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  I finally find somewhere to charge. Battery starts creeping up from 5%. An older woman approaches me and says “excuse me my battery is dead, can I use that socket?” I sigh inside! But say sure thing, and we swap seats. She immediately starts blasting music from her phone speakers. I lean over and ask her if she could turn it down or use headphones, and she tells me to fuck off. No good deed goes unpunished.

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  I want to go to Poland. 🇵🇱

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  I may have just acquired an extremely niche, extremely silly piece of #retrocomputer tech that will interest almost nobody… but for those who know what it is, it’s *amazing*. But also silly. Assuming it doesn’t get eaten from the UK to here, fingers crossed will be writing about it in a few weeks :)

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  I've always thought there was something... off about the FSF. Brian Cully so perfectly articulates my concerns. For an organisation billing itself as a political movement, it has massive blinkers. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-11/msg00197.html (This is regarding the whole "we'd accept slave contributions" thing. Colour me unimpressed, again).

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  Your friend and mine @allrite@masto.allrite.at is travelling again, and has a blog post series you should check out: https://allrite.at/ Living vicariously through it again. Rothenburg is one of my favourite places 🥲

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  We made our 24th mortgage payment recently. Two years since we bought our first home together. Our longest rental was also two years, so feels like an accomplishment. 💪 (Also, you can blame us for the rapid rise in Australian interest rates. Had we not bought, this wouldn’t have happened. It’s Murphy’s Law. Sorry).

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  Ten. It’s now ten train trips in a row where fsckwits play music and video through their phone speakers on the train. UK PM Andy Burnham’s idea for fines is too soft. Blast these selfish people into the sun.

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  It’s kind of amazing how many more Toyotas there are compared to BMWs and Teslas, but I’ve yet to have a single encounter with them as a pedestrian. Just had a Tesla cut across me on a zebra crossing, THEN a BMW driver tail him. Because of course!

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  Someone at work was talking about version 20 of a tool, which they abbreviated as "V20". For a second I thought they meant the improved NEC 8088. Sometimes #retrocomputing is an oddly useful hobby! Other times, not so much.

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  Like a soul without a mind In a body without a heart I'm missing every part 🎻🎻🎻

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  I bought a new phone! Well, “new”, I only ever buy refurb. Will be a massive upgrade over my old one. (No, I won’t be hinting at or specifying which phone; people get oddly territorial about this. But it’s the right one for me).

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  @kevin@fedi.kevinisageek.org I’ll admit I’ve yet to try Sylve, but it looks super slick.

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  The amount of email pushback I’ve received for this very brief post about the Binance breach has been hilarious. https://www.rubenerd.au/binances-latest-adventures/

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  Vale, Patrick Stewart 😢

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  Lots of requests to non-existent PHP login pages in the logs again today. Almost tempted to get up to some mischief with this.

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  Had a dream last night where I had shirts printed that just said "/opt". Kinda tempted to do this.

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  Plumbers have been through. We have new bathroom taps! They're smooth like butter (like a criminal undercover ♫). I've never bought taps before. Being a renter until two years ago, the opportunity and/or requirement never arose.

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  Okay, fun done! Off to prepare for my next set of calls. 👋

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  Should I get into domestic LTO tape for airgapped backups when all else fails? Probably not. But one can ponitificate. https://www.rubenerd.au/is-it-time-to-get-into-domestic-lto/

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  I know I’ve said this before, but we’re so lucky we live walking distance from a Tong Li, a lovely green grocer, and an Aldi. I had to go to Colesworth last night, and the prices made me laugh out loud. Well and truly taking Australians for a ride. (And it’s not even “good”. I remember having a convo in Singapore with someone saying Jason’s was too expensive compared to NTUC Fairprice, but they stock very different stuff).

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  @tubsta@social.bsdlab.au @decryption@aus.social Nice one!

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  It’s “pot plants being knocked over on the balcony” weather this evening 💨 #sydney

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  Got my new data centre pass, and they printed my photo on it sideways. The aspect ratio is still for a portrait photo, but it’s rotated 90 degrees and stretched. 10/10, no notes!

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  My wife (still not used to saying that!) has launched her art goods store, and I couldn't be more proud. ♡ https://kirisvielart.acggoods.com/ All hand drawn and small-batch printed. If you've ever wanted my blog mascot as a good quality vinyl sticker, now you can.

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  Used my fingernails as tools again, which is *always* a bad idea. Anyone... have tips for dealing with a fingernail that split below the white bit? I have it in a plaster right now.

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  I'm so glad I got back on the OmniFocus train. Only task management tool I've ever used that works the way my brain does. I don't have to fight it. It's not ideal, but then, neither is my brain.

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  Cable sheath for this old Ericsson phone completely disintegrated! Good news is the two cables inside are fine.

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  How do you pronounce Pluggable Authentication Modules?

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  Just got another email clearly written by AI. Tempted to reply asking them to tell me in their words what they need, because I don't have time for slop. (And no, AI "summary" tools aren't the answer either).

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  (On social media break while travelling, but this is my ongoing Vietnam 2026 blog post series if anyone is interested. Trying to chill but also so much to see/do hah). https://www.rubenerd.au/tag/vietnam2026/