Mathew McBride

Howzat! Down to the wire! That's twice this week my heartrate has been raised in the last over... #BBL15 #GETONRED

That was entertainment! Finally something good for team red #BBL15 #GETONRED

SES ASTRA 1A & 1B promotional video ~1991 YouTube video by Maciej Mokros

Check out this retro treasure: The early 90's promo reel for the Astra satellite TV service (Europe). The retro idents (7:50 onwards) and music is just delightful! It's great to see them describe the science and tech behind DTH TV as well
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wo6...

And the next one undershot with the drivers cab stopped at door 1 instead of 20.. it moved again and the PSDs worked

It pulled in very slowly too, must have been fully manual?

After the stoppage due to the fire alarm at South Yarra, the next Sunbury bound train at Anzac has overshot very slightly and did not reverse to align with the PSDs. They couldn't get the doors open so it's going to skip Anzac and go to Town Hall #metrotunnel

15 years ago when I was a UniMelb student and Royal Parade resident, I would've loved this. All the talk about the #metrotunnel sounded like an eternity away

The most joyous crossover #metrotunnel

(Sound on!) #metrotunnel

I'm on! The first train from Sunbury is quite full but still some standing room left.. #metrotunnel

Making the trek out to Sunbury to be on the first #metrotunnel service!

The "Running Up that Hill" cover! Bring it back, it deserves more air time ❤️

There's always something eyecatching in the fridge!

interface TenGigabitEthernet0/0/1.1280334 description AVC000<REDACTED> encapsulation dot1Q 128 second-dot1q 334 ip unnumbered Loopback3 ip helper-address 10.100.123.171 ip helper-address 10.100.123.172 no ip redirects no ip unreachables ipv6 enable ipv6 mtu 1500 ipv6 nd managed-config-flag ipv6 nd other-config-flag ipv6 nd ra mtu suppress ipv6 dhcp relay destination 2401:2520:9001::171 ipv6 dhcp relay destination 2401:2520:9001::172 ipv6 dhcp relay option vpn service-policy type control ISG-CUSTOMERS-POLICY service-policy output proteus-1280334-output ip subscriber l2-connected initiator dhcp end Policy Map proteus-1280334-output Class class-default police cir 1000000000 bc 31250000 conform-action transmit exceed-action drop

I've changed ISPs from AussieBB to Neptune (on the way to 2Gbit). Their customer portal has a feature that outputs the interface config ('show interface TenGigabitEthernetX/X/X') on their BNG. I think I'm having a nerdgasm! Some of the other options are nice-to-have's too...

Good analysis about Optus D3<->MEV-1 from Jim Shell: t.co/yGdpQJcdBH

Plot of Optus D2 communication satellite altitude, showing it moving to a higher orbit from July 29 onwards. It reached around 36,000km by the end of August.

While looking at the Optus fleet, Optus D2 has gone to heaven (graveyard orbit) during August. Optus D1 is still up at 152E (>2deg incline) #satellite
www.satcat.com/sats/32252

It looks like the MEV-1 TLE is no longer updated, so n2yo is showing month old data. MEV-1 is very likely still docked to D3. Two different sites show no updates since the 1st of August www.satcat.com/sats/44625 and orbit.ing-now.com/satellite/44...

Has MEV-1 undocked from Optus D3 already? According to the FCC filings, the planned duration was 7 months. Done in 3. www.n2yo.com?s=35756|4462...
(Left to right: Optus 10, D3, MEV-1. D3's inclination has gone from 1deg to almost 0) #space #satellite

Us Australians were finally blessed with an Australian @wtofficial.bsky.social tour earlier in the year, but I am so glad that I went and saw them at Wacken. You haven't lived until you see your favourite band at a MEGA sized gig! It made all the BS with the mud worth it. #woa2025

Jever > Krombacher

I just could not drink Krom all day. Fell in love with Bemble instead (I was advertised to, and I liked it!) #wacken #woa2025

Extraction successful. They actually did something about the path to the shuttle area! #woa2025

Just stumbled across these guys on the Wasteland stage. I like what I see! #woa2025

Photo of a large and growing 'lake' at the Wacken World metal camp site. There has been a few people who needed to relocate and more displacement is inevitable.

The World Metal Camp lake just keeps getting bigger and bigger 😬 #wacken #woa2025

In Australia, we send kids to 'school camps' during school term to learn useless outdoor skills. Bugger that, we should send them to #wacken during a wet week. Here's a tent, €250 for F&B and the set list. Good luck! #woa2025

The weather today.. does not look good 😬 #wacken

Waterproof hiking boots have been my best investment for #BelgianGP and #wacken. Happily I haven't had to deploy the gumboots yet!

On the way, it's already raining 😅 #wacken

Wikipedia has a photo of 33c3 (2016) which I also attended. Such a magical time!
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_C...

I'm staying (on my way to #wacken in the hotel next to CCH, site of many Chaos Communucations Congresses. 10 years ago at 31c3 I stood at the doors and saw snow for the first time (I'm Australian, snow is not normal for us). There were a couple of other folks next to me experiencing the same :)

Bit late to tell me about an AirTag, Samsung! (I keep an AirTag in my luggage and carry around an old iPhone to 'track' it. Most of the time the iPhone is off, so my Galaxy S will alert about it sometimes)