Gorn.

best_in_dumbest You can’t spell
“Basements”
without “Semen” pic.twitter.com/KxeUfb8SvX
@sylmobile @paulwallbank And useless for buying drinks right now lol.
WhoresofYore 1866: a cargo ship sank off the coast of New Brighton, Merseyside & 130 barrels of rum washed ashore. So much rum w..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…QF
@sylmobile @paulwallbank I’m in Melbourne.
@sylmobile Rock’n’roll!
@dprk_ebooks Ideally, yes.
pixelatedboat Gotta love JJ Abrams’ perverse commitment to depriving the audience of the information that would make the $10 mill..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…FM
@paulwallbank Are you in some kind of hurry?
@macro2779 @MapPornTweet No, but since you’re asking yes I would like more barges.
@blahjedi That looks challenging.
@jonkudelka I will also certainly die anyway, though.
@jonkudelka Good.
@rnlrobinson I am definitely not stoned.
@i386 I am not high. Sad panda.
@jonkudelka Can you eat either of them though?
MapPornTweet Manufacture, assembly, transport, and logistics of various pieces of the Airbus A380. Final assembly in Toulouse…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Q8
@blahjedi Ooh yeah, it seems a bit messy out there.

stilgherrian My toilet is winking at me. pic.twitter.com/o6BooKs3AG
Very nice. twitter.com/Skigod/status/…
@shipw Exactly.
I’m allowed to say things like that because I was an ABC Radio producer back last century and produced more than 40..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fT
How many ABC Radio daytime or nighttime shows will now have talkback about uni bar experiences tomorrow?
@Bibbitybobbit13 @SnarkyPlatypus I don’t, but that sounds like him.
@MatthewBevan Now Matt don’t get me frisky at this hour!
Deleting a half-written tweet which contained an ill-advised joke about Dresden as a cultural centre.
@MatthewBevan You mean the leftie media elite?
@jonkudelka Either way, it seems sensible.
Jesus Christ, yes, this was a thing. And now I will try to forget again. But @SnarkyPlatypus will appreciate this. twitter.com/MichaelSmyth_/…

@jonoabroad Exactly. pic.twitter.com/CBFmxh3b9E
@eddit0r I think there were other economic factors at play too, though my knowledge is based in SA and it played ou..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…mJ
None of this should be taken as criticism of anyone who’s mourning the Manning Bar, except to say that you’re all wrong in the head.
@eddit0r I think I follow. I’m sort of riffing off that but in a structural sense. Performers can now build a fan b..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…At
@NickyWill100 It’s not a very good word.
@aaron_hill This is reassuring. Nostalgia is all well and good but this seems much better.
@glengyron Did it?
@eddit0r So? Too many people seem to think that things should always be structured how they were half a century ago..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…e9
I don’t care how many of you lost your virginity there, or conducted yourself in a way that led to that result.
Lots of people seem to be having Manning Bar closing feels. My equivalent at Adelaide Uni, the Union Bar, I’d be pe..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Gr
@seQular_left I wonder how that looks at the other end. Though my curiosity is rapidly fading.
@jsleeio @kcarruthers @SnarkyPlatypus @JohnB @DrRhysPockett @joannejacobs Noted. :)
“Qanon Deploys ‘Information Warfare’ to Influence the 2020 Election” by @elisethoma5 wired.com/story/qanon-de…
earleyedition @oz_f In despair, I wondered how cooking got so bad - then I looked at Twitter
@MargotSaville @JohnB @DrRhysPockett @SnarkyPlatypus @joannejacobs @kcarruthers Noted. :)
@seQular_left [Nods] I don’t have an AFR sub handy. The parent company is still pissing away money, though did I se..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…b9
@jsleeio @JohnB @DrRhysPockett @SnarkyPlatypus @joannejacobs @kcarruthers I agree about the gin choice. The recipes..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Qm
@seQular_left So gross revenue, not EBITDA? And not carrying forward losses?
@SnarkyPlatypus Well, yes. Sigh.
@zerogeewhiz @SnarkyPlatypus I’m saying it’s possible.
@SnarkyPlatypus It”s almost as if people do or think a mix of good things and bad things and we should approve of t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Uu
@yarrambat Well that’s already happened.
@RichardTuffin @cjjosh @franksavaglio @SimonThomsen Moo.
@RichardTuffin @cjjosh @franksavaglio @SimonThomsen So you can go to Bovine University?
Ah yes, I could see that from up here on the 11th floor. It looked quite impressive down there at street level. twitter.com/alisoncroggon/…
“Treasurer Josh Frydenberg missing unambiguous proof he’s not a dual citizen, court hears” abc.net.au/news/2020-02-1…
@dprk_ebooks @dannolan True.

Histreepix Helena Bonham Carter in Planet of the Apes. Slough, 2001. pic.twitter.com/0kw5v7UNcY
This is actually a sensible idea, fellow journalists. twitter.com/fesshole/statu…
How does this one fit your theory, @SnarkyPlatypus. twitter.com/fesshole/statu…
Well it’s one strategy, I suppose… twitter.com/fesshole/statu…

Well, @MargotSaville, this is a hell of a lede. crikey.com.au/2020/02/18/ton… pic.twitter.com/cejEsMQOOC

Zblot! pic.twitter.com/v1zOFAup7Q
@TristanRayner @SnarkyPlatypus @adamliaw I haven’t read it yet. I still don’t trust him after that whole bread slicing thing.
@je_au I see you’ve been to one of Mr Huston’s presentations before.
@McThingface @SnarkyPlatypus At Mekong on Swanston St in Melbourne they have a sign up saying Bill Clinton ate two..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…DE
@McThingface @SnarkyPlatypus Wow yeah that sounds dangerous.
jeamland After giving that person his clothes, boots and motorcycle. twitter.com/historylvrsclu…
@SnarkyPlatypus Loin steaks are also good, if cooked by someone who knows what they’re doing.
jplonie Brb. Marketing a new range of car doonas. twitter.com/julianbabbott/…
I rather wanted to see John Giacchi demonstrate his wonderful instrument.
I’ll miss this bit though: “Melbourne Town Hall also hosts the largest pipe organ in the Southern Hemisphere, and w..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wj
@SnarkyPlatypus @McThingface I too get grief at several pho places for ordering the small bowl, which is large.
That’s all my conference tweets for today. I’m really quite tired and will skip the social event tonight. “Interact..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1b

oz_f You’re the the most successful and prolific political journalist in the country. If politics sucks it’s on you. pic.twitter.com/COOAzeRkLw
kels_316 Saturday at Uhlmann’s house twitter.com/parsfarce/stat…
@LucasJamesAU Alternatively, if it’s dumb it will also never be profitable.
Note that this is not a defence of Uber and its way of doing business, just a standard gripe and citing gross reven..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rZ
Possibly because gross revenue isn’t profit, and Uber isn’t a profitable company yet. twitter.com/seQular_left/s…
So our 240Gbps pipe to the internet? During the opening plenary there were 900 devices connected from 500 attendees..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…zv
Geoff Huston AM is off the stage. For now. #APRICOT2020
@elronxenu You might well think that. I couldn’t possibly comment.
OK, Geoff is explaining yet another method for destroying the internet to benefit himself. This is fine. #APRICOT2020
LONG FAT PIPES.
michaelkoziol Huge, sad news: Sydney University’s Manning Bar is closing honisoit.com/2020/02/usu-sh… via @honi_soit
@moylecroft There’s good fruit.
I won’t tweet Geoff’s thing. You should watch the video. You’ll learn stuff. It’s very good. And here’s another ran..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…S9
HannahD15 The Commonwealth Ombudsman has sounded the alarm re hotels being used longer-term as makeshift immigration detentio..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Q8

rotwand81539 내 모습은 외부인이 잘 알지 pic.twitter.com/o7u1fch9Qu
looksouth So summer at the @AusAntarctic ice runway is proving too warm for an increased period to safely use it. (AD pic.)..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…X4
The guts of this is how we build routers and internet protocols to maximise speed. Vendor answer is But more memory..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…qJ
@moylecroft They’re all on the Tube of Ewes.

