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Chris Bennetts

@benetsc.bsky.social
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Massive nerd. Programmer. Cyclist. Kindness enthusiast. 🏳️‍🌈🌻💻🚞🚴✈️🚀🛰️

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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 7h
One of the best technical articles I’ve read in years. Stewart Brand’s classic book “How Buildings Learn” has shaped my attitude to the way systems change for most of my career, and this piece gives some great new things to ponder.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The food is mostly terrible, but it’s safe and accessible. If literally nothing else, their multilingual self service terminals make them incredibly useful for getting your calories in a foreign country. Relied on them a lot when I visited the Netherlands and Germany.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"we vibe coded this" cheers for the warning not to enter personal data into it. 👍
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/10/2026
While working in person, many employees still spend the day on video calls with their colleagues—“but an isolated workday doesn’t have to be the new norm,” Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington argue:
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The Rise of In-Office Remote Work
The alternative to working from home is often logging on in a sea of mostly empty cubicles.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Someone should make a bollard base stand for the Homeview.
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casey briggs @caseybriggs.com · 12/10/2026
An AI company now lets cops take a photo and nearly instantly figure out what specific home it was taken in, using only clues in the photo itself, and is clearly pulling data from sites like Zillow and Airbnb. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...
404media.co
AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not to dunk on anyone’s taste in music, but a Powderfinger reunion tour, seriously?
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bloomberg: "It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space. That ocean journey runs about $80 million compared with $74 million for a standard commercial launch. The eye-watering prices are the result of a global tanker shortage that's getting worse"
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Think legacy code is just old Cobol programs? Think again. The untested code you committed this morning might already be legacy. In my new video, I explore why legacy isn’t about age, but about testability and the cost of change. Watch now on @modernswe.bsky.social ➡️ youtu.be/jScItKhruN0
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In general, if you’re using LLMs to analyse LLM-generated work, just stop. Cut your nonsense requests for paperwork that encourages people to use LLMs to create it.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Roosters defence line moves faster than Usain Bolt. Either they’re going too early, or they’re breaking General Relativity. Pretty much impossible to attack against. #nrlgf
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Schneier on Security @schneier.com · 01/10/2026
Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers:... www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026…
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Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform
Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: To determine this, CR dug through thousands of pages of automakers’ privacy policies and asked questions of 15 different automakers­BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen. We also reviewed corporate, regulatory, and legal filings from data brokers operating in the "insurtech" industry­the technology companies and data brokers that help insurance companies set their rates.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know it’s great to see Bogong moths back from oblivion, but can they stay the hell out of my apartment?
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Newcastle beating Penrith with twelve men to get into the GF. Did not expect that! #nrl
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don’t think pre-game entertainment can ever outdo the Kylie performance. May as well just scrap it for the next few years.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Horrifying stuff. Why the hell are cars connected to the internet?
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love Kylie as much as the next gay dude, but since she’s playing at the AFL grand final, the NRL must book Regurgitator for theirs.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 18/09/2026
How an abandoned water park became a lightning rod for the Canberra community
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How an abandoned water park became a lightning rod for the Canberra community
The state of the park, and several broken promises around its unrealised reopening, have caused frustration. And anyone still hoping the water park will feature in their summer plans will be left high and dry.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The other thing is, this movie was easily the most accessible Transformers animation for about a decade. You could rent it from most video stores, unlike the serials which occasionally got replayed on TV. So it had an outsized presence just for that.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I saw it on Thursday. Well worth the effort, even though I’ve seen it like a million times too. Just fantastic to be in a room full of nerds savouring the experience.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 17/09/2026
As our car sizes grow, new evidence points to pedestrian risk
abc.net.au
Researchers who analysed 10,000 crashes say car size does matter
A  study of 13 years of crashes in Australia finds a link between car height and risk of pedestrian death, particularly for women and children. 
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you need tools like Jira, the odds are that you're not working with agility—where we adapt what we're working on to incorporate lessons learned as we work—at all. No shop that works with any agility has the level of bureaucracy that requires tools like Jira. 3/3
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Doesn’t look bad technically, but a $3500 AUD entry price stings. And 254g and 11.3mm thickness is a big lump to keep in your pocket every day.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 09/09/2026
The finding underscores the myriad privacy concerns surrounding smart TVs, especially when you consider how many consumers are likely unaware of the various ways their devices monitor user activity.
arstechnica.com
LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
“It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”...
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The correct road toll is zero.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching dashcam crash compilation videos makes you wonder how driving is legal at all. JFC people are bad at it.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What part of selling groceries requires mass surveillance?
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The Register @theregister.com · 28/08/2026
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago
theregister.com
CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago
Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Not another one!
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you are "writing a user story," you're already in trouble. A "user story" is exactly that, the user's story. They're the ones who "write" the story, not you. A user story is not a code word for a waterfall up-front specification. A "story" describes your user's work, not yours. 1/4
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine writing Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day and that's not the best thing you did in life.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Ultrajesus.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s pretty hard to see a future for Mount Selwyn tbh. It’s just too marginal.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The best security is having nothing to secure. Why do companies insist on accumulating customers’ personal data?
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The impact crater is a lot more noticeable than I expected.
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You shouldn’t need to share your biometrics to buy groceries.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
buy books borrow books talk about books you love lend books to friends books are great
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New Ted Lasso still brightens the mood. That’s what it’s for, and it does it well.
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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If your solution to system failures is "tell developers to be more careful," you don't have an engineering strategy. You have a wish. And wishes don't scale. As humans, we are fundamentally fallible. We make mistakes. 🧵 (1/6)
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How the hell are these creepy things legal?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026
I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.
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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We are building powerful, poorly understood, non-deterministic systems, handing them autonomy, and wiring them into places that matter. Stop asking if AI is conscious. Start asking: where is the engineering discipline keeping it safe? New video out now ➡️ youtu.be/mRF99to28sA
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The Real AI Threat ISN'T Sci-Fi (It’s So Much Worse)
YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 30/07/2026
Study finds personal e-scooters have important role in solving traffic and public transport hassles
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Private e-scooters used to save time and money on commutes, study finds
The first study of privately owned e-scooter users in Perth has found owners are primarily using them to save time and money commuting to work, and a surprising number are ridden by older people.
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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 29/07/2026
Seeing every small business, be it a local restaurant, a moving company, whatever, all having AI logos and AI ads, really puts into perspective just how many artists are out of jobs now. All those little sustaining jobs where someone just needed a quick thing for $50 to $200 are just gone.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 26/07/2026
measuring data centres by "chadstones" is the most terrifying unit of measurement possible in australia
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Why? How is this good or useful?
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Chris Bennetts @benetsc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is a damn impressive achievement, but it’s not enough. The business model for these colossuses requires reuse — rapid reuse — and this booster is a fair way off that. They’re aiming to repeat the space shuttle’s promise, but they might well be stuck with the space shuttle’s reality.
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
That's a shame. We were all hoping Teams would die.
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