Ash K

It's Ash, k? Non-breaking space invader. Rainbow flag emoji (🏳️‍🌈). he/him. Ash K can make mistakes. This account and its views are personal obvs. #Brisbane, #Australia

Website: https://ashk.au
Beverage: Hot chocolate

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2026-03-14 21:15:00 UTC

Iran's strikes on data centres show vulnerability of AI expansion https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-15/iran-war-ai-technology-data-centres/106443004 #link

2025-10-03 03:44:35 UTC

It would be good if `git bisect` had an auto mode that kept taking you back in increasing increments until you find a good commit. That alone is a chore. Best I can tell it doesn't.

2025-10-02 10:41:34 UTC

There's not much good on television at the moment. But the season 2 premiere of Juice made me crack up laughing. Brilliant.

2025-09-30 10:32:21 UTC

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effluencers

2025-09-29 03:18:38 UTC

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lol what? You must have had particularly sweet-smelling garbage or something

2025-09-28 10:56:19 UTC

Bob's Burgers is basically an audiobook with pictures on it. There's no visual gags, it's a talkie.

2025-09-26 11:04:49 UTC

I made a cute email subscribe box and every so often I'll go back and sign up again just to watch it animate.
#WebDev
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2025-09-25 04:48:02 UTC

It's a fucking lovely day. Spring time is the best 👍

2025-09-25 01:30:54 UTC

I have important shit to do, but I'm here extruding spaghetti code to work around absurd bugs in iOS Safari, by far the most unstable gremlin of a browser. Apple is _definitely_ trying to kill off the web as a platform.

2025-09-24 00:19:15 UTC

urgh. I've bought hot chocolate "capsules" instead of sachets. Reckon I can just rip em open and dump em in milk? Surely there's nothing more high tech going on in there right?

2025-09-23 11:13:54 UTC

Thicc thighs exploded this pair of jeans after a mere 3 months 😦

2025-09-23 00:43:03 UTC

Man I wish the trains in this state were better. My options for getting home are 6am, 630am or 10am. Hospital visiting hours are from 10. These times are just unworkable .

2025-09-21 11:39:43 UTC

This is my parents internet connection on the NBN, because the property developer installed copper even as fibre was being rolled out everywhere else. Just bonkers.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/242/079/753/157/798/original/a7329783b1c5e892.jpg

2025-09-20 13:41:00 UTC

Happy price to those who celebrate
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2025-09-19 11:26:17 UTC

I was disappointed with the Brisbane Festival “Afterglow” experience. Very light on art by artists, but heavy on kerosene lanterns and what my friend pointed out were Bunnings string lights. It was sparse, sparse, sparse.

2025-09-19 04:21:14 UTC

Looks like Apple has broken things again with iOS 26. Does anyone know offhand how to work around the fact that 100vh is no longer 100% of the view height? Is there another unit or something?
#WebDev
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2025-08-30 00:03:39 UTC

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But it's great having visitors, because then you get to live in a clean house for a little bit afterwards

2025-05-07 10:09:20 UTC

Ah, another trending post with the nuance of a dump truck full of lithium batteries.

2025-05-03 03:44:27 UTC

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oof, unlucky

2025-05-03 00:42:56 UTC

I lined up, and talked to the nice lady in front of me about how there's usually a sausage sizzle, but today there's no sausage sizzle, but it's probably too early for sausages anyway (but a cake would be nice)
#AusVotes #WestEndStateSchool

2025-05-03 00:11:56 UTC

"Don't risk Dutton" says the Labor candidate spruiking pamphlets at the polling place.
An elderly woman storms up, "he's MISTER Dutton. A bit of respect!"

2025-05-02 23:14:33 UTC

The climate crisis is overwhelming and I generally can't deal. But seeing yesterday afternoon, after the sun went down, for a brief moment in time that five and a half percent of Australia's electricity came from batteries full of renewables just fills me with hope. A year ago it was barely a blip.

