Øystein Blixhavn
@blixhavn.bsky.social
Platform advocate @ Omegapoint Norge
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Is it 'online training course'?
June 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Is it 'online training course'?
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Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...
Cloud Native Bergen
Cloud Native Bergen host of Cloud Native Day Bergen and other events. Anything Kubernetes related goes!
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...
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I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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if you think chatbots are alive or self aware then i think you would be easily fooled by a tunnel painted on a brick wall
October 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
if you think chatbots are alive or self aware then i think you would be easily fooled by a tunnel painted on a brick wall
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We are ready for Cloud Native Day Bergen, are you?! 🚀 2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/program
September 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We are ready for Cloud Native Day Bergen, are you?! 🚀 2025.cloudnativebergen.dev/program
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Something I've found really fruitful for me as an architectural principle is understanding that you can simplify a complication, but you have to adapt to complexity.
Which means that complicated things can be abstracted over, but complexity requires re-framing and demands novelty.
Which means that complicated things can be abstracted over, but complexity requires re-framing and demands novelty.
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Something I've found really fruitful for me as an architectural principle is understanding that you can simplify a complication, but you have to adapt to complexity.
Which means that complicated things can be abstracted over, but complexity requires re-framing and demands novelty.
Which means that complicated things can be abstracted over, but complexity requires re-framing and demands novelty.
Whenever developers complain that meetings take too much of their time I automatically assume they value the experience of being in The Flow over actually doing something productive. But they think being in The Flow is productive all on its own.
July 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Whenever developers complain that meetings take too much of their time I automatically assume they value the experience of being in The Flow over actually doing something productive. But they think being in The Flow is productive all on its own.
Yaml is the PHP of markup languages
June 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Yaml is the PHP of markup languages
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
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Thinking about the fan theory that the DOOM universe has a class of demon whose sole purpose is to go around lightning all the candles in hell. I love him
May 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thinking about the fan theory that the DOOM universe has a class of demon whose sole purpose is to go around lightning all the candles in hell. I love him
Honestly looking forward to speaking at NDC today. Did not think I would manage to feel like that so close to showtime 🤡
May 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Honestly looking forward to speaking at NDC today. Did not think I would manage to feel like that so close to showtime 🤡
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The Norwegian Labour Party can’t blame anyone for their current inaction with regards to the 14.000 starving infants in Gaza.
They are running this country all by themselves. What they don’t do in this moment is 100% on them.
They are running this country all by themselves. What they don’t do in this moment is 100% on them.
FN-topp: 14.000 spedbarn risikerer å dø på Gazastripen de neste 48 timene
14.000 spedbarn vil dø på Gazastripen om de ikke får nødhjelp de neste 48 timene, sier FNs nødhjelpssjef Tom Fletcher til BBC tirsdag.
www.aftenposten.no
May 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The Norwegian Labour Party can’t blame anyone for their current inaction with regards to the 14.000 starving infants in Gaza.
They are running this country all by themselves. What they don’t do in this moment is 100% on them.
They are running this country all by themselves. What they don’t do in this moment is 100% on them.
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Q&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
May 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Q&A from a talk I gave last week.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
Q: "What do you think is the biggest threat in cybersecurity right now? Is it post-quantum computing? Is it AI?"
A: Fascism. It's fascism.
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Just got warned that the new "Voice Isolation" feature in Teams, if turned on and trained on a male voice, will filter out all the women in the room, while still allowing the men in the room to be heard online.
*clears throat*
IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.
*clears throat*
IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.
a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames
Alt: a woman in a black dress says "it - it - the f - it - flam - flames on the side of my face", while gesturing at her face.
media.tenor.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Just got warned that the new "Voice Isolation" feature in Teams, if turned on and trained on a male voice, will filter out all the women in the room, while still allowing the men in the room to be heard online.
*clears throat*
IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.
*clears throat*
IF YOU USE A BIASED TRAINING SET, YOUR TECHNOLOGY WILL BE BIASED.
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I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
April 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
> One can no more abuse a dog into loving them than one can “productivity” a knowledge worker into generating a positive ROI.
Well put.
hazelweakly.me/blog/soulles...
Well put.
hazelweakly.me/blog/soulles...
The Trap of Soulless Productivity | Hazel Weakly
If there’s one thing I wish I could burn entirely to the ground and wipe away all traces and remnants of, its the misplaced notion that the productivity of...
hazelweakly.me
April 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
> One can no more abuse a dog into loving them than one can “productivity” a knowledge worker into generating a positive ROI.
Well put.
hazelweakly.me/blog/soulles...
Well put.
hazelweakly.me/blog/soulles...
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To make an analogy to the physical, a focus on cognitive load exclusively would be like military planners focusing exclusively on individual warfighter carry weight and pack composition, ignoring logistics. Yes, it matters how much you ask an individual to carry, but it's not the *only* thing.
A fun quirk of cognitive load: If you think the important thing to fix is cognitive load, it means that you're basically only concerned about working memory.
Consequently, the following things aren't captured:
- long term planning
- comms
- creativity
- casual reasoning
- domain specific thinking
Consequently, the following things aren't captured:
- long term planning
- comms
- creativity
- casual reasoning
- domain specific thinking
April 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
To make an analogy to the physical, a focus on cognitive load exclusively would be like military planners focusing exclusively on individual warfighter carry weight and pack composition, ignoring logistics. Yes, it matters how much you ask an individual to carry, but it's not the *only* thing.
It occurred to me that the reason not to chose out-of-the-box platform solutions is that often, the real value comes from shaping the platform from the very basics
April 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It occurred to me that the reason not to chose out-of-the-box platform solutions is that often, the real value comes from shaping the platform from the very basics
Finally got around to take the CKA 🎉It’s of course tempting to keep the momentum and take the rest of the Kubestronaut certs, but not sure if any but CKS is worth taking as a platform engineer?
April 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Finally got around to take the CKA 🎉It’s of course tempting to keep the momentum and take the rest of the Kubestronaut certs, but not sure if any but CKS is worth taking as a platform engineer?
k9s should be available in certification environments
April 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
k9s should be available in certification environments
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So much talk about factories is making me think about one of the most popular things I've ever written about work, which is also about my grandfather, craft, and whether or not we see humanity in the people we consign to "the factory"
www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
On Craft
My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which...
www.drcathicks.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So much talk about factories is making me think about one of the most popular things I've ever written about work, which is also about my grandfather, craft, and whether or not we see humanity in the people we consign to "the factory"
www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft
Apparently I chose the wrong place to stay for #kubecon @akuity.io
April 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Apparently I chose the wrong place to stay for #kubecon @akuity.io