Important video! “Thunderbirds Are Go!! Thunderbird 2 Launch” youtube.com/watch?v=L3hyam…
SofieHagen 7 comics on the bill at the comedy show I saw. Forgot their names, so I wrote down some memorable characteristics. pic.twitter.com/kFrHg4Qr7S
And meanwhile… twitter.com/motherboard/st…
Suddenly remembering my “Twitter: enabling the new global rubbernecker”, written after the Victorian bushfires. crikey.com.au/2009/02/11/twi…
@Barnaby_Joyce How are the ducks going?
jrhennessy Everyone at this Halloween party is dressed as my Twitter pic this is a nightmare
Barnaby_Joyce Blown away! pic.twitter.com/j49O8oA5Zu
@R_BurtonBradley @crikey_news That pilot of that A380 presents on the topic. Qantas shares plummeting was the first management knew of it.
Remember when a Qantas A380 was reported to have exploded and crashed, but didn’t? crikey.com.au/2010/11/05/tim… There’s no rush to know, y’know.
@anaya_latter @trsklad There’s even an @abc730 story on it. google.com.au/search?client=…
@anaya_latter @trsklad You can’t be looking very hard. ABC reported it, and has moved on since then. abc.net.au/news/2015-10-3…
@christopherneal What? No. Channelling Barnaby Joyce. twitter.com/Barnaby_Joyce/…
@swearyanthony The research and anecdata cited in this story may be relevant here. crikey.com.au/2015/08/06/its…
“Ducks are go.”
Barnaby_Joyce Ducks are go at Inverell Saphire Festival. Progress report to come. pic.twitter.com/5lGFXnqCO0
Herring1967 This is the danger of making a cumpkin. It can lead to human/pumpkin hybrid RT @tufnell225: well …. HELLUUUUR! pic.twitter.com/s8UzKoGf69
@indigoid Since anyone at all can plonk down a few dollars and write signed kernel extensions, it’s a moot point.
This is ridiculous, @NewtonMark. youtube.com/watch?v=DnwhaD…
“Alberta MLA says Family Day unfairly discriminates against single people” cbc.ca/radio/thisisth… Hear hear! Every “family” should listen.
@paulvixie You’ll have to forgive @darrenpauli, he’s not very bright. ;) [Ducks.] And it’s Saturday afternoon here.
@WeAreADL “Pal”?
Jesus wept. twitter.com/WeAreADL/statu…
The pleuting has started at Leura. Also, the plotting.
thegrugq Now you have two things you can’t figure out. twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurit…
@liquidparanoia @junkeedotcom @SenatorLudlam Yes, there’s a certain verisimilitude about that line.
Actually, I’ll pay these, @SenatorLudlam. junkee.com/scott-ludlam-w… pic.twitter.com/vTIxRm9iZB
And here’s a picture… @junkeedotcom @SenatorLudlam junkee.com/scott-ludlam-w… pic.twitter.com/GeY5ncsy7T
So @junkeedotcom has an interview with @SenatorLudlam about playing D&D. junkee.com/scott-ludlam-w…
SwiftOnSecurity Listening to public radio.
Bad news, Stallman - It turns out that Linus Torvalds invented open source.
Having seen @pricasso at work, I can confirm that it’s a very special experience. twitter.com/SexpoAustralia…
ryantate lol — nailed it, Applepic.twitter.com/yQXnlhjeBuu
@OaaSvc Good.
redstatist teacher: your child won’t stop yelling “this is bourgeois propaganda” in social studies
me: have you tried not teaching bourgeois propaganda
@_midofo_ Not yet.
Well that was an interesting and different “Corrupted Nerds” podcast recording with @bigmac and @darrenpauli. It’ll be posted on Sunday.
@AndyRickie @darrenpauli That is a level of tyranny to which I can but aspire.
@BlogsofWar I was prevented from doing that by my old machine. Not enough grunt. We have now overcome that limitation.
@BlogsofWar Exactly. I used to produce complex outside broadcasts for ABC Radio in Adelaide, and I think I’ve over-engineered this.
