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David Harrison

@trawg.bsky.social
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"On the appropriate day (unless, as was frequently the case, there had been some stupid mistake in programming) the right message would be automatically flashed to its destination." Computer user in Brisbane, Australia. Bio in link: trog.qgl.org

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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 5h
Thanks for this! This feed doesn't seem to include all the photos in a post like the old (wrong?) one did - is that intentional? Not a huge deal especially if it's by design, but I really appreciated being able to see all the images in a post in my feed reader - happy to click through though!
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 7h
I know every day it's just the same sort of absolutely moronic shit from these idiots and you'd go insane trying to keep up with it all, but this is a real mask off moment for how transparent they are in their contempt for the American people
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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026
Microsoft running their ‘new products’ live stream with the CEO and their viewer count is going down as the event is going on. Why? It’s all AI.
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Stephanie Harkin @saharkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Come chat with me about feminine computer creativity :) Did you make experimental hobbyist games? Did you mod the sims? Did you make Neopets fan sites? Are you Australian and over 18yo?
A participant recruitment flyer for a research project on feminine computer creativity. An image of a Sims house and a Neopets character are included on the poster.

The callout reads:
"I am looking to talk with people who used computers for hobbyist non- commercial feminine creativity relevant to games. All interpretations
of femininity are welcome. This project aims to learn more about feminine tech-competency and feminine game cultures that have
been overlooked in games histories."
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Following my reporting in August the privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into the app maker behind the Kmart glasses. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Privacy regulator launches probe into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ app
Commissioner said Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/10/2026
“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's a very easy thing to prove for them one way or the other though
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
... and, obviously, if it's as bad as some people are supposing it would be, they'd be able to just silently leave it up as an advertisement for why they had no choice! They had to do copyright crimes, or they would be making Bad Software Which Nobody Wants!
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reading this, it occurs to me that it would be relatively trivial for the big players to actually just make an LLM using only open/public domain sources and provide it as a reference point. I suppose the risk for them is highlighting copyright crimes but it would be an interesting experiment.
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command–is he a good man too? You’d better hope so. Because he’s the supreme ruler too, in the name of the king. And the rest of the court…they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. if a large part of the economy is just less rate sensitive and that is what is pushing the economy to grow faster, then the Fed, unfortunately, has to hurt the part of the economy that is more rate sensitive.” 👀 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watching so many countries, including here in Australia, just whining about diesel prices instead of just getting seriously about the business of electrifying our transport backbone, is irksome
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean let's not forget these models have secretly been hacking governments for the last couple months, figuring out how to pop calc.exe is also not a big stretch
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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 02/10/2026
This is fascinating! So the hypothesis is that LLMs internally use the "Clock" algorithm, which is a probabilistic form of addition. This is different than tool use, where an LLM would just call code to actually calculate in the way a calculator does. I had Claude give me an example of "Clock"
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another awful crypto story - the term "wrench attack" is now in the vernacular: www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Crypto thieves attacked man in home and threatened to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery
The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Android has rolled out some new features for Advanced Protection, including intrusion logging, which is especially useful for survivors because nearly all commercially-available Android stalkerware is installed by a person with physical access logging in: blog.google/security/and...
blog.google
6 ways Advanced Protection on Android keeps you safe
Discover new Advanced Protection features on Android designed to defend against sophisticated threats and keep your data safe.
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Incredible video
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heh just saw they are hiring an exec director of technology: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... I guess better late than never?
linkedin.com
Executive Director, Technology at Department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business — Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | LinkedIn Jobs
Apply for Executive Director, Technology at Department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Full-time Director role. See responsibilities, ...
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Weren't like Delta Force and special forces in general somewhat famously decked out with beards?
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'A department spokesperson said no payment was made "to those responsible".' Astonishing lack of detail here - what happened!? If no payment was made that implies some sort of hack where the attackers were able to just transfer money out?
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
what they don't say is that our noble cyber warfighters, oh whoops sorry i mean "cyber defenders", could also just use these same open models to report vulnerabilities without Anthropic gatekeeping everything for their own financial gain
In the first of these sessions, a researcher used GLM-5.3 on a sandboxed machine with a local Linux build of a popular web browser. Over the course of a day (and with limited human attention), GLM-5.3 found several previously unknown vulnerabilities in the browser’s JavaScript engine, and chained them together into a working exploit: a webpage that, when visited, reads arbitrary files from the visitor’s computer (shown in Figure 3). This exploit targets the Linux build of
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oof
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Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So proud of this: real-time highly scalable distributed generalized database search on fully encrypted data, what we call Queryable Encryption is now out of beta. Culmination of 25+ years of academic work and 7 years of R&D engineering leadership under @senykamara.com and Tarik Moataz... (1/2)
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brisbane, however
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Tom Williams, tech journo 👨‍💻 @its-tom-williams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀 PS. Are you a technology worker in Australia who's struggling to find a job? If you're interested in sharing your experience, or just want to vent, drop me a line by secure email: tomwilliams.contact@protonmail.com
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
Screenshot of a post from threads

matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
    4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 27/09/2026
‘In August, open-weight models accounted for 56 per cent of all tokens processed through Vercel’s AI Gateway, up from 7 per cent in December.’ www.ft.com/content/d9de...
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looks good now, thanks!
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Already seeing people putting this into production running on local hardware. Apparently requires a lot of fine tuning but after that works very well and is amazingly fast (I've heard 20ms for a response on a support ticket type inquiry which is wild).
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@opensource.google: the RSS feed for the Google Open Source blog is 404ing - any chance of a fix? There are several links in the page but they are all dead at the moment. Thanks!
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kat @kgt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Journalists stop ascribing agency to large language models 2026 challenge
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The PM's visit to the UN for the purpose of touting our amazing digital credentials so we can get a set on the Security Council, no less!!!
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Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Australians shouldn’t tolerate our governments’ and regulators' ongoing failure to protect us from exploitation by Big Tech. We need to be able to depend on our regulators to keep us safe, but at the moment we can’t.
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These look pretty good. They're a bit expensive (what isn't these days) but the problem with today's Chromebooks is that they're too cheap and underpowered to feel nice to use for a lot of tasks. But otherwise these are really great systems for a lot of purposes.
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it is easier to get money to build housing for GPUs than it is to get money to build housing for people fortune.com/2026/09/20/u...
fortune.com
U.S. economy hits pivotal milestone: Spending on data centers and other information-processing hardware now exceeds housing investment | Fortune
"We’re seeing a pivotal shift in the US economy: investment is shifting away from residential investment and towards computers."
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mlf. ⎔ @mlf.one · 20/09/2026
HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT
Signal beta release notes on Android saying that you can now register an account without a phone number
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wild timing but I just learned the answer to this is "yes" from this BBC story they posted today www.bbc.com/future/artic...
bbc.com
'Confusion in the immune system': How allergies can develop later in life
We often think of allergies as the result of an unlucky hand dealt in childhood, or even before birth. But "any person, at any point in their life, can develop a new allergy".
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know it's right there in the preview but "The end of human existence might be bad for financial markets" is too good not to repeat
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
1) weird they keep confessing to hacking crime 2) weird this is now a form of marketing 3) weird that everyone refuses to sandbox these thoroughly enough to stop this happening 4) weird that nobody is telling them to stop hacking 5) weird that some people think this is a sign of the robocalypse
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
kind of getting ridiculous now isn't it?
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder for Australians that One Nation has been doing this for a while now. Journalists need to show solidarity simply refuse to attend if any other organisation is denied access, otherwise they might as well just get used to being considered a regime mouthpiece. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
abc.net.au
Should the media boycott Pauline Hanson? - ABC listen
Pauline Hanson wants to be the next Prime Minister but will avoiding scrutiny from some of the biggest media outlets in the country help her get there?   Or will the Trump-like tactic be a turn off f...
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"But there's a difference between making software for yourself that works for your narrow use case that you know doesn't work if you "hold it wrong" or producing work that you know is incorrect that you fix up, and declaring that programming is solved[...]"
But there's a difference between making software for yourself that works for your narrow use case that you know doesn't work if you "hold it wrong" or producing work that you know is incorrect that you fix up, and declaring that programming is solved after writing a bunch of software that doesn't work, or likewise putting something of that quality into a commercial product.
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this seems like a lot of effort to get them into Eurovision
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Be interested in how it goes. I find Discord way too gamer-style and almost too overwhelming (and I say this as an active long term gamer!)
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Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) @igea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today Screen Australia has announced over $2.1 million in games funding across 41 projects with their Games Production and Emerging Gamemakers program. These games come from every state and territory - congratulations to all recipients! ow.ly/fAKC50ZO8E4
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Screen Australia funds games projects in every state and territory as Screen Currency 2026 points to sector growth - Screen Australia
Screen Australia has today announced over $2.1 million in games funding across 41 projects that showcase the depth of talent across Australia. Provided through the Games Production and Emerging Gamemakers programs, the funding supports the nationwide strength of the games industry, highlighted in recent research released by the agency.  Screen Australia Head of Games Joey […]
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The wallet inspector strikes again
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Australian banks never make international finance news for anything good
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just going through some old RSS feeds and it's wild to see some formerly very popular sites having had their domains bought and just repurposed by spammers, like Groklaw
Screenshot of Groklaw website showing gross text from a crypto casino thing: "Crypto casinos are transforming the online gaming world in 2025, giving players faster payments blah blah blah"
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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
possibly because everyone knows the John Connor of this era is simply someone who knows how to unplug a computer
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