Links to a very large number of free books on programming. https://t.co/3aPcYUioKK
@dfg77 Oh FFS. I meant the Abbott one.
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes, it’s glorious work, isn’t it.
I guess this is a good day to rebleat my “Enjoy your Ubergasm, but don’t expect respect in the morning†from April. http://t.co/x3BlPB70cU
Remember, as I said the other day, UBER is an anagram of TURD.
RT @alvarombedoya: 5/ …and they retain your geolocation data AFTER you close your account. https://t.co/pn41VsxwoM h/t @timdickinson @pwn…
alvarombedoya 4/ And the kicker: @Uber tracks its users’ one night stands. blog.uber.com/ridesofglory. “Rides of Glory.” pic.twitter.com/Wf3ukqBVUS
alvarombedoya 3/ They look up journalists’ travel logs - and threaten to use them to discredit people. pic.twitter.com/uVvgLi3PIF
@shiftkey @bradsprigg @5at5daily It could well be coming in through an ad network.
Possibly.
@bradsprigg @5at5daily @shiftkey Well that’s not what Chrome says.
RT @5at5daily: WARNING! The link to Abbot’s speech in today’s 5at5 email could be dangerous. Maybe don’t click for now. HT @shiftkey http:/…
RT @alvarombedoya: 2/ They display their users’ precise whereabouts in private parties - like a party trick. http://t.co/fBr7arGPQX cc @kas…
alvarombedoya 1/ @Uber: After several years of working on location privacy, I can’t think of a firm that treats location data in a more cavalier manner.
RT @cambuntu: Another shot of the #retroroo over the North of Sydney this morning. #737 #qantas #boeing #avgeek… http://t.co/BZLCyLDkEX
@scott_thewspot No, nothing new. A straightforward explainer.
RT @goldkorn: View from my Beijing office right now, staring straight at the sun http://t.co/Wi0sbHFTiJ
New blog post: “Talking Netflix for Australia on ABC @891adelaideâ€, 8 mins audio from earlier. https://t.co/sjHCk0izd2
@dobes Wow.
You should read the Wikipedia article about Bill the Goat. http://t.co/sSZjdlAZPw
The latest @lexiconvalley podcast is about the phrase “Get One’s Goatâ€. Moist. http://t.co/zv9vv295ye
Hey @dobes, this is the month’s best retweet so far..pic.twitter.com/EHMAuEVi0u0u
srochfort Nice look Sydney Trains. pic.twitter.com/bseJP6vbFA
Pollytics Newman’s new Brisbane canal system. #StrongChoices RT @monkeytypist: Oh. RT @uhfemergency: pic.twitter.com/QxHmgHDZHn
@CaseyBriggs @ALeighMP @triplej Oh now you want to being actual arithmetic into this? Yeah good luck with that.
@NewtonMark @OaaSvc Sigh. I’ll have to try it again soon and see if I’m still blocked.
@TristanRayner Oh dear. I knew that. And I even told myself beforehand not to say “Game of Thronesâ€.
@NewtonMark @OaaSvc Last time I tried Hulu, I was using ssh to route through my box in SFO, and it still managed to block me.
And the radio spot is done. I’ll have a recording online some time this evening.
@NewtonMark Fixed it. Happy now?
On hold with ABC @891adelaide to talk Netflix in Australia. http://t.co/WgsHz3xib5 Listenify at http://t.co/evOk27adL9
ALeighMP Barnaby: “5% over 5 years- so that’s 1% a year”
@triplej: “No, it’s 5% every year”
Barnaby: “Er, well…”
@RealNickHodge @kcarruthers Is hogging a brony anything like sealing a penguin? http://t.co/r3ccgCIEQC
RT @kcarruthers: I only came here because I thought there’d be bronies.
Will that many people be into streaming videos? I mean, not everyone plays rugby.
RT @custaro: Doug Cameron inviting a Lib Senator to step outside for fisticuffs. Seriously. [#letsgodoug]
RT @kcarruthers: Where are all the bronies?
@jon_lawrence @NewtonMark What? Oh, I’d muted that hashtag. Look, it may return as soon as I have a place from which I can stream video.
RT @courteneyh: & wait but then! #hipsterville http://t.co/u6R1jNjZED
“Is Australia’s broadband ready for Netflix?†asks @dr_nic http://t.co/0FY9yLRUwL
I’m talking about Netflix in Australia at 1720 ACDT / 1750 AEDT on AB@891adelaidede. Listenification is aabc.net.au/adelaideL9
RT @5at5daily: 5at5 number 110: Satellites, worm-brained robots, interspecies beach sex, star programmers, and Abbott on Santamaria. http:/…
“WA Fisheries Department refuses to pay for whale carcass removal as they are ‘mammals, not fish’, mayor says†http://t.co/y0bcG7WmzQ
RT @firstdogonmoon: Hi Twitter - as requested Head Desk is now available as a shirt, a mug and EVEN A THROW PILLOW! Thank you Science! http…
@NewtonMark All these n00bz, this is why the internet is broken.
