Notices by stib (stib@aus.social)

@skinnylatte
I rode my bicycle over it a few times back in the day, because the company I got a job with was too cheap to organise a working visa, and I had to leave Singapore to renew my tourist visa. Amazing seeing the day workers with passports the size of phone books because they crossed it every day on their commute.

Loved the Jeffrey Smart installation on Naoshima Art Island.
#Naioshima #TrafficCones

@Gargron Any chance of a reprint? They're all unavailable as of Wed 10 Jun 2026 23:03:34 AEST

Reading the user manual for the Smart Segments plugin for Krita and roffling. Well played, that developer
#Krita #FOSS

Look at this wide boi.
Went to the plane-spotter's carpark while I waited for my daughter to get through customs and walked with tje dog down to the Bulla cemetery.
If you're killing time near Tulamarine airport it's worth a look, especially at night, there's a big Pacific Island section, and it seems the Pacific island custom is to decorate graves in a joyful way, so the whole place is lit up with solar powered fairy lights.
But today I saw a thick trunk, and this good boy.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #DogsOfMastodon

My son bought a second-hand Windows 11 PC for games, and has been having BSOD issues with the graphics card since he got it. Out of desperation he tried installing Bazzite on it, which I encouraged, but was also trying not to get his hopes up, telling him that the some things might not work. But he reports that "absolutely everything works better than Windows".
I suggested he use KDE for the desktop, and he is blown away about how good everything looks, and how easy the user experience is. He has used Linux for a bit probably 7 or 8 years ago when he used a salvaged laptop at uni that had Ubuntu on it, and he remembers that being a bit janky and frustrating, but now he's decided that he'll wipe the Windows partition and stay with Linux.
So keep it up, clever people that are making Linux distros and software, you're winning.
#Linux #Bazzite #KDE #Steam

Why do I get the feeling that someone on the fediverse wants this bad boi?
https://www.facebook.com/share/1HpxGXD29S/

@BoloMKXXVIII
Have you used GNU Imp? Even its official name is trash. Tell me that it is as good as Affinity or Photoshop while looking me in the eye.
@MisterWanko @mcc

@menelion
If I post a well-known meme, is it OK to just say, for example "the Drake meme, with X then Y" or should I be doing "a four panel meme. On the first row left panel a man reacts negatively to the panel on the right showing X, then on the next row he reacts positively to the panel on the right showing Y".
@0x7700e6 @micr0

@kims
Finally got all the ducks in a row and managed to organise a #climbing and camping trip in the Grampians / garriwerd this weekend with some friends. Sneaking off work early to hit the road tonight.

@kims We were climbing in the southern Grampians which had a big fire go through last year. Didn't get any good pix of me climbing, but did take some of the regrowth, and some ferns and moss. #mosstodon

@apps
When I look at a profile, I'd like a way to see only their original posts, without any of their re-posts of other users.

@keira_reckons @skinnylatte When I lived in Singapore for a bit I got addicted to (I think they were called) jemput-jemput; they were deep fried banana cakes. Two elderly Malaysian women sold them freshly fried from a stall in the food court under my office and I would go there every day.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ would recommend.

Sending my poo off to the government, as is my proud patriotic duty.

90% of bowel cancers can be treated if diagnosed early, but something like 60% of eligible Australians would rather die than do the free test, even though it's not invasive like a Covid test, and really no more icky than wiping your arse.

#socialisedHealthcare #BowelCancer

No algorithm, you say? Well explain this …

@selzero
You do know that hand washing uses *more* water and energy than a dishwasher, right? I mean go off with the virtue signalling if you want, people, but maybe do some research first.
https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-living/kitchen/dishwashers/articles/dishwasher-vs-washing-by-hand

Hi #nerds, if I run a #powershell script that takes a directory or a collection of directories as its arguments, the trailing slash in the directory name turns the following single quote into a double quote using evil Microsoft dark magic somehow.
If my script is:
```
param (
[string[]]$inDirs
)
foreach ($dir in $inDirs){
write-host $dir
}
```
and I do
```
pwsh myscript.ps1 'c:\\some\dir\'
```
The result is
```
c:\\some\dir"
```
How do I get it to unescape (or whatever it's doing) the last slash?
#AskFedi #CodingHelp #pwsh

I was today years old when I learned about the no #AI version of #duckduckgo. Making that my default search engine as we speak.
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

@cwebber
I'm not a compudah expert, isn't activityPub like Limewire but for Twitter?

@Infoseepage
Architect's office, Belfast, late 19th C. Architect is meeting with client who is wearing a clerical collar:
"Yes, we love it, but there's just one thing, can you, you know, make the logo bigger?"