decryption

there's an apartment for sale in ballarat right on top of a beechworth bakery - i would create some sort of conveyor belt/lift system to bring baked goods directly into my domicile (looks like a nice apartment too - shame it's also $1m fucken dollars)

view.com.au/property/vic...

what type of fucked setup is the SRO running where you can only log in between 2am and 10pm??

Australia's trial of age check technologies has been handed to the government, the people behind the trial say.

Interesting it flags about "evolving findings".

listening to ABC Melbourne talkback and people are calling in about how they use AI as a therapist - this is wild, people trust this thing! This is much more concerning than vibe coding or a few anime rip offs

even other cops call the 'public order' cops thugs.

ooh there’s a KFL in St. Albans - will scope it out when I go visit my parents next

I’ve only read the first three chapters, but this is a great book so far (and I’m not just saying that because I know @cameronwilson.bsky.social!)

ahh, oh well - there’s always the angry aunt!

lemme know what ya reckon when you taste it!

garlic makes everything better! where have you found it?

it’s different - I like this more, a bit more pepper flavour less fermented bean flavour

This stuff is pretty intense imho - a teaspoon in a cup of rice is a lot!

much less “fermented” imho, I like this better

picked this chilli oil up from Aldi today, very good!

Introducing The Tech Rant & Jam – part rant, part debate, part Reckoner reunion:
@rajdeut.bsky.social + @decryption.bsky.social = RAnt
@jamescroft.bsky.social = Jam

Each of us brings a topic. The others react. Chaos (and insight) follows.

🎥 Watch the episode in full here: youtu.be/PWYRSMp90xo

the tesla diner is where we should televise the executions of the people responsible for its creation

#1986 rb.gy/g0fbpt

How will Australia’s under-16s social media ban be enforced, and which platforms will be exempt? No prescribed avenue for social media companies to check users’ ages, but options include facial estimation technology and matching photos with ID

Tried to lay out where we know things stand with the social media ban after this week. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Apple's Q3 2025 Earnings Call Takeaways: AI Growth, 3 Billionth iPhone Shipped Apple held an earnings call for the third fiscal quarter (second calendar quarter) of 2025 today, beating expectations with revenue of $94...

apple has sold 3 billion iphones, bloody hell

www.macrumors.com/2025/07/31/a...

I used the word “much” too much, see what I’m talking about??

oh wait, this is that imposter syndrome I hear so much about

also I have a love/hate relationship with reading Meanjin because most of the writing in it is so good - but my writing is so amateur in comparison and I’m paid pretty well (for a writer) to do it as a job. I need to get so much better

brilliant piece of writing about how much AI sucks for creativity and is the tool of fascists in the winter edition of Meanjin

macquarie bank does this too and I love it

Tried it out in Procreate on my wife’s iPad and nup, no hover or pressure (wife has a real Apple Pencil and it does that stuff but for $8 and the crude sketches I do, it’s fine

i haven't got any apps that do that (unless the Notes app does?) so can't test it

this $8 apple pencil knockoff I got a few months ago works really well on my ipad air for mucking around with - surprisingly good actually

www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005...

Life in the UK:

"Good shot."

what was the verification process like? i think they used some third party service called Persona?