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Orthanc
@orthanc.nz
Semi-professional bad influence, secret santa imp, comfort food influencer, and all around good guy, He/Him, Orthanc of the Bluesky.

Tāmaki Makaurau
I let my UK passport laps 20+ years ago when I was a teenager because, well, teenager.

And by the time I looked at fixing that it was the new application process which means originals of parents marriage certificate, dad's birth certificate etc which is a PITA. So I figured my NZ passport would do.
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I suspect a lot of this is the blurring of what it means to be a full time student.

If you're working multiple jobs to make ends meet you probably don't have time to be a full time student.

But that seems to be so many people's expectation now.
January 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The moat is such a good idea. I end up with my honey sitting in a saucer of water because it's the only way
January 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
If they actually disabled that bit for everyone, including paying subscribers it would address one of the worst bits of thi.

The whole "normalised harassment by tagging grok in public" is significantly worse than generating the images in private (which is still awful to be clear).
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I don't think this is AI lies as such. The response seems to be exactly the same text which feels more like it's a case of a deliberate block and just misleading (intentional or otherwise) text from a human (or at least reviewed by one)
January 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I'm just going to put this here because it's a thing of beauty

bsky.app/profile/koma...

(there's a whole thread)
I'm gonna make a thread for all my Muppet Princess Bride art for the Bluesky crowd! First up is the poster I made

#MuppetPrincessBride #Kermit #MissPiggy
January 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
There's no dumb Foxy. We all read at our own pace.

I hope that just means we'll get regular little snippets of where you're up to so we can follow along
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 AM
That just sounds adorable. So glad she made the yellow unicorn she wanted.
January 8, 2026 at 11:33 PM
The patient portal market was shocking when I was involved. Basically no competition because people would always just get which every one was an add on to the patient management system.

So all just built to minimise costs.
January 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I do kind of wish there was some kind of reputational consequences for the people yelling about the TLS or the DMARC.

At least at the level of "maybe we shouldn't trust this person to get a quote from next time"
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 AM
So far, other than the usual "wait out the DNS TTL" it's seeming really smooth and well guided to cut over.
January 8, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Even to the point of recommendations like "If you're migrating multiple mailboxes, set them all up before changing the MX records so you don't have a gap in delivery"

Seems a really solid and simple flow to guide anyone through the process.
January 8, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Had to wait out the DNS TTL, but domain is now verified and now waiting for the next set of DNS TTLs for the MX records.

All in all though, very easy click through wizard with good guidance on exactly what you need to do even if you don't understand this stuff.
January 8, 2026 at 8:35 AM
So yeah, this hack is the equivalent of if you could just change the address bar to a different player and see their address, see their giftee.

No, you can't do that in the secret santa app. You sure as hell shouldn't be able to do it with health data.
January 8, 2026 at 8:18 AM
I mean, secret santa is actually dealing with some pretty sensitive data. People's real world addresses, often their real names, linked to their social account.

I actually do care a lot that we don't have something like this happen. Players must NOT be able to see addresses other than their giftee.
January 8, 2026 at 8:15 AM
First up, trying to verify one of my domains with protomail.

I think this is probably one of those case where I know enough to be over-complicating / overthinking it. But it's just a DNS TXT record I have to create, so juts need to wait for it to propagate and see if I've done it right.
January 8, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Well small setback, trying to remember which registry which domain was with, and I thought I might have actually lost control of one of my domains.

But looks like I still have it, just that domainz somehow changed my username without me realising. I'm gussing a long ago system migration.
January 8, 2026 at 7:11 AM
So I've signed up for the Proton "Unlimited" plan which is ~US$120 a year. I think this would be massive overkill for most people, but I have a bunch of different domains I want to move, so makes sense for me.

So far, just login and works with the proton addresses and webmail.

Next moving domains.
January 8, 2026 at 6:54 AM
You look lovely. The blonde and the wave and the little curl just suit you so well.

A well deserved pamper.
January 8, 2026 at 5:17 AM