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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting AI generated video. Looks like a single short (and the artifacts look like morphing) . Lots of other similar ones on the channel.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=piOE...

Galatée - jupiter | ALFfx Visual AI Treatment | FRAMES

YouTube video by ALFfx Visual DJ

www.youtube.com

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 7h

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw

4/5

A single volume covering the period. Covers the military campaigns only in passing to use space for other areas. Very good and manages to cover all countries

www.theguardian.com/books/2015/o...

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 10h

Depends on the size of the block.

A 1kg block would be a lot for one person in one sitting..

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 13h

Amused that some people believe that a company ( which is already known for dubious anti-consumer behavior! ) should spend extra on non-core stuff just because they have lots of money lying around

and then they get very angry when I point out that companies don't normally do that

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 1d

I went to Hobbiton earlier this week.

Pretty good fun and enjoyed myself. Would recommend

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 12d

"IT Professionals NZ" (Previously the "NZ Computer Society") has suddenly wound up due to being insolvent

itp.nz/closure

No idea the story.

I've never been a member since it seemed to be for Government IT Project Managers and they had a dubious certifying drive a few years back

Closure — IT Professionals NZ

itp.nz

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 2d

Vic MacLennan was running it till recently

archive.ph/hQiiE

archive.ph

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 2d

Just turned on my aircon and put it into cooling mode instead of heating mode.

First time this spring.

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 2d

The three dots on your post

How about create some of your own content instead of just links?

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 2d

You click the three dots in the web interface.

BTW not sure why you are creating a new NZ News feed. Plenty of those already.

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 2d

The link works. But if you click on the image it just expanded the image

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 2d

Actually the video you are showing is a more recent one where a new MP ended their maiden speech in an unauthorized Haka

www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/09/p...

also the famous one last year didn't interrupts the PM's speech

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Parliament suspended after haka tautoko for Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara

Parliament paused after a haka for new MP Oriini Kaipara, who honoured Māori resilience and te reo. Later, Te Pāti Māori unveiled a unity-focused reset.

www.teaonews.co.nz

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 2d

If you are going to just do a feed of articles could you include the headline in as text please?

Bluesky doesn't pick up the headline properly always so it is not obvious what you are linking to..

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 3d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

www.youtube.com

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 3d

People always talk about the python3 migration and it's problems

But they never compare it with the php6 or perl6 migrations

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 5d

Ah the "see he is soft on this issue, you might as well vote R" school of thought.

Working out for ya?

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 9d

Got emailed to get involved with something, replied but never heard back.

Just reviewed and see I missed the link to the signup form in the email

Too late now 🤦

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 9d

Audiobooks - September 2025

The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation by Michael Cassutt 4/5

The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom by David J. Helfand 3/5

blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2025/10/audi...

Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 10d

Would most home infrastructure even work with hydrogen?

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 10d

Due to daylight savings my work hours have moved an hour later since Sunday

Last night I got all prepped to finish and handover to next shift when teammates pointed out I had another hour to go.

Was 😢

I have today and next week off. Going to an online conference this weekend

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 13d

Someone just posted:

"New low: Discovered secrets being stored as tags on a KMS key. Why? FIIK. Sticking secrets on a label on the outside of the safe has got to be secure, right. 😡 The key itself is not used for anything "

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 12d

"IT Professionals NZ" (Previously the "NZ Computer Society") has suddenly wound up due to being insolvent

itp.nz/closure

No idea the story.

I've never been a member since it seemed to be for Government IT Project Managers and they had a dubious certifying drive a few years back

Closure — IT Professionals NZ

itp.nz

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 12d

Yesterday was a little tame

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 12d

Before around 2000 Dunedin had a higher population than both which is why it was traditionally the 4th.

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Simon Lyall @slyall.bsky.social · 12d

I wonder what counts as New Zealand's 4th city

Traditionally it was Dunedin but that has lower population than Hamilton or Tauranga.

But Dunedin still has greater weight in Culture and mindshare than Tauranga and possibly Hamilton

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