Posts by essjax@essjax.com
(DIR) Post #AyqPpzUreRWqZjWsVs by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-03T21:12:25Z
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@sidawson I'm giving it as a gift 😁
(DIR) Post #AzE4mpacaujdjiudFY by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-14T23:48:49Z
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Fedi-folk - do you regularly post on other social media? (More than a couple of times a year or so)I'm intentionally not including LinkedIn or TikTok, but also, I only have four options available.
(DIR) Post #AzLC2tfbFd4ioIZIau by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-17T18:57:54Z
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Back in the late 90s I did a work placement with "Loaded" magazine in London. The editor of the time had come from one of the big newspapers, and told me how all of the UK news industry knew about Prince Andrew's awful activities, had the smoking gun evidence, and that they couldn't publish because of massive threats over their heads. They all toed the line. I'm not one for conspiracy theories but it does seem the establishment wields enormous power when it wants to protect its own.
(DIR) Post #AzNxPc8jg5PNGQRzvs by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-20T00:29:17Z
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@phil_stevens I don't know about your line of work, but in mine it's a necessary evil. Like Teams, or Windows, or Outlook, or Word. Wait all these things have something in common 😁
(DIR) Post #AzYMGrooSLdLidemqu by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-24T23:48:03Z
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This is where I post from
(DIR) Post #AziMSH2J4rgXpJA2c4 by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-29T21:58:41Z
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Nobody can login to NZ government services (IRD, Companies.govt.nz, etc) because Microsoft Azure had a boo boo overseas 🙄 "Building Trust and Confidence" they say
(DIR) Post #AziWsOBc7CUF4abcCe by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-29T23:56:28Z
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@lightweight @alanthecampbell it's outrageous tbh
(DIR) Post #AzlCDwxEWobBQFCOGm by essjax@essjax.com
2025-10-31T06:32:54Z
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I'm out tonight, but my phone keeps buzzing with security cam footage of monsters and ghosts at my front door 😁
(DIR) Post #Azmvk7H8NfKjnJBBzM by essjax@essjax.com
2025-11-01T01:47:34Z
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In a New Zealand Sports Bar with 15 screens and one huge screen and none of them are showing the live NZ international cricket match.Baseball???
(DIR) Post #Azmvk8LmNsdx80MPrs by essjax@essjax.com
2025-11-01T02:41:03Z
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I left just as two kiwi girls were jumping up and down squeeeeing about something in the baseball game. To be clear this is US "World Series" baseball, which as far as I can tell, only ever has USA teams playing.
(DIR) Post #B0FQ93f7WzuyJbxhDM by essjax@essjax.com
2025-11-14T20:02:43Z
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People who are fucked off with Firefox's AI crap might like to try the Vivaldi browser. It does a solid job of blocking ads and tracking and has some nice features, with no LLM shenanigans. They run a Mastodon instance too.https://vivaldi.com/@Vivaldi
(DIR) Post #B0FzzYUvcw8vP7xkZM by essjax@essjax.com
2025-11-14T20:26:30Z
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@Niall @Vivaldi I guess it's Chromium-based and not fully open source, which would put some off. I'm not fundamentally religious about that stuff 🤔
(DIR) Post #B0UYB7idm4IdhxMXo0 by essjax@essjax.com
2025-11-22T03:57:13Z
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@lightweight it's a weird day in USpol to day eh
(DIR) Post #B11YUYUc9e4MYTchhA by essjax@essjax.com
2025-12-08T00:36:58Z
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Had the MRI this morning, for the back operation. 35 minutes inside the infernal machine. I was all good until around minute 28 or so when my brain decided that I couldn't swallow (and I needed to). That gave me a sudden urge to sit up, and you can't really be doing that trapped inside a metal tube. I fought it and stayed calm but it wasn't fun. A ridiculous edge of panic threatened.I used to approach this stuff with much more casual relaxation, I don't know what's happened to me lately.
(DIR) Post #B1goO4tH8NhADvCfS4 by essjax@essjax.com
2025-12-27T08:48:00Z
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Dreamy skies from the front door#SunsetsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #B1jEyUMIuKcClFivh2 by essjax@essjax.com
2025-12-29T03:30:13Z
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The sideways-fountain is not communicating how wild that wind is right now. I could barely open my car door.
(DIR) Post #B1sMJLOHtSgb89BNXk by essjax@essjax.com
2026-01-02T09:07:00Z
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Fedi-folk: give us your pictures, your snapshots of life.Not people, definitely not with folks that haven't consented to be photographed, but the things you see. Maybe something from your camera roll that looks cool. Maybe a look at the mundane on your life.
(DIR) Post #B2NCPzNJqd3EHyKiLw by essjax@essjax.com
2026-01-13T00:25:35Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/115884474454641921This is a tiny delight in a world of garbage :birdheart: Also, I would like my own space potato please.
(DIR) Post #B2NCQ0uK9P2v2cmaR6 by essjax@essjax.com
2026-01-13T02:49:07Z
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I suppose any potato can be a space potato if you throw it hard enough.Hold my beer.
(DIR) Post #B3A8EcofwMez7YaTD6 by essjax@essjax.com
2026-02-02T07:37:44Z
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@Niall Just a slightly different option: Synology servers come with a whole bunch of ready to go services. Photos, music, backups, office suite with browser apps. You can host your own without having to get technical.It's not open source but you pay once for the box then you own it.