Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 09/12/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: React2Shell, Cloudflare outages, Micron abandonment issues, price hikes, and neat HTML/CSS/SVG tricks that go boing. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/chan… 010
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 08/12/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: Solar-sensitive airplanes, suing your customers, beer malware, financial shenanigans and Special Coping Spoons. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/sola… 020
Reposted by Justin WarrenRohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The federal government has rolled out a new cloud policy www.digital.gov.au/cloud-policy 051
Reposted by Justin WarrenJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water. Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comThirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supplyThe demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade 15143113
Reposted by Justin WarrenStilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 03/12/2025NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Social Media Ban and the Special Duck with Justin Warren” @daedalus.eigenmagic.com (1h14m42s) the9pmedict.com/edict/000258/ Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app. Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe even pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025. 155
Reposted by Justin WarrenStilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 28/11/2025NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Miracle Medical Reality with Dr Trent Yarwood” (1h00m15s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00257/ Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app. Like it? Please tell your friends and maybe pledge your support at the9pmedict.com/summer2025. 143
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/11/2025To fabricate a report with AI once, Deloitte, may be regarded as a misfortune. To do so twice looks like carelessness. theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...theindependent.caMajor N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months 013
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 25/11/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: Cloudflare joins the outagepalooza, Oracle underwater, more Salesforce breaches, SOPS for secrets, Pebble problems and open source grues. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/load… 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 25/11/2025You can subscribe here btw: pivotnine.com/newsletter/pivotnine.comThe Crux Weekly NewsletterPivotNine's weekly newsletter covering enterprise datacentre, cloud, and cybersecurity. 010
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 25/11/2025A new subscriber to my weekly newsletter #TheCrux emailed me to say how much they enjoyed it. It is always lovely to get that sort of email. If someone makes a thing you like, do tell them. You will make their day. 110
Reposted by Justin WarrenJake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Ignoring his prior acts, this is just a bat sh*t crazy thing to say. It's textbook sunk cost bias. 2396
Reposted by Justin WarrenJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I get so many reports about how businesses need to adopt AI quicker in Australia and the tone is becoming increasingly desperate. 5396
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 24/11/2025It's due to a combination of factors, but two big ones are a) computers are terrible, and b) collections of humans are weird. 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 24/11/2025People who are agog at the BoM website rebuild costing more than they expect should remember that every IT project goes well over budget, especially if a consultancy is involved. Public or private sector, it doesn't matter. 112
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 24/11/2025Once or twice, e.g. www.righttoknow.org.au/request/busi... You want the business case, risk registers, and project status reports. They'll fight tooth and nail to keep it a secret, though.righttoknow.org.auBusiness case for the Points Based Activation System - a Freedom of Information request to Department of Employment and Workplace RelationsIf possible, please treat this as an informal or administrative request. Otherwise, please treat this as a formal request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. I request copies of ... 010
Reposted by Justin WarrenLesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 22/11/2025Women and older career switchers are generally not even exposed to red team as an option of interest that they’d be good at using socialized skills, which is kinda crazy when the most ignored people in society who can pretty much walk in anywhere are older women. Instead we portray it like esports. 2708
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 21/11/2025My retired consulting mining engineer father, who lived in Excel and Word, recently switched to LibreOffice on his own initiative because he got fed up with Microsoft's enshittification of everything. 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 18/11/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: Samsung, SK Group, and other major South Korean corporations have pledged to invest billion of dollars in South Korea after South Korea arrived at a trade deal with the USA. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/reme… 000
Reposted by Justin Warrenkat cosgrove @kat.lol · 11/11/2025I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages 514516
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 12/11/2025Maybe SoftBank hopes OpenAI can be the WeWork of WorldComs? 210
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: Python donations, cyberslop, Microsoft backpedals, sharp Ansible edges, breaches galore, and a sad Line. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/bewa… 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025So did I: 2025.pycon.org.au/program/A7XZ...2025.pycon.org.auSustaining Open Source Software: Tools for Change—PyCon AU 2025 001
