I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!

Cycads? Disgusting.

As a Magnolia man I’m feeling left out.

EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. “Tell them I’m on the warpath and I’m coming after you”

The line was closed to passenger rail traffic in the early 1980s, following a downturn in passengers and munitions traffic

No more bullet trains ;(

Woah. Where am I? The Lemmy Displacement Field is wobbling!

This week’s attempt to find cheap housing/land near sydney: https://www.domain.com.au/lots-30-31-camberwell-road-vineyard-nsw-2765-2020371791

• Two narrow blocks being solder together for $500K
• Covered in flora, nothing built.
• Zoned for housing
• Few mins walk from a train station
• I think they’re on a creek. Both blocks. Which probably means you can’t build anything there, riparian zone.
• EDIT: Right next to open-air wastewater treatment plant, ooh yeah! I’m tempted to visit just to check it out.

500K is still too much money for me xD Maybe they’ll take $100K for just one? I can do $1K of timtams as a bonus.

“boosting the immune system” is a marketing term, not a medical term. If you care about your health then have a chat to your doctor and ask them for advice. Supplements are unlikely to give you any health benefits, unless you have a specific deficiency.

The psychology and marketing of supplements is very interesting. They’re easy to take (easier than making behavioural change like diet, sleep or exercise). Pills are seen as something that makes you better, even though the supplements would do the same thing in powder form. They cost a lot so they must be good. They are advertised on TV as being a good thing, in association with imagery of doctors and healthy-looking people.

Ostensibly supplements are designed to be harmless, but that’s not always the case. Vitamin B toxicity on the federal gov’s healthdirect site:

B6 toxicity can occur even at recommended doses

Love the new image on the main page sidebar. Looks to be from 2017? I hope they kept that up every year.

Ditto. I don’t block any captchas though.

I wanted to complain about how hard it was to find the forecasts. At the time it required clicking through unrelated items, they have changed it now. Tried to give feedback and was then chucked in the bin.

This part of Gary Larson’s “new collection”, released this year and made on a computer.

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

Also tried giving feedback, pile of errors and wouldn’t accept it.

Huh? It’s https now for me. Auto-redirected from the http pages.

“I can tell you there’s people right throughout Yarra choking on their croissants this morning,” Cr Jolly told ABC Melbourne radio.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/melbourne-water-flood-mapping-yarra-darebin-council-outrage/105847310

If something is POSIX compliant then it’s very likely to work on any Linux, BSD or the like; and probably very easy to port to windows. It’s a sign that the developer is willing to go the extra mile to make users’ lives easier.

N.B. “POSIX compliance” is not just considered in black or white terms, it’s also done in degrees. There are many things that have never formally been changed or been specified in POSIX but informally things have evolved. By attempting any level of compliance (or a similar equivalent) you tend to be doing better than most software.

PSA: Perfect dark (original n64) has a community-made PC port that’s beyond excellent.

https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

I hated the original because the low framerate gave me bad motion sickness. The PC port is like magic by comparison.

Bogus CVE. Spam.

From the PoC:

Replace the original DLL (such as Notepad++\plugins\NppExport\NppExport.dll) with a DLL file with the same name containing malicious code

If you replace parts of a program with malware then you can get malware to run. This is true of all software.

Perfect, my company needs a Watersports division. Not for the customers though.

HR: Put a damper on it.

Most of my managers and coworkers are away and I’ve been working all my days off & weekend. I am going to make some new corporate T-shirts with my own logo and see how long it takes people to notice.

Any suggestions? I’m in the water industry, so maybe “Wetwork”?

ACDC?

I don’t understand. Blorp looks like another thing you host as a website to access & participate in the fediverse, just like lemmy, piefed and kbin. But you call it a “client”. What are the differences? The project readme doesn’t help explain this to me.

Huh, it looks like the groups (of communities) are instance-specific. https://piefed.social/ has lots, https://piefed.au/ doesn’t. Then there are “feeds” which… look like the same thing as groups? Of which piefed.au has Australian-specific ones (including a lot of auzzie.zone communities). I’ll have to find out if any of these are portable across instances or not, or if I’m stuck using multiple sites to access the fediverse >:|

EDIT: Yess, feeds are a version that work across communities. Yay. BRB, gotta try this out. Although this does raise the question of “why bother with groups when feeds are the same but better?”

I’ll give it a strip. Could be interesting.