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Nothing I say can or should be held against me. Dutch in Aotearoa. Professional computer booper at MetService. PythonNZ committee member. Mooing as a Service […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ cloudisland.nz/@Firesphere, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Holy crap. Today I learned about a #Dutch phone provider, that "records its users and has it analyzed through #Claude" But now, they're also going to record the person that is being called. WITHOUT INFORMING THEM. And, according to the CEO, this is within the legal boundaries of Dutch law. WTF? […]
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 8h
If you are in #Wellington, you should grab a #bratwurst roll from #salute pies! 🤤
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Oh hurray! My #2Degrees mobile bill is going up with NZ$2/month! But, to give me a taster of what's changing, the new extra minutes is active immediately, so now I have unlimited calls to NZ & Aussie, instead of the old and boring unlimited calls to NZ & Aussie!
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Every time I work from home, I'm so tempted to just use my own laptop and #Linux to do things, but I also don't want to put work stuff on my personal laptop
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Reminder that April is procrastination month.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
It's starting! The #bubble! It is starting to loose stability! #AI www.404media.co/character-ais-bankr…
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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
The idea of a #photo page on my site, with a somewhat-random photo that I'll change out every so often appealed to me. So, I made a photo page. Thanks to Robert Birming for the idea! firesphere.dev/articles/photo?mtm_c…
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A Photo page
Robert Birming wrote about a /photo page. And I like that idea. Just a photo, of something. And every now and then, update it.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
A #cat standoff with a window in between
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@mntmn fair call
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@mntmn Do you have written up somewhere how your blocking is set up?
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
As predicted. #BitWarden changes to a commercial license. A start of #Enshittification, and selling-out. community.bitwarden.com/t/published… We predicted this […]
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@collectifission firesphere.dev/articles/bitwarden-s…
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BitWarden seems to sell itself out
As Jan Lukas wrote, and as Patrick wrote, and as Kev Quirk wrote, it really does look like BitWarden, the go-to password manager since LastPass screwed up, is starting to sink. After LastPass, 1Password, and now BitWarden, it really seems that self-hosting a password manager is the only option.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@collectifission As predicted, their new CEO is a Venture Capitalist with a "track record" of becoming CEO of companies, just to sell them out.
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Well... crap. The path to enshittification is now set. If it isn't forked already, someone better do so now.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Next week #Thursday, it's #Python #Wellington #Meetup time! We have @iris_meredith presenting: Python for #GIS applications: one hundred and one things to do with map data Get your free ticket at events.python.nz/m-wlg-2610
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Wellington Python Meetup - October 2026
Thu, 15 October 2026
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
@xssfox did you add a keyboard? 😁
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
#TheSpinoff has revamped their website, but now the RSS feed is gone. Help me get it back again? I couldn't find it. If you find it, let me know, otherwise, send them an e-mail?
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
I wonder what my #cat thinks when I chatter back at her. For all I know I'm yelling "Umbrella! Pineapple! Rabbit! No pyamas" at her
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Does anyone remember where the newworld/woolworths random barcode generator lives?
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Whoever here posted about the #ExitParty novel from Emily St. John Mandel Thanks, I've expanded my home library!
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
STOP GLORIFYING #WEAPONS, YOU DUMBDUMBS The US to #livestream a firing squad execution. Because, why the fuck not? www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1802452/us…
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US to livestream Army execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon official says
The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution on 3 December of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in a 2009 shooting spree, a Pentagon official says, in what would be an unprecedented move.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Boosting this, because of the first of the three. #Margaret #Hamilton, one of my heroes, has moved on from software engineering.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
3 new little #LEGO kits. Or one, really. #Women of #NASA I wanted this one for quite some time, just got my hands on it today 🎉
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Next week #Thursday, it's #Python #Wellington #Meetup time! We have @iris_meredith presenting: Python for #GIS applications: one hundred and one things to do with map data Get your free ticket at events.python.nz/m-wlg-2610
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Wellington Python Meetup - October 2026
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
An impressive look at who holds up the #internet. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@xssfox Are you sure you don't want to use Kubernetes for that? I mean, Kubernetes sounds more medical than Terraform... "This is my Kubernetes, it configures ~Docker~ Doctor run-before-i-am-too-late time"
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@xssfox (When) I feel Confused, Frustrated, Scared, Sleepy, Angry, I choose to walk away.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Is there a way in #Firefox to do a trace of a request? See what DNS it's using, see the response from the DNS, and what request it does next? I don't want to use #Wireshark for this, I'd like a way that's isolated to Firefox (or #LibreWolf) itself without any noise
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I'm #retired. I was tired yesterday, and I'm tired again today.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I can think of worse ordeals, but only because I have an anxiety disorder
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Lalalalalalalalala la la lala lalalala www.androidauthority.com/amazon-ale… #Amazon #Alexa goes.... weird? I think?
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Amazon Alexa won’t stop saying ‘lalala’ and users are creeped out
La, la, la, la, la...
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
#Tesla wants to get their #FSD into Europe. So, in order to do that, they'll update the name from "Full Self Driving" to "Assisted Driving", because FSD is "misleading". And tweak the settings to only allow speeds up to 10% faster than the speed limit. Now, maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but […]
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I'm #retired. I was tired yesterday, and I'm tired again today.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
I can think of worse ordeals, but only because I have an anxiety disorder
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Everybody: Stupid #datacenters everywhere spoiling the natural environment! #Microsoft: What if we paint them green? www.theverge.com/tech/1003681/micro…
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If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?
Microsoft wants its data centers to blend in with nature.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Hmmm, new attempted #attack on search queries, this time it looks like: <asdf \"\">-f3f3 And I have no clue how that'd work
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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: @simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
One party *actually* “building the future” while the other is only *saying* they’re “building the future” while actually building the 1950’s.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
@pezmico The center-line should be roughly over labour. The right shift is making the left look a lot more extreme than they are in reality
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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
DON’T ever forget this. Pass it on: #nzpol
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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026
[AI, useless yelling] IT IS RUDE TO PASTE "I ASKED CLAUDE, AND IT SAID," IN ANY CONTEXT. STOP DOING THIS. NEVER DO THIS.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
#PowerToThePeople fest is pretty nice to have on in the background
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
5 out of a shitload of old projects upgraded, because it's absolutely imperative to restructure your entire project every X months, to keep the concept of movement alive. And let the community and FOSS devs that happen to use your framework play catch-up all the time, because we have nothing […]
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
[USPol, AI, Trump] I really don't know what to think here. Am I surprised? Not at all. >>> #Trump spent hours asking #Grok, #Musk’s #AI #chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. <<< time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-…
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What Trump Has Built
An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@pearofdoom I tried to e-mail you, but the computer said "no (address in vbox)"
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Jesus Woodworking Company is expanding? www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-ti…
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Revealed: The $30 million development coming to Bethlehem
The six-building development will provide 3280sq m of commercial space.
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
I've asked my colleagues to please indicate if they used ai in their pull requests, so I can adjust my expectations
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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
After quitting halfway a review, because I'm not here to do a robot's job, I moved on to some other review work. Imagine my surprise that this second part, is not overly full of needless comments, massive badly structured comment blocks, and christmas trees of if statements.
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