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025My friend @chrisjrn.fyi spoke about this not long ago: redmonk.com/videos/an-ob...redmonk.comAn Obvious Statement About Open Source | Christopher Neugebauer | Monktoberfest 2024There is a worldview that decided certain things were essential to the success of open source software on the internet, namely a “gift culture” and the ability for “many eyes” to make “all bugs seem s... 101
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025"Creating and publishing software under an open source license is an act of contribution to the digital commons. Finding and publishing information about security issues in that software is also an act of contribution to the same commons." Maybe, but these contributions are not of equal value. 111
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025I'll be careful with these matches, sure. Perhaps the CEO of Oily Rag Warehouses Inc could reconsider outsourcing their helpdesk to Massive Incendiaries Limited, too. 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025Just got a podcast ad from the Australian government telling me to use a password manager. I am not the CISO of Qantas or Medibank or Optus, guys. 022
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025Anyway, you were saying something about threat modelling and risk analysis I believe? 101
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025It's nice to tell people to use MFA and password managers and stuff, but it doesn't really help much when large organisations hoard data that they don't secure very well. 221
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025Fun* fact: in Australia, over 87% of the people who have data exposed in a data breach do so because it was in the ~3 very large data breaches we have each year. (On average, since 2018) 134
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 05/11/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: More cloud outages, Pythonic leadership, Canva pricing, tech earnings, sovereign tech stacks, and the utility of utility. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/earn… 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 05/11/2025What if we could search across disparate tools and data without having to build complex data normalization pipelines first? www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2… 000
Reposted by Justin WarrenRohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 04/11/2025love to see government media releases just make shit up 174
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 28/10/2025The Python Software Foundation turned down a $1.5m grant rather than betray its mission or its values. pivotnine.com/blog/python-software-… 061
Reposted by Justin WarrenJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Wow, Services Australia spent three quarters of a million in legal fees fighting a losing FOI fight against @daedalus.eigenmagic.com 613469
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 28/10/2025"It is telling that this act by the PSF is so remarkable. It stands in stark contrast to the actions of many other larger and better funded organisations. It is easy to talk about leadership; it is much harder to actually lead." pivotnine.com/blog/python-...pivotnine.com 011
Reposted by Justin WarrenStilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 27/10/2025UPDATE: Here’s all the podcasts confirmed so far for this season. Yes, I’ve been organising things! www.pozible.com/profile/stil... 194
Reposted by Justin WarrenPython Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵python.orgThe official home of the Python Programming Language 12363792728
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025Others have proposed AusBool with possible values YeahNah and NahYeah. 010
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025My favourite link from this week's issue is LongBool: docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sy... I don't know why I find this hilarious, but I do.docwiki.embarcadero.comSystem.LongBool - RAD Studio API Documentation 100
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: AWS falls over, Updog comes up, ACCC sues Microsoft, IT Pros NZ shuts down, IBM makes The Line sad, Deep Time, and LongBool. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/clou… 110
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025I've just scheduled this week’s issue of #TheCrux containing: - AWS falls over - Updog comes up - ACCC sues Microsoft - ITPros NZ shuts down - IBM makes The Line sad - Deep Time - LongBool - handy personal scripts and lots more. Subscribe! pivotnine.com/newsletter/pivotnine.comThe Crux Weekly NewsletterPivotNine's weekly newsletter covering enterprise datacentre, cloud, and cybersecurity. 011
Reposted by Justin WarrenJosh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Microsoft forced its AI into 365 and wanted people to pay extra for the privilege. Didn't make it obvious that there was an option without AI. The ACCC is now suing them over it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comMicrosoft sued for allegedly misleading millions of Australians with its AI pricingTech giant faces hefty fines from consumer watchdog for allegedly trying to convince customers to pay more than needed for their Microsoft 365 subscription 18329142
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 23/10/2025Platform Engineering Labs has announced the launch of formae, an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool for DevOps and platform teams managing cloud-based infrastructure. www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2… 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 21/10/2025The latest issue of The Crux is out: Sunburst CISO, Sentinel, semiconductors, satellites, surveillance, and sophisticated cybers, plus some quantum boffins. pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/nerd… 000
Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 20/10/2025Microsoft would like customers to choose Sentinel as the core of their security strategy, but what that choice entails remains unclear. pivotnine.com/blog/microsoft-positi… 000