@allaussiehiphop @cpyne Thanks very much.
@NewtonMark Pffft! Peter Gutmann what would he know.
SwiftOnSecurity WE WENT TOO FAR IN THE FUTURE
OH GOD THE FURRIES ARE BLOCKING OUR ESCAPE pic.twitter.com/Yu6ZuO28lX
@ApostrophePong Oh lovely. Well maybe @SnarkyPlatypus can tell you where he saw it and you can experience it for yourself.
“Symptoms, Diseases and Aberrant Behaviours Attributed to
Wind Turbine Exposure†by @SimonChapman6 http://t.co/fvX1cjEgza (PDF)
“Do you have wind farm inquiry sickness?†asks @firstdogonmoon http://t.co/Xj44caSIJV
@allaussiehiphop @cpyne I might if I do an episode this weekend, but if it’s the week after then it’ll be a dead issue by then.
@ApostrophePong @SnarkyPlatypus Ah yes, I love watching those nets in action.
Is the cloud not perfect today?
Waiting for a call.
@SnarkyPlatypus I forget what Yok-Yor means (ping @ApostrophePong) but is it also the “food factory†theme?
@dfg77 Deferring to my knowledge is one thing. Deferring to my memory is quite another.
@dfg77 My knowledge was correct. See “history†section. http://t.co/c1hzPKQmkc
@dfg77 My understanding was a separate organisation, that did transmission for ABC, SBS, and some other bits and pieces.
@dfg77 That doesn’t detract from your core point, of course.
@dfg77 I’m not sure that it was the ABC that owned the broadcast assets. Wasn’t it a separate organisation? PMG originally, of course.
@ocean I’m not that cruel.
Oh that’s right, my 1530 interview has been brought forward to 1500. And then a radio spot will be inserted later. Time to prepare.
noveldevice My Myers-Briggs personality type varies between NSFW and STFU.
Maybe @NickEvershed’s calculator should have had little animated turds of legislation, blocked or passing as appropriate.
“Can it pass the Senate?†An interactive Australian voting calculator by @NickEvershed http://t.co/BlkPE4dw8f
inhabitat Africa’s biggest solar facility just came online. It’s huge, folks! bit.ly/11zmkWM pic.twitter.com/bR0XJGMY8s
@ssharwood Beer fridge.
OK, I watched the videos.
Hmmm… I wonder whether the BBC would caption a picture of a human rape victim as “Bad day at the office?â€
And the BBC captions this photo “Bad day at the beach?†Oh dear. http://t.co/r3ccgCIEQC http://t.co/X2nTuV4klb
“Seals discovered having sex with penguins.†“Warning: You may find the videos in this story disturbing.†Yay, BBC. http://t.co/r3ccgCIEQC
@SnarkyPlatypus Oh I can think of several options, but they all follow me.
humphriesmark Tragic post-Roast existence pic.twitter.com/YXR5ATajwF
Most of the internet is run by eunuchs. Everyone knows that.
RT @joshgnosis: As I predicted, it looks like Netflix won’t even have its own shows Orange is the New Black and House of Cards in AU.http:/…
@kofeyh Stop it.
I’m sure I saw a smaller version of this thing attached to a chair in an early episode of “Wire in the Bloopic.twitter.com/6LCgSmLPbbSmLPbb
abcnewsMelb Darryn Lyons says the floating Christmas tree will make Geelong the ‘town of shining light’ ab.co/11AqwW4 pic.twitter.com/mW2xtTzyOF
@Iridescent It’s a fashion, certainly, but it began as a lazy way to find a .com domain that wasn’t already taken.
Volvo and DHL are apparently planning to turn cars into parcel delivery points. http://t.co/Mv1brI47La
BernardKeane “Australia has a good story to tell on climate change” Abbott says - well, until he was elected pic.twitter.com/cJbbFzA9VB
“Warblr: an app that recognises birds from their songâ€, being a Kickstarter project. https://t.co/Kxz8zIVQrN
“Maybe ‘time saved’ is a better metric to watch than ‘time spent’ on mobileâ€, reports @niemanlab http://t.co/76zYtL79mw
In which @MsLods & @Steve_Dalby document the depth of Brandis’ lie that the West is moving towards data retention. http://t.co/YX8eekk4bw
@BXGD Oh I like that. I mean, I’d hate it, but that’s why I’d like it.
TimWattsMP Today, Cory Bernardi called me “vile, disgusting and grotesque” in the Senate. Updating my Twitter profile now…
drearyclocks Libertarian tries to get a thousand signatures on a petition, instead gets a thousand petitions with one signature.
Insane Poodle Collective.
