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Zwanze Day! Some amazing Cantillon beers heading my way. Woo! 🍻

Woah. I’m getting replies from my BlueSky account here, now? How long has that been a thing?

Just how bad for the environment are electric bikes? (spoiler alert: maybe the most carbon efficient form of transport available, including acoustic bikes).

I’ve been using computers for well over 3 decades and I’m still amazed I can operate a virtual windows desktop in a web browser tab. It’s so bananas.

I implore people once more. Voila is pronounced vwah-lah, not wa-lah.

AI is a modern Mechanical Turk, with all the easily impressed Napoleons throwing vast sums at this parlor trick. And then certain cretins run around screaming that these chess playing robots will rise from their chairs and murder us all “next year!”

Happy 1,500th of March 2020 for all those who celebrate.

After a suggestion for naming our work’s automated ticket creation account, all our tickets are now raised by “A Pack of Wolves”.

Sitting backwards in a chair. Baseball cap turned to the side. Youth pastor voice: “You know another person who relied on only fans to live?”

Being a Star Trek fan in New Zealand is a little bit silly: TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Prodigy, TAS: Netflix Picard and Lower Decks: Amazon Prime Discovery and SNW: TVNZ+ Any of the Movies: 🤷🏻‍♂️

Load up today’s Connections Eye starts twitching

I love how techbros have swapped out the crypto pyramid scheme for the “AI” pyramid scheme. And that they all think they’re geniuses, despite being continually scammed.

You can open 100 tabs in your web browser if you want. No one can stop you. It’s not illegal.

OK. I’ve come to the conclusion that either my Ubiquiti Anplifi router is borked after 5 years of service and is dying, the network cable that connects my router to the ONT is broken in a very weird and specific way, or that my house is haunted by some kind of network phantom.

Is anyone else finding the latest version of iOS is really broken, networking-wise?

…aaaaaaand my internet is broken. Marvellous. Getting this fixed will be painful.

Spoiler alert for Dune 2: Paul Atreides is a bad egg.

To any of my pocket frens out there who have a Vision Pro: I imagine this is possible, but can you lie on your back, and have a movie or TV show playing on a ceiling? And if so, do you, like I imagine I would, immediately go to sleep?

James Rath, who’s a film maker and is also legally blind, tried on the vision pro, with surprising results.

One thing I’ve clung to after realising it, and a hill upon I’ll die, is that the transporters in Star Trek would make it so people were immortal. If you can rip someone apart and then reconstruct them atom-by-atom, you can correct any medical or age-related issues while you’re at it, too.

I love not having to buy petrol.

The more I see it, the more I’m convinced I should subscribe to Nebula. Does anyone out there subscribe? Is it worth the money?

The thing I love about learning French is the language is just as messed up as English, so it feels like home. Not like one of those ridiculous languages where words are spelt like they sound.

This is terrifying. AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever - YouTube

Single on Valentines Day? Nice. Being single rules.