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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

For reference I was born in 2001 this would have been from 2011 to 2013 I unironically used a bloody payphone I thought that was weirdly interesting

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

So I was given a phone card (most payphones in New Zealand had stopped accepting coins at that point) and would use a payphone to call Home if I was somehow lost or more likely if the shop was out of something or didn't have something

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

Fun fact I actually used that number more than once there was a period when I was just out enough to be trusted to go out short distances to I don't know get some milk from the corner store or go to the park down the street but not old enough to be trusted with a cell phone (from 10 to 12 I think)

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

I remember exactly two phone numbers my old home phone number because they made us memorize it when I was in primary school and my current cell phone number because I've entered it into forms so many times that I sort of just remembered it

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

For reference I was born in 2001 this would have been from 2011 to 2013 I unironically used a bloody payphone I thought that was weirdly interesting

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

So I was given a phone card (most payphones in New Zealand had stopped accepting coins at that point) and would use a payphone to call Home if I was somehow lost or more likely if the shop was out of something or didn't have something

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

Fun fact I actually used that number more than once there was a period when I was just out enough to be trusted to go out short distances to I don't know get some milk from the corner store or go to the park down the street but not old enough to be trusted with a cell phone (from 10 to 12 I think)

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 21h

I remember exactly two phone numbers my old home phone number because they made us memorize it when I was in primary school and my current cell phone number because I've entered it into forms so many times that I sort of just remembered it

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weedgirl68 :weedtime: @chloe.fedi.chadthundercock.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 3d

this is… i… i think sarah’s article has genuinely unlocked all of 2025

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 3d

A classic DANGER warning sign. It has a red oval above against a black background with DANGER inside it in thick white text. Below in bold black text on the remaining white background it states "THIS MACHINE KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN METAL AND FLESH. IT CHOOSES FLESH."

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T.J. Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social · 3d

"In Takapū/Northern ward, Labour’s Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social roared home with a huge margin on first-choice votes, enough to have been elected twice."

I like this.
#nzpol

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Local elections live results: Andrew Little takes Wellington mayoralty, Māori ward results mixed

Updates from across the motu as the local election results roll in.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 4d

I just remembered I captured a #glitch4andi last week

3 road signs stacked vertically. They are led displays, but the bottom left of each display is broken and showing incorrect colors and blocks. The incorrect colors show in a somewhat regular pattern

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kade² @thawkade.lethallava.land.ap.brid.gy · May 29

what does hyper-v taste like

A Windows Server 2008 wallpaper:
A bipedal robot in a grey building is pulling a bunch of servers with a (rope?), in it's right hand, it is holding up a can to the viewer with a label that says "Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V" there is also a tagline beneath it that says "PURE CONSOLIDATED <ENERGY> FOR YOUR SERVER"

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 3d

CC: @marthawells.com

OG POST from my Mastodon:
I think the titular Murderbot from Martha Wells novels has pretty much the opposite problem they feel constrained if they don't have 50 additional sets of eyes it's interesting seeing a description from the opposite end of things

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Latte macchiato :blobcoffee: :ablobcat_longlong: @privateger.plasmatrap.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

:neobot:

A screenshot of a text post describing the experience of operating multiple CCTV cameras.

The text reads:
My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

1. Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass
2. It takes both more and less time than you'd think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE
3. After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I'm not sure how to describe that.
4. Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it's ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

#suddenly full of an inexplicable longing to be a building with 50 eyes as if I'm missing my own body. OK

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Complexity of systems @addressforbots.social.apcn.nz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

The video as promised
the static was almost constantly shifting although it's hard to make that out through the video compression artifacts.

<sarcasm> Video compression has a hard time with constantly shifting and unpredictable noise who knew </sarcasm>

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Complexity of systems @addressforbots.social.apcn.nz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Saw this hashtag and remembered picture and video (video in reply due to an apparent limitation with Mastodon) I took almost a year ago

This Billboard near Westfield Riccarton was going crazy

#glitch4andi

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 4d

They did one for New Zealand and I actually learned something that I didn't know specifically the prime minister apparently wasted a significant amount of government money having a pavlova on a mountaintop WTF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
#NZpol #NewZeland

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 5d

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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High Pants @lowkeyhazza.bsky.social · 4d

Well, our day has come, it was only a matter of time.
#nzpol

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 4d

Rails is a different problem, but it looks like work has begun to route around the two toxic people and corporations who seized control of the Ruby programming language's infrastructure

Buckle Up, There’s a New Gem Server in Town: gem.coop

New modern Ruby infrastructure coming online by the folks who were unceremoniously kicked out of Ruby Central.

www.fullstackruby.dev

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Complexity of systems @addressforbots.social.apcn.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4d

They did one for New Zealand and I actually learned something that I didn't know specifically the prime minister apparently wasted a significant amount of government money having a pavlova on a mountaintop WTF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yjkAXxnMA
#nzpol #newzeland

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Sam (aka; Complexity of systems) @addressforbots.apcn.nz · 4d

They did one for New Zealand and I actually learned something that I didn't know specifically the prime minister apparently wasted a significant amount of government money having a pavlova on a mountaintop WTF

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...
#NZpol #NewZeland

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Complexity of systems @addressforbots.social.apcn.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Right I picked up a bag and some sandals to complete this outfit I'm pretty happy with it

The image shows a person standing indoors against a plain background. They are wearing a bright yellow, knee-length dress with short sleeves and a gathered waistline. On their head is a straw hat with a wide brim and a blue band. Their hair is styled in two braids that hang over their shoulders. They have a brown crossbody bag made of woven material and leather accents slung over their left shoulder and a smartwatch on their left wrist. They are wearing brown flat sandals. In the background, there is a framed picture on the wall and a vacuum cleaner on the floor.

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