Ben

@benphegan
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Every election, we've made a video to help voters understand how our preferential voting system works. This is for the 2025 election. Good luck Australia! #auspol https://youtu.be/zXHq04W0kBs
Honest Government Ad | How to vote (2025 edition)

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*KICKS DOOR DOWN*

Hey everyone! Hate AI web crawlers? Have some spare CPU cycles you want to use to punish them?

Meet Nepenthes!

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes

This little guy runs nicely on low power hardware, and generates an infinite maze of what appear to be static files with no exit links. Web crawlers will merrily hop right in and just .... get stuck in there! Optional randomized delay to waste their time and conserve your CPU, optional markovbabble to poison large language models.
Nepenthes - ZADZMO.org

Making web crawlers eat shit since 2023

BREAKING: The Labor and Liberal parties may not agree on much but when it comes to introducing a new law that ensures taxpayer funding for their election campaigns under the guise of stopping Clive Palmer, but which will actually stop newcomers from competing with them, you can be sure they'll pass it and lock in the two party system by Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3WTlyuhDs0
Honest Government Ad | How to rig elections

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Because they bring me such joy, I will share with you all the software testing videos I share with my Software Design and Development students.

Video 1/3: “We don’t need user testing! We already know our users”

So we got a takedown notice from Tasmania's Electoral Commission after it received a complaint - from somebody 🤔🤔 - claiming our latest Honest Government Ad breached the Electoral Act by showing a photo of the Tasmanian Premier. In a stirical video. One week out from an election. Apparently you can go to jail for that in Tasmania. Cool and normal. #politas
The Tasmanien Government has made a tourism ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfcqCdGqjWQ
Honest Government Ad | Visit Tasmania!

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Monday - Ian

Tuesday - Greg

Wednesday - Ian

Thursday - Greg

Friday - Ian

Saturday - Greg

Sunday - Ian

The Gregorian Calendar

I built a StableDiffusion app for iOS to generate images using StableDiffusion: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/el-pintador/id6443884985

It took me about six weeks to write, and about two weeks to learn the ins and outs of in app purchases and getting the app approved :-)

‎El Pintador

‎AI Artist in your pocket El Pintador makes creating art with artificial intelligence as easy as using your phone! Simply tell El Pintador what you would like to see and watch as the AI generates beautiful new art right before your eyes. With easy to follow lessons and a gallery of samples, El Pint…

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