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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 20/09/2026

Fuck all the way right off with this reputation laundering of this gutless wonder.

Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 15/09/2026

you want to socialise, share ideas, connect. you don't want to do the monkey dance for the algorithm just to get read. so: agents, automation, clone armies. and in among the soulless machines, real thoughts. let's play.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 30/07/2026

keep an eye on your sub-agents 😂. least the parent agent was on snitch duties. #AI #agents

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 05/04/2026

oh, do we suddenly care about how children are treated RNZ? Fuck ALL the way off #RNZ How about NZ focus on fixing our home grown CSA predator networks instead www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

screenshot of RNZ story "Children as young as 12 recruited to join Iran war"

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 28/02/2026

RNZ western propaganda team have logged on for their shift.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 17/02/2026

Excuse my cynicism, but I won't be holding my breath.

email response from the NZ Media Council saying they will take my complaint to the next meeting.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 10/02/2026

Let's see what ol' NZ Media Council says.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 07/02/2026

I'm also at this stage of my coding night, swearing at my ai for repeatedly getting this wrong 🤣🫠

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 28/01/2026

Hey kids, wanna learn about Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and how it can go so wrong if you just hand everything over to the AI agent to decide? Read all about it here: f.mtr.cool/gzltuaupqd

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 27/01/2026

"Anytime someone maintains that a technology is inevitable, they're asking us to abandon our agency." Unavoidable? Sure. But inevitable? That's a different claim entirely. Newsletter drops this Sunday. f.mtr.cool/nmhsnmwfjz

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 26/01/2026

🤔 hmmm... where have I seen this before....

photo of Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari pointing to a calendar on a wall as prove Hamas was there.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 23/01/2026

is it even worth one of these? 😮‍💨

screenshot complaints submission reading: Thank you for your submission.
Your formal complaint has been received by RNZ. Under NZ Media Council terms and conditions, we have 10 working days to respond to you via your supplied email/postal address. If for some reason (such as leave commitments, sickness or annual close-down) we are unable to respond to you within 10 working days, there is a further provision for an extension of time. If that is necessary we will let you know.

In the meantime, your formal complaint will be processed against the principles to which you have selected.

If we need further information to process your complaint, we will be in touch.

Ngā mihi,

The RNZ Formal Complaints Team

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 11/01/2026

seriously, he's just a bald David Brent. a chilled out entertainer 😂

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 11/01/2026

I don't pay much attention to ballbag politicians if I can help it (similarly CEO's), but this latest article re: Luxo, is giving the ultimate David Brent, zero accountability, and talks directly out of his puckered sphincter- "senior jobs at a young age" *does the hand gesture everyones thinking*

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 06/01/2026

this is why you gotta stay vigilant when coding with these muthaf**** LLMs! That "ha!" had me wanting to throw hands- sonofa.. 😡😂

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 04/01/2026

one thing I will credit Chad (nickname for ChatGPT) with is accepting it was talking shit and it's biased and treated things differently right off the bat. but you shouldn't have to know a few things to rebut the machine before it acts right, is my point. seriously.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 04/01/2026

and reply with my usual charming personality like this.. but seriously, have you ever copped this disingenuous bullshit from an AI and wanted to run it straight at the data science/engineers who trained this model? no? just me? 😆

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 04/01/2026

Often times like this I will turn to ChatGPT, sometimes for a discussion, but often times so I can wait for the guaranteed bias bullshit, like this...

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 03/01/2026

Classic tech industry security improvement process... wait for it to get popped and THEN bring the posture up to the bare minimum (2FA/SSO). f.mtr.cool/fpjnqusazw

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 31/12/2025

Reckon they might've gotten in via the helpful AI assistant? 😂😩

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 30/12/2025

I discovered hackers and hacker culture in the late 1990's, online with ICQ, mIRC and BBS's (if you know what those are).

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 26/12/2025

well that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence...

