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Daisy Leigh

@asteracute.bsky.social

Conference organiser emeritus (PyCon AU), computer puppygirl. Narrm/Melbourne. I am more active at @daisy@cloudisland.nz on Mastodon, and this account is mostly reposts from there, but I do try to pay attention to replies and stuff on here too.

130 Followers  |  77 Following  |  273 Posts  |  Joined: 20.08.2023  |  1.74

Latest posts by asteracute.bsky.social on Bluesky


I keep forgetting that Australia has a king, and am deeply unhappy about it every time I am reminded

23.02.2026 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

girl math is buying something expensive and then using/wearing it a lot so that the cost per use/wear becomes as low as possible and boy math is getting catastrophically addicted to sports gambling and then killing your family

21.02.2026 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
When paired with AML reporting, such suspicious analysis can quickly lead to the unjust termination of bank accounts. And that seems to be exactly what Persona was built to do.

When paired with AML reporting, such suspicious analysis can quickly lead to the unjust termination of bank accounts. And that seems to be exactly what Persona was built to do.

Persona also appears to come with the the potential to flag you to the financial system and get you debanked.

21.02.2026 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 713    ๐Ÿ” 235    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discordโ€™s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discordโ€™s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.

โ€œThe state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.โ€

21.02.2026 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5983    ๐Ÿ” 3844    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71    ๐Ÿ“Œ 266
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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaarโ€™s descriptions of violence last June.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.

The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

22.02.2026 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 904    ๐Ÿ” 393    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60

So in the UK itโ€™s feet and inches for anything betweenโ€ฆ what, 5cm to 5m, and metric outside that? Britain why are you like this

19.02.2026 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have a sudden craving for yoplait frรปche, something I have not eaten or thought about since I was a child

19.02.2026 01:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

least surprising thing ever: llms are NOT ANALYTICS TOOLS.

โ€œit explained everything so confidently, nobody questioned itโ€

literally โ€œso confidentโ€ is a red flag.

14.02.2026 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 267    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

donโ€™t love seeing cis people go ham for the olympics which formally banned trans women universally last year. i wasnโ€™t out when the Indiana bathroom
bill boycott in 2016 cost the state billions and that being where mainstream trans politics were is tough for me to fathom

14.02.2026 23:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 193    ๐Ÿ” 40    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Dessert places should let you order a side of lactase tablets with your dessert

10.02.2026 10:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

itโ€™s called a Likert scale because itโ€™s a scale that measures how much you like rt

09.02.2026 21:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œโ€ฆincluding themselvesโ€
me: โ€œyep donโ€™t worry I already got thereโ€

31.01.2026 02:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OH: โ€œIrritable Vowel Syndromeโ€

31.01.2026 01:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Main issue I can see with this is that most of Seeedโ€™s short and wide displays have the ribbon cable on the short end, and this board has it on the long end, which would make it harder to tuck the board behind the display.

26.01.2026 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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XIAO ePaper DIY Kit(nRF52840) - EN04 Powered by XIAO nRF52840 Plus, the display board EN04 supports both 24-pin and 50-pin ePaper displays. It features a JST 2.0 mm battery connector with power switch, built-in charging IC, and comes with one reset and three user buttons. Well-suited for low-power ePaper projects such as digital signage, electronic labels, and portable information boards.

So far Iโ€™ve found this Seeed Studio product which has everything except the display itself: https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-ePaper-DIY-Kit-EN04.html

26.01.2026 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Everything Iโ€™ve read suggests that the nRF52โ€™s low power modes might make it better suited for an application where youโ€™re on battery power and you want to wake up occasionally in response to a wireless signal and do something, but all the boards Iโ€™ve found so far use ESP32s.

26.01.2026 06:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s been four years today since I started going by Daisy!

24.01.2026 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:

Dear Ambassador:
 
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stรธre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

โ€œDear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a โ€œright of ownershipโ€ anyway? There are no written documents, itโ€™s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJTโ€

NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stรธre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] โ€œDear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a โ€œright of ownershipโ€ anyway? There are no written documents, itโ€™s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJTโ€

mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent

19.01.2026 05:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8850    ๐Ÿ” 2673    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 132    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1806

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

19.01.2026 04:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5518    ๐Ÿ” 1804    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 92    ๐Ÿ“Œ 113

I love how at some point recently they tightened up the rules on what restaurants are allowed to advertise as being allergen free, and as a result the restaurants prepare everything the same, but now every time you mention an allergy when ordering, you trigger an unskippable cutscene

19.01.2026 09:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The corollary of this is that only America was capable of destroying America. And it did.

19.01.2026 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When are DJI going to do a handheld gimbal with a built in Micro Four Thirds sensor and lens mount?

They already have a gimbal with a built in camera (the Osmo Pocket) and a drone-mounted MFT gimbal (the Zenmuse X5), so all the bits are thereโ€ฆ

19.01.2026 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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tramdragon

#art #furry #furryart

01.08.2023 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2252    ๐Ÿ” 690    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

(Yes this is illegal, no the ACMA does not have the resources to go after every small-medium business that does this which is most of them)

12.01.2026 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

least favourite thing: online stores that pre-check the โ€œSend me news and offers from this storeโ€ checkbox, and then when you manually uncheck it, they spam you anyway

12.01.2026 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Alright I did it! Please share this link with anyone you think may be into me: forms.gle/6k7jNydbv1uP...

02.01.2026 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

there should be a "good morning" feed on bluesky where you're not immediately thrown headfirst into the worst news imaginable while you're still half asleep

03.01.2026 12:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 411    ๐Ÿ” 76    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Dunno what it says about my life that I found out about the Venezuela thing from a lesbian hookup discord but it definitely says _something_

04.01.2026 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

booty call but itโ€™s for cuddles

03.01.2026 08:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You know youโ€™re dealing with a company with exceptional customer support systems and processes when you email them, and then they email you back asking you to give them your email address.

01.01.2026 06:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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