#hattip — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hattip, aggregated by home.social.
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#Listening to Straightlining by hardcase #Otautahi rockers AVON DADS, released in 2025;
https://avondads.bandcamp.com/album/straightlining
#HatTip to Freak the Sheep, who played this funny and rather catchy track on the March 12 edition of their show on 95bFM. Which I catch up with from The Tron via their podcast feed;
https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/16982213/freak-the-sheep-w-chris-cudby-march-12-2025
They've been playing a lot of hardcase tunes on the show of late. Long may this continue!
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#Listening to Skip That Shit by Raiden Freeman, from the 2023 album DF2;
https://bankruptworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/df2
This is some funny shit. I dare you to listen to it. I double dog dare ya!
#HatTip to Chris Cudby of the Freak the Sheep kiwi music shop on 95bFM, for introducing me to this crackup track.
#music #comedy #electronica #RaidenFreeman #95bFM #FreakTheSheep
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Like a lot of people over the last few years, I've been getting really into the idea of regressing to a simpler phone that's just a phone, and demoting my touchscreen to being a pocket tablet. I've posted a few times on the #DumbPhone tag (#HatTip to @Mastodon for the feature that allows me to filter posts with a tag from a particular account). The first time in 2023, asking for device recommendations;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110149459018648853
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"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."
https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works
#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;
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"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."
https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works
#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;
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"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."
https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism
#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.
#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker
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"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.
Don't quote me on that."
Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s
#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.
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"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.
Don't quote me on that."
Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s
#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.
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"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.
Don't quote me on that."
Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s
#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.
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"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.
Don't quote me on that."
Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s
#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.
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"Advertising executives aren't 'creatives'. It's like calling landlords architects."
#DominicHoey, How to Lose Money
#HatTip to Freak the Sheep for exposing me to this righteous spoken word track.
https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/17208338/freak-the-sheep-w-taylor-mcgregor-november-12-2025
Dominic is also known as Tourettes, maybe that track is here somewhere? Have a dig ...
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@vaelen I don't think this Applesoft BASIC effort from this past weekend's INIT HELLO Apple II conference outdid you, I must say. :-) #hattip
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/54689657478/in/album-72177720328016203
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"The group chats are 'the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion', wrote one of their key organizers, Sriram Krishnan, a former partner in the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (typically styled a16z) who is now the White House senior policy adviser for AI."
#BenSmith, 2025
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america
There are so many layers of horror in this that I don't know where to start.
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#TIL about #AudioMass, a web-based Free Code app which...
"... lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion fx."
https://audiomass.co/about.html
#HatTip to @poujolrost for the link.
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"It’s an imperfect metaphor, but one way to think about this is: I am not reading everyone’s mail. I am measuring the dimensions and weight of some mail and using that information to help build better mail trucks."
@darius, 2024
https://asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2024/10/25/fediverse-observer/
Well put.
#HatTip to @LaurensHof for the link.
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@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)
I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.
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#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron
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@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)
I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.
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#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron
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@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)
I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.
(1/2)
#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron
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@deutrino
Another potential use for sodium ion battery tech is in grid-scale storage systems, like those mentioned here;(#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link)
I have no idea what chemicals are currently used when building such systems. But if they're lithium ion they'll be stupidly expensive to build, and if they're lead acid - which seems more likely - they'll need replacing much sooner.
(1/2)
#energy #RenewableEnergy #BatteryTech #GridScale #SodiumIron
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Ever since I heard Uh-Oh by The Subliminals the other day it's been a total earworm. Now I'm #listening the album it comes from, United State, released in 2000;
https://thesubliminals.bandcamp.com/album/united-state
This has aged very well IMHO. Equal parts 3Ds-esque psychedelic rock, and HDU style mathrock, it's upbeat but unapologetically quirky. Great fun. Totally recommended.
#HatTip to Freak the Sheep on #95bFM for reminding me they exist.
#music #indie #MathRock #TheSubliminals #podcasts #FreakTheSheep #KiwiMusic
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#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link to this story;
Like the Irex ferry cancellation, this is further proof that whenever the NatACTs try to fix what they claim is "wasteful spending", they end up spending more public money for inferior results.
Unlike Irex, which is difficult to unf%& k, school lunches can be fixed by canning Rimmer's penny-pinching failure, and going back to the local providers it displaced. Fingers crossed.
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Oh christ-on-a-stick here's another one!
The formal submissions closed on 16 Jan but you can still write to your MP, government ministers etc about why bringing back Cold War style treason laws is a gobsmackingly bad idea.
#HatTip to @norightturnnz for bringing my attention to this in a recent blog post.
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A #HatTip to #KrispyKreme for #ShowingLove to tomorrow’s leaders- #Graduating #ClassOf2023
#Graduation 2023: Krispy Kreme gives #graduates a #free dozen #donuts
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The #IEFT were warning of this in the 90s:
"Export controls and usage controls [on cryptographic software] are slowing the deployment of security at the same time as the Internet is exponentially increasing in size and attackers are increasing in sophistication. This puts users in a dangerous position as they are forced to rely on insecure electronic communication."
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1984
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#HatTip to Mutual Interest Media for publishing the article this diagram was included in;
'The Evolution of Digital Currency to Cryptocurrency'
https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/03/the-evolution-of-digital-currency-to-cryptocurrency