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 02/12/2025

Aaaaand there it is... why NZ's largest and most resourced gang will never change.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 27/11/2025

I'm sure this is fine... 👀👀😂

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 17/08/2025

My tattoo artist brother always been the outspoken one, from local government corruption (see: ABA, Avondale), all the way to genocides on the other side of the world. Been saying it with his whole chest since the beginning ❤️ #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 27/07/2025

Sooo... the swamp on X is feeling some type of way today 🤣

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 02/06/2025

and you would be right... MedusaJS looks pretty siiick.. but also, dammit Ira! I'm already rabbit-holed on some other cool sh!t @santini.nz showed me yesterday 🤣

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 26/05/2025

I was happy to get my copy in the mail today, looking forward to reading and not being surprised by anything OpenAI has done, in this book 😂

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 14/05/2025

Reading RNZ, I'm often left thinking "wtaf is this piece saying or not saying and does it need to be this long to say it?" controversial take: if this is human news writing, I'll take the AI summary, thanks. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 11/05/2025

Jah. I know. I'm from this era 👇🏽 🤣 first thing I said to a dev who was explaining what MCP did for them, was ask them how this was different to these integration services from yesteryear that managed the back<->front communication flow.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 10/05/2025

I have this weird thing where I get super curious when I see a new AI-related capability come out... but I get legit excited when I see how that new capability can be pwned 😈 last week it was "look at this MCP thing I built"... this week: hey, let's break MCP to pieces! arxiv.org/pdf/2503.232...

screenshot of a diagram, on the left an application flow without MCP, on the right the same app flow WITH MCP.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 01/05/2025

🤖 Finally had time to sit down and see what I could do with MCP, with one of the only use cases I find interesting with AI agents = hacker bots 😂. Setup a local DVWA container, short python script worked, so onto a more sophisticated LLM agent next.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 30/04/2025

👀 returning to this throwback for.... reasons.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 18/04/2025

😂 why does this not surprise me 🇳🇿

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 15/04/2025

📘 Part 4 of 4 of my little deep dive into Agentic AI Security on LinkedIn. Glad to get this one done. Deep dives are exhausting, especially once the initial excitement has faded and its just you, all your notes and your OCD to post it 😂😭. Fin. www.linkedin.com/pulse/part-3...

image of a circuit board, with the main chip reading "AI" on it. darkly lit motherboard with LEDs and lights.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 10/04/2025

🥷🏽 one for the hackers: this was buzzy to see, in the open, on tiktoks website 🤔 ... javascript RSA (jsrsasign) for API request signing (client-side), but for some reason, just letting the private keys ass hang out like this in public 😂.

screenshot of tiktok live stream page, open with inspector, showing a private key of a keypair.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 24/03/2025

I definitely spent waaaay too long on these infographics in Canva 😂😭 ... but they were fun to do.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 20/03/2025

Finally got around to rebuilding my PiHole DNS w/ Unbound. Cannibalized 3x HP thinclients to make the one supreme client, Debian 12, docker-compose, containers ftw. Old school computer geekin'... twas a good day.

terminal window with output from docker compose for pihole and unbound

3x HP t610 thin clients savaged to make the one true, supreme thin client unit muahahahahaha

the SUPREME t610 unit, with 32Gig HDD and 8Gig RAM.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 19/03/2025

Meta AI Studio, "Find and interact with AIs created by others." 👀 Other than the Quran being an obviously popular resource, the rest of the AI's (and this is just ONE section) doesn't bode too well for a certain er..."demographic" 😬

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 17/03/2025

So... basically PRE-PROD for human beings? 😂👀

screenshot of University of Auckland survey to see if people agree that we should welcome our "human health digital twins".

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 24/02/2025

@anthropic.com’s latest model has landed… I like it.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 13/02/2025

Of course the natural progression (in my line of work anyway) from containers is Kubernetes... And managed at that. While containers are light, nimble, hackery and fun... Managed k8s is such a fucking slow death by comparison. Enterprise, resilience, blah blah I get it... Still not fun.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 10/02/2025

Man I love these little containers 😊

Screenshot of an 'apt update' command in a wee Linux container.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 08/02/2025

This could be interesting 👀 - Multi-Agent AI System Prompt Infection Attacks 😈

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 07/02/2025

This piece by @404media.co hitting the nails right on the head 💯 s.mtrbio.com/yenfudnptj

text saying "If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what people in power are saying and doing is not going to accomplish anything. If anything, it’s exactly what they want."

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 06/02/2025

heh- this feels like a million years ago.

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 31/01/2025

what I did find funny was this: says DeepSeeks $6M training figure's either a lie or is not that cheap cos they trained Claude for 2-3x the cost? "I won't give an exact figure"... so don't believe DeepSeek, but "trust you bro"?...

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Ron Amosa @uncommonengineer.com · 31/01/2025

Reading @anthropic.com's Dario Amodei's blog post in response to the #DeepSeek r1 model that has U.S. AI folks losing their shit. At least he's up front about that 'American Imperialism' must prevail. For some reason he spells is "national security" later in the piece...

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