Coffee, motorcycles, music, microcontrollers, and Oxford commas. 3D printer, laser cutter, and cnc mill owner (with no real skills).
I like to pretend I’m a geek, not a nerd.
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2026-11-01T01:56:46Z Event JSON
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Last Notes npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain Reminds me of the famous (well, at least amongst hifi nerds 40 years ago) Telarc recording and vinyl pressing of the 1812 Overture and the canon shots. npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain I now have another mental image of you "swanning around" npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain This is how my head is picturing you right now. npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain I suspect her 30+ year project the Imagination Library that's given a book a month to over 3 million kids and over 300 million books in total - has changed more lives for the better than most rich or famous people or politicians ever will. Not just the 3 million kids, but their parents and likely friends too. The earliest cohort are all voting adult age too... npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116909613418773930 npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain I keep this snippet handy to modify urls I share: npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain <sings> npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain What could possibly go wrong? npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain Came here to post this. @npub1hhs…rl5g @npub1ppe…qv2g npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain I have a fantasy malicious compliance thing going on in my head, where I write a script to register accounts on 500 or so Mastodon instances and make a few LLM slop posts to each, then print out a couple of A4 pages listing them all to hand over at immigration when I land in the US. But realistically, I don’t think I want the free trip to El Salvador with a tour of their worst jail that’d likely get me. @npub1n4j…x9ta npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain "We would specifically go after women, who were single mothers, who had gambling addictions - for the gambling app I use to work with. Because those people, they're whales. The ones that give the most money. (Yeah, it was hard to sleep at night)" npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain Trumpet of arseholes…. npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain And the muscats in front of the main stages from hiding the crowd down. @npub1rdj…4p0g npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain That was a good year too. I saw Al’s Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters sideshow at Selina’s that year. npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain Some people know! He did this keynote conference talk, and "requested" no cameras in the audience, so I'm pretty sure the people there saw his face... npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain Please tell me it wasn't The Lockpicking Lawyer??? npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain Do you have anyone you could borrow a resl Kindke device from for a day or two? Get them to log out from their Amazon account on it, you log in with yours and download everything, then you just need to save the Kindle’s serial number to be able to strip the drm. (If you’re looking n Sydney Australia, I have a spare Kindke you can borrow.) @npub1ve5…kuul npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain What a wonderous bird. npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain [@Mer__edith](https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith ) This seems all sorts of wrong. Any hints about how regular Signal users can prevent this happening? npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain What’s the support structure or infill inside that look like? npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain I used to fly some fairly big octacopter drones. I had a collection of 7S 5,800 mAhr 50C lipo batteries for them. Those batteries were capable/rated to deliver about 8kW continuous, and quite likely 5 or 10 times that when short circuited. I messed up soldering connectors on one once. It vaporized about 10 or 15mm of the 4 or 5mm diameter copper tip of the soldering iron when it shorted across the battery leads. Very _very_ scarey flash/bang. I have no idea how I didn’t injure or blind myself that day. Big Lipo batteries deserve respect or even fear. npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain I wonder if there are shared and curated pihole style rulesets to block known bad fediverse ip addresses? npub1s56ksfuxe7eptwjfs4yjj3jjkez678yjrd8wnafws2qwle3cfv7q4893vc ~/bigiain Hard choice. I’m gonna pick Flea, Jaco, and Meshell Ndegeocello - to cover different genres I love. Oh. And maybe Mohini Dey too. And Leland Sklar. This is hard… Shit. Jackie Orszacsky too. And Tal Wilkenfield. I give up. Way too many.
