Kit Bashir / is on Nostr

Kit (aka Chris Biggs) created https://Accelerando.com.au IoT Lab, hosts the Brisbane Internet of Things Interest Group. Hacker. Parent. Scientist. Rantist. Atheist. Roboticist. Treehugger. (they/them¹).

I design and build custom IoT and electronics solutions...fast!

Every day I write a #PowerOnStoryToot over morning coffee, as a self-test of my brain. If you like them, buy me another coffee? (Link 👇)

¹ subject to change without notice 🐣

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Hire Me!: https://accelerando.com.au/

Last Notes

2024-08-20 22:20:57

Y’all are being remarkably calm about Microsoft’s plan to make USB sticks formatted on Windows 11 incompatible with every other OS including (especially!) holdouts still running older versions of their own.

2024-06-19 23:21:03

“We’ve solved the immigrant problem! The foundation has purchased two defunct cruise ships for scrap value, with a combined capacity of over 15000 berths!”
“Isn’t it cruel to cram asylum seekers into those tiny rooms? I suppose you won’t even be running a casino and cabaret to distract them?”
“Oh no, you’ve got it wrong, we’re putting the racist policymakers in the prison hulks”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

2024-06-16 21:33:41

“All right, class, have we all remembered to bring a potato?”
About three quarters of them held up a potato. I sighed and lifted the shopping bag I’d spent my own money on for this inevitability.
“All right, come get one if you forgot. You too Jason, that’s a carrot”.
“Aw Miss mum said it would be fine”
“You can’t install Linux on a carrot, Jason, the beta-carotene causes row faults in the DRAM”
I held up my own potato, showing the genesculpt needles embedded firmly in its flesh. “Now, last week we compiled our VHDL to mRNA, this week we are going to implant it and then incubate our veggies until next week”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

2024-06-07 01:46:17

Welcome to RightsMail, the webmail solution that displays your email in a DRM labeled video stream to protect it from AI snoopware.

2024-05-25 08:39:52

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have you joined the ⦕glances around to be sure of escape route⦖ Bunny Gesserit?

2024-05-22 21:38:22

“Excuse me”, the waitress noted in passing, “you’re on fire”.
She wasn’t being complimentary to my appearance; my encounter suit was leaking oxygen again. I hate fluorine planets.
I swatted at the flame and stepped up to the bar. “Cylinder of pure H₂O please” I asked the barkeep. “and, uh, have you seen Captain Zhang tonight? I arranged to meet her here and…” I waved away another flame and applied a quick-seal patch to the crack in my armor “…I’d rather not wait too long; no offense but your bar’s atmosphere is not really my thing”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

2024-05-10 02:44:16

Sufficiently Advanced Bodging™ is indistinguishable from having used the correct pinout.
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2024-04-22 22:52:14

“I’m blocked. The words just aren’t coming. I’m a failure as a writer.”
“Have you tried using AI?”
“Fuck you, I can write better than five liters of plagiarism in a one litre spew bag”
“See, it’s working already!”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

2024-04-22 04:00:01

“Mos Eisley WeWork. You will never find a more wretched hive of Scrum and Visio”

2024-04-15 10:17:42

Pre conference ritual of a) charging all the things and b) revising my presentation because i was alone in a vehicle for six hours and Thoughts Happened.

2024-04-07 09:10:22

What creative misspellings do you regularly put on your grocery lists just for the halibut?

2024-01-20 02:45:22

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I misread the image caption as “sea of loins”, I don’t know what made me do that…