2025-04-30 22:19:28 UTC

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Really, it's going to be fine.

2025-04-29 07:43:22 UTC

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What's the harm in a little lightweight RSS reader?

2025-04-25 23:30:46 UTC

My local bike shop has this badge on the wall and I thought it was profound.
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2025-04-17 01:34:14 UTC

common curses: your orange juice tastes of rind

2025-04-16 04:24:55 UTC

Sad coding moment.

2025-04-16 01:49:18 UTC

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truly. I was a bit braindead after a long day yesterday, and it found the source of a bug (not where I expected) in 30 seconds flat. big fan 😌

2025-04-16 00:13:20 UTC

`git bisect` is very good.

2025-04-02 12:56:29 UTC

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womp womp. hope you're feeling better soon then

2025-04-02 12:42:33 UTC

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Oh snap. You didn't actually eat the spinch did you? 🥴

2025-04-02 10:10:33 UTC

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source link https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/

2025-04-01 11:07:33 UTC

I made a blog post about what I've been up to the past couple of months. https://ash.ms/2025/04/01/some-true-facts-and-updates-from-my-life/

2025-04-01 03:13:02 UTC

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It's pretty nice. My only downside is that you need to log in, and I have certain <fediverse voice>data hygiene practices</>. Though I just saw you can use session links which would work.

2025-04-01 02:46:02 UTC

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You're finding it alright? I was looking at that, but I figured I'd look outside the US given the geopolitics.

2025-04-01 02:34:18 UTC

Since Google's gone all-in on AI search, I've been using https://qwant.com/ and it's pretty nice. Minimal UI, European privacy standards, and I'm happy with the results. What are you using nowadays?

2025-03-31 11:26:05 UTC

I've been thinking, with my new table it's the perfect size to have a bunch of people over to play tabletop games then I remember how much I don't actually enjoy tabletop games.

2025-03-31 10:04:41 UTC

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That also sounds pretty goooooood, but I'm seeing my trainer tomorrow so I don't want fried chicken oozing out of my pores

2025-03-31 09:17:12 UTC

going to the supermarket after the gym and buying a big thing of pre-sliced watermelon and then eating all the pre-sliced watermelon was a very good idea mostly.

2025-03-30 09:48:59 UTC

but while I was there I thought I'd have a look at the outdoor dining settings because mine is a very uncomfortable IKEA hand-me-down and I kinda absolutely do not like it.
I was half resting, half trying out various tables when the man came over and offered me a discount on the one I was sitting at. He told me they'd sent him too many, and he needed to get rid of them. it was the perfect size for my little patio, so I said "I'll take it!"
so I rode home and grabbed the car, drove back and it took three of us to squeeze this heavy terrazzo concrete block into my little hatchback. then when I got it home it took me probably half an hour to wrangle it inside all by myself. but now it's set up it looks fantastic. it's very comfortable, and it's the perfect size for dinner parties. and I'm super happy to have an outdoor table that I'm not going to bang my shins on every time I sit down.

2025-03-28 09:39:18 UTC

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well I hope you don't have anything better to do with your time ever again :D

2025-03-28 09:03:15 UTC

Anyone for some #OpenTTD tonight? Playing on the Aus/Oceania server (that's meee).
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2025-03-28 06:37:21 UTC

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I did *something*

2025-03-28 06:21:02 UTC

In the office, looking at the rain radar like the old days. I should probably leave before the orange gets here.

2025-03-27 07:51:59 UTC

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honestly, same right now.

2025-03-26 23:15:07 UTC

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millennial memes: “comment if you remember C: drive”

2025-03-26 07:35:05 UTC

I'm having a great time terrorizing one of my group chats with my excellent (not excellent) new idea for the sport of racletteball. Everybody hates it. And yet who wouldn't find it existing to whack gobs of hot cheese through a racquet? You'd get some awesome slow mo promos. I'll keep workshopping in the chat and let you know where we get to.

