duncan_bayne
@duncan_bayne@lemmy.world
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐈⬛ Friday 27 March 2026 2 days ago:
Not sure where little dude goes in bad weather because it’s not home.
If he’s anything like our past cats, to the nearest place with an open fire that feeds him treats.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎩 Tuesday 24 March 2026 5 days ago:
It takes twice as long to get to Berwick from Belgrave by public transport, as it does to get to the CBD from Belgrave 🤯
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 5 days ago:
Yeah but you know what I meant 😉
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
USAID wasn’t charity though was it? I believe it was taxpayer funded.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Monday 16 March 2026 1 week ago:
I’m currently running a Pixel 4 with LineageOS; I’m hoping it lasts long enough to buy a Motorola with GrapheneOS.
- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 1 week ago:
The late Ella 💖
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Monday 16 March 2026 1 week ago:
Need to find cheaper SIMs for the three offspring. Currently on Optus through AussieBB at $25 / month each 😰 Loving AussieBB support but that’s expensive for kids’ phones. Anyone got any telco recommendations for / against for cheap mobile plans?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Friday 13 March 2026 2 weeks ago:
protein poisoning
Is that a thing?!?!
- Comment on rules 2 weeks ago:
Not only would I be okay with that, I’d hope they then replaced all my avatar images online with that photo.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😃 Thursday 12 March 2026 2 weeks ago:
Just had a visit from the local JWs. Definitely one of the less annoying types of proselytiser.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 weeks ago:
Or it was retrospective.
“Frank what the fuck have you been doing while I was away visiting my family out of state?”
“Um, er, ah, dodging the draft! Yeah, that’s it. Certainly not a month long bender.”
😜
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Wednesday 11 March 2026 2 weeks ago:
Diesel up ~ 50c / litre here in Belgrave :/
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Oh is this one of Mr. Bonesaw’s ventures, or a different thing?
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 3 weeks ago:
Hey human doms I’m 100% okay with, it’s these things I’m worried about
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 3 weeks ago:
playing dom
I do not want to train a bioengineered intelligence with guns to do that.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 5 March 2026 3 weeks ago:
Heading into the CBD this morning - haven’t been on public transport in months, usually work from home.
Sure enough, delays of >10m just announced due to equipment issues.
And people wonder why RTO mandates are so unpopular. Shonky PT is just one of the many reasons.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I think the Vatican is sad that LLMs are encroaching on their turf of “very expensively harming people and especially minors while hallucinating about things that don’t exist”.
- Comment on Liminal Space 4 weeks ago:
Haha my first thought was “I wonder if it’s possible to build a general purple CPU out of 555 timers, then get DOOM running on that sucker.”
Of course, someone has already taken the first steps towards such a monstrosity.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐚 Tuesday 27 January 2026 1 month ago:
Well that sucks. Several houses in Belgrave including mine have been without power since 18:30. Would have been good to have aircon this evening.
On the positive side I’m feeling virtuous for having recently run up the generators, checked the oil, topped up the petrol, etc. So we have a fridge / freezer and, if we still have no power tomorrow, will still be able to work.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐚 Tuesday 27 January 2026 1 month ago:
Work done, drinking a cold cider and playing JSAB with the teenage offspring, then off to the pool.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤓 Friday 23 January 2026 2 months ago:
Already planning Australia Day. Think I’ll celebrate with a pint of VB (not my usual tipple) and a read of The Lucky Country.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛼 Wednesday 21 January 2026 2 months ago:
Considering starting a local computer club. Had a really good experience running a one-off installfest and thinking there should be IRL options for like-minded geeks to meet up on the regular.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 months ago:
You’d want a stronger girder than they used.
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 months ago:
Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 months ago:
The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 months ago:
I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 3 months ago:
Your suffering is not a KPI
Some days I doubt that.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕ Tuesday 16 December 2025 3 months ago:
I did this some time ago - I have a very heavily filtered Mastodon feed, and a carefully curated RSS feed - both mostly around tech news, and as little to do with LLMs as possible.
Don’t regret this for a minute from a mental health perspective, especially when something happens like this.
- Comment on too soon? 3 months ago:
Australian here - we have this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_of_the_Year
Sincerely hope he’s awarded the next one.
- Comment on Closest my wardrobe allows 3 months ago:
Just on the laptop.
