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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

….aaaand they’re OFF 🏁 #ASMR #OddlySatisfying IG: @marblebrosasmr youtube.com/@marblebros-...

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Kawaiicon @kawaiicon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Last chance to have your name on your badge! Double check you’ve grabbed your ticket and entered your handle (name) by the end of this weekend (Sunday 11th Oct). events.humanitix.com/kawaiicon-4/...

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Kawaiicon is one of the myriad technical computer security conferences in the Australia-Pacific region, and certainly the most adorable.

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/10/2026

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new photo from the iconic Mont Saint Michel near home 🙂 #photography #art #nature

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Andree Toonk @atoonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This weekend’s project: DPDK + WireGuard 🤓 I wired wireguard-go up to my packetio library and got a single tunnel to ~30M pps clean, peaking 40M pps. That’s 70× what kernel WireGuard can do! Wrote it all up here if you’re into that kind of thing: toonk.io/wireguard-dp...

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WireGuard at 40 Mpps with DPDK, in Go

Over the last few months, I’ve been spending a lot of time experimenting with high-performance packet processing in Go. A lot of that work turned into packetio, one Go API for sending and receiving pa...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/09/2026

everything you depend on in modern civilization is run by furries and that is an actual fact

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks to @queenoliviaiii.com I now know that the Wellington Public Library lends out CO2 meters! www.wcl.govt.nz/services/at-...

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CO2 meters

Borrow CO2 meters to monitor air quality and ensure a healthy environment.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it's kinda funny how the report is very insistent on "but it was only possible in these exact circumstances! only a millisecond either way and it might not have broken!!" rather than "almost every successful operation was a millisecond away from failure"

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 07/09/2026

No matter how much you hate the tech industry, you do not hate it enough. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...

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216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026

Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.

Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Until you mentioned it, Gumroad seemed fine. Now... not so much 😱 For those also finding out this way, Gumroad seems to have gone All AI, All the Time recently :-/ Apparently thanks to a new CEO. gumroad.com/gumclaw (via bsky.app/profile/lomg... from the thread linked elsewhere in this thread)

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was universally loved because she was a rich person who knew what it was like to be poor, stayed down to earth, and spent her life giving back to others who were less fortunate. The oligarchs who don’t understand why everyone hates them probably won’t learn from this. But they should

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patak @patak.cat · 25/08/2026

nitter.net is down. xcancel.com may go soon, too. all the respect to the folks at nitter for their services so far, but to be honest, X completely locking itself out of the web is probably a net positive for us all in the long term

Cease and desist
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters have been sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now.

Thank you to everyone who used, hosted, packaged, donated and contributed to Nitter over the past seven years.

— zedeus, 25 August 2026

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 20/08/2026

⚠️ A few hours ago, a malicious crate was discovered on crates.io which spread as a dependency of `arrayref` and some other crates, likely due to compromised credentials. The affected versions have been deleted. For details and how to see if you are impacted, see: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s...

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Supply chain attack on arrayref | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 09/08/2026

I'm watching this, and sure sure the agents coordinating is neat, but once again, WHY ARE WE CHILL WITH Artifactory HAVING SEVERAL RCEs, SSRFs, and unauthorized writes. Why are we chill with Hugging Face having RCEs. Why are we chill with GitHub having RCEs (unrelated, from April).

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gloriouscow.bsky.social @gloriouscow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The following emoji, pasted into a text editor and saved as a 141-byte COM file, will run as an executable in DosBox-X with options: cpu cputype=8086 machine cga 🐸☺️🐰🐎♐🗃️🧯🧯🧯🐮💗🦮🪏♐🐰🐹🗃️🧯🧯🧯🧯💗🪗🧯😗🧮🫪😗🧮😗🐮😪😔⭐ #retrocomputing #assembly #x86

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Kawaiicon @kawaiicon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Kia ora hacker friends, a reminder: Tickets are live: kawaiicon.org/news/ aaaaaand The CFP is still open (closing Friday 7th of August, NZST): kawaiicon.org/cfp/

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Birds New Zealand (OSNZ) @birdsnewzealand.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

News just in: H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) has arrived in NZ. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/h5-b... We encourage you to look out for groups of sick/dead birds and report these to the MPI hotline ☎️ 0800 80 99 66. To keep safe and support detection: www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity-...