2025-03-26 02:57:18 UTC

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a little adventure potato

2025-03-25 02:50:23 UTC

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I suppose it has the busway, and the new cross river rail station will be sort of nearby.

2025-03-22 09:24:15 UTC

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a bucket of nuggets and a coke zero pls

2025-03-20 22:59:05 UTC

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do you have a discord or anything?

2025-03-17 00:17:19 UTC

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Ah, that sounds like thirsty 😌

2025-03-13 11:24:56 UTC

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Nice, see how you go. The stem plants on the left are great, because you can trim them to whatever size and re-plant the cuttings. But everything else is kinda too big for my tank if I'm honest.

2025-03-13 05:02:03 UTC

Thank goodness it's so early in the week, there's still plenty of time to get my work done.

2025-03-11 11:06:07 UTC

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drat. Hopefully it's just a quick one.

2025-03-09 23:41:14 UTC

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Council admirably removed all the escooters from the streets during the cyclone. But they're not back yet and I'm temporarily disabled so I was kinda counting on them. I've got important shit to do (though I'm much better now, thx)
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/114/135/113/594/250/932/original/dab3eafecf00d23e.png

2025-03-08 22:23:33 UTC

bne.social is back. @npub1m0e…mqsy shuttled the server back to my place this morning after losing power last night.

2025-03-06 11:15:05 UTC

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Give @npub14jp…ydmy a follow, let me know if it does anything weird.

2025-03-06 00:30:00 UTC

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Ah thanks. And yeah it's not looking good for your flight in is it? :]

2025-03-05 23:57:43 UTC

Welp I'm glad I did my prep already, because I have now sprained/possibly torn my calf and can barely walk 😇

2025-03-05 21:20:38 UTC

Overnight it's been eerily calm. I slept with the place open and was expecting to be woken by wind or rain, but had a very peaceful sleep. There's gusts, but the wind so far seems to be further south.
The cyclone is lingering off the coast, which means it's likely to hit later and last longer. I guess that means while we were expecting to see action from this arvo, it's more likely to really pick up here tomorrow? Who knows.
#CycloneAlfred

2025-03-05 11:05:58 UTC

The local supermarket opened their car park up for folks to park in during the cyclone. Since my basement flooded in '22 I shifted my car over. It's eerily quiet out.

2025-03-05 01:59:20 UTC

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I guess that's why they say you should have one for emergencies. It's on DAB as well 🤷

2025-03-04 03:29:59 UTC

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Where'd you see that? Our forecast has it maintaining as a category 2 before it dissipates over land.

2025-03-04 02:56:51 UTC

#CycloneAlfred via Himawari. It's quite large hey? https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/
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2025-03-02 09:10:49 UTC

Somehow I don't think my max speed on that ride was 151.3 km/h.

2025-02-27 02:01:06 UTC

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I think they're fine. I use it at work. AFAIK it's by the peeps left over after Opera was sold off for scrap. Though I'm sure if you look deep enough into anything you can find Crimes.

2025-02-25 06:17:34 UTC

A mid-week birthday is the worst because I'm at work and the computers are doing me harm. So I reckon I might leave a bit early since I stayed late yesterday 😌

2025-02-20 23:10:30 UTC

I think @npub1m0e…mqsy hit this earlier, but I just tried to edit an SVG in my recently-updated VSCode but it looks like you can only preview them now. There's no way to see the code. Which is supremely unhelpful for an app with ‘code’ literally in the name.

2025-02-19 11:05:54 UTC

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magic indeed

2025-02-19 10:43:08 UTC

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and Douglas Adams reckoned we're fascinated with the digital wristwatch. I assume that's something to do with piezoelectricity, no idea but I'm curious how they work now.

2025-02-19 10:36:58 UTC

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huh, I completely missed that. I still haven't started/finished watching the last Dexter spin-off.

