Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
I've now had two phishing attempts this week that felt personally directed towards me by someone who has a profile of my basic information and what I do, rather than just getting generic bulk emails purporting to be from random services that I usually haven't ever used.
This timeline sucks.
I was briefly excited to learn that there was a DRM free ebook available of a book that I hadn't thought about in years, but also its two sequels that I was previously unaware of.
I attempted to throw money at the author for these items but apparently I'm too Australian to have these and may only purchase "protected" editions instead.
Cast all technology into the sea.
I hope the people posting enthusiastically about this Commodore phone are currently throwing all their money into stockpiles of old hardware from the 1980s, and the prices of real Commodore computers will go down a bit when they buy phones instead.
My tiny ebook reader (Xteink X4) has arrived and it's indeed tiny but very nice to hold so far. I've put different firmware on it with no real hassles and I guess now I need to read something.

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