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Stewart Webb
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codebase historian / professional computer wrangler, proud one-fifth of the australian bluesky user base (melbourne chapter).
also online at https://swebb.id.au
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acollierastro.bsky.social
Can I offer to summarize two paragraphs of text incorrectly in this trying time?
January 21, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
"it ain't much but it's honest work" meme. caption: This image macro is in the public domain in the United States as the background was taken by the Department of Agriculture.
January 19, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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swiftonsecurity.com
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA Garfield: Huh. I wonder who that's for.
January 19, 2026 at 7:54 PM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
wow I didn’t know @bsky.app had an office down here in Clayton VIC
A sign on the front of an industrial yard office saying “BlueSky” with a subtitle “quality with care”
January 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
my new years eve resolution is to learn how to fabricate my own semiconductors at home
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
“Don’t talk to me or my son ever again”
(GTX 1070, RTX 5070 Ti)
Two graphics cards stacked on top of each other. The RTX 5070 card is a triple-slot width, while the 1070 is only double-slot. The two graphics cards side-by-side showing that the 5070 is much bigger
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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kathryntewson.bsky.social
I am so torn between wanting to share this with no context so that the reader can have the full experience of developing a relationship with each of the parties in the discussion to this PR, and with knowing that the full impact of what is happening here might evade many without more explanation
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
This post from @j2bryson.bsky.social is such simple plain English that perfectly distills many of my qualms with LLM AI systems, and reasonable, plain, sensible cautions to take when using them. A breath of fresh air.

joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene...
Generative AI use and human agency
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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menotti.bsky.social
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
I scored 15/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
e-mail.wtf
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
every day I struggle and wade through the waves of enshittification trying to get back to our lost paradise of “going on the computer and having fun”
October 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
Bring back inscrutable security posters
October 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
“EXTRA, EXTRA - READ ALL ABOUT IT! BRITISH MAN YELLS AT TECH INDUSTRY ON INTERNET!”
October 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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edzitron.com
Also: please put in the newspaper that I’m mad
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Oct 2
My Financial Times interview got reprinted on the front page of the newspaper The Australian Financial Review with an incredible illustration of the contents of my mind and the big handle I turn when I blog

