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Ex-Atlassian DevOps & Clojure nerd, now a Rust tragic. Mastodon: @tarkasteve@hachyderm.io Code: github.com/tarka

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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 08/10/2026
github.com/tarka/vicarian
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GitHub - tarka/vicarian: Vicarian is a TLS-first reverse proxy with built-in ACME support.
Vicarian is a TLS-first reverse proxy with built-in ACME support. - tarka/vicarian
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 08/10/2026
With this release I'm confident enough to declare Vicarian as pre-1.0 beta status; it is feature-complete for my own use-cases, although some features may be added along the way. Possible future features may include: * DNS-PERSIST-01, DEVICE-ATTEST-01, and TLS-ALPN-01 support.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 08/10/2026
The real story here is that the WSJ is now prepared to shiv an insider: www.wsj.com/politics/policy/guilfoy…
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 08/10/2026
I feel like the real story here is that the WSJ is prepared to play along.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 07/10/2026
This!
Reddit comment from "tuxwonder": Inside me, there are two wolves: One who likes being productive and making apps and tools and libraries and getting end results, and the other who likes problem solving with code, carefully designing robust systems and weighing the pros/cons of both big and very small choices.

Right now, the first wolf is being forcibly drowned, while the other one is dying of thirst. My wolves can't take much more of this.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 03/10/2026
TIL Token2 (Swiss Yubikey alternative) maintain a cross-device compatible alternative the the Yubikey Authenticator: www.token2.com/site/page/token2-com… github.com/framefilter/keyroost
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GitHub - framefilter/keyroost: Vendor Neutral, Rust-Based Management UI and CLI for U2F/FIDO2 and other hardware security keys
Vendor Neutral, Rust-Based Management UI and CLI for U2F/FIDO2 and other hardware security keys - framefilter/keyroost
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 02/10/2026
I've heard an unconfirmed price of $125 (via said pharmacist) which IS FUCKING INSANE NO ONE'S GOING TO GET IT AT THAT FUCKING PRICE. They better PBS that shit or a lot of people are going to die.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 30/09/2026
I may have a problem; I just ordered another one...
Too many Yubikeys
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 27/09/2026
It replaced the Neo on my keyring around then; it's almost as-new except that the metal around the ring-hole has worn away. The third is a backup YK5 from the same time that's sat in a box untouched. Anyway, file under #mildlyinteresting
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 27/09/2026
The first key is a Neo I bought in early 2017 (UK). I had it on my keyring in my pocket for a couple of years; it's now rounded like a stone on a beach. The second is a Yubikey 5 (5.1.2) that work gave me in November 2018 (in AU).
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 27/09/2026
Relative wear on Yubikeys...
Three Yubikeys, showing progressive wearThree Yubikeys, showing progressive wear
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 27/09/2026
Emir is an idiot.
An advertising board for a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu studio with the quote "I now think that BJJ is as important as Math and English" - Emir, Parent.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 26/09/2026
www.classicdriver.com/en/article/ca…
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 26/09/2026
For some reason this feels like the peak slop; treating classic cars like pantry items. I'm not even mad at AI, we brought this on ourselves with our listicles and top 6 must influential lists (number 5 will shock you!). It's just giving us what we didn't care enough to not want.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 26/09/2026
Does this mean we can go back to the old timeline? Please!? www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…
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CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider
CERN has started replacing some of the Large Hadron Collider’s most important magnets as part of its High-Luminosity upgrade. The new superconducting magnets will produce fields about 40% stronger, allowing particle beams to be squeezed more tightly before they collide. That should create far more collisions for the ATLAS and CMS experiments to analyze, giving physicists a much larger window into the fundamental workings of the universe.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 25/09/2026
Another day, another quantum leap forward in software engineering
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 25/09/2026
Working theory: all drug studies are inherently tainted because the subjects are bored; monkey, rats, human, it doesn't matter because the environment is boring AF. If I was a rat stuck in a testing facility I'd be pounding that "Amphetamine" button too.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 25/09/2026
The Sheeran/Macklemore is making me rethink my whole "Separate the art from the artist is a cop-out" stance, because I'm not fucking supporting Macklemore as an artist.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 25/09/2026
TIL #Sydney Inner West Council have a roaming JP to certify documents; you can book ahead. www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/libraries/…
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 23/09/2026
Remember: "Ubi vigiles" - Where are the police? If a crime has been committed there will be prosecutions; if not this is a another marketing stunt. www.theguardian.com/australia-news/…
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Charles Miller @carl.fish · 22/09/2026
It's always annoying when you've been composing an essay in your head for the last few weeks, only to find out Maciej wrote a longer, better version, a decade ago.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 20/09/2026
Whoever owned this phone last was _really_ picky about their Tinder matches...
A refurbished Pixel phone with a visible horizontal wear mark in the middle of the screen. The shape suggests someone has forcefully swiped left repeatedly.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 19/09/2026
CW: Fucking Merivale ruin everything Except the Sackville was recently sold to fucking Merivale. And I walk past today and all the fridges have been ripped out, and the selection reduced to the standard stuff available everywhere. Fuckers.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 19/09/2026
CW: Fucking Merivale ruin everything So the Sackville in Rozelle is a middling pub, elevated by it's excellent bottle-o which had fridges full of the Australian and international craft beer, including a nice selection of Belgian Trappist beers.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 19/09/2026
(Bitwarden's slightly clunky Yubikey-via-browser-WebAuthn implementation doesn't play very well with NFC on GrapheneOS.)
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 19/09/2026
In today's episode of "It Ain't Stupid If It Works"...
A USB-A Yubikey on a keyring plugged into a Google USB-A-USB-C adaptor (used for legacy phone transfers), plugged into a Pixel 6 Pro being used to login to Bitwarden via WebAuthn.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 19/09/2026
The "AI will turn us into slurry!" doomerism is marketing bullshit, but AI may kill us all yet; not because it's super-intelligent but because humans are dumb motherfuckers: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-u…
arstechnica.com
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 18/09/2026
Remember "Don't use rude words about LLMs, you might make them angry!"
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 18/09/2026
I might be naive but how do you get put into a high security punitive unit and still manage to tweet your way through it?
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 18/09/2026
It's nice to know there are still parts of the internet that are still being The Internet to the max... www.404media.co/ed-sheeran-macklemo…
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Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes
Guitar Center's 'Open for Legends' contest page was seemingly unmoderated for hours on Wednesday.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 17/09/2026
This your reminder that Ed Sheeran was the moment everyone realised the ending of Game of Thrones was going to be shit.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 17/09/2026
Got a refurbished Pixel 8 Pro for $550; I want a decent-sized screen but I'm not paying $2,100 for a new phone that's only marginally better than my now EOL one. 60% of the support lifetime for 25% of the cost seems like a good deal. 93% of battery capacity remaining too.
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It's always a good time to share this.
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Melissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What is the point of having “go fuck yourself” amounts of money if you won’t use it to tell the worst people to go fuck themselves?
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 16/09/2026
Really angry about this Ed Sheeran business because I realised I've never listened to any Ed Sheeran so I listened to some Ed Sheeran and now I've listened to Ed Sheeran.
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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 16/09/2026
Reeling from the speed at which the ex-work-colleagues Slack turned into nu-Twitter. I suppose this happens to any unmoderated platform once you reach a certain limit.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 15/09/2026
It already exists; it's called Audition. You lose by watching it.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 15/09/2026
The Kangaroo Chronicles "After that it gets difficult" meme but for AI:

