Fortinet sales guy on the news: ALERT FATIGUE, blah blah ENVIRONMENTS, something FLAGS something CRITERIA EVENTS 🧇🧇🧇🧇
Chris Burgess
@chris.bur.gs
Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. Tech for good, for people, for orgs. Less tech, and slower too. Popping balls through hoops, open source, learning guitar, making prints, building with wood. Web: https://chris.bur.gs/
Why is Luxon obsessed with being/ providing "the operating system", the layer everyone resents?
Searching for open hours at a local art gallery. Google's suggested questions... Uncle, WTF?
So this is sickening: “Steff, who is now based at Mendel University in the Czech Republic, said New Zealand had the prospect of establishing itself as a "proving ground" where partners could test defence AI in the country's wide open spaces.” I hope Labour’s planning to pull back from this #nzpol
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · last wk.NZDF joins US Army to test high-tech weapons
The Free Speech Union having their CE and board member stand as candidates for Internet NZ and emailing their members to rank them 1 and 2 and not rank any other candidates feels like it should be more of a news story. It's antithetical to a genuine election and the democratic process.
DevilSkin planting a flag on the far side of a second major cultural divide, per this image reported from their socials
I Heart Noise@iheartnoise.bandcamp.com · last wk.This almost feels like something out of The Onion 🤔 www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
Has any New Zealander done more than Peter Beck has to help Americans murder people in other countries? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Rocket Lab wins record contract with US military
Space company Rocket Lab is set to open a new launch site in the US state of Alaska after winning a record contract with the US military.
rnz.co.nz
Makeshift: Sustainability Festival 2026 events look interesting! www.eventfinda.co.nz/search?q=mak...
eventfinda.co.nz
Jasmin Taylor@meshedlight.bsky.social · last wk.Ōtepoti: theres heaps of cool events happening, if anyone is on fb or insta please help share the notices (I have little capacity to do so this week) Woof is doing a garage sale Lammet Watan next Tues (in August, not tomorrow) Our Food Network launching local food pilot and there will be more!
saw a kārearea over our house today! was not quick enough to get a camera but cool
seeing if machines can read my handwriting day 2 docling is cute and extracts doodles as images 💘
tbf that wasn't the worst stv vote interface (if you come with a list)
really enamoured of Paperless-NGX especially now i've got a flow for scanning paper journals to PDF onto the second (just found the setting to let me scan > 10 pages per pdf) let's see if i get through more than a handful tho!
I had a general anaesthetic on Tuesday, and the tip of my tongue is still sparkly ... WHY IS THIS?
Incidentally, this is also why it’s a bad idea to have AI “write up your results.” (Or summarize for you, or brainstorm for you)
tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social · 3w agofor years, I have been using "draw the bike" as a metaphor for "attempt to recreate your knowledge thereby revealing invisible lack of understanding". TIL there was a paper about it
Went and had a shifty at the bendigo gold mine give a little page - tonnes of peeps donating what they can in honour of matua Sam. Makes me proud. #nzpol givealittle.co.nz/cause/bendig...
Stop Central Otago Gold Mine
Help us to stop the development of large-scale industrial gold mining in beautiful Central Otago.
givealittle.co.nz
me: I wrote these docs mostly using vocalinux vocalinux: I wrote these docs mostly using vodkalinux
Ōtepoti: solidarity with our Palestinian community Rozana are hosting a brunch this Saturday 18th July 10am - 1pm St Anne's Hall cost ranges from $20 adult to $10 child, tertiary students $15 takeaway is available if you book it ahead of time arohaloveandpeace.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
Under the Olive Tree Brunch
Come share a taste of Palestine. Join us for a Palestinian brunch on Saturday, 18 July, from 10am–1:30pm at St Anne’s Hall, 3 Whitby Street, Mornington. You will find a delicious spread of classics su...
arohaloveandpeace.bigcartel.com
The moon is very far south today, and the sun is very north, and the world feels a bit twisted.
RNZ new website (or a tidy up edit?) had pushed this story FROM 2020 to Google Discover / News / Showcase (that news screen on Android phones). Eek!
oho so we have a 2016 version of s3cmd installed do we /me adjusts spectacles /me adjusts scripticles
Oh no no no #caversham let's not Folks will not appreciate you for making the boarded up stores look like a lively grocer until they get closer
