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Patricia Aas

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Programmer, Co-Founder of @turtlesec (ex-Opera browser, ex-Cisco, ex-Vivaldi browser :vivaldi_red:), infosec, parent, bi 🏳️‍🌈, speaker, CoC required, NB […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To the surprise of absolutely nobody: I feel Cal Newport is making a lot of sense here.
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Cal Newport: The AI Industry Is Betting On The Wrong Kind Of AI
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
One last note about yesterday's Supreme Court decision on vote-by-mail. Much online attention is focused on the outrageousness of Alito/Thomas' dissent (and it's indeed outrageously off the mark). But nothing about their dissent is particularly surprising. They ALWAYS do this lately, siding with […]
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117… Great (as usual) thread by @heidilifeldman on the current status of the various cases challenging the administration's executive order on vote-by-mail. Note that how / whether the exec order will affect mail voting in the midterms […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
A lot of the doomer comments I'm getting basically boil down to "WHAT IF VOTING DOESN'T MATTER ANY MORE???!!". Well, it better matter, because it's all you've got. And convincing you that it doesn't is exactly what the fascists would love nothing more to do. (And you can be damn sure THEY'LL be […]
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Can we just not? I need us to decenter Silicon Valley techbros. Reminds me of a quote from an article the other day where a guy actually said: If you want privacy, you should not leave your house. The Overton Window of normalizing being a fucking creep has moved too far.
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Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action
Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up...
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Wishing a belated 1 year anniversary to this evergreen post.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
Videos from all the talks at the Voting Village at #DEFCON34 are now up! A YouTube playlist can be found here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUdU… Big thanks to all our speakers for their contributions to a terrific program this year, and a special shoutout to George Balbona […]
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My most evergreen post.
Them: "why didn't you warn us?"
Everyone: "we did"
Them: "why didn't you warn us louder?"
Everyone: "WE DID"
Them: "Well you should've warned us in a way that got through to us. This is definitely on you"
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
«It’s FINE! It’s FINE! WHATEVER!»
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Only talk I’ve done for ages. I came in a wheelchair just to do this talk and then go home because I really wasn’t well enough. That’s how annoyed I was. Don’t underestimate Spite as a driving force.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
«An AI consultant told Axios their client didn’t set limits on employees’ Claude license usage, resulting in a $500 million bill.»
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One company spent half a billion dollars on Claude in a single month: Report comes as AI costs climb
An AI consultant told Axios their client didn't set limits on employees' Claude license usage, resulting in a $500 million bill.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 04/06/2026
It's 100% raiding everyone's 401(k)s.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
Close up of a barchart showing thisThe whole page with the barchart
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
1/ I can understand how countries that weren’t occupied during WWII, that don’t have the history of the holocaust carved into their streets, can be extremely naive when it comes to data privacy. 🧵
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
From experience there is no way to talk MBAs out of something they heard on a podcast
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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
@patigallardo.bsky.social That's very close to the @pluralistic quote: "AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI." doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralist…
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024
You think you’re safe because you’re white? He’s talked about leftist, queer folks, journalists, activists. They will grab anyone they want. They will steal from everyone they can get away with. You’ll have neighbors informing on neighbors to snap up their property on the cheap. Y’all are […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024
All anyone will have to say is that they saw you with a banned book or they suspect you of being antifa. Fascists and their collaborators don’t need an ideological reason. They are driven by greed and lust for power just like regular folks.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2024
Them: “why didn’t you warn us?” Everyone: “we did” Them: “why didn’t you warn us louder?” Everyone: “WE DID” Them: “Well you should’ve warned us in a way that got through to us. This is definitely on you”
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025
It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative. Comedy can be a […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025
Unrelated, the Team Topology agile coaches are still hilariously defensive over on LinkedIn. When you get that in your feelings in defense of a software development methodology, you need to touch all the grass. Also a small amount of introspection is probably in order.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025
The Norwegian election is over, so I guess it’s time to read the book nobody seems to like.