Kangaroo: "I'm a Hyper-Capitalist, what are you?"
Man:  "I'm a techno-utopian."
Kangaroo: "Cool. We can be friends until the singularity."
Kangaroo: "After that it gets difficult..."
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 14/09/2026
TIL Sydney will get a total solar eclipse in July 2028.
Map of a TSE path across Australia
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 12/09/2026
Normally I'd just YOLO and squeeze another 12 months or so out of an unsupported phone, but with the current AI-powered zero-days popping up everywhere I'm not comfortable doing that any more.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 12/09/2026
TIL GrapheneOS doesn't provide support beyond the what Google provides, which means my Pixel 6 Pro is EOL in 3 weeks regardless. Welp, refurbished Pixel 8 Pro it is.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 08/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@fesshole/117229958… This, but every potentially useful open-source project now.
mastodon.social
Fesshole 🧻 (@fesshole@mastodon.social)
I realised today that when I see a photo of an attractive woman, I now habitually count her fingers and examine her hands for weirdness. I hate what AI slop has done to me.
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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 12/09/2025
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I've been thinking of the "Can Granny Weatherwax beat Bugs Bunny" question and this is my full take for Discworld characters:
Vimes - Cares too much, too easy to piss off. Has the innate chase instinct that makes characters run into walls with realistic tunnels painted on them. Might get to arrest Bugs Bunny but the beast will just slip out of the handcuffs to help him lock them, then walk out of the jail cell to have a union mandated coffee break.
Ridcully - Classic hunting season scenario, but has enough charisma to probably still get a few good shots off before the inevitable.
Rest of the wizards - No survivors, only Bugs.
Carrot - The intense near-magical narrative aura of well meaning innocence should make him immune, Bugs will likely be forced to be the villain of the episode.
Lord Vetinari - Flattened by a comically large anvil in the first few minutes of the episode, unclear if it was all a part of his long term strategy or not.
Moist - Has the 'lovable trickster getting away with it' energy, but nowhere near Bugs level
…scenario with the stamp slugs once, won't fare any better here.
Death - Definitely one of those "character is trying to avoid death" episodes, would go back and forth. Might actually get to end Bugs but his spirit will reappear in Death's domain and ruin his garden.
Nanny Ogg - The ultimate in anti-Bugs technology, a gleefully annoying old lady who doesn't give a fuck and definitely won't be the first to instigate the plot bearing conflict. This is a full sweep, he's the episode antagonist.
Granny Weatherwax - Too win-motivated to not lose. Would have to break the story to have any chance. Might do it.
Magrat - Will have sappy ideas about helping the poor animal which honestly has the 50:50 chance of either getting slapsticked or Bugs ending in a ye olde stroller&pacifier gag.
Colon&Nobby - Designed in a lab to be totaled by Bugs Bunny.
Tiffany Aching - A child that also has a large pan that is the perfect thing to hit someone over the head with and make a BOIOIOINGGG sound, so great odds.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 03/09/2026
<Attenborough voice>: The receding ice signals the beginning of the thaw and the herald of spring for the simple people of this remote land.
Aussies beer pumps
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 01/09/2026
It's also part of health insurance coverage, but that's private health care. Actually visiting emergency and a subsequent stay in hospital is all covered by Medicare (i.e. universal health care), but the ambulance trip isn't? That doesn't make any sense to me.
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 01/09/2026
Can you really claim to have universal healthcare if the ambulance to emergency costs more than 50% the average weekly wage? #auspol
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Steve @tarka.haltcondition.net · 01/09/2026
Upskeeting for the Varg Vikernes deep cut...
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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