Leon Wright
@techman83.me
DevOps Engineer, Swing Dancer, avid bow collector
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This is a hill I will die on.
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
LED replacement bulbs for cars are bad and you shouldn't use them.
YouTube video by Technology Connextras
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October 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is a hill I will die on.
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4
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mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
August 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
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Have you ever heard the horrifying sound of jello being shredded?
June 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Have you ever heard the horrifying sound of jello being shredded?
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There was a time you couldn't compare consoles by their AMD GPU memory bandwidth. They were fundamentally different visions of how you even write software. Of what the future would be. And they got it wrong. Until the convergence. Things were special until they weren't.
May 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There was a time you couldn't compare consoles by their AMD GPU memory bandwidth. They were fundamentally different visions of how you even write software. Of what the future would be. And they got it wrong. Until the convergence. Things were special until they weren't.
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Dutton got his wish. He will never stand in front of an Aboriginal flag as PM.
May 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Dutton got his wish. He will never stand in front of an Aboriginal flag as PM.
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I remember years ago this kind of app coming up and InfoSec response was we are not centralizing a corporate extortion database
Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/2057241/employee-monitoring-app-leaks-21-million-screenshots-in-real-time?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a major privacy breach involving WorkComposer, a workplace surveillance app used by over 200,000 people across countless companies. The app, designed to track productivity by logging activity and snapping reg...
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April 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I remember years ago this kind of app coming up and InfoSec response was we are not centralizing a corporate extortion database
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won't a lot of these supposed mums be grandmums by the time it would be built?
April 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
won't a lot of these supposed mums be grandmums by the time it would be built?
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"yes, hello. We may have free speeched our way into a fascist dictatorship where Christian nationalists & far-right grifters have eroded the rights of women, LGBTQ+, immigrants and politician dissidents , but we're really like to pitch you on our idea of free speech" lol, no thanks. You can keep it.
April 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"yes, hello. We may have free speeched our way into a fascist dictatorship where Christian nationalists & far-right grifters have eroded the rights of women, LGBTQ+, immigrants and politician dissidents , but we're really like to pitch you on our idea of free speech" lol, no thanks. You can keep it.
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Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born.
It's a eugenicist claim.
It's a eugenicist claim.
April 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born.
It's a eugenicist claim.
It's a eugenicist claim.
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April 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I had a meeting with my VP last year and I communicated how I sometimes felt like I was not being bold enough and I just wanted to understand I had their support.
They told me, to the effect, our job is to operate understanding things are going to break doing nothing.
We should be doing something.
They told me, to the effect, our job is to operate understanding things are going to break doing nothing.
We should be doing something.
April 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I had a meeting with my VP last year and I communicated how I sometimes felt like I was not being bold enough and I just wanted to understand I had their support.
They told me, to the effect, our job is to operate understanding things are going to break doing nothing.
We should be doing something.
They told me, to the effect, our job is to operate understanding things are going to break doing nothing.
We should be doing something.
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Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
My silly little #twitch integration got a bit of an overhaul via #Cursor, which has been proving to be a useful tool of late. #AI isn't a replacement for solid engineering practices or experience, but it very much pairs well with them.
github.com/techman83/ch...
github.com/techman83/ch...
GitHub - techman83/chickenhat-bot: A super hacky twitch integration for Chicken Hat Redemptions on SsjSilentTV's stream
A super hacky twitch integration for Chicken Hat Redemptions on SsjSilentTV's stream - techman83/chickenhat-bot
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April 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My silly little #twitch integration got a bit of an overhaul via #Cursor, which has been proving to be a useful tool of late. #AI isn't a replacement for solid engineering practices or experience, but it very much pairs well with them.
github.com/techman83/ch...
github.com/techman83/ch...
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UGH, this made my joints hurt.
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
UGH, this made my joints hurt.
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I can't say I particularly enjoyed help desk, though I may have enjoyed it a little more if I'd been diagnosed with ADHD earlier. However the experiences I gained during those years have proven to be invaluable in my roles since.
Please imagine life outside the cybersecurity pipeline. I beg of you. Living is its own job experience. You can't follow my path, but I did Helpdesk for 10 years. I thought it was a shame. And now I'm proud of it and advertise. I didn't have the perspective to know what it gave me.
You don't either.
You don't either.
March 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I can't say I particularly enjoyed help desk, though I may have enjoyed it a little more if I'd been diagnosed with ADHD earlier. However the experiences I gained during those years have proven to be invaluable in my roles since.
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This may sound sappy but this is the gist of what "technology connections" are.
Most everyday machines work on pretty basic concepts. They're designed to be convenient to use and effective, but when you understand the concepts through which they work you can adapt those concepts to new problems!
Most everyday machines work on pretty basic concepts. They're designed to be convenient to use and effective, but when you understand the concepts through which they work you can adapt those concepts to new problems!
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This may sound sappy but this is the gist of what "technology connections" are.
Most everyday machines work on pretty basic concepts. They're designed to be convenient to use and effective, but when you understand the concepts through which they work you can adapt those concepts to new problems!
Most everyday machines work on pretty basic concepts. They're designed to be convenient to use and effective, but when you understand the concepts through which they work you can adapt those concepts to new problems!
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1. I get served an unintentionally hilarious video on Instagram of someone claiming that giving birth with dolphins ensures there is no pain in childbirth and your kid will have a 150 IQ.
2. I google to see where this theory comes from.
3. I get served an AI answer with this amazing sentence.
2. I google to see where this theory comes from.
3. I get served an AI answer with this amazing sentence.
March 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
1. I get served an unintentionally hilarious video on Instagram of someone claiming that giving birth with dolphins ensures there is no pain in childbirth and your kid will have a 150 IQ.
2. I google to see where this theory comes from.
3. I get served an AI answer with this amazing sentence.
2. I google to see where this theory comes from.
3. I get served an AI answer with this amazing sentence.
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Quote from me: Calling a predictive model ‘non-decision making’ is an oxymoron, it is a contradiction in terms. Predictions always involve decision-making: which theory to investigate, which target to pursue
Centrelink trialling AI in fraud detection & debt prioritisation, I spoke to @asherwolf.bsky.social & Justin Warren about it. Tip me off about high risk AI & automation usecases on Signal: JeremyNadel.86
ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Centrelink trials AI to detect fraud, prioritise debts
Controversial move prompts calls for transparency.
ia.acs.org.au
February 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Quote from me: Calling a predictive model ‘non-decision making’ is an oxymoron, it is a contradiction in terms. Predictions always involve decision-making: which theory to investigate, which target to pursue
I think someone missed me while I was away 😍
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I think someone missed me while I was away 😍
This is why I turn off all autoplay and do not swipe up video after video. I want to be in the loop, as growing up undiagnosed ADHD meant I spent enough of my time with my attention outside of my control.
Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
Algorithms are breaking how we think
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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February 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is why I turn off all autoplay and do not swipe up video after video. I want to be in the loop, as growing up undiagnosed ADHD meant I spent enough of my time with my attention outside of my control.