Luuk Paulussen
@luukpaulussen.bsky.social
Husband, Dad, Software engineer (C) / Team Lead, NZ Greens member. Learning Te Reo. Into board games, reading, 3D printing, tinkering with hardware. Based in Ōtautahi, NZ. Progressive, lefty, Christian. He/Him
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Holy shit. But also, holy shit.
Be aware that inbound firewall rules are ineffective against connections being initiated from inside the house.
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...
Be aware that inbound firewall rules are ineffective against connections being initiated from inside the house.
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me
Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it.
The Beginning: A Curious Experiment
It all started ...
codetiger.github.io
October 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Holy shit. But also, holy shit.
Be aware that inbound firewall rules are ineffective against connections being initiated from inside the house.
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...
Be aware that inbound firewall rules are ineffective against connections being initiated from inside the house.
codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...
Sorry Nick Moody running for ECan, but parking your billboard trailer in a bike lane pretty much rules you out as an environmental organisation candidate from my point of view...
September 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry Nick Moody running for ECan, but parking your billboard trailer in a bike lane pretty much rules you out as an environmental organisation candidate from my point of view...
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According to a 2022 MBIE report, 110,000 #NZ households cannot keep warm. Meanwhile, the 4 big power “gentailers” (who generate electricity as well as sell it) make collective profits of $2.85 billion per year = $7.8 million every day. Re-Nationalise #Power Companies #nzpol
September 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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See also: NCEA changes
Educacioun that doth focus on 'workforce' alone wythout serious focus on the thrivinge and curiousitye of the individual and on the collective exploration of big questiouns about societye, knowledge, power, love, historye, and art -- that ys not educacioun, that ys just control.
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
See also: NCEA changes
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Since June 2023 we have:
- Cut the Minimum Wage twice in real terms
- Removed the living wage from government contracts
- Brought back 90 day trials
- Ended Fair Pay Agreements
- Cancelled 33 live Pay Equity Claims
- Given $10bn tax cuts for landlords and businesses
- Cut the Minimum Wage twice in real terms
- Removed the living wage from government contracts
- Brought back 90 day trials
- Ended Fair Pay Agreements
- Cancelled 33 live Pay Equity Claims
- Given $10bn tax cuts for landlords and businesses
July 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Since June 2023 we have:
- Cut the Minimum Wage twice in real terms
- Removed the living wage from government contracts
- Brought back 90 day trials
- Ended Fair Pay Agreements
- Cancelled 33 live Pay Equity Claims
- Given $10bn tax cuts for landlords and businesses
- Cut the Minimum Wage twice in real terms
- Removed the living wage from government contracts
- Brought back 90 day trials
- Ended Fair Pay Agreements
- Cancelled 33 live Pