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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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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Probably a huge bucket of money for the first to come up with a trustworthy way to prove your age without showing ID.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
These changes are driven by governments passing legislation to ban U16 kids from soc media. Has been in place in Australia for a while and now the UK plan to do it. The experience in Aus is that the less intrusive age detection methods are not working. Meanwhile the govt is ratcheting up the fines.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Finally. They need to get the drop off points back into every supermarket
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Huh. That is probably exactly what AI is heading towards.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
IDk about that. Smart pointers close some of the holes but there are still plenty of footguns.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
60 Minutes isn't even the best investigative journalism in Australia. Try 4 Corners www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Four Corners: The home of Australian investigative journalism - YouTube
Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism. We have been exposing scandals, triggering inquiries, firing debate and confronting taboos s...
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I'm afraid it is a symptom of something much worse. Similar things are happening in many countries - RW authoritarian style leaders gaining traction; voters so angry they want to burn the system down.
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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 · 08/04/2026
It's going to cost non-US countries more since we are the ones relying on oil coming through from the gulf. Just wait for Trump to put export restrictions on oil & fuel next, so that the US is less affected by global price hikes.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I mean why use a Cron job like a Neanderthal when you can get an AI agent to read the clock every minute
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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 · 03/02/2026
Same. I used to have great conversations with my mum about politics etc. Now it's hard to sustain any conversation at all. It's beyond the stage where I worry about distressing her - she can't understand anyway. 😢
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
What breed is she? Reminds me a lot of my doggie (except Sadie has a lot more white on her back)
Black and white border collie cross dog
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
You don’t get rich from your own labour - at best only comfortable. Getting rich means exploiting other people’s labour and/or gambling in markets; most people pick property and call it investing.
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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 · 26/01/2026
Adorable, and looks a bit like my own rescue dog.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Worse than scomo? That's hilarious
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Australia is too. But tbh I think our leaders are all assuming things will go back to "normal" after 28 so they don't want to burn bridges. Risky assumption I'd say.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Yeah but that's ALDI right? They surely deserve a special category
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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 · 18/12/2025
They all have cell phones which means they have access to an open sewer of misinformation, more like.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I didn't like it to start with, but you get used to it
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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 · 11/12/2025
Unfortunately it has been entangled in the political backlash against "woke". Some perceive the rust community to be "too tolerant" of various minorities. Others seem to think having a compiler that stops you from misusing memory amounts to a violation of their right to bear arms.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I've seen a lot of news lately about artists authors etc lobbying for regulations around AI being trained on their work. But no-one seems to bat an eyelid about it being trained on the whole of GitHub.
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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 · 06/11/2025
It's cloud speak.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"We're a community of selfish bastards here. Everyone looks out for themselves."
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
That's not the story people want to hear. Sub editors know they have to write headlines that will get attention. Old fashioned click bait really.
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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
Probably should cap it at $3m (indexed) full stop. People with balances above that level don't need help saving for their retirement.
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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 · 18/05/2025
Absolutely, and thats the basis to attack it. And the hearsay ... "a friend of Elon's friend says the hospital is getting ripped off" I mean who takes that seriously?
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Look around yourself. Decay everywhere.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Not a great example - that post is a commentary on corruption rather than the street cost of bread. It can be simultaneously true that a health authority enters into a corrupt agreement and that the local cost of bread is <$1
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Am I correct in thinking that the AI has to read all that before it even starts on my input?
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Got to be a windup, surely
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Why?
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I do hope they do a better job of explaining and justifying their compromises though. Eg. on gambling ads, I am yet to hear an explanation for their timidity that satisfies me.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I think they are going to cement themselves in the centre. Albo has said he wants Labor to be the natural party of govt, which up until now has unfortunately been the Coalition. That is for sure going to leave some people feeling let down on many issues. Democracy requires pragmatic comprimise.
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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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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
They have also spent the last decade alienating and driving out their moderates.
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harmic.bsky.social @harmic.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I don't know, the shadenfreude of watching him try to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is entertaining
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