's built-in AI Rovo will give you links that 404 to Jira's own documentation, but you should definitely let it try to do your coding for you. #jira #rovo #rovo

What does "Improve Bug" do? :O #jira #fail

In the next day or so I need to force myself to read Yet Another Stupid Fucking Orbital Data Center filing, because I have to write a comment to the FCC so that it's on file that astronomers hate it.

This one called "Stampede" from a company named Cowboy Space. I hate *everything* about this. I'm not even going to link to any news stories about them because they're all so horrible. A sun-synchronous terminator orbit is where satellite companies want Kessler Syndrome to start, apparently.

White labelling is hard, apparently.

Ok, what if Apple buys Ferrari to get Jony Ive back and sell the Luce Cockpit as an Apple TV controller?

#ferrari #ferrariluce #apple #jonyive

Is this true @lowqualityfacts ?

The Ferrari Luce EV has to be turned upside down to charge it, just like Jon Ive's previous work, the Apple Magic Mouse. #ferrari #apple

Salesforce fun for the day: admin can change your email address, but you have to verify it, and that involves sending a validation email to your old email address, which you will never receive. #facepalm #salesforce #morons

Happy 5.25 day to anyone who celebrates.

(“Colour diskettes”. Ha.)

#RetroComputing

292 days of #wordle up in smoke #nothappyjan