@LapTop006 It’s not Comic Sans. It’s something else. pic.twitter.com/5Ec1pnHAhz
Here we go. #APRICOT2020
Geoff’s slides are up already. conference.apnic.net/49/assets/file… (PDF) Yes, this will be extremely geeky. Extremely Geoff. He..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…vX
Next session for me is APOPS 1 (Asia Pacific Ops), but I’ll just catch Geoff Huston’s usual pessimism before duckin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1z
@expectproblems Meanwhile the conference has its own 240Gbps pipe so we’re OK with that.
@jpwarren We had those figures three weeks ago. zdnet.com/article/home-a…
@jpwarren That’s for law enforcement. Intelligence agencies don’t report, iirc.
Another good thing about this conference is that even in Melbourne, and even without our colleagues from China, whi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gK
@dawnstarau And don’t you ever forget that.
Mark A Gregory finishes. Coffee break. #APRICOT2020
Gregory outlines the argument that for reliable 5G you need a solid fibre network foundation to build it on. This i..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lA

Comparison of 100/20Mbps connection typical evening speeds, AU vs NZ. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/UOorOozqMl
Hyberfibre! #APRICOT2020
There’s lots more data being presented. I’m just pulling out a few highlights. Like this future plan for Chorus…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…g3

A chart about Chorus fibre connections in NZ, at prices which will make Australians weep. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/yLqJDJq7FG

Market share of NBN retailers, and the technology mix. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/LVPivAI8S9

@SnarkyPlatypus @juhasaarinen I also read that as “lobstralia”. pic.twitter.com/1hLfq5Pxtb
@SnarkyPlatypus And yes, NZ is rolling out 10Gb/s PON fibre as of now. @juhasaarinen explained a bunch of this to m..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…J5

Now, Australia vs New Zealand. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/wKal78nJ2H

Penetration rates and predictions. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/W2uNdKGfgU

More stats. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/V8c0ux0N94

“Premises Passed” is a magical metric, of course. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/Ynk7ew3RhD
@joelpmichael Today my answer to all questions is “I am just the messenger.” :)

Have some diagrams. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/vpaQzJ4fqg
@MelchiorAelmans I am just the messenger. :)

The future is 10Gb/s PON fibre, Gregory says. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/nSnI5HuQsH
Second keynote is Prof Mark A Gregory from RMIT University, “A comparison and contrast of FTTH/FTTP deployments acr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…q7

Final slide from Gordon, a reminder about 2038. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/l9ioQXCvZf
Political pressures on the fragmentation of the name space will also fragment the addressing space, he says. I will..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…hA

IP address will still be around, he says. #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/L4j9TqvXHv

“Domain names are like cockroaches: they’ll never go away,” but the DNS protocol will go away. [Orly?] #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/mdz3dlJ6mf
@nazzer I hate it when my stalwarts get wedged.
Conrad’s crystal ball on the internet of 2045, the year which Ray Kurzweil reckons we’ll become immortal…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8f
Conrad is summing up current internet protocols development as “Put it in the DNS” (a Geoff Huston phrase) and Ever..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5F

LuciferSonOfDad What the Fuck! pic.twitter.com/RkY25xwyWa
@nazzer Probably safer that way.
@apnic Easy dare. I’m already intending to start with “Your Excellence” and escalate from there on each usage.

Why do slides like this exist? #eyebleed #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/E6zSalid1c
First keynote is David Conrad, founder of APRICOT, “The Internet as viewed through APRICOT 1996-2020-2045” #APRICOT2020
“Congratulations to Geoff Huston for being made a member of the order of Australia.” Now we should all call him “Yo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…S7
This is the 25th APRICOT. Gaurab Raj Upadhaya is reminiscing. “We had rats eating the conference network once. That..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…vn
AndrewBrownAU There are no fewer than 7 (SEVEN) cow puns in this story, and I am not even remotely sorry
canberratimes.com.au/story/6635722/…
@dobes That’s not a big car.
@oberonsghost Mercury Retrograde begins today.