@BlogsofWar Definitely, when I’ve used it properly for this next recording, and tidied it up a bit.
@SnarkyPlatypus Yes, @bigmac and I just confirmed that it can do video too, if sufficient bandwidth.
@AndyRickie @darrenpauli Definitely. Because I’m too far away to administer a public flogging.
Meanwhile, I have basically designed and tested a configuration which would allow “The 9pm Edict” to be produced and streamed live.
Somebody who may or may not be @darrenpauli slept through their alarm this morning.
Actually, a proper victory wouldn’t have @bigmac in the corner, but one thing at a time. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Victory! And it looks like this. pic.twitter.com/LNGpJA4eU3
Slowly winning… I think.
Actually, I should be able to do what I want without the Soundflowerbed controller app, as long as the Soundflower KEXT has loaded.
@posty Audio Hijack is part of the pipeline. I also need a virtual audio interface to route things through.
@jeamland I know lots of tricks.
Uninstall, reboot, reinstall, reboot. And if that doesn’t get Soundflower working, I’ll go to whatever that other one is. Siphon something?
@SnarkyPlatypus I have indeed departed from the ladygarden.
Quite possibly because it is not installed yet. Perhaps maybe.
OK, the Soundflower KEXT has loaded, but the Soundflowerbed controller app isn’t behaving itself.
I have many confusing feelings now. RT @jeamland: Pictured: @stilgherrian’s ideal startup: pic.twitter.com/TOGiQgTAVG
REBOOTING WITH AN UNSIGNED KERNEL EXTENSION.
GonzoHacker Remember when polls first came out and we made all those silly self-referential polls?
At least, I’ll do that after I run a full system backup, because I am not a complete idiot.
Right, Soundflower fans, I’ll try installing from this .dmg github.com/mattingalls/So…
OK, Soundflower users, I’m confused. What version am I meant to be using from where for El Capitan?
Sat plan: Test audio workflows (in progress); 1000 record “Corrupted Nerds” podcast, then publish; lunch and errands, Katoomba (probably).
@SnarkyPlatypus They are.
Pro Tip: Fighting a rhinovirus and fighting a rhino require different skills.
@R_Chirgwin I don’t think that’s down to buttons.
SwiftOnSecurity Taylor Swift wants you to be safe online.
Now that it’s spring, maybe it’s time for Taiga to go on another adventure. pic.twitter.com/BGFMKmcQo6
johnhalton Can product placement get in the way of plot? “Not in Spectre — I didn’t notice a plot at all.” Harsh,@henrymancee!next.ft.com/content/bf50f6…g
@jplonie That was an average. When I can be arsed looking at the analytics, I see a huge variation in tweets’ number of views.
@arcadiagt5 Yep, seems about the same in total, and it feels like a reasonably maximum to me.
@jdub So it is. twitter.com/courteneyh/sta…
I remember a couple of years back, a typical tweet would be seen by about 6% of someone’s followers. Can’t imagine that figure has gone up.
I typically link to my own stories 4 to 6 times across 24 hours, then again on the weekend. That seems like plenty without retweeting more.
I mean, if you want to tell people about your stuff, just tell ‘em.
Cruel, but probably fair, @garystark. twitter.com/garystark/stat…
I’d put money on it being primarily a habit of people who talk about Twitter using words like “engagement”.
This is pretty much what I’d have said, @djackmanson, but with more swearing. twitter.com/djackmanson/st…
I suspect in part it’s because they’re desperate to self-promote, but they’re already hitting Twitter’s spam detection algorithms.
So what do you think of people who retweet it every time someone compliments them or links to their stuff? My answer is not a compliment.
Sat plan, redraft: Test audio workflows; 1000 record “Corrupted Nerds” podcast and publish; lunch and errands, Katoomba (probably).
evacide Have you ever wanted to know who knew whom in early modern Britain? Of course you have. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon: sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com
“Russia overtaking US in cyber-warfare capabilities” by @SCmagazineUK scmagazineuk.com/russia-overtak… “Mr President, we must not allow a cyber gap!”
