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Adon Metcalfe

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Parent of 2 kids & a public servant striving for an open, collaborative government that respects privacy Perth, Western Australia At home I run linux (#bluefin, #bazzite) […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.lol/@adonm, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Howdy! I have a client that's hiring a data engineer (ideally with Snowflake experience, but they'll take anyone smart enough to figure it out) in Canberra. I can arrange for the automated screens and the like to be skipped, and the interviews will not have any leetcode-style nonsense. I've […]
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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Discovered today that I have so many subscribers to the blog that trying to see who is subscribed crashes Mataroa GLOBALLY for 10 seconds then returns a 502 I only check once a year because I don't care, but suddenly I care about because of the comedic value
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
We are leaving so much knowledge by the wayside...
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ari :ariYeah: @fedi.arimelody.space · 30/08/2026
discord pinned messages: mae: "y'all sleeping on grafana porn"
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
the SOC team after all the network IoCs disappear
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
With no further comments: hackerone.com/reports/3955945
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curl disclosed on HackerOne: curl_share TOCTOU > RCE via...
## Summary: `CURLSH` (the curl share handle) allows multiple easy handles to share state — cookies, DNS cache, SSL sessions, connection cache — across threads. The share is protected by optional...
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Delta Chat @delta.chat · 18/08/2026
We're flattered! @digitalcourage, one of the oldest digital rights organizations in Germany, just recommended using #deltachat They included a fantastic, well-structured article in German on how to get started, with lots of good background info for those who seek it […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
I've only really seen Pivot to AI pick up on this, but Hank Green has some tangental involvement with "Effective Alturists." One big aspect of Effective altruism (EA) is AI doomerism. AI is a world changing technology they believe and we need to take it seriously in *that* way or ... terrible […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
i’m not going to accuse Hank Green or Taylor Lorenz or others of a similar ilk of being “schills for AI” —because they aren’t. I think they’re honestly trying to process the new technology *however* it is clear that they spend a lot of time talking to people whose heads are chock block full […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
The world would be a much better place if everyone had easy access to infinity's doorstep, to realize how small we are, how unique and fragile our pale blue dot is. You don't need a trip on a billionaire's rocket to get the "overview effect." You can do it by finding dark sky access, which is […]
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David Adam @zanchey.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
RE: eigenmagic.net/@sendai/117053049747… I'm three weeks into a trip around Australia, and Starlink is _everywhere_. I see the little white squares on the dash of every third campervan or vehicle towing a caravan. In the caravan park tonight I can see fifty or more SSIDs from my […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
@WorldTravelerAll7 I'm asking because there is a kid in Iran who is depressed because they can't go outside and identify bug. (there are other things to be depressed about but I find this young person's choice of focus in an obvious crisis very relatable and I want to help them) iNaturalist […]
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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
Wiz found a master key that could access **every** database in Azure's Cosmos DB. #cosmosescape Whoops. nitter.net/yuvalavra/status/2082864…
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
I turned off personalized ads for YouTube and now all the ads are for sports gambling and chewing tobacco
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
I wrote about Tiger Pajamas, which is going into cold storage for the foreseeable future. I cannot recommend enough making cool things with your friends. giammattei.co/blog/a-brief-history-…
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A Brief History of Tiger Pajamas
An overview of the web agency that I ran with my friends
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kravietz 🦇 @kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
A popular argument among Western tankies and “political realists” raised since 2000’s and even more now: > The West humiliated #Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence In reality, what most humiliated Russia in 1991 - and all nations part of USSR - was the diehard ideological […]
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
oh and it's on vercel for some reason? what was I thinking
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Adon Metcalfe @adonm.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
“Jewish Food and China” Cadence Gao www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ts_6WzGEX8 from “Chinese or NOT 中餐”: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvfH… #ChineseFood #JewishFood #FoodHistory #CadenceGao
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Renaud Chaput @renchap.oisaur.com · 25/07/2026
@jerry Yes, the author archives the project as nobody was supporting him after he was laid off from his full-time job that let him work on the project. This made some companies "discover" that they were quite reliant and the project and start sending money, and he was able to start working on it […]
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Adon Metcalfe @adonm.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
A new RTS game, for programmers? // Nic Barker and Anton Mikhailov (Handmade Network Expo 2026) > Ostrich Effect is a game studio from Anton Mikhailov and Nic Barker, currently developing the strategy game INSTRUCTOBOTS: www.ostricheffect.com […]
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Adon Metcalfe @adonm.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
Engineering behind PS Move Tracking - Anton Mikhailov with Ben Visness | Wookash Podcast “If you were ever curious about how 6DOF tracking works or what it takes to take ‘an idea’ all the way to ‘product’…” www.youtube.com/watch?v=961jsHqhkCI… #AntonMikhailov […]
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Adon Metcalfe @adonm.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out! - Filip Pizlo | SSW 2026 “Fil-C is a fanatically compatible memory-safe implementation of C and C++. Lots of software compiles and runs with Fil-C with zero or minimal changes.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek… #FilC […]
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Adon Metcalfe @adonm.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
“We never gave permission. My grandfather couldn’t even speak English when they built the base. We weren’t asked.” Arrernte Traditional Owners and supporters are calling for Pine Gap’s closure, the return of Kuyunba, and reparations […]
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
Every time we do tummy time with the baby he makes this exact face
Walter white in agony
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Maartje @maartje.dev · 19/07/2026
Congratulations Spain on winning the Eurovision Song Contest 🥳
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Adon Metcalfe @adonm.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
#karnivool in #perth🤘(opened by #carbomb and #tesseract)
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? Here ya go: hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-ev… I now only rarely work behind the doors of companies doing major tech deployments so won’t comment on how accurate-vs-overblown this piece is, but the writing is lucid.
