Stewart Webb
nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
Stewart Webb
@nuclearpidgeon.bsky.social
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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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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January 19, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 7:54 PM
wow I didn’t know @bsky.app had an office down here in Clayton VIC
January 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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my new years eve resolution is to learn how to fabricate my own semiconductors at home
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 AM
“Don’t talk to me or my son ever again”
(GTX 1070, RTX 5070 Ti)
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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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
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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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
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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Bring back inscrutable security posters
October 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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“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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Also: please put in the newspaper that I’m mad
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...
October 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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
just incredible. absolute cinema. where do I invest
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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i constantly think about this post
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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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.
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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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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okay one more sorry i just like sharing information via the correct format
August 7, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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RIP Freud, you would've fucking loved reddit and chatgpt
July 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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THINK ABOTU IT - dashare.zone ADMIN
June 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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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.
June 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM