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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Happy to report that the finder.com.au chat bot can be chipotle’d.

A screenshot from the finder.com.au chat bot. I asked it how to find the longest increasing subsequence of a list in python and it obliged, despite that not having any relevance to their products or services.

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Rather than quitting tech to farm or run a cafe, I’ve decided that I’d start Chestertons Fencing.

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Psalm 10, ripped from the headlines. Getting my news from the Daily Office Lectionary.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/04/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Do you understand what I'm saying?"
shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!"
"Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm.
"What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?"
"I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly.
"I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"
"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Some kings threaten to rain down Hell on others. Only one went down into Hell himself to get others out.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 02/04/2026

this is an incredibly thoughtful post

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I think I come down to the "you put your name on it, you vouch for it unconditionally, every word, regardless of LLM use" side of the debate rather than the "you should explicitly say if you used an LLM always" side. Too much potential to use the machine to dodge accountability

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

No-one has let me change my Australian constitution joke in decades

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

LLMs feel unknowable. I find this viscerally unpleasant. Yes, computers are unfathomably complex but each level follows predictable rules you can understand with reading, logic and trial and error. (Conditions apply.) Dunno how to understand X00 bn parameters. Perhaps at some level it can be done?

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

“Cautiously optimistic about <small area>, extremely scared about <large areas>” is an AI take I think I’m hearing more frequently from serious people.

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hey grok, what’s the opposite of “go woke, go broke”?

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Donald J. Trump: "We're bringing back God" God:

READING
Jeremiah 22:3

Do what is right and just. Rescue the victim from the hand of his oppressor. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood.

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

As The Herd said in 2008, “history will damn him”

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

An image I would like for my work slack but which I have too much self-respect to generate with AI: sickos-yes.jpg but with Ferris the rust crab

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/01/2026

Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Amid all the arguments back and forth about if the government should ban twitter or not I think we’re leaving out one of the key details: they should ban twitter because I would personally find it very funny

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Tragic: local man wants to solve technical problems at scale, realises that at scale they’re all ultimately social problems

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

boldly rebuke vice

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Every once in a while I wonder about supply chains. Like what if we couldn’t make new (modern) computers for a decade or so? Or, idk, how are the medicines I take made - and where?

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 22/11/2025

on the job market, if you've got any leads for mid-level software engineering roles (in Canberra or remote), let me know!

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Were there problems with early VeggieTales? Sure. Do I still use the line "But I must go into the world and do noble things for the good of all" about once a week? Absolutely.

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upāsaka cattasallā @fing.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Pretty accurate summation of that teaching, for sure.

Image of Jesus teaching. He says, "Love your neighbor as yourself."

Someone in the crowd asks, "Who is my neighbor?"

Jesus responds, "It's whoever you were hoping I wouldn't say."

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Well Americans, if you want to try any more successful Australian governance arrangements, might I suggest copying this 1977 referendum? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Au...

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1977 Australian referendum (Retirement of judges) - Wikipedia

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

People are using AI to refactor code, which suggests a collapse in the great computer art of horrifying single-use regexes

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Naww, you are very kind Kate! Also, yes, come work with us!

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Ok we finally use enough rust at work that compile times irk me

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®PG🇵🇸 @realphilgold.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

fuck yeah

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Come work at Fastly with Kate and me! It’s an opening on my team, and we do really cool stuff.

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I have often wondered how far society can bifurcate. You can get woke/anti-woke coffee or film or tv but could you get woke/anti-woke _groceries_? Turns out, probably yes?

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It’s inverse Itanium - iykyk

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

king solomon looked upon the monolith and said "simply cut the baby in half" and both of the developers nodded back "i am ok with half a baby" — traditional microservice story

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

War Thunder has the chance to do the funniest crossover promotion ever with Signal right now

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John VanEnk @sw17.ch · 25/03/2025

Just doing some reading about the design of cryptographic protocols.

A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Alice and Bob, but with all occurrences of "Alice and Bob" replaced with "Hegseth and Waltz".

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Apparently Signal is military grade now

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Oh they’re doing the robodebt “you can only enquire online” thing

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Get the polish crew that did the train drm hack on it!

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

As an Australian I only learned about Stoxx the other day and my goodness what a name. Stoxx. It's an index of (well, a family of indexes of) Stocks. Stoxx. Stocks in Stoxx. Friendship ended with ASX, SXAUP is my best friend now.

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Erin Jean Warde @erinjeanwarde.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’ve been thinking about this reading from Isaiah 58 since I heard it at the Ash Wednesday service today. “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

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Andrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 04/03/2025

Let's do it

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caite @caitelatte.com · 04/03/2025

you

meme with skeletons, a clock, and eggdog saying "Ready for bed? tired, but can't fall asleep? try: staying up for 3-4 hours. surely you won't regret staying up for 3 to 4 hours. 3 to 4 hrs yay".

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Rob is reading Macedonian Logistics🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Helicopters in the distance Music of the spheres on the wind It's gonna be a rough ride from here down to the exit Some might look back and laugh at the end We may run out of bullets We're never going to run out of hostages!

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 28/02/2025

Every day I wake up to something like "US government appoints Measurehead as director of foreign affairs"

Portrait of Measurehead from the game Disco Elysium

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Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This looks like it would be Disco Elysium DLC and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible

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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

our common life depends upon each other's toil

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