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Jos Buurmans | New Zealand @josbuurmans.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Gold Shore, Blue Range - Lake Clearwater, Canterbury. One morning from several spent in the Ashburton Lakes. The full story is coming later this week. #photography #landscape #nz

Gold tussock hills and a stand of conifers on the shore of Lake Clearwater, Canterbury, reflected in still water beneath blue mountains under clearing storm light.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 22/06/2026

A security firm published a working exploit on June 18 that permanently breaks the security foundation of a large range of previous gen Apple iPhones, iPads, and Watches. It cannot be fixed with a software update, ever. The code is publicly available. Here’s what I surmise so far about the risk.

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Paradigm Shift - Introducing usbliter8

This write-up details a novel iPhone BootROM vulnerability discovered and exploited by our team. It covers the underlying bug, the associated exploitation techniques, and the post-exploitation steps r...

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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

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Dr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Something I would like from Bandcamp and similar sites: different email preferences for general band news and for hawking merch. I may buy your digital music online; I will not buy your physical products, especially since they might cost half as much again after shipping to the South Pacific.

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If anyone was following @nztankerwatch.bsky.social for updates on fuel sailing to Aotearoa, it looks like they've deactivated their account for some reason. Last posts I saw were late May 2026, all down now. I'm unsure when the account deactivated, or why 😢

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Christopher Harrison Photography @charrisonphotos.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The Fangorn LOTR vibes were strong from this ancient forest…

Beautiful sunbeams shine through the ancient trees of this forest in Madeira. Moss covered branches stretch out.

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 08/06/2026

This setting. This one right here. Go enable it on your GitHub actions settings. Right now.

A checked box next to “Require actions to be pinned to a full-length commit SHA”

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FabFilter @fabfilter.com · 04/06/2026

A song made with just white noise, Pro-Q and a bit of automation!

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this song has no instruments in it

YouTube video by Andy Brewer

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/06/2026

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

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Just one prompt and I got 50% of my whole month credits using Claude Sonnet 4.6.
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This is hilarious. For context I used the Copilot Orchestrator that has Condutor, Planning, Implementator and Code review agents. But with the new "usage based pricing", seems like this is not an ideal setup anymore?
Anyone has the same experience here? I am on Copilot Prot. This is so expensive.

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Love the new Copilot token system
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Last month I used ~60% of my quota in an entire month.
This month I've already used 25% on day one.
What an amazing improvement.

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First day of the new pricing model, I tried one prompt to just refine one of my existing change proposal, basically a conductor with few sub agents to update the existing change spec, architecture, test plan, prototype, tech spec and implementation plan.
About 20-30 mins task, ends up burning 16% of my monthly credits in one shot.
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Cinderella Mechanicus @hroethgar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This exact mechanism literally killed people in Australia. And using it for fraud detection in the UK Post killed people. Neither of those is an exaggeration.

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what was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

In 2022 when Christian Henson of Spitfire Audio came out in support of JK Rowling and Glinner, I did a video on how that hurt the trans community and beyond. Now it's 2026 and I felt the need to revisit it, because apathy keeps winning, and it sucks www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlS...

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The Price of Not Caring: Apathy and Consent in the Music Industry

YouTube video by Red Means Recording

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Looks like MBIE has conceeded that the Fuel Crisis is going to be a long term project, and moved fuel stock tracking to its own dedicated page. The URL doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but as a bonus they do provide CSV downloads now (next to each graph). www.mbie.govt.nz/building-and...

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Fuel stock and shipping updates | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

MBIE publishes the latest information on fuel stocks and shipping every Monday and Wednesday afternoon.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 10/05/2026

The FreeBSD team has patched a remote code execution in its operating system that impacts all versions released since 2005 Tracked as CVE-2026-42511, the vulnerability resides in the FreeBSD DHCP client and is extremely easy to exploit aisle.com/blog/aisle-d...

