Christopher Owen
@oysta.au
I wail a lot about computers and the Newcastle Knights. I also now wail about the SF Giants. Sometimes I post about chicken and gaming. You may use software that I’ve written, sorry. Currently helping humans explore space.
🇦🇺 Sydney
🕸️ https://oysta.au/
🇦🇺 Sydney
🕸️ https://oysta.au/
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Christopher Owen
@oysta.au
· Jun 23
Eleven
It turns out that eleven is a very auspicious number.
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It has been exactly eleven years today since my computer tried to kill me.
Credit card companies should fuck with the government by letting 10 year olds sign up for them
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Credit card companies should fuck with the government by letting 10 year olds sign up for them
I have verified my age so please prepare for a lot of DMs from me
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I have verified my age so please prepare for a lot of DMs from me
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John Wick only needs one pencil
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
John Wick only needs one pencil
The raspberry pi 500 is such a great little computer for my kids
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The raspberry pi 500 is such a great little computer for my kids
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Incredible the difference I'm observing mere hours after the child social media ban. Four boys on my street started a journey from their treehouse to find the body of a missing kid in the wilderness. Along the way, they're learning about themselves, & the meaning of friendship. Great to see
December 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Incredible the difference I'm observing mere hours after the child social media ban. Four boys on my street started a journey from their treehouse to find the body of a missing kid in the wilderness. Along the way, they're learning about themselves, & the meaning of friendship. Great to see
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I don’t think swapping a Musk-controlled Twitter for a Trump-controlled Twitter would be much of an upgrade, so you have to have the new owner that is 100% disinterested in changing anything about it. Here is my proposal: hand it over to the Apache Foundation.
Years ago @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social did a hot take that Twitter [as it was then] should be nationalised because it was too valuable a piece of social infrastructure to remain in private hands, and time has proven him right beyond all expectations
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I don’t think swapping a Musk-controlled Twitter for a Trump-controlled Twitter would be much of an upgrade, so you have to have the new owner that is 100% disinterested in changing anything about it. Here is my proposal: hand it over to the Apache Foundation.
all my pencils, gone
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
all my pencils, gone
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It’s honestly humiliating how often I, an adult human with free will, am tasked with identifying which boxes contain motorcycles or bridges
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It’s honestly humiliating how often I, an adult human with free will, am tasked with identifying which boxes contain motorcycles or bridges
Pretty sure they’d all ace Trump’s cognitive test though?
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Pretty sure they’d all ace Trump’s cognitive test though?
What a time to be alive
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
What a time to be alive
They should have an option where you can demonstrate being able to dial in to a BBS for age verification
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
They should have an option where you can demonstrate being able to dial in to a BBS for age verification
People get the wrong lesson from The Mythical Man Month, which is that men are mythical
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
People get the wrong lesson from The Mythical Man Month, which is that men are mythical
Why don’t kids communicate by simply nailing their theses to the door of the local rectory??
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Why don’t kids communicate by simply nailing their theses to the door of the local rectory??
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I tied an onion on my belt as was the style at the time
Another argument was kids will miss out on news and politics etc. I started learning about politics by radio, TV, newspapers, and magazines. Habits I still have today.
Whenever I'm in any suburb or town with a local newspaper, the first thing I do is pick it up and read it. Internet didn't exist.
Whenever I'm in any suburb or town with a local newspaper, the first thing I do is pick it up and read it. Internet didn't exist.
December 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I tied an onion on my belt as was the style at the time
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I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise Belial from the lesser key of Solomon without ChatGPT
December 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise Belial from the lesser key of Solomon without ChatGPT
maybe we simply should not put weird little goblins on the air
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
maybe we simply should not put weird little goblins on the air
Terrance & Phillip ass face
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Terrance & Phillip ass face
my iPhone’s clock is somehow some significant fraction of a minute faster tham my mac’s clock
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
my iPhone’s clock is somehow some significant fraction of a minute faster tham my mac’s clock
Stockpiling DRAM like I did with toilet paper during COVID
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Stockpiling DRAM like I did with toilet paper during COVID
Another win for AI
RAM is ruining everything
RAM-related price hikes are about to hit a bunch more devices.
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Another win for AI
wow TOW2 really is coming in with a late burst
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
wow TOW2 really is coming in with a late burst
December 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
ablo go around the country and turn each child off and on again
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
ablo go around the country and turn each child off and on again