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Abundance
New York
Times
Bestseller
Read by
the authors
Ezra Klein
Derek Thompson

Introduction: Beyond Scarcity
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025
Me 8 months ago social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/113464…
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The Democratic Party is currently enthusiastically handing power over to what will probably the most dangerous administration the US has ever seen. I am only now realizing how much white progressives have failed black America. How much it has been about making white progressives feel good about being Good People. And how little has been done to actually dismantle oppression. How they love the language of “the left”, but when it actually comes down to action they reenforce the system that profits from the thinly veiled slavery machine they’ve always had. And now it’s too late.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025
The Voting Village at DEF CON (August 8-10, 2025 in Las Vegas) solicits talk proposals on all aspects of election security. Our speaker track is the premier venue bringing together researchers, election officials, and the broader security community. Come share your work! […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025
@ruari I saw this and thought of you 🤣 youtu.be/q5hJP_6xUcU
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025
Stay safe everyone 💜
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Kirasha Urqhart (she/her) @kirasha.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025
So, let me get this straight. A California senator started to ask questions the DHS Secretary didn't want to answer and was *forceably removed* from the press conference? A press conference about DHS activity in the state he represents, about his constituents being disappeared […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025
Last year I wondered how one could strengthen the NOK to make imports cheaper. And it turns out that the US running straight into fascism while tanking their economy was the solution all along 😬 e24.no/boers-og-finans/i/4Bw036/dol…
Graph showing a fall from 11.4 NOK per dollar to barely below 10 NOK per dollar
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2025
YouTube Rabbit Hole Patricia has a question for the 3D printing crowd: Is the little boat 3D-printing’s Hello World? And why that model? social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/114655…
Small black 3D printed boat
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Jesus, that’s dark, Patricia.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025
“Hyper focus is great,” she said, hours down a YouTube rabbit hole on using CNC machines to etch circuit boards. Narrator: this was after the fall down into injection molds. Which ended in using CNC machines to mill casting molds in graphite. Narrator again: this was after the accidental […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025
Watching Hasan Pikers livestream on Twitch and some of the chants at the LA protests are very familiar to Latin Americans: «El pueblo unido jamás será vencido» (The people, united, will never be defeated) Also an American twist: «Chinga la migra» (basically fuck ICE)
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2025
Trump is going to Camp David with military leadership. This will end in him using the military against the population. Today or the next couple of days. Starting in California. You can’t unring this bell. This is the last moment the US military has to refuse.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025
Changed my profile pic after getting tired of seeing the old picture on the scam account. Picture from barricade by a closed tunnel in downtown Oslo. So all of you who remembers who people are based on the profile pic: sorry, I’m the same tbh
Picture of a graffiti painting of a woman’s face, with blue hair, staring distractedly up and to the left of you.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025
Reported as Spam, DSA Law in the EU, GDPR, Trademark, Copyright and DMCA. And said I will retain council if they don’t do anything. Then I’ll drag them to small claims court here in Norway, then I’ll happily drag them to court.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025
Changed my profile pic after getting tired of seeing the old picture on the scam account. Picture from barricade by a closed tunnel in downtown Oslo. So all of you who remembers who people are based on the profile pic: sorry, I’m the same tbh
Picture of a graffiti painting of a woman’s face, with blue hair, staring distractedly up and to the left of you.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025
My old account (which I deleted) on Twitter has been taken over by a crypto scam. Same with the TurtleSec account.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025
“Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong” patricia.no/2025/05/30/why_lean_sof…
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025
I have written a blogpost, just need some folks I quote in it to proof read it first. social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/114580…
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1/ An unfortunate management student put a quarter in me in my DMs so I might as well put it in public: Why Lean Software Dev is Wrong. I think a big misunderstanding has been to think of software development as manufacturing. That also goes to my gripe with how Lean was translated to software development, which I think made this same mistake. I would need a whole thing on that as well (I'm assuming you read my thing on Team Topologies, which was basically to say that it was wrong in way too many words). So before buying into Lean Software dev and Kanban, I would actually go back and read for example Toyota Way, which I found super interesting when I read it (it's been a few years). Mapping Lean to other disciplines starts with trying to figure out "what is the factory?" and "who are the workers in the factory?" And this is where it's very easy to miss and Lean software dev missed completely imo.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025
One of my favorite things on LinkedIn is having people who don’t know how to make software tell me how it’s done.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025
1/ A poor management student put a quarter in me in my DMs so I might as well put it in public: Why Lean Software Dev is wrong. I think a big misunderstanding has been to think of software development as manufacturing. That also goes to my gripe with how Lean was translated to software […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025
1/ Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (@rebeccawb) shared (on LinkedIn link in next post) this insightful article on models in general, but organizational models in tech in particular. And I think it explains a lot better that me something that is very crucial to understand my perspective and I think I can […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025
10/ Toyota Production System (/Lean) is extremely understandable to programmers BECAUSE IT IS A PROGRAM. It’s a program being executed by a combination of humans and machines in an actual physical factory. But as a program it’s very basic. It’s not very complex or interesting in the field of […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025
9/ People are clearly not getting my point… I’m clearly struggling to convey it properly. Clearly. Yes! It’s recognizable! It’s a very common architecture! It’s everywhere! But it’s In Our Programs! We use it all the time! Unix pipes is an example (though we usually don’t write that […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025
@james Andon also exists in other things like transaction on-rolling for databases. Or just: exceptions. We have a lot of experience with these things.
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025
@james Andon cord is one of the things that is right there in a CI/CD pipeline. One of the steps in the pipeline fails. Its stops the whole deploy. There are parts of it that are specifically about management of people which are good, like trusting the people who are doing the work or the «go […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025
1/ A poor management student put a quarter in me in my DMs so I might as well put it in public: Why Lean Software Dev is wrong. I think a big misunderstanding has been to think of software development as manufacturing. That also goes to my gripe with how Lean was translated to software […]
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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025
Oh shit I just looked at the LinkedIn profile of one of the people pissed at me on LinkedIn and it was this except it was 19 years ago 🙈 social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/114535…
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@alper@rls.social I agree, or they are like all the agile coaches that yell at me when I say that. They always end up at: «Well, actually, I was a dev for 2 years 15 years ago!!! In your face!»
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