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 was a Unix #sysadmin for 25 years and I'm slowly recovering.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
I just got a wrong number call but instead of a scammer it was someone asking me to call back to book in my MRI. They immediately called again to say it was a mistake and to disregard but now I feel like I should get one anyway.
If I were the all powerful Emperor of the Galactic Empire, my first decree would be to mandate the immediate adoption of IPv6 for droid names because there is clearly not enough scope in the current addressing scheme, even using alphanumeric combinations.
I mean come on guys, do you know how many R2s there are just on this one space station? More than 1,296, I can assure you, and we find another one in a corner every time we tractor in a random cargo ship for "inspection". Don't get me started on the new BB series. How am I supposed to keep an accurate inventory of those?
This is making us look like absolute fools.
Make yourself immune to future security breaches by simply giving up having any personal information. I personally have not generated any data since 2016.
Aww yiss, forgot it was Ironheart night.
What a lovely evening.
