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New comment by Fuzzwah in "Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]"

Fuzzwah — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:46:01 +0000

Down here in Tasmania we have Black Currawongs (strepera fuliginosa) that patrol around on bin night calling out to each other when they find a wheelie bin they can smell food scraps in. An individual bird can open the lids on their own. Our neighbours countered this by zip tying full 600ml water bottles to the lid handles. Heavy enough that a bird couldn't lift the lid, but not heavy enough to stop the lid opening when the truck lifts the bin.

In response to this, the birds now work together in groups of 3 to open the lids. So people started zip tying two water bottles to the bins... the birds can't get past that as there isn't enough room for them to work in a group of 6.

Me, I just put some green waste on the top of my bin before I take it out. We've also replaced our front lawn with native plants and there's lots of things in there that the birds like to eat. When something in there goes to seed we'll often have 20+ currawongs.

They always leave my bins alone.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Atari Falcon"

Fuzzwah — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:51:25 +0000

Begged my dad for a c64 in the early 90s. The sales guy at Dick Smith talked him into an Atari ST 520. Soon after Atari Australia went broke and I learned about exchange rates and the Great Britain Pound.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "iPhone Duo"

Fuzzwah — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:35:59 +0000

One reason is making it easy to scale things up or down for printing on standard sizes of paper.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task"

Fuzzwah — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:09:34 +0000

I've been impressed with orca

https://github.com/stablyai/orca

I did have some issues getting it installed on a headless server. I sort of gave up and installed the instance that I use as the remote server on a Debian + xfce machine I had laying around.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

Fuzzwah — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:01:57 +0000

It did that thinking about a helmet but didn't actually include a helmet. And there's no "actually, wait, this is just a cute little image no helmet" thought.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

Fuzzwah — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:16:42 +0000

I've just returned home after doing a 100 day "half lap" of Australia in a camper trailer with my family. I made heavy use of gemini to plan much of it. Getting packed up with a general destination in mind and telling gemini "we're leaving X town at 10am and heading to Y, where should we stop for lunch. My wife has coeliac disease, find us somewhere that does good gluten free options" was one of the many things I regularly leant on it for.

Never had a bad suggestion.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Playa Phone"

Fuzzwah — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:10:15 +0000

Here in Australia our once public phone company, telstra, have converted many phone boxes to be free to use and also provide a small wifi AP.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

Fuzzwah — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:10:53 +0000

In a recent long interview with Lex Friedman, DHH explained that he's essentially doing pure agentic dev on Omarchy now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFGCESmikA

New comment by Fuzzwah in "GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?"

Fuzzwah — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:55:15 +0000

Near the end of the 8.5 years that I worked at GitHub as an enterprise support engineer, I asked in an all hands if a "GitHub Classic" product had been considered. Much like World of Warcraft Classic, I imagined it would be a rewrite focused on matching the simpler feature set of the past.

I was basically given the same response that blizzard gave that question; "you think you want that but you don't".

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

Fuzzwah — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:47:15 +0000

Rectangle solved my macos window management annoyances.

https://rectangleapp.com/

Not involved in dev of this, just a happy user

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

Fuzzwah — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:57:05 +0000

And then consider that GitHub hasn't had their own CEO for a year now.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

Fuzzwah — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:39:25 +0000

If you're talking about the US Landcruiser it's actually what we know as a Prado over here in Australia. My dream midlife crisis vehicle is a 2025 Landcruiser 79. Mostly for towing capacity and being able to access more offroad areas of Australia, but admittedly a lot of the appeal is just how awesome they look when decked out for "adventuring".

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

Fuzzwah — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:49:57 +0000

The person you're replying to mentioned a Toyota, which I also drive a newer model of. It has two modes: lane assist (which works like you have described) and lane centering (which automatically is enabled when you switch on cruise control). The centering will continuously nudge you towards what it decides is the center of your lane.

It's awful and I've trained myself to automatically long press the button on the steering wheel to disable the entire system every time I get behind the wheel.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Steam Machine launches today"

Fuzzwah — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:25:38 +0000

30th anniversary of Quake's release today.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Claude Fable 5"

Fuzzwah — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:49:46 +0000

The "big beak!" comment in the svg source makes me think it's definitely a gamed "benchmark" at this point.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

Fuzzwah — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:58:35 +0000

The screenshots in your readme all 404

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

Fuzzwah — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:11:47 +0000

You've so perfectly explained something that I picked up from my father. He always seemed to have a way to get special treatment from people. I always explained it in a very Australian way; "he's a bit of a character" and figured it was tied to his gift of "telling a yarn".

But reflecting on it now, it's because he was always on a quest.

New comment by Fuzzwah in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"

Fuzzwah — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:09:31 +0000

While everyone else is posting top level comments about which tools they're using rather than PgAdmin; I've been a huge fan of Beekeeper Studio since I tried out a range of postgresql db apps such as DBeaver, Postico, etc a few years ago.

https://www.beekeeperstudio.io

New comment by Fuzzwah in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

Fuzzwah — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:44:27 +0000

Do you recall the article? Was it this https://netpol.org/2025/03/01/this-is-repression-annual-stat...?

New comment by Fuzzwah in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

Fuzzwah — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:31:38 +0000

Acoustic picking 18 from garage band....