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@harmic.bsky.social
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SW Engineering - Rust / C / C++ / PostgreSQL / Perl Also interested in Politics / Science / Travel / Netball 🌏 Australia

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
megaphone.org.au
Save the Stonnington Garbos!
The outsourcing of garbage collections has led to missed collections, higher long-term costs, and a lower standard of service for residents. The same will happen to Stonnington. We’ll see these worker...
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
TIL that the default for RHEL systems is for the journal to be non-persistant. That's crazy bro. You have some kind of crash, end up rebooting, then you have no way to find out why it crashed.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
No matter how outlandish the question I ask of AI, it always starts out with "It's a common scenario ..."
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Hmm. There are existing databases (and APIs) that allow autocompleting a full address given the first few characters. Shoe-horning LLMs into existing use cases served well by much leaner technologies does not seem like a win.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
From the POV of a non-US citizen: If you ever get a decent government again they might be in a better position to argue for better gun controls given that the main supposed rationale for gun ownership - to keep a rogue government in check - has been demonstrated not to work.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
AliExpress are scammers .... they send me an email featuring a desktop computer for $45; click on it to find the actual price is $284
Screenshot of email advertising a Mini PC for $45 AUDScreen shot of webpage I'm taken to when clicking that email .. where actual price of $284.99 AUD is revealed
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Youtube music seems to have been overrun with AI slop. I often have it going when I am working. Lately every 5th track seems to be AI.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I really wish clippy had an option to filter out complaints about code not touched in the index or something like that. It's giving a load of lints in unmodified files which presumably passed master in an early version. While they might need fixing I don't want those changes mixed in. #rustlang
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
What's the purpose of this???
Screenshot of web browser asking if I give permission for microsoft login to look for and connect to devices on the local network
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Even the briefest of searches on this Magika tool reveals that it's primary use case is for detecting malicious files that might have content contrary to its filename. This Lunduke "Journal" feed is full of terrible takes.
Screen shot of twitter post from user "@LundukeJournal"
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I don't think the designers of vs code have gotten their heads around the concept of "permanently"
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Why do centre-left politicians post on X? Under both these tweets there are nothing but hate filled negative replies from MAGAs and (probably) bots. Why try to push positive messages into that environment?
Copy of tweet from Mark Carney replying to Anthony Albanese
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“The bill aims to protect children under 16, but Google Wallet is primarily an adult-oriented service that most children don’t have access to” Surely it is the adults that have to prove that they are old enough, not the children that have to prove they are not? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Google age ID proposal may not suit Australia’s under-16 social media ban, expert says
Proposed system of storing passports or drivers licences in Google Wallet app likely to benefit adults, but usefulness in identifying teenagers without ID documents unclear
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 05/05/2025
In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet. Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/04/2025
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away quietly, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
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Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Man this is unbelievable. Propaganda much???
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I note the El Salvadoran guy isn’t wearing a tie.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Yikes. "Australia should rethink its relationship with America because alliance is becoming obeisance." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Trump's order on showerheads seems trivial but it's a subtle power grab
It seems only a matter of time before Donald Trump uses a crisis and the National Emergencies Act to bring about a revolution in the United States.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is what we're dealing with. Desparate people who have convinced themselves that Trump is their saviour, even as he does the exact opposite of what they need.
X post from a MAGA fan praising Trump for bringing down the price of medicines via a massive tariff increase on pharmaceuticals.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The LNP campaign seems to be disintegrating. Barely any policies to begin with, followed by backflips on half of the few that they had. What's going on? My 2¢ worth: they got lulled into a false sense of security and did not prepare properly.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
One of the interesting aspects of all this is that the balance of trade has in large part been driven by the differential in living standard between developing economies and western economies.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Yesterday, Peter Dutton said he will run Australia from Sydney. Today he told Melbourne what infrastructure projects will be allowed. He thinks this will help him in Victoria. #auspol
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Mike Carlton @mikecarlton01.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
There were 69 journalists killed in all of WW2. 63 in Vietnam. The Israelis have killed more than 200 in Gaza. Deliberate murder to silence reporting.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Look, it doesn't really matter what we say - they will do what they want to do. They will make up justifications, and if the courts disagree they will ignore them.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Apparently #SSN is now available on Binge. Much better deal than Kayo at $4.99 a month (if you only want to watch the Netball). binge.com.au/four
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is a brilliant letter.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I don't know where to start with that. What's worse - that this guy sees Ukraine as a wayward farm animal or that he thinks it's ok to beat animals with a 2x4???
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump is a bully, not a strongman. And Australia will pay for his destruction as he panders to the mega-rich | Julianne Schultz
Performance is all for the US president, who is intent on creating a world dreamt of by global libertarian thinktanks
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is a perfect illustration of the fact that the US is now split into two diametrically opposed realities. Ds seem to still accept the Western narrative, but Rs seem to fully believe the Russian narrative. Such a huge divide - scary times.
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Adam Cochran @adamscochran.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
1/31 Meet project "Good Old USA" the now unsealed DoJ file on the Russian influence in the US to sway opinion on the war in Ukraine. Something Trump has bought into hook-line and sinker. It was held under seal, because we got the literal playbook revealing their methods
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme." Un-fucking-real.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Voice referendum normalised racism towards Indigenous Australians, report finds www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Voice referendum normalised racism towards Indigenous Australians, report finds
Complaints detailing distressing incidents of racism reveal 2023 referendum one of Australia’s ‘darker moments’, author says
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
x.com/ArmandDoma/s...
Twitter post from Armand Domalewski: "one thing that keeps me up at night is that illiberal regimes like Russia and China have been pretty successful at maintaining high levels of regime support by controlling the flow of information, while the liberal democracies with free speech have just totally lost trust"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The tariffs are on. ... Now they're off! ... And on again. ... Wait, OFF! ... On. Off! .... And still off, tricked you!
media.tenor.com
a large group of people in green netflix uniforms
ALT: a large group of people in green netflix uniforms
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Is it time to start calling it the Trump regime rather than the Trump administration yet?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Oval Office has long been a symbol of American leadership, diplomacy, and decorum—a space where world leaders engage in high-stakes discussions with mutual respect, even amid disagreement. Yesterday’s debacle shattered that image.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
About time. Now let's have all the Melbourne games at RLA. #SSN #Netball #NetballChaos netball.com.au/news/stage-s...
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Stage set for scaled up SSN Grand Final
Netball Australia is thrilled to announce that the 2025 Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final will be held at Melbourne’s iconic Rod Laver Arena in August. The renowned venue, with a capacity of more than...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
That’s how you write a headline, people.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Interesting.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
TIL: In psql, you can use `\ef {functionname} {linenr}` to open up an editor containing the definition of a function at the given line. Super handy when debugging. Postgresql is 🔥
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This is what we call 'final stage capitalism' - where government is replaced by a set of companies owned by the richest man on earth.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I'm thinking that the #ABC must receive a constant barrage of complaints. It goes with the territory. What was different about these complaints, or about @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social, that got under Ita's skin?
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
@albomp.bsky.social she's might be onto something there
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Watched the two #GiaVsVix #SSN pre-season games over the weekend. Lots of silly mistakes by the Vix, maybe to be expected as new combos were tried and training partners given court time. Impressive that despite that they were able to pull back a >10 goal margin to only a single point in both games
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Trump, who stored boxes and boxes of top secret documents in a toilet, thinks Biden is a security risk. Lol.
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