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Justin Warren

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Principal analyst and managing director at PivotNine.

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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 09/12/2025
The 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 08/12/2025
The 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…
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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The federal government has rolled out a new cloud policy www.digital.gov.au/cloud-policy
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Sydney 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/...
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Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 03/12/2025
NEW 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.
Close-up photo of middle-aged white man with neatly-trimmed grey stubble and black-rimmed spectacles. He wears an open-necked white collared shirt and a black jacket. It's Justin Warren.
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 28/11/2025
NEW 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.
A middle-aged white man in a black t-shirt stands in front of some tropical tree or other, smiling, with his hands clasped behind his back. His hair is brown, as is his beard. He wears spectacles . The t-shirt has a green print in the style of, and indeed taken from, an old video game called Oregon Trail. It shows a covered wagon and the text: You Have Died of Dysentery.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/11/2025
To 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.ca
Major 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
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 25/11/2025
The 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 25/11/2025
You can subscribe here btw: pivotnine.com/newsletter/
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 25/11/2025
A 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.
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Ignoring his prior acts, this is just a bat sh*t crazy thing to say. It's textbook sunk cost bias.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I get so many reports about how businesses need to adopt AI quicker in Australia and the tone is becoming increasingly desperate.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 24/11/2025
It's due to a combination of factors, but two big ones are a) computers are terrible, and b) collections of humans are weird.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 24/11/2025
People 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.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 24/11/2025
Once 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.au
Business case for the Points Based Activation System - a Freedom of Information request to Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
If 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 ...
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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 22/11/2025
Women 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.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 21/11/2025
My 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.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 19/11/2025
Freedom from vs. freedom to.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 18/11/2025
The 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 18/11/2025
#TeamLeopard
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 11/11/2025
I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 12/11/2025
Maybe SoftBank hopes OpenAI can be the WeWork of WorldComs?
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
The 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
So did I: 2025.pycon.org.au/program/A7XZ...
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Sustaining Open Source Software: Tools for Change—PyCon AU 2025
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
My friend @chrisjrn.fyi spoke about this not long ago: redmonk.com/videos/an-ob...
redmonk.com
An Obvious Statement About Open Source | Christopher Neugebauer | Monktoberfest 2024
There 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...
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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.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
I'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.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
Just 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.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
Anyway, you were saying something about threat modelling and risk analysis I believe?
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
It'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.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 11/11/2025
Fun* 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)
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 05/11/2025
The 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 05/11/2025
What if we could search across disparate tools and data without having to build complex data normalization pipelines first? www.forbes.com/sites/justinwarren/2…
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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
love to see government media releases just make shit up
Quantum technology delivers unprecedented advances in computing and sensing, going beyond what today’s traditional systems can do. This next generation capability has many life-changing applications, such as speeding up discoveries in medical treatments, drug development and testing.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 28/10/2025
The Python Software Foundation turned down a $1.5m grant rather than betray its mission or its values. pivotnine.com/blog/python-software-…
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Wow, Services Australia spent three quarters of a million in legal fees fighting a losing FOI fight against @daedalus.eigenmagic.com
Topic: Robodebt Case Legal Fees
Question reference number: IQ25-000016
Asked By: Senator Jacqui Lambie
Type of question: Spoken. Hansard Page/s: 9
Date set by the committee for the return of answer: 24 October 2025
Question:
Senator Lambie: Services Australia, you lost a Robodebt case against Mr Warren before the full
court. I'm just wondering what your legal costs for both Administrative Review Tribunal and the
Federal Court were? I’m gathering it's about half a million and I’m being conservative. Do you
know what the costs were?
Mr Higgins: I'd have to take that on notice, Senator. I don’t have that detail with me.
Answer:
$776,739.02 including GST (where applicable) in relation to AAT, Federal Court and ART.
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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-...
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 27/10/2025
UPDATE: Here’s all the podcasts confirmed so far for this season. Yes, I’ve been organising things! www.pozible.com/profile/stil...
From left to right: Justin Warren, Dr Alice Gorman, Rami Mandow, Peter Anderson, and Dr Trent Yarwood. I would describe them in more detail but that seems rude. ;)
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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025
TLDR; 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-... 🧵
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025
Others have proposed AusBool with possible values YeahNah and NahYeah.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025
…and, potentially, SmolBool.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025
LongBool implies MediumBool.
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025
My 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.com
System.LongBool - RAD Studio API Documentation
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025
The 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 27/10/2025
I'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/
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Microsoft 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.com
Microsoft sued for allegedly misleading millions of Australians with its AI pricing
Tech giant faces hefty fines from consumer watchdog for allegedly trying to convince customers to pay more than needed for their Microsoft 365 subscription
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 23/10/2025
Platform 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 21/10/2025
The 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…
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Justin Warren @jpwarren.pivotnine.com · 20/10/2025
Microsoft 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…
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