@R_Chirgwin Nah, I already knew what I wanted for this task: Zoom’s stereo mid-side shottie. sounddevices.com.au/products/4831-…
@R_Chirgwin Meanwhile, someone really ought to have checked this glorious copy. sounddevices.com.au/products/3207-…
@R_Chirgwin And using the money you save on buying a beachball..sounddevices.com.au/products/1622-…WP
@R_Chirgwin Murray Tregonning [!] has these at an unknown price. murraytregonning.com.au/microphones2.h…
@R_Chirgwin “Most ‘bargain basement’ shops have inexpensive plastic balls that would be quite suitable” jaycar.com.au/Kits,-Science-…
@R_Chirgwin Gawd, they’re now (allegedly) cheaper and have the digital recorder built in?
And yet when “youths” add their logos to public buildings they’re arrested and charged with criminal damage. twitter.com/abcnews/status…
@R_Chirgwin @bunjaree @davpope I still have video footage of the sunrise at Spring Equinox the other year, to turn into a timelapse.
@R_Chirgwin This was the Zoom H6 X/Y capsule, sitting on the outdoor table at Rosella Cottage, pointing away from the highway and railway.
@R_Chirgwin Next time I’ll from the X/Y pair to a 90° patters, not 120°. I’ll see if Jaycar has a cheap parabolic mic too.
@davpope As @R_Chirgwin will confirm, more than 50 species of bird have been sighted up here at @bunjaree.
@R_Chirgwin The lyrebird is slightly left of centre in the stereo image, and very loud.
Meanwhile in Florida… twitter.com/_Flor1daWoman/…
@R_Chirgwin I suspect so too. There were three different sounds from one direction for a while, never at the same time. #lyrebirdsareliars
Today’s dawn chorus at @bunjaree (8m47s MP3), with distant traffic even at 0600 on a Saturday. stilgherrian.com/wp-content/upl…
Look, who hasn’t wanted to nuke Alaska? twitter.com/NuclearAnthro/…
Sat plan, draft: Test audio workflows; 1000 record “Corrupted Nerds” podcast” and publish; bookkeeping; pre-production for “The 9pm Edict”.
Saturday. You can never have enough hoses, especially for what They have got planned for you. Saturday.
@staticsan I’ll have to stick to the roman alphabet, alas.
Parallel thoughts, eh?
Actually, I don’t think you can do #malku in Japanese phonetics, can you? Does that even matter? #haiku
Maybe we need a Friday evening competition for #haiku about Malcolm Turnbull. A suitable hashtag might be #malku?
I think that’s how haiku works.
Sarcasm at night?
You have no idea, you fool.
Shove it up your arse.
#haiku
Needs more Moon. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Really, @SnarkyPlatypus?
Eyes downcast, such fail.
Teppanyaki egg not caught!
Shame splattered on floor.
#haiku #doitproperly
I just saw a company boast that it won “Best Use of LinkedIn”. Kinda like boasting your win at “Most Accurate Acid-in-the-Face Splasher”.
That may change my schedule a bit too.
This Sunday’s @BackgroundBrief looks like it’ll be… interesting, and happy-making all roundtwitter.com/RadioNational/…Gp
“The 9pm Edict” will be recorded on Sunday or Monday, depending on various factors yet to be determined. And there will be a surprise.
It’ll be the first “Corrupted Nerds” in a new series, with @bigmac, @darrenpauli, Vanessa Teague and me talking @ruxcon. Recording Saturday.
For those who care about such things, I’ll be producing two podcasts between now and Monday night, “Corrupted Nerds” and “The 9pm Edict”…
Things do just catch fire sometimes.
@AmbrosiaSw @RoryJ0505 Hi guys, any timeline yet on when Soundboard Remote will be fixed?
As I made VERY CLEAR in my podcast, I did not set fire to Sydney’s Central Station. I just… happened to be theretwitter.com/corduroy/statu…sp
“An extensive and exhaustive and definitely correct list of everything that will give you cancer” by @firstdogonmoon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Oh FFS. twitter.com/bigmac/status/…
SBSComedy Canberra Uber Users Now Wishing They Had Somewhere To Go: sbs.com.au/comedy/article… pic.twitter.com/GiRXEs921D
“Juha Saarinen: In defence of our cybers” by, um, @juhasaarinen nzherald.co.nz/juha-saarinen/… #cyber #cybercyber
burgotastic Good news. You can watch full episodes of SeaQuest DSV on YouTube. Problem solved.
“Undersea Internet Cables Are Surprisingly Vulnerable”? “Surprisingly”, @WIRED? Think they’re made of unicorn horn? wired.com/2015/10/unders…
@chris23 Indeed.
@chris23 I haven’t had skink, but I assume it tastes much like snake.
@chris23 Because the kookaburra was lazy?
I must say, this isn’t the silliest thing I’ve heard of today. twitter.com/bencjenkins/st…
SwedishCanary Good thing that warning is also in Braille… pic.twitter.com/DdGgOspbvb
What could possibly go wrong? twitter.com/drearyclocks/s…
@darrenpauli This is pretty SPESHEL, mate. pic.twitter.com/JQCmZD2e1q
@SnarkyPlatypus No, I have no idea. But Japan is really small, so I could just start at one end and look for it.
I’d go there though.
Matt_Alt I finally did it. I found the most boring sightseeing spot in Japan. pic.twitter.com/XsXPVTMuQp
MarkDiStef Some days you’re Michael.
Some days you’re 7 News Australia. pic.twitter.com/lmvVfjdv92
@RealNickHodge Self-loathing is normal on a Friday.
So has the Australian Labor Party sorted out this issue yet? pic.twitter.com/LXGgfwhZiu
0x6D6172696F Wanna have your kids freak out completely in hysteric happiness? Tell them, Office 2016 is out. God, they love Excel..pic.twitter.com/LCeqXMlk9m9m
@alex_c_lee The lizard was my downfall.
@LJPatton @jacquidark Ah yes, a classic of the genre.
Me at @zdnetaustralia Thursday: “Passports in the cloud? What could possibly go wrong?” zdnet.com/article/passpo…
davidadonaldson Don’t share secret defence documents on 4Chan mmmkay canberratimes.com.au/national/publi…
Now who was it who said that most startups are about doing things that developers’ mothers no longer do for them? twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurit…
@purserj @jacquidark Hardly ever.
ShaneDoherty9 Crime Inquiry finds bikies responsible for .5 per cent of crime in Qld. Focus on that at cost of eg pedophiles pic.twitter.com/LZCe2ZemNA
True. HT @jacquidark via [REDACTED]. pic.twitter.com/lfKLfgSzsD
Another Important Question. twitter.com/SnarkyPlatypus…
I like the Drape Mouse.
Important Question. twitter.com/glengyron/stat…
You know, @iTnews_au @jturner_ibrs, you should make this the Benchpress Awards. That’d sort things out. twitter.com/jturner_ibrs/s…
Well I got 9/10 in “How Many Of These Weird Australian Animals Can You Name?” including the last one, @alex_c_lee! buzzfeed.com/alexlee/how-ma…
glengyron I got 0 out of 9 on How Many Of These Weird Australian Animals Can You Name?! buzzfeed.com/alexlee/how-ma… via @alex_c_lee @BuzzFeedOz
It’s hard to see from the phone-camera photo, but that kookaburra was only 4m away and happy to watch me in between hunting little skinks.
Smug kookaburra is smug. instagram.com/p/9cVaDWCFrU/
Ep 84 of @Herring1967’s RHLSTP with Lee Mack is even more very wrong, and you should not listen. comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richa…
Ep 83 of @Herring1967’s RHLSTP with @missdianemorgan (Philomena Cunk) is very, very wrong. comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richa…
“You wouldn’t buy a different TV for each network, so why no collaboration on streaming?” mumbrella.com.au/you-wouldnt-bu… pic.twitter.com/nFpehkV5w0
glengyron A brain surgeon said this. Grow up America. twitter.com/RealBenCarson/…
@ElishaPearce @zdnetaustralia I do remember that, yes. That’s all for a follow-up once we see the next stage of the “plan”.
