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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag
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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I chatted with Branimir Lambov from IBM on a decade of contributing to Cassandra, including his recent work to replace the Skiplist in Cassandra's LSM tree with a Trie. (no paywall) theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26...
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 10/04/2026
Fikk norsk statsborgerskap i dag. Bra det. 🇳🇴 ❤️
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Apache Cassandra® @cassandra.apache.org · 04/04/2026
[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 6.0-alpha1 is out ‼️ This is a quarterly alpha release, for testing and development purposes. Download it at: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/6.... News: github.com/apache/cassa... Changelogs: github.com/apache/cassa...
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 03/04/2026
Don't let AI make you lazy
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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New blog post, on the changing role of principal/staff+ IC leaders: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03... Core message: get building, get learning.
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My heuristics are wrong. What now? - Marc's Blog
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 14/03/2026
where norwegians hide
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 12/03/2026
ChatGPT to Claude migration complete 💪🏽 #QuitGPT
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Chuck Bell @chuckbell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) released a report on the trend of "enshittification" in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways for consumers to resist, accompanied by this satirical video. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Phil Steitz @psteitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
otava.apache.org Great to see leading performance engineering tools coming to the ASF
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Welcome | Apache Otava
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 02/03/2026
love it ! and the settings around performance/resource usage are first class 💪
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Bernardo Botella @me.bernardo.dev · 01/03/2026
Apache Software Foundation announced the opening of Travel Assistance Applications for next Community Over Code in Glasgow next October. tac.apache.org If you are planning to be around, please come and say hi on the @cassandra.apache.org track!
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Travel Assistance Committee - TAC
The Travel Assistance Committee helps people get to ASF related events that they could not otherwise afford to attend.
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 27/02/2026
Giving @vivaldi.com a go, switching from Firefox. I like it! Being norwegian is a bonus! The inbuilt proton vpn was a very pleasant surprise, having a proton account already.
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annkspencer @annkspencer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
indeed. "when Holden Karau created FightHealthInsurance, she really was fighting—not just for access to easy and affordable healthcare, but also for a better world for the people around her." stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/12/h...
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How everyone and anyone can use AI for good - Stack Overflow
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 12/02/2026
Bad Bunny's superbowl performance was pure brilliance. Last time I saw anything that good was Childish Gambino's This is America. But it was the opposite of dark and cynical, and live!
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.
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Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes
“Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices,” three Democratic senators wrote to Apple’s and Google’s CEOs.
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 09/01/2026
and taking a fresh approach brokk.ai/documentatio...
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Brokkr - Wikipedia
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 09/01/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokkr
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Brokkr - Wikipedia
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 01/01/2026
Aftersun (2022) is another movie rated 7+ in Scandinavia and R in USA. One of the best movies I've watched. watched with the family. So many things in america are now the opposite of common sense. Pilgrims might have gone there for religious freedoms, but the tables have certainly turned now.
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 30/12/2025
Sharing my 2025 Apache Cassandra Year in Review and Gratitudes – lists.apache.org/thread/ztzzr...
Cassandra 5.0 performance improvements.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 27/12/2025
This has everything: malleabile encryption, complex packets, memory safety, unsafe terminal UI, wontfix. Incredible. Plaintext exfiltration if you just click a link. I can’t be convinced gpg can be used safely.
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 26/12/2025
"The Holdovers" is the perfect (quality) family xmas movie. it's also hilarious americans have rated it R while Sweden rates it 7 and Italy 6. (ps you can trust sweden and italy)
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 23/12/2025
The Bear episode "Fishes" (s02e06) is our new pre-xmas tradition. bring on some family time 😁
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 01/12/2025
ja, det var skisporets smøretips "wizard"
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 01/12/2025
hva skjedde med griptip.skisporet.no ?
griptip.skisporet.no
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 26/11/2025
😂 all i can say is yes… www.instagram.com/reel/DQpNltc...
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 20/11/2025
when would you write the two columns separately (as opposed to always in same insert/update statement) ? you have any numbers about extra storage space the hash column uses ? reduce the hash length ? i don't know your specifics but both are trivial for most folk to skip setup: astra.datastax.com
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 20/11/2025
for just equality matches yeah, hash it into a separate column and index that. i don't know of any plans to directly index blobs. Given the workaround is simple, i hope it's not otherwise lacking in any way ?
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Stephan Janssen @stephanjanssen.be · 13/11/2025
Learned about Wanaku #MCP Router project, a brand new OSS by IBM/RedHat presented by lead developer @orpiske.net at #DevoxxMA Uses Apache Camel for routing 👀 github.com/wanaku-ai/wana…
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Apache Cassandra® @cassandra.apache.org · 10/11/2025
Friendly reminder NoSQL ≠ anti-SQL NoSQL (2009, Johan Oskarsson & Eric Evans) is about architecture & needs, not the query syntax It's about scale-out design, multiple writers, no single primary, & predictable growth as you add nodes New APIs don’t define NoSQL; the distributed system design does
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 08/11/2025
We call it denormalisation It's catering to technical limitation (but what choice do you have?) I hope future data platforms automatically do this for you, based on consumer usage+patterns. Ultimately it's the responsibility & best encapsulated in the storage engine (network locality issues aside)
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Torsten Curdt @tcurdt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me: Speed isn’t health. Community is.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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The Linux Foundation @linuxfoundation.org · 05/11/2025
84% say open source is vital to finance’s future. 93% report better software quality. The data is clear, open collaboration is driving the next wave of innovation in financial services. 📘 Watch the highlights + read the full report: www.linuxfoundation.org/research/the... #OpenSource
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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Todd Rafferty @webrat.io · 31/10/2025
Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 28/10/2025
lenke ?
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 26/10/2025
Libraries have really gotten noisy …or i've gotten old.
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 21/10/2025
Watched for the second time Stranger Things 4’ Episode 4 (‘Running Up That Hill’) Just as magical as the first time. Has to be one of the best on tv.
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 21/10/2025
lol, repeat of NBN. waiting for the morons to turn up and declare it's not needed and there's a "more efficient" way to
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 18/10/2025
My input on Australia's social media ban for children. Particularly on the implementation of it. …
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Bruno Pedro @brunopedro.com · 17/10/2025
"The greatest benefit of an API mock is that it lets consumers perform integration tests even before you implement the API. Being able to test how the API would behave as early as possible is what enables the alignment with consumers." apichangelog.substack.com/p/why-api-mo...
apichangelog.substack.com
Why API Mocking Increases Alignment with Consumers
How can you reduce the risk of implementing the wrong API?
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 05/10/2025
TIL italians drive boats in venice like they drive cars in rome 😳😬😱
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 28/09/2025
i just found all my answers
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 27/09/2025
good article, cause i'm soooo tired of "smart" people and their tech erections over nuclear
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mck 🦎🐬 @mck.semb.wever.org · 27/09/2025
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Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 25/09/2025
The centerpiece of The ASF's new logo is an oak leaf, which represents the enduring power of our ethos: community over code. To learn more about why we chose an oak leaf and to see our new brand guidelines, check out this blog: buff.ly/lR8XNas #opensource #communityovercode
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Introducing The ASF’s New Logo  - The ASF Blog
Last year we shared that The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF) would be evolving its corporate logo and brand system to better represent our enduring ethos of community over code. Today, we are proud…
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Apache Cassandra® @cassandra.apache.org · 06/09/2025
Join us at Community over Code's Cassandra Track, Fri Sept 12th for Ensuring Cassandra Operational Excellence at Netflix Cheng Wang and Joshua Lopes www.communityovercode.org– Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, September 11-14
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Kenny (Baas) Schwegler @kenny.weave-it.org · 03/09/2025
It's strange to think that patriarchal norms can affect the way we build software, but they do. I'm happy to share that the article my wife, Vanessa, and I wrote has been published in the @nljug.bsky.social Java magazine. It was our first time writing an article together, and it was...
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