Sam

@samthor.au

tech echosystem influencer 📣🦋

If you spill something sticky on your MacBook, try spraying a little bit of whiteboard cleaner around the effected keys. Works well. Posting for a friend.

PSA: you can just buy Android Find My (aka Apple AirTag) devices for AU$12-15 each right now. Just go buy some now and put them in your stuff. I'll wait.

Child's first economics: > so dad, what happens if the shop runs out of money? Who would have any money? Well, turns out the government can make more money. > So they can just give everyone more money!

Vercel got pwned, so here is another prompt to stop using them. Entirely unrelated, but here is a picture of Vercel's CEO with Netanyahu, the man responsible for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch smiling in a selfie with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

the house is slowly getting over COVID. pity I bombed some professional stuff in the middle of the week, maybe related, who knows. 🫠

> Now can lick runes to pull them. Rune-licking refunds spent mana it's all I've ever wanted 🐸

"...it's carrying probably 1,800 truck movements a day..." Let's say each truck = one 20 foot container Let's say 900 each way, and 30 flatbeds for 60 containers, that's 15 trains/direction/day extra. I wish this was actually a reasonable alternative in NSW.

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Blue Mountains community warned the NSW government the Great Western Highway's historic Convict Bridge could not withstand modern day traffic prior to its closure last week.

Alan Kohler talking about the urgent need to tackle inequality. The major parties talk about it a lot but don't seem to want to do what it'll take: 💸 changes to CGT discount on investment properties 💸 start taxing wealth more than work 💸 get a fair return for our natural resources

Two big tax holes are perpetuating Australia's wealth inequality

Intergenerational inequality will only be dealt with by taxing the people that have the money, not by cutting the taxes of those who don't have it.

abc.net.au

People are giving Google a hard time for the Pixel 10a. But it's legitimately a decent phone with zero camera bump. No "almost nothing". No "measure the main part of the phone". Just flat. Not since the old iPhone SE have we been so lucky. Anyway, flat lovers unite.

> I will read transport/smux_client_test.go around line 252 to confirm if the t.Error("lol") is indeed a leftover debug statement and then remove it. lol