@jdub Indeed. So certainly not “free” in That Certain Sense, and only “open” in a very limited sense. But still a Good Thing.
There’s a link on that page labelled “Download corecrypto source”, which strikes me as a Good Thing. developer.apple.com/cryptography/ (2/2)
Apple’s OS X / iOS crypto libraries now available to third-party developers. developer.apple.com/cryptography/ (1/2) pic.twitter.com/BeOQ426Bp5
@Dirk_Gently @rpy Then it is a very good new thing, and tell the world. Thanks.
@Dirk_Gently @rpy Is this a new thing?
Snails. twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurit…
Your subtweet is correct.
@ruxcon Yep, will do. In about an hour or so? I’ve just got to knock off a couple quick chores.
@PeterProwse01 @ZDNet Thanks. Sometimes a metaphor just jumps out.
Baklava?
@candeira Indeed. And I’m recording the post-Ruxcon episode of the Corrupted Nerds podcast tomorrow.
@candeira @rwerkh A code of conduct would be an excellent thing. I heard some horror stories from a few of the very few women at the event.
Just quietly, I have been waiting for this day, or rather, for the day that must be coming very soon… twitter.com/expectproblems…
So, I was checking to see who knew any women who’d been to Ruxcon, and I was sent this… pic.twitter.com/YwRR2hsOn6
@zackster @staticsan I’m not sure what to think about the move, my laughter was about the expected reaction from fans.
“Alphabet’s Google to Fold Chrome Operating System Into Android” wsj.com/article_email/… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
davpope Striking graph on the scale of emissions from the Indonesian fires wri.org/blog/2015/10/l… pic.twitter.com/ikbWUfXnym
My flaps can handle any situation, @19bk69 @R_Chirgwin.
@R_Chirgwin This young pair is curious about the human activity. They may well become less jumpy with time.
@R_Chirgwin This has been as close as I’ve gotten to the young yellow-tailed black cockatoos. pic.twitter.com/HnWSIpasGc
Fri plan, later draft: Sausages (done); urgent administrivia; planning and pre-production for all the projects on the boil right now; TGIF.
@CosmicRami Not seen. We have slender-billed cuckoo-doves doing the cuckooing here.
@R_Chirgwin I’ll see if we still have that IR motion-detect wireless webcam lying around.
@R_Chirgwin Oh! I think I did half-see a blur on the porch early this morning. A quoll, you say? Cute.
Given the tree they keep returning to, it looks like @bunjaree’s Rosella Cottage has a new pair of these beautiful birds in residence.
Those two young yellow-tailed black cockatoos I saw yesterday are now zooming through the trees in a courtship ritual flight…
@Tim_Beshara He has a sixth sense for these things.
Phoning Cory now… twitter.com/Tim_Beshara/st…
The investigation into Benghazi has now been running longer than those into Watergate, Hurricane Katrina, or Pearl Harbor, says @onthemedia.
@thornae @SnarkyPlatypus Welcome to our modern, Western nations.
@SnarkyPlatypus Contiki, oui. Once I had that image, the rest of the column wrote itself, pretty much.
@SnarkyPlatypus You know I wrote about this yesterday? There’s a paragraph in it you may like. zd.net/1HcXnyb
@SnarkyPlatypus @thornae I’m not surprised. It’s an eye-opener on so many levels.
@thornae I just saw it go part in my Twitter stream yesterday. I was snarfed by @yomike, who’s a journalist.
“A Wild Weekend in Florida”, a first-person account of sex work in 147 tweets. storify.com/public/templat… pic.twitter.com/1pTl8msOUo
Actually, I’m going to retweet that thing with a proper teaser…
@lexiconvalley @LanguageLog @sgpulman I think you’ll find this first-hand account to be of professional interest. storify.com/public/templat…
@thornae You just read a fascinating first-person account of one weekend at the crap end of the sex industry.
“Why Australia must send its navy to assert the freedom to operate in the South China Sea”, writes @GoldrickJames lowyinterpreter.org/post/2015/10/2…
@trentyarwood I think it’s amazing.