Rubenerd

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21:27 – Clark and Dawe, fronts of tankers falling off, fronts of financial systems falling off, fronts of cars falling off, fronts of moose (mooses? moosii?) falling off, and other related ruminations. This episode would have been longer, but the front fell off.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released February 2016 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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Let that sink in. I can’t yet, it doesn’t feel real. Weren’t we just watching the fireworks last weekend?

GitHub had an outage last week, sending Earth’s developers into a frantic mess of confusion. Predictably, there were those opining that “Git is decentralised though!!1!eleventy!”, conveniently forgetting the second part of the name.

Such is the value of this site, even government attempts to censor it have failed for economic reasons. Take this piece by Thomas Claburn in Information Week:

Chinese authorities block large websites like Facebook and certain Google services without much blowback. But GitHub is different. With only 3 million users and 5 million code repositories, it punches above its weight as measured in users. GreatFire.org founder Martin Johnson — a pseudonym used for protection — observes in his post that cutting off GitHub affects too many Chinese technology businesses, making the site too important to block.

John Carney asked on Twitter if there were any bigger singer point of failure on the internet. Without getting into networking, I said AWS, though we later agreed that generally only goes offline in certain regions.

Clearly GitHub needs availability zones :)

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52:35 – Anyone will tell you it’s a prison island, hidden in the summer for a million years. Happy Australia Day with this discussion of what should be the anthem, Captain Cook, our native peoples, where we all live, cliche Australian tourism advertising, Outback Steakhouse, and humbling flights over the desert. Topped off with a Midnight Citizen-inspired discussion on rapidly fading music and book retail (Coconuts, Borders, Angus & Robertson, Tower Records, HMV in Singapore, the magical late 1990s), and the darn space all those books and DVDs take up. Released late because work has been tough, hope it was worth it!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released January 2016 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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The Overnightscape Central is a fun weekly podcast hosted by the illustrious PQ Ribber. Hosts and listeners of The Overnightscape Underground participate in a topic each week, and you’re welcome to join.

02:01:44 – Clara, Doc, Frank, and Ruben are here!! Depending which reality you patch in from, anything else may be dubious.

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49:25 – Spicy Thai food, student housing mates, finding out we have Danish relatives, IKEA trips (the wonderful new cafes, custom tables, impulse purchasing), the coffee triangle, remembering David Bowie and Alan Rickman (mix tapes, fabulousness, ultimate villains), stupid things said about their passing (keeping their sicknesses a “secret”, that they “looked” healthy), re-recording episodes, jobs, and the ever-elusive letterbox key from strata.

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released January 2016 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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40:26 – A mini heatwave and monsoon, psychological torture, taking the stairs in lieu of lifts, Sydney’s expensive New Year fireworks, late 1990s DirectX graphics, feeling like the world is a simulation, viewing empty skylines, nihilism and being the only real person, beautiful bird sounds, evening storms, taxis targeting pedestrians, a sufficiently vast universe to harbour other life, evolution, holodecks, philosophical honesty, rendering the world around humans, the observer effect, and that darn Star Trek Prime Directive!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released January 2016 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.

I know, right? I read the above subject line in my inbox, and heaved a sigh of relief for all those Dick Smith employees so uncertain about their future. Being told the company you’re working for has suddenly gone into receivership would have been pretty scary.

Big Bash League franchise Melbourne Stars has scored Optus as a jersey sponsor just one day after incumbent Dick Smith went into receivership.

Oh. Never mind.

Speaking of spam, this was another I got yesterday:

My name is,  Ian Potts !
Resume attached,I am looking forward to hearing from you
Sincerely Yours
Ian Potts

Ian Potts.zip.exe

Hi,  Ian Potts !
Nice to,Hear from you
You Are Not  A Bot
Ruben Schade

I think I have a new favourite character name.