RT @NewtonMark: MS14-068 “correcting signature verification behavior in Windows implementations of Kerberos.†That’s “goto fail†all over a…
alex_c_lee Hoping @cpyne can start a petition to save the letters on my keyboard. pic.twitter.com/3oEeRy9WEA
@SnarkyPlatypus Ils sont difficiles à ignorer. Ils sont assez proches, et désireux de se divertir.
seanbedlam My TED Talk would be cheekily called “You cocks talk pointless shit”, and it would be Sarin gas.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Il est un jour gris, plein de pensées grises. En outre, kookaburras. Et vous?
IllicitPopsicle Headline of the fucking decade pic.twitter.com/mJgJt2Y2xz
fanfiction_txt “Did you fuck my wife?” Fred repeated.
Barney was hurt by Fred’s bold accusation.
GonzoHacker A couple of dubious anecdotes and some cherry picked statistics and you’ve got yourself a TED talk
@parisbcowan Yeah I saw and noted that in a later tweet. There’s a real culture problem indicated there.
[A laboured joke about Netflix Australia and the Linux desktop.]
CORRECTION: “Live sex show webcast from campus library†was Uni of Newcastle, not Wollongong. http://t.co/UdueQom6VR
“Analysis casts doubt on FBI claims over Tor website seizuresâ€, writes @ZDNetCharlie http://t.co/PlptQ7h3ZJ
“Will apologies and condemnations really lead to a change in the “asshole†culture at Uber?†asks @holmesdm http://t.co/hcWOU7khsz
Wed plan: Clear comms backlog, or some of it; plan forthcoming writing and other tasks; 1530 interview; @5at5daily; quiet evening.
@purserj Oh bugger.
Hmmm… I clearly haven’t recovered from last week’s severe lack of sleep. Still so, so tired.
OpnCty RT @TractorAttack: Great Corn highway. Chinese farmers take back a highway to dry corn pic.twitter.com/eL23KVnkO3
HLMenckenBot Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
PRs who send their client’s bland, generic, unoriginal thoughts in response to every single fucking thing in the news#IceMoonPrisonon
@MsLods @Steve_Dalby Thanks very much.
@MsLods @Steve_Dalby That image is pretty much unreadable on most Twitter clients. Can you link to a web page version or something?
RT @zeynep: Joint read: How U.S. Congress uses Uber a lot http://t.co/6dCpefOxjB AND Uber on how they track one night-stands. http://t.co/1…
@no_filter_Yamba Does @Steve_Lockstep “forget†it, or know it and not consider it relevant, which would be my view.
ProfJeffJarvis Lack of humanity is the new success metric.
MT @Steve_Lockstep: MyPOV: Right to be forgotten (RTBF) is not censorship https://t.co/hLvKgkbtoO http://t.co/BMlQRAXimu
Me at @crikey_news: “A right to privacy or rewriting history? Debate rages on the right to be forgotten†http://t.co/gQVWIFwGGw [$, trial]
RT @PeteLawler: Reposting this @BBCEarth piece on fur seals rooting penguins for @stilgherrian & @corybernardi http://t.co/5wvTX1ZBCX http:…
“The complainant has only ever asked for an apology as compensation,†but DVA fought it for three years. http://t.co/uGYSotAmzd
Clearly a culture problem at Veterans’ Affairs when they prioritise being defensive about their own fuckup over the interests of a veteran.
“Veterans’ Affairs forced to apologise over privacy breachâ€, writes @parisbcowan http://t.co/6VjIsTEti6 Note, they had to be ordered.
Oh, I see that the America is going to have a derpocalypse in the coming hours. This should be fun*.
SwiftOnSecurity “Uber is proud to announce UberXec. Need an executive? Now you can hire @emilmichael to drive your reputation into the ground.”
RT @kelliotttt: Please stop giving money to nerds http://t.co/3DV1j6foXX [Source article: “The Programmer’s Price” http://t.co/bixhlB8kbj]
kelliotttt Please stop giving money to nerds pic.twitter.com/HzhCbYMtgh
fanfiction_txt while Betty gave birth to a litter of nine sabre-toothed kittens.
The stench of true Sin can only be removed in a Cleansing Fire, @purserj. The entire university must be torched. You know what to do.
RT @purserj: From the article “Parts of the library were ordered to be steam cleaned after the incident.†[Steam might not be enough…]
“Live sex show webcast from [Uni of Wollongong campus] library†http://t.co/NdQbWnKHu7 HT @purserj
Wed plan, draft: Clear comms backlog; plan forthcoming writing and other tasks; @5at5daily; quiet evening. There may also be an interview.
RT @munin: Computer security is a wonderful field. You can get paid for being paranoid and suspicious.
Wednesday. It’s your fault, and they all know it. There will be retribution. Avoid communal events. Wednesday.