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
RE: mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/1169… Man that hermit site sure looks nice
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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
This is what happened next, after Donald Trump said: "I give you evidence of widespread election fraud" according to a #PoliticalCartoon by Nick Anderson:
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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
A recent Ringling College film school graduate got in touch with me asking to take photos to fortify her portfolio. Aside from the usual headshots, she took very cool photos of random things in my studio that I thought it would be fun to share, to give an […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Two wooden shelves filled with various colored fired clay samples. The bottom shelf has little round "cookies" of clay in stacks and tiny pinch pots. The colors range from off white to orange to dark red and even dark purple. The top shelf is packed full of test tiles that have been brushed with different terra sigillata, showing various earth tones with cracked, shiny, satin and matte surfaces. The wall in the background is blue-green.My two work tables are in the foreground showing pottery and supplies everywhere. A pedestal bowl stands on one of the tables and plastic buckets are crowded underneath. Behind the tables you can see my full-size electric kiln with a tall, unfired sculptural vase sitting on top. I am in the background toward the center standing in the area where I prepare glazes and terra sigillata. My back is to the camera as I work at a metal table. Above me are shelves filled with glaze materials organized in buckets and mason jars full of various tones of terra sigillata. There is a work sing to my right. A colorful curtain to the far right hides our washer and dryer.A closer shot of my terra sigillata self filled with dozens of mason jars labeled with masking tape and sharpie. The colors of solution in the jars range from dark pink to orange to brown to mustard yellow and olive green. They sit on a heavy duty wooden shelf with a blue-green wall in the background.A blue 5 gallon bucket filled with reclaimed clay. These are clay scraps from trimming and carving that are soaking in water and will be dried on a plaster slab until it becomes a plastic consistency that I can rework into new pieces of pottery. The color of the clay is orange-brown. There are other plastsic buckets and plastic bags to the left and a concrete floor in the background.
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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI." People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate […]
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
A cat in a necktie saying “hope I don’t have a lot of meetings” in front of a building labeled “lots of meetings factory”
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug and psychosis. Try being an immigrant American living somewhere with social medical and telling people it’s actually good and less expensive. The bots and naysayers come screaming out of the woodwork to try to make excuses for why it’s actchully terrible.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
[selfie, muppet, silly] Everything is terrible. Maybe silliness will help? My sister gave me this shirt a while ago and I just found it. Why haven't I worn this before, it's awesome!! And I have to show off that I have a matching clock, made by my granddad […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Me smiling awkwardly at the camera, wearing a blue shirt with Cookie Monster's giant head and huge googly eyes on it.  I'm holding a wall clock that's shaped like Cookie Monster, with the face of the clock as his belly.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026
Internet Ethics Corner with Abadidea: There is an important difference between lists of things you think are good and lists of things you think are bad. There is a PROFOUND difference when the list is of people or groups of people by name. Putting specific real people on ideological sinner […]
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Cr Sky @cr-sky.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
#TownofVicPark Mayor Vernon put forward an amendment to reduce from the advertised 5% rate rise to 3.5%. I noted that staff estimates are that for the highest-rated residential properties, this is a saving of about $80/year. For residential properties at the median, it's under $30/year. For […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
I’ve been thinking a lot about my recent geographic mobility. For the last eight years, as an adult immigrant to the U.S. stuck to one job and one visa, I didn’t have it. Before, I was extremely geographically mobile. I was based in Singapore and, like most tech professionals based in […]
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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
I got tired of debugging SIP fax lines manually and annoying Marrold with dumb questions and my own stupidity. So I made this. It receives a fax, analyses the data and audio from it, and looks for common flamingo-ups like G711 alaw and ulaw mismatches or lossy […] [Original post on digipres.club]
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
What do I always say? Always read Myra Saefong. I've been reminding people that the oil clock never stopped ticking, and Saefong - as always - has the numbers. They are... bad. Extrapolating from July 3 numbers based on the average drawdown since this clusterfuck started, the US is likely […]
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 10/07/2026
when the @lisamelton repost hits
wave off kanagawa but its cookie monster
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