2025-02-19 10:34:51 UTC

Where did the trope of crystals as a power source come from? Like healing crystals, or Marvel's infinity stones. Is this a mythology spanning human history?

2025-02-19 08:22:12 UTC

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it's a favourite. I just love the art Deco summer vibes

2025-02-16 07:48:39 UTC

life hack where you stab yourself under the fingernail with a fork while emptying the dishwasher. it really works!

2025-02-14 07:39:44 UTC

it's the weekend 😇

2025-02-06 07:53:17 UTC

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I can't get that one to play, it wants me to install the app 😭

2025-02-06 06:25:47 UTC

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haha thanks. It was a bigger drop than I remembered, but also it's doable so I'm all good

2025-02-06 06:08:48 UTC

I just locked myself out of my apartment. I haven't jumped the fence in, oh, twenty kilos. hope I don't break anything

2025-02-05 09:06:17 UTC

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haha I got some really nice (cheap, but pretty) notebooks that I have dutifully filled like 5 pages of so far. Did you do some good sketches?

2025-02-05 08:50:47 UTC

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I have a similar script, but it replaces it with "💩". It's satisfying

2025-02-05 03:30:32 UTC

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rip. is this your Vodafone issue?

2025-02-05 03:29:07 UTC

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wb. but why? 😅

2025-02-05 01:44:40 UTC

Few months back I walked into the least intimidating gym on my street – the one with a big roller door on the front and you can just stroll in – and got myself a trainer. It's been going well. Feels good.
I took an early lunch break to do a session this morning and afterwards just laid down on the astroturf in front of the fan and now I want to melt into a puddle, it's pretty great.

2025-02-03 21:42:47 UTC

If you imagine for a second the opening bars of the chicken dance, then I've successfully passed it on and it can leave my head.

2025-02-02 22:47:08 UTC

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yeah but you don't get vitamin d that way

2025-02-02 22:29:34 UTC

I miss coffee sometimes. I don't miss the addiction, just the ritual. walk to the place, get the thing. drink half of it and let the rest go cold because it wasn't very good today. tummy makes unhappy noise. the ritual.

2025-02-02 22:19:05 UTC

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yeah this is an admin/moderator thing, so it affects the whole of bne.social. I suppose the best you have is keyword filters, but I don't think they work with the Explore tab.

2025-02-02 22:11:32 UTC

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what an utter delight to not wake up to that. trending topics crashing around the globe like a tide of panic chasing the sun.

2025-02-02 10:45:20 UTC

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haha I didn't change anything. I'd rather the annoying default than a bunch of arcane configs and inevitable inconsistencies between my computers. vscode is pretty good, but some of the things it does are just weird

2025-02-02 10:33:26 UTC

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that looks better than Google result I found, where you could hard code an extension 😅 thanks

2025-02-02 05:29:15 UTC

Just quietly, I've deployed a bot to log into the Mastodon admin and keyword-filter us politics out of the Explore tab. It has rough edges, but it's something I've been wanting for ages and tbh there should really be an API for this. https://github.com/AshKyd/masto-trendbot

2025-02-01 13:53:54 UTC

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I suspect this is relevant to your interests

2025-02-01 13:22:27 UTC

I went to Coco's at like, 11pm because I was in the neighbourhood and wanted more melons.

2025-01-31 01:10:39 UTC

What's your favourite melon?

2025-01-29 06:01:26 UTC

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aw yesss, good job 💪✨

2025-01-29 03:40:17 UTC

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the way you say that… is there another one currently wrecking your joint? 😆

2025-01-27 23:22:13 UTC

I love that Pebble watches may be coming back. I never had one, but I like the idea. Though I appreciate my vintage 2017 era Garmin way too much to consider anything else. This thing is unstoppable.

2025-01-27 06:43:27 UTC

psyched myself up to go to the gym, and of course it's closed cos it's a pubic holiday.

2025-01-26 10:56:08 UTC

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this is awesome. Thanks for sharing. How on Earth do you find the time?