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@7NewsAustralia Fuel rationing to be announced in 3.2.1...

An oil refinery is engulfed in flames after an explosion in Victoria on Wednesday morning. Viva Energy in Corio, near Geelong, is one of Australia’s last two oil refineries, and the blaze which engulfed it comes amid a global fuel crisis. The refinery supplies over 50 per cent of Victoria’s fuel, and 10 per cent of Australia’s fuel. #fuel #refinery #oil #fire #geelong

@volcaholic1 @GridwareInc this may be an useful use for continuing high levels of drone production after WWIII is over. Could this be integrated into your reporting system, with drones being re-allocated to known high risk areas on high risk days so they are close to the action if needed?

Chinese drones dropping fire-extinguishing capsules that burst before impact, spreading foam or powder fast to tackle fires in hard-to-reach spots before crews arrive.

Beggar in Silicon Valley - have spare tokens, will vibe for money...

@NabuCasa Will it include the "optional" button battery for the clock that prevents it from completing bootup for the first time?

To keep pace with rising component costs, the suggested price of Home Assistant Green will soon increase to $159 / €139. This adjustment ensures that every purchase continues to fund the development of Home Assistant. nabucasa.com/news/2026-01-0…

@MyToastisNot @Object_Zero_ Suggestion: junk the cross shredder- get a mulcher. Add a touch of manure and fertilize the plants outside the office.

@Object_Zero_ I had to reassemble shredded docs once. They weren't crosscut NGL, it was actually kinda fun, like a puzzle It was a one off thing, and we were getting paid. If I'd had to do it a lot it'd probably get tedious

The Printer Tracking Dot Scandal In 2005 the Electronic Frontier Foundation pursued an online conspiracy that the US government was printing secret codes on every page that every printer ever printed. EFF had the public send them samples of printed pages. The EFF not only discovered the tracking dots, but reverse engineered the code and then used FOIA requests to petition courts to subpoena information from government agencies to prove the conspiracy. This was back in the era of real investigative journalism and civil liberties groups that were concerned with real issues rather than the (totally not suspicious) recent flood of identity politics NGOs. Incredibly the conspiracy was true. XEROX had patented the idea in 1984 and it wasn’t known to the public until 2004. So 20 years of public ignorance. The US government had done secret deals with every printer manufacturer, to print a serialised tracking watermark on every page that every printer ever prints. EFF was able to find some fringe foreign manufacturers that made printers without the dots. The whole scheme was apparently devised to track counterfeiters and to quickly shutdown counterfeit operations before they severely damaged the currency. … But perhaps more interestingly, the tracking dot pattern watermark makes it very easy to reassemble shredded documents under special lighting. You immediately know how far across a page a shred is and what page it is in a print out. Since 2004 it’s not just the government who knows about this, a lot of fraudsters have this knowledge too. So you should really have a cross shredder, and you should really incinerate on-site, rather than discard shredded documents into collected waste routes.

@MyToastisNot @Object_Zero_ If only they had intercepted the trash at time of change of administration, scanned both sides of all pages hastily shredded, and then analysed it with AI like a giant crossword puzzle, and digitally reassembled it? Oh wait, is that why there are so many data centres being built?

@iyoushetwt EDLIN.COM Micro Soft's (note the spelling) first word processor. Still found in my C:\ WINDOWS\ folder, as I have been upgrading since DOS1.1. Same computer, just new hardware and software over the decades.

What was the first code editor you ever used? Mine was Sublime Text

@davepl1968 We might get lucky with Windows 13?

It's time for Microsoft to have another XPSP2 moment. No more AI, no more features. Just fixes. When I was working on Windows XP, Blaster hit. It was a big enough deal that we set aside all feature work. For the next several months, all we did was improve security. We didn't add "security features"; we fixed bugs. Lots of bugs. Until there weren't security bugs to fix anymore. Then we fixed the ones we didn't know about yet. Put more simply, we stopped trying to "add value" to the product through features that PMs thought users would like, and instead we focused on the things that had been important for a long time, but overlooked. Like performance and configurability today. Rather than trying to improve and add value to the system through new AI features -now-, I argue it's time for Microsoft to stabilize, improve, and make the system more performant. And more usable for power users. Just for one release. Just till it doesn't suck.

@home_assistant Is the chat link on your home page up to date?

@home_assistant Is the chat link from the front page outdated? home-assistant.io

@troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Relevant HA code at GitHub github.com/home-assistant…

@iot7712 @haveibeenpwned Can you pull the HTTP response details (such as code)? Not sure if the integration gracefully handles 429s.

@TroyHunt Is this an #Azure or #HIBP issue, or something else? Extensive NAT due to shortage of IPv4 addresses in countries such as Vietnam with only a few IPv4 addresses being (incorrectly) treated by Azure as DDOS? DNS - It's always DNS!!! community.home-assistant.io/t/samba-share-…

@troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Has much changed in traffic volumes from HA in the intervening last three years since you blogged about this at troyhunt.com/the-have-i-bee…

@troyhunt support.haveibeenpwned.com/hc/en-au/artic… refers also

@SmartHomeScene August? Its November! In the distant past, the defunct... Yes, the world will pass you by, and the executives will have their generous bonuses, just before they become unemployed.

At this point, I'm seriously thinking of starting a company wall of shame on SmartHomeScene. You want exposure? You'll get exposure. Companies like these can eat rocks. reddit.com/r/homeassistan…

@JustWantToQ1 @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned Deadline has passed. Is it up for free now?

@troyhunt @haveibeenpwned You want Qantas data? Give me a minute to see if it's up for sale.

Some massive claims in this ransom demand.A lot of leaning on the legal ramifications of the breach too:

@RachelTobac Can't you join the merry-go-round by putting up EICAR string embedded content for AI to choke on? Should we have something like an EICAR string industry wide for AI bots to warn them to keep away and not use content? Legislate for it.

Now would be a great time to ensure you’ve opted out of LinkedIn training their AI tools on your content (most folks are opted in by default, and it does depend on which country you live in). Why should you opt out? I’ll tell you…

@SpaceIntel101 @GilmourSpace @Vegemite @zaid_dillon @AusSpaceAgency @nkknspace @homem_doespaco @cnunezimages @InfographicTony @OfficialKion @StingerNSW That dark brown Vegemite is rather black right now I suspect. Congratulations on liftoff. Small steps on the path to success.

Orbital Launch no. 159 of 2025 🇦🇺 🚀🫙 Testflight 1 | Gilmour Space | July 28 | 2130 UTC @GilmourSpace to launch a jar of @Vegemite as a symbolic payload on the maiden flight of its Eris🚀 to LEO from Bowen, Australia. This will be the first orbital launch from Bowen and the first launch of an Australian-developed launch vehicle. Vegemite is a thick, dark brown, typical Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives. Let us be "happy little Vegemites", Gilmour Space!