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
This is bad enough, in itself, to make me not want to go to the USA any time soon. What bothers me most though, is as someone who doesn't actually have a "traditional" social media presence at all that if I get to the border and say that, they just won't believe me and it'll escalate rapidly.
Visitors will have to reveal at the border all social…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/11/australia-us-tourism-new-visa-rules-social-media-historyMe early this morning: Why are there a bunch of weird, crappy little issues going on?
Me after a coffee: Oooooooh right. Shit.
It has been A Day but fortunately I live in the future and can summon curry to my door at short notice.
Who doesn't love a little unscheduled trip to the DC to wrestle with an uncooperative computer?