@dobes Is there a policy goat in there? pic.twitter.com/Ytase9IVEn
Welcome to Country by Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Ian (Warrend-Badj) Hunter. conference.apnic.net/49/program/sch… #APRICOT2020..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…z4
@juhasaarinen Oh shut up.
This is about to begin. It’s on YouTube Live.
AdamCSharp A whatchamacallit in different languages:
7. Thingamajig (English)
6. Chingadera (Spanish)
5. Himstergims (Danish)..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ZH
Interesting thread, but I want to know more about the Under the Sea Play Tent. twitter.com/harrymccracken…
Or send them to re-education camps? Australia is fond of camps.
What would it cost to just pay coal workers their current salary until retirement age?
“Europe’s biggest economy is quitting coal, so far without sacking a single worker” abc.net.au/news/2020-02-1…
Things I like about this conference is that they bring in their own networking team. Gigabit wifi access points thr..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Tr
@dobes One can never have enough OFFICIAL TRUTH and this is now TARGETED OFFICIAL TRUTH.
@dobes Gotta respect a solid PR campaign getting under way.
@PeteLawler Ditto.
Timeless, etc. twitter.com/jpwarren/statu…

“Former Senator Stephen Conroy plain wrong on Huawei.” Lol. pic.twitter.com/3qB2zhkI6m
In a little under two hours, this will be worth watching. (Non-geeks can skip the nerds talking though.) twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
@JamarzOnMarz My pleasure. :)
Dear developer friends, would you like to work way down in these weeds? ;) twitter.com/ISCdotORG/stat…
OverlandJournal ‘What happened to Richard Dawkins? How did an acclaimed scientist and public intellectual transform himself into th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…HR

abandonedspaces Staircase in #Abandoned European Palace…
#beautiful pic.twitter.com/zwkmMpzUQg

nypost Woman brings mini-service horse onto plane, into first class trib.al/IrJSKyn pic.twitter.com/fM4VtzXh0J
@kenmcswain I’ll deal with that when it happens.
OK, there’s some more on RPKI deployment coming up. As with the previous conference, they had a deployathon yesterd..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ad
“Teenage girls tempt Israeli soldiers to install spyware for Hamas” by @gcluley grahamcluley.com/teenage-girls-…
@AndrewRJamieson I did not need reminding of that right now. :(

My toilet is winking at me. pic.twitter.com/o6BooKs3AG
@SnarkyPlatypus @marcuskelson @SuperCroup Ouch.
Bearing in mind that this is research on police detainees who are dependent, not a general sample of methamphetamin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3W
New from @AICriminology: “Methamphetamine dependence and domestic violence among police detainees”..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uH
The Blue Lagoon. twitter.com/PopCrave/statu…
@phil_sec_mel Oops forgot to say hi earlier. Hi.
@glendturner That’s true. The key-signing meetings are a bit of a thing at these conferences, I‘“ve seen.
Audience member asks why Telstra doesn’t use RPKI. No one knows. Telstra is not in the room. #APRICOT2020
@zyx2k Yes. As Geoff Huston always reminds us. twitter.com/stilgherrian/s…
Tashi Phuntsho on having to convince people to clear up their routing glitches: “We don’t need instructions to wash..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…14
@_midofo_ @SnarkyPlatypus Oh FFS.
I know enough about how internet routing works to hate myself.
Hah! APNIC’s Tashi Phuntsho refers to data that is “only about an experimental protocol called IPv4”. Troll. #APRICOT2020
clancynewyork It took roughly 20+ hours for them to get the car restarted after the “app powered car rental lost cell service on..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…zW
@zdnetaustralia Taiji Kimura from JPNIC asks how many network operators use Slack to coordinate the fixing of routi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…T9
This is what I mean. The figures are excellent. I’ll have some of them in a @zdnetaustralia article at some point…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lv

