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@nickotine.dev
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cyber security and information systems student, terminally online, moving from a yapper to a shipper (eventually) 21 • he/him? • Sydney, Australia fediverse: infosec.exchange/@nickotine

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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 30/09/2026
why do LLMs love Rust so much. its truly the Python of lower-level languages
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 30/09/2026
finally got glasses after not bothering for two years. so this is what it’s supposed to be like
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Increasingly concerned re: people offloading vital cognitive processes by using GIF replies. Expressing snark with words is a core part of being human, don't let some GIF picker widget a startup preloaded with clips of mid range TV shows take that from you!
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I called our dog Tony Blair because when he was a puppy he always veered to the right as he ran.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 22/09/2026
"the military is apolitical" and other fun consequences of the two party system
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 20/09/2026
looking into XMPP. previously I shat on mastodon and matrix for making their own clients, but now I kinda see why. you really need someone to set a baseline of functionality/usability this sympathy doesn't extend to mastodon, their mobile clients still suck
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 20/09/2026
suck my fucking balls GitLab docs.gitlab.com/user/search/...
docs.gitlab.com
Advanced search | GitLab Docs
Use advanced search to find code, commits, work items, and merge requests across your entire GitLab instance.
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 19/09/2026
it also summons its own fucking web browser just for the “login with MS” prompt
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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Simpsons meme

A journalist in a press conference audienxe standing up & asking

me watching everyone suddenly turning on Ed Sheeran:

WHY NOW? WHY NOT THE VERY FIRST TIME YOU EVER HEARD HIS MUSIC?
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oliver @eikopf.com · 13/09/2026
securitycels got me googling shit like "bitwarden webauthn prf support" with a straight face
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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beccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
leonardo dicaprio just broke up with 9/11
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qntm @qntm.org · 10/09/2026
Do not upload your brain into a computer
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 09/09/2026
I beg can the guardian please not bring out their chief redditors when reporting on police violence in NSW, they always do
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 09/09/2026
people with the means to buy internet from decent companies with SLAs and don't annoy me immensely, you bitch about your ISP/internet but you won't put your money where your mouth is
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 08/09/2026
I read that as “top wanker” for a moment
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 08/09/2026
I love sucking off American corporate todger, I love needlessly stupidly designed government websites to "compare" thing using completely arbitrary measures no one understands, I love that my fucking phone provider has to make critical information summaries but not healthcare providers
PrivateHealth.gov.au

Compare Policies

Step 2 of 6 Hospital services
Hospital cover may not meet all your hospital expenses, and you should check with your doctor and hospital for any out-of-pocket expenses
relating to an admission. Although policies often cover services you may not need, this does not necessarily mean they are more expensive.

- Services you select as important will always be fully covered.
- If a hospital service is fully covered; it doesn't matter if the policy is Gold, Silver or Bronze; the benefits will be the same.
- Tap or click on the (i) for more information.

Do you want policies that provide... (i)
- Private hospital cover for most services
- Limited benefits, e.g. public hospital only or few services covered

What is the minimum hospital tier that you require? (i)
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Basic
- Don't care
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 07/09/2026
the balls of the Financial Times to do RSS feeds customised to each user (with every user assigned a unique link) then not make that feed full-text is truly staggering
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 06/09/2026
password managers have been a solved problem for 10 years *provided you define “solved” as only half broken
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 06/09/2026
one of these days mediawiki will read their fucking bug backlog one of these days
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 06/09/2026
Apple Music Replay: August 2026
Apple Music Replay

August 2026
9,464 minutes

Top Artists:
1. underscores
2. Ninajirachi
3. PinkPantheress

Top Songs:
1. Go - ADÉLA
2. Locals (Girls like us) - underscores & gabby start
3. It's You - Ninajirachi & daine

Top Albums:
1. U - underscores
2. Fancy That - PinkPantheress
3.I Love My Computer - Ninajirachi
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 06/09/2026
I have a beating for whoever at Bluesky made the alt text box that damned small
Bluesky's Descriptive alt text field, about the size of an ant
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 06/09/2026
the slop must leave no stone unmolested
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 06/09/2026
the amount of enshittification caused by [insert megacorp here]'s competitors pointing loaded shotguns at their face over the last 20 years is concerning yet unsurprising
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 06/09/2026
I don't think the iPhone gets enough credit for making the web slightly less of a cesspit then it was (killing flash and the likes)
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 05/09/2026
quoting so I can pin this
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 04/09/2026
don’t be too harsh on them, this is the first those Reddit users are learning of that country
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 04/09/2026
I hate that all modern electronics are like 99.99% utter dogshite thats not compliant with anything, 0.01% something decent, and 10% "fuck this, I'll just buy the industrial/enterprise version of it"
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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
evergreen
Sonic the Hedgehog. “I WANT SHORTER GAMES WITH WORSE GRAPHICS MADE BY PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID MORE TO WORK LESS AND I'M NOT KIDDING.”
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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 04/09/2026
email should have always been plaintext only, I hate HTML in emails and I hate that emails contain remote content
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 03/09/2026
I need to learn how to give feedback to others, my personal strategy of "make a massive list of problems and go fix them" comes off as harsh
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 03/09/2026
something square enix sales targets
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 03/09/2026
+ it seems that only Bitwarden and Apple have the ability to make a passkey implementation that isn't useless
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 03/09/2026
I used Bitwarden till their whole PE stuff hit the press, looked at 1Password back then but they had the same PE problems. Ended up going with Apple Passwords cause it was either that or Proton and I'm not a massive fan of the bundling Proton does
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sky + + @system.gay · 03/09/2026
they managed to make normal people talk about password managers which is honestly impressive in its own right
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 03/09/2026
sadly private equity got them, at least they’re in the early stages of enshittification ig
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 02/09/2026
can we go five minutes without shit enshittifying I beg
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 02/09/2026
I was trying to find the Doja Cat tweet 😭
Google Search: tryna rub my clit in peace but yall wont shut the fuck up

AI Overview: My bad. I'll get out of your way. Have a good one.

Al can make mistakes, so double-check responses
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 02/09/2026
like a maggoted lung I wait with baited breath #bsidescbr
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 01/09/2026
Jimmy Fallons long taloned logical falcon
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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Larry Ellison theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…
How does it feel to have dropped from the second- to the eighth-richest person in the world in only two months?

I don’t do this for the money. I do it to hurt as many people as possible.
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 01/09/2026
the balls of the Xbox team to try a make a de-Molyneuxed Fable do have to be admired. I don't think anyone else is quite stupid enough to do such a thing, its like making Death Stranding without Kojima
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 01/09/2026
why's the internet 50% claudeslop now, I like good web design
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 31/08/2026
I have the fattest love-hate relationship with tiktok, since oracle the amount of conservative bullshit it pushes is astronomical. Got some great edits tho
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 29/08/2026
agile was just an excuse to kill proper requirements elicitation
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 28/08/2026
me learning how to do corporate meetings
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nickotine @nickotine.dev · 22/08/2026
jokes aside I mourn MS' acquisition of Rare like it was the family dog. So many peak IPs reduced to streamerslop (Sea of Thieves)
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