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 09/05/2026

If you would like to be able to vote in the InternetNZ board election this year, today is the joining deadline.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 05/05/2026

if human civilization manages to survive the Y2K38 apocalypse, it will surely end when we cross the MAX_SAFE_INTEGER horizon on June 5, 2255 at 23:47:34.740991 UTC

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 03/05/2026

Microsoft figured out a way to upset all the VS Code users: Add a comment to commits that says "co-authored by copilot" even when the feature is not used. github.com/microsoft/vs...

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Enabling ai co author by default by cwebster-99 · Pull Request #310226 · microsoft/vscode

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 29/04/2026

Copy Fail? Also looks like memory safety, but is actually complexity. xint.io/blog/copy-fa... I am going to link to this while rejecting changes to Go crypto for years. Anyway, feeling pretty validated in my "ssh in as root, only gVisor or Firecracker are an actual security boundary" approach.

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Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution - Xint

Xint Code disclosed CVE-2026-31431, an authencesn scratch-write bug chaining AF_ALG + splice() into a 4-byte page cache write. A 732-byte PoC gets root on Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RHEL, SUSE. | AI for Se...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 29/04/2026

This is the ideal user interface. You may not like it, but this is what peak UX looks like.

A screenshot of the retro Amiga music tracker software OctaMED Professional v4.00 during active playback. The classic gray and black pixelated interface features a complex control panel at the top with various buttons for playback, file management, and instruments, showing a BPM of 125. The central area displays four vertical channels of scrolling alphanumeric musical data, showing notes like "F-2" and "C-3" alongside numeric values. Superimposed over this text data are four colorful, glowing vertical volume meters (ranging from green to red) and a dynamic pink waveform line, visually indicating the music is currently playing. At the very bottom, two small red bar-graph audio spectrum visualizers monitor the output.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Arch - Crystal Palace Photos looking down the stairs at Crystal Palace London Overground Station. I love the long shadows stretching across the platform. Featuring Andreya

Silhouette photo looking down stairs at crystal palace

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/04/2026

… are fucking kidding me. A github.com cross-account RCE due to the most pedestrian of injection attacks along the obvious exposed surface… and they actually have a globally shared “git” UNIX user!! This is not what taking the role of supply chain stewards seriously looks like.

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GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown | Wiz Blog

A CVSS 8.7 vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote code execution. Read the threat brief and find vulnerable GHES instances from Wiz.

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"Numbers show small revisions due to amended returns from fuel companies" in MBIE's fuel report today seems to mean "1 day of petrol" (last report 29.5 in country; today previous 30.5, both for 2026-04-19 levels). Presumably someone's "off by one" somewhere 🤔 (Internet Archive links in alt text)

MBIE Fuel Stock Update published 2026-04-22, showing in-country Petrol at 29.5 days as of 2026-04-19

From https://web.archive.org/web/20260423025046/https://www.mbie.govt.nz/about/news/fuel-stocks-update

2026-04-27 MBIE report on Fuel stock, showing previous petrol stock as of 2026-04-19 as 30.5 days of petrol in-country, an increase of 1 day since the actual previous report.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260427075238/https://www.mbie.govt.nz/about/news/fuel-stocks-update

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Does anyone know who was runing the nz-fuel netlify site? It looks like it was last updated a week ago (2026-04-16), based on a MBIE report from 4 days earlier (2026-04-12), reporting on data from another 4 days earlier (2026-04-08) :-/ Or another current site? nz-fuel.netlify.app/assumptions

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Assumptions & Sources — NZ Fuel Supply Security Model

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Ewen McNeill @ewenmcneill.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Seems like there's been too much Bluesky Status recently for the host of their status page 😬 (And/or the status page is also being DDoSed 🤔)

Bluesky Server Status in app post saying:

<video error> We are seeing elevated errors and timeouts on video uploads, and are investigating.

With a link to:

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com · 21/04/2026

It will be interesting to see where fuel prices go in the coming weeks and how closely/quickly they track crude prices. In MBIE's latest fuel stock update, on-shore diesel stock slipped below 20 days. Worth noting: retail price data is 11 days old, and fuel stock data is 6 days old.

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