chrissteinplays The acid kicked in pic.twitter.com/S58nHS3uhg
hollieahughes I notice those bemoaning the loss of Holden are posting photos of really old Holdens (including my husband!). If ev..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…l0
estarLA Bubble tea is political.
Yifang said it “resolutely upholds one country, two systems and resolutely opposes violen..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3h
@rohan_p @juhasaarinen Any CMS makes us uncomfortable, surely? Is there such a thing as a comfortable CMS?
rohan_p Apple is looking for an ANZ news editor linkedin.com/jobs/view/1532…
Excellent RPKI work happening in Bangladesh and surrounds, that’s how I’m reading the data from Mozilla’s Mohammad Abdul Awal. #APRICOT2020
@SnarkyPlatypus But the Ord River Irrigation Scheme! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ord_River…
Also good to hear that internet routing is still a train wreck. These conferences always remind me that keeping the..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…XA
“Three quarters of Aussies impacted by angry summer bushfires” scimex.org/newsfeed/three… #angrybushfires
Good to see some more RKPI rollouts. These African telcos will be dropping all invalid routes from 1 April, says Ma..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rt
Scott_Matter Reminds me of part of a talk by @feraldata - about how the techno future might not be feasible (yet?) outside a ver..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Hu
@TimdeSousa @NewtonMark Did you see the recent reinvention of the handkerchief? twitter.com/s3rioussam/sta…
@mpesce @juhasaarinen Oh like the Moon? We could build a spaceship like that.
campuscodi There’s no better report on Russian military, intelligence, and espionage operations than the report published each..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ho
But at that same event, APNIC 48 in Chiang Mai, a bunch of work was done to try to improve that. zdnet.com/article/dear-n… #apricot2020
Remembering Geoff Huston’s comments from five months ago: “‘Screaming car wreck’ of internet routing needs a fire b..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…5B
@TimdeSousa @NewtonMark Sounds horrible.
@stuckatthisbit Indeed. I will check it out a bit later and report back.
@NewtonMark Dormitory?
RECOMMENDED: The Welcome to Country by Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Ian (Warrend-Badj) Hunter will be very good. I have e..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…z5

Ready for the day’s action. #boomerang #APRICOT2020 pic.twitter.com/W2Hwz47GSG
@jetztgibtshaue Nah, not even remotely connected with Mr Morrison.
@bigbadave @moodvintage @railmaps Ah yes, that was an amazing bit of kit. Also, totally silly.
ed_hawkins For all those wondering why the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ does not look warm, it is because the evidence suggests it w..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…xl
@ericpink It feels thoroughly antique now. They say the concierge has a selection of cables. I should take a look.
Chuckling at a new “hearts and minds” PR exercise that I’ve just been told about.
@oberonsghost @jonoabroad They are.
@Headwellred I’m about to head downstairs for a solid #buffetbuffethippo.
Wow this looks very interesting. I might use this on the weekend. twitter.com/AIATSIS/status…
@jpwarren Ah, I always love a good laugh to start the day, Justin!
@jonoabroad Oh they’re just peachy.
@Headwellred HONK!
I’ll be tweeting a bunch from the conference later today so you may want to follow or mute the hashtag as appropriate. #APRICOT2020
Tue plan: Prep for conference coverage and other stories; 1430 APRICOT / APNIC 49 opening sessions..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fa

CueBallClarence WTF they shaved them!!!! pic.twitter.com/B3V4kf9xcS

Looks like Melbourne is going to get a thunderstorm this afternoon. I am happy with this. pic.twitter.com/s0fBDXC0cm
@kels_316 Indeed.
profsarahj Yes. Let’s invent a giant wrench that can turn back time twitter.com/satpaper/statu…
Most people just use lube, but hey whatever floats your boat. twitter.com/sylmobile/stat…
@kels_316 Hello there! I want to make a bad pun now so I can say “I’ll be here all week.”
@smartbrain Not quite humid enough in Australia yet, though I do enjoy a nice serve of silkworms fried in soy sauce..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…uN

Good morning, Melbourne. pic.twitter.com/HAa4ejw9c7
Tuesday. It’s a triumph of small caterpillars and a kettle. Tuesday.