www.afr.com/technology/t...
Battle lines Railing against AI slop, aggressive algorithms and firms bleeding users of data, Ed Zitron has become one of Silicon Valley's punchiest critics, writes Tabby Kinder. Mad as hell: the man calling BS on big tech Style over substance. Ed Zitron says tech giant leaders are greedy fools who have risen through a broken system. ILUISTRATION F d Zitron is not a journalist, performance to polemic - take aim at the not a whistleblower and cer- "idiots". "conmen" and cynical tech billion- tainly not a prophet. He's not aires he believes are responsible for a "rot- here to spread conspiracies, ten" economy, and they have earned him a to "tell it like it is" or to con-viral following. Take the blog he publishes as I board a truth and that evervbody plane to Las Vegas to meet him for this inter- else is a moron. He is, he says. just a pissed view. A 13,000-word screed about the "era of off. emotional guv who needs to get "these the bucinoce iint" it ic writton with ar fing words out of my head". apostate's disaffection, and argues that mod- Listeners to Zitron's podcast, Better Offline. ern companies, especially those in the tech or readers of his blog. "Where's your Ed at". industry are no longer run by competent are used to the swearing but might scoff at people, but by greedy fools who have risen his protests. Zitron's sneering manifestos - through a broken system that rewards delivered with the dropped Ts of his London superficial action over substance. It opens orrontonio hirinue rhuthm that toore from by calling Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, the second-largest public company in the world, "either a liar or a specific kind of idiot" for comments Nadella made in an interview about the sorts of questions he asks his company's own Al chatbot. More than 75,000 people subscribe to and regularly read these posts, a number that is growing. Zitron's podcast is owned and produced by iHeartRadio, the largest radio broadcaster in the US, which says it reache… Mad as hell: the man calling BS on big tech righteous energy so lamilar trom his podcasts. "Look, when it comes down to it, everything's like this: it's f--ed, and you are not insane for feeling bad," he tells me. "You are not stupid for feeling wronged. Things are unfair and you should f--ing say you're angry." Zitron monologues with the visceral dis- of the washed-up broadcaster Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network: he's mad as hell and hes not going to take it any more. In the film, Beale delivers one of cinemas most famous rants about disillusionment and powerlessness in the face of corporate domination but is ultimately exploited by his bosses for views. Beale was deranged, Zitron says (Zitron is not, "thanks to a wonderful therapist I see regularly"), but the character's sincerity, turning a personal grievance into a collective howl of frustration is something to aim for. "Emotionally and sincerely explaining why shit sucks, that's compelling, he says. Over the next couple of hours together, I will hear plenty of breathless tirades. It is, I come to understand, Zitron's default way of expressing himself. His arguments make my head spin, oscillating between grand observations on the business of technology and unguarded revelations about his mental health. Sometimes he reminds me of an opinionated teenager who hasn't yet developed the social skills to know when not to take themselves so seriously. "Tve been told my whole goddamn life to calm down, that I'm too much," he says. But with each unburdening I notice more and more a well of vulnerab-ility; a need to be listened to and liked. Zitron's path from hobbyist blogger to one of big tech's punchiest critics happened first very slowly then all at once. Born in Hammersmith, west London, his was a mostly normal but, he admits, friendless childhood. He did badly at school, struggling with ADHD and dyspraxia, a disorder that affects fine motor skills, but found solace in gadgets, the internet and online fantasy rol… onmental Protection Agency for policing the don't have that in me. I find the idea of Ed internet - although he has little hope that catron the chancerreal unny because is anything reining in big tech will happen dur- just me, I dont have a mask I put on." Hegoes ing Donald Trump's second term. But when on: The irony is my mask would probably asked how he would actually solve some of be a bit less emotional, a bit less aggressive the issues he sees with the tech world. his about this stilla answers become almost metaphysical. In many ways, The Sphere - a $US2.3 bil- "We need something that savs vou cant hon LED-wrapped orb just off the Vegas make shit worse like this," he says. Silicon strip - is the perfect analogy for the tech valley needs a reckoning with how man world.as tron sees it. It is an overwhelm liars there are. I think we need a better moral ing visual assault, its 15,000 square metres of society in general, but in the valley alone . screens demanding total, verugo-inducing he goes on to list, again, the tech bosses he immersion, and it lost SUS500 million last thinks are makins the world worse year. It is a lascinating, pointless shrine to Last year, Casey Newton, who co-hosts scale and spectacle. The New York Times tech nodcast Hard Fork Zitron and Thave left the Venetian to watch defined two camps of Al critics in an article the movie created for The Sphere, and shown titled The phony comforts of Al scepticism there at least once a day. Postcard from Earth The first camp, which Newton says is made directed by Darren Aronofsky. As metaphors up ol techs external critics, Delieve ALIS upon which to trame this aracle go. it is fake and it sucks", while the second - New- almost too on the nose. Fifty minutes of foot- ton's camp - consists of internal critics who age or earth, loosely Iramed around a science think Al is real and dangerous. Newton fiction plotline in which humans have aban- namechecked Marcus as the archetype of doned the planet through spa…
October 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
Another news event in the TikTok ban / forced U.S. sale, another time to repost this from @junlper.beer
September 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
just incredible. absolute cinema. where do I invest
shacknews.com Shacknews @shacknews.com · Sep 18
LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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jtp.bsky.social
i constantly think about this post
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
angelayang.bsky.social angela yang @angelayang.bsky.social · Sep 2
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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rich-harris.dev
Meanwhile a very common piece of feedback I hear about the thing I've spent the last nine years pouring my heart and soul into is 'this sucks, my LLM doesn't know how to write it' which translates as 'I am incapable of building anything without a robot holding my hand'

fuckin bleak
August 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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hailey.at
okay one more sorry i just like sharing information via the correct format
August 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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scott.hanselman.com
Did you know that Microsoft has a hallway that is just a wall of GPUs? devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/wall...
Direct3D team office has a Wall of GPU History - DirectX Developer Blog
When you are the team behind something like Direct3D, you need many different graphics cards to test on.  And when you’ve been doing this for as long as we have, you’ll inevitably accumulate a LOT of ...
devblogs.microsoft.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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anothersmd.bsky.social
RIP Freud, you would've fucking loved reddit and chatgpt
July 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
This week in @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social :

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellin...
Spelling of disc - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
July 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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dasharez0ne.bsky.social
THINK ABOTU IT - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELITON AT WORK AND THERE THINKEN ABOUT HOW A.I IS FORCED INTO EMAILS, INTO SEARCHES, INTO ALL APP'S, AND IT NEVER MAKES ANYTHING BETTER, IT MAKES THERE JOB WORSE, AND DA TEXT SAYS "IF AI WAS ACTUALLY USEFUL THEN THEY WOULDNT HAVE TO FORCE US TO USE IT" AND THERE RIGHT TO SAY IT, SOMEONES MAKEN SOME MONEY OFF THIS AND IT SURE AS HELL AINT US - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
June 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?"

99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.
A wombat undermined our house to build his burrow. Nearly $50k in foundation repairs, plus $200 in chicken wire to keep him out. Now he’s done the same thing to the shed, so $5k to build a new shed on the other side of the property. Here he is, old Fat Bastard himself.. Edit: it’s wild how many people are suggesting we “get rid” him... Apart from it being very much illegal, the idea would just never even cross my mind. It’s his home too. He’s now settled in his new burrow, and our house is wombat-proofed. The worst he does now is dig up my potatoes.
June 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM