Lea de Groot 🇦🇺

BNE based full stack intrinsically motivated developer - geekier than thou ;)

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2025-04-01 14:13:50

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@nprofile…4tpe two words. Libera chat. :)

2025-03-15 03:11:59

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@nprofile…gcy3 @nprofile…d2rl and, important side note! You cannot “waste your vote” in Australia!
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/114/164/252/596/844/701/original/c06c09cbfcfe8d02.jpeg

2025-02-19 20:02:41

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@nprofile…d2rl ive found the same thing :(

2025-02-19 19:44:49

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@nprofile…d2rl even if there werent any issues with performing this service after your move, i think “im moving countries “ would be a perfectly reasonable explanation for why you wont be able to do it for a while!

2025-01-15 08:16:06

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@nprofile…fv4z pssst, when its talking about gas, its not in reference to vehicles ;)

2025-01-13 21:00:10

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@nprofile…wuyc its America. Someone in their family probably needed to raise money to pay for treatment for cancer or such :(

2025-01-12 07:45:43

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@nprofile…j90y @nprofile…sq3z yes, using PayPal has its own problems. I mostly use it for this exact scenario these days :nods:

2025-01-12 07:42:29

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@nprofile…j90y @nprofile…sq3z huh, looks like i subscribed on .com and thus paid with paypal #lucky

2025-01-12 06:17:41

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@nprofile…j90y i always try to subscribe to these things via paypal - soooo easy to cancel subs in there :) hindsight is perfect, of course :(

2025-01-06 07:19:39

Went live today on a 12 month project that replaced existing website pages across multiple subdomains and omg somehow it went “smooth as butter” as someone said (never mind that i was quite calm until it actually went live, then i looked at the length of the list of “things to check” and was suddenly nervous! I suppose it didn’t help that by then i needed lunch :))
But, major project for last year done and dusted with only the minorest of tweaks needed on side items. Phew! :)

2025-01-06 07:10:34

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@nprofile…d2rl ill buy the first round at the pub!
(Except i’m in Brisbane, doh!)

2024-12-22 18:55:10

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@nprofile…fn34 well, i was giving you a buck a month, along with 40 other comics i enjoy. I didn’t ask anything back for that, it was purely to support you.
But you attempted to force me to pay more, so i stopped giving you a buck a month.
:shrugs: your loss

2024-12-20 01:32:58

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@nprofile…j90y @nprofile…v7j0 can’t remind people not to click on links too often! :)

2024-12-10 04:42:39

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@nprofile…g8jv it'd be nice if we could put hashtags in those same lists :)

2024-12-07 02:26:15

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@nprofile…d2rl @nprofile…tl87 honestly, i would make good use of facebook marketplace and find myself a 2Men And A Truck type service :) soooo much cheap good stuff there!
Marketplace is the only good thing about facebook!

2024-11-30 09:48:45

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@nprofile…asy0 if I were still on Facebook I would have hoped they wouldnt ask me to prove my age given my account is older than 16 :(

2024-11-09 12:08:39

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@npub1trd…ussx @npub1r47…wytr I think its because Matt seems to be coming on too strong - he appeared to be extorting WP engine for money and then turning on other groups. People are feeling they cant safely use the software because Matt may arbitrarily decide they break his personal lines, rather than the actual license of the software and sue them.
(Not my personal line, but the gist I am gathering)

2024-11-09 07:09:21

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@npub1trd…ussx @npub1r47…wytr do a web search for wp engine and matt mullenweg :(

2024-10-28 08:31:15

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@npub1vlh…f6as i think my first thought would be building 2 walls either side then putting doors on the front, so it closes up to look like a wardrobe
It’d then take up a bit of space though

2024-10-26 05:53:07

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@npub102v…jtrj all through this covid fiasco, i have been just amazed at the WOMEN who say to me “but you cant live in fear!”… we’re women, we constantly live in fear. Every time we carefully consider where to park given what time well return to the car. Every time we think about whether that stairwell is safe enough. Every time we carefully think about whether a potential date has shown any red flags… “you cant live in fear” my arse! :(

2024-09-09 11:37:17

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I had no idea you had non Laundry Files books!!! What an exciting discovery! :)

2024-02-21 21:30:41

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@npub1f6a…pnql how would it go if you asked it supply the isbn? That would imply a much higher correlation, particularly if it gets the right release, not just a random one matching the title, just from the spine, i reckon

2024-01-21 12:24:15

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@npub1jtm…rxtn if it is bulk then its unlikely to be human, although they are obviously monitoring their fails.

2024-01-21 12:20:13

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@npub1jtm…rxtn ive had success in the past with a simple “what colour is an orange” text prompt, but ymmv

2023-11-20 23:57:39

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@npub1vlh…f6as umm, you clearly haven't tried to buy or rent somewhere to live here yet :(

2023-11-04 11:02:19

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 i reckon if you arent following anyone (ie, you are a new user) it should load you into Explore
That should fix the whole “theres no convenient algorithm” as well as “i cant find anyone to follow”

2023-10-06 10:00:46

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 post links to your posts here with the comment "is this thing not federated _yet_?" ;)

2023-10-05 05:59:53

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@npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1hyk…3p33 I’ve swapped over to DuckDuckGo. Results seem no different to G even though I understand it’s based on Bing

2023-09-24 23:20:59

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@npub1hyk…3p33 generically,
wc
is the command you probably want :)

2023-09-22 01:21:32

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@npub1trd…ussx we've got a projector, so we actually get very close to the cinema experience at home.
But I noticed while booking when we recently actually went to the movies recently (first time since you know!) that the cinemas are now MUCH smaller, like 40-50 seats and there were a LOT more of these much smaller cinemas (good seats, too, very comfy armchairs!)

2023-09-18 12:09:55

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 yep! thetimes.co.uk/archive
5 pounds for 12 months access (possibly because im overseas and get “the international access”)
It is unfortunately News ltd, but its only 5 pounds, so not too worried they are making too much off me…

2023-09-18 12:06:05

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 ive been reading The Times (London) of 1812 recently.
Fun times!

2023-09-17 09:00:01

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@npub1kc5…wnc5 @npub1hpc…hjn3 yes, at one point I was knitting through university lectures. Occupying my hands let my mind listen really deeply to the advanced subjects I was studying.
One of the lecturers did ask me to stop though - it was distracting him! (I moved to the back of the class)

2023-09-16 07:17:30

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@npub1cmg…rzd2 @npub1p6k…n7yw huh, i would have said “dehydration” too. Try water anyway (thats half of what an actual hangover is anyway)

2023-09-03 07:50:33

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@npub12ty…vnqc @npub120z…33r2 @npub1weq…zvhd but an extra option please? I often do have different settings on different devices...

2023-08-25 22:00:18

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@npub1jtm…rxtn yes, it’s interesting how the long time argument for letting google and the other search engine scrapers in was that they would send traffic, justifying the cost and, to a certain extent, rights abrogation, has been completely missed by the people working on what is logically the next gen search - they are nothing without the source docs, and yet they take all, give nothing back and yet expect us to allow them… strange!

2023-08-13 21:32:35

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@npub1trd…ussx ive no idea what they are planning, but i would like to see government funding infrastructure more by issuing public bonds. Encourage people to buy a share in their world

2023-07-20 02:09:23

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@npub1trd…ussx
I fear that what would happen is it would be like election time all the time.
Instead of lobbyists approaching the government, it would be full on advertising to us, all the time.
#dislike

2023-07-20 01:45:57

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@npub1trd…ussx but you might like this guy
https://dicksonreps.jigsy.com/thor-prohaska
I _believe_ he has actually written the software to do what you are describing

2023-07-20 01:43:04

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@npub1trd…ussx What I *would* like to see (and I realise you are in .nz and I am in .au and you have that interesting proportional system already, so its different...)
is an MP elected on the basis of "these 10K (pick a number) people voted for me" not "the most people in this electorate voted for me".
(Lots of details to be worked out. Does it need to be "you can only vote for people within (pick a number) 1000km of you"?)
but _actual_ representation!

2023-07-20 01:39:40

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@npub1trd…ussx but that means I have to be on top of every issue all the time, or let the issue-specific lunatics overrule me in everything.
I actually thought that was what I sent an MP to parliament for, to be on top of the issues and know what their electorate wanted.
(I know in the real world, thats so funny, hahaha, but, honestly, I have a dayjob already. Why do I have to do theirs too?)

2023-07-10 06:49:57

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@npub1jtm…rxtn paywalled? So they would accept money for your work, put only pass on “a link” back to the author?
Yeah, no, its not you thats the asshole here!

2023-07-06 11:25:24

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@npub18yl…pegw @npub1psd…9sr7 I lied to FB about my age 15 years ago, making myself amusingly 10 years older… and I have been getting ads for that older demographic ever since!

2023-07-06 07:50:27

Am enjoying company with @npub1zek…f8vu @npub1qfs…9sdt @npub1zlp…jma8 @npub1957…nynr and others at the first #BNEfediMeetup

2023-06-28 20:33:34

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@npub1jeq…jglm @npub1wxx…3adn so… are you thinking that if the main instance i use doesn’t federate, i find a lobby server, make a secondary account there, friend grandma and aunt ethel on #threads, and then boost the content from my main account so they can see it? Thus letting us stay in contact (which i do miss now!) but showing them that there is somewhere else to go?

2023-06-26 07:41:50

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@npub1jtm…rxtn take a good photo of it before you put it down and then use that as your privacy background ;)

2023-06-20 01:33:33

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@npub1e3v…f6af @npub1kja…e5gq @npub1wxx…3adn @npub1g8e…qdqf so... we need instances set up which are clearly named things like "moveHereFromFacebook.social" which states it WONT defederate with Meta
(hot tip, pick a better name than that, I'm just making clear the intent)
and _then_ we tell our friends on fb "you should move here, you'll be able to talk to your friends on FB with _no_ _ads_ or _tracking_".
ANd from there we ween them to "better" instances, as slowly there is no longer anyone on FB ;)

2023-06-06 00:32:07

I'm interested in Apple's new Vision headset.... but I wear glasses for the computer (and distance in general, short sighted)
I wonder how that interacts - are they going to have a focus setting, where I spin a dial until it looks right and then I don't need to wear my specs under the headset?? #hoping
:searches: ... ooh, maybe!
"An Apple patent has teased how the Apple Glass smartglasses could use an auto-adjusting system to correct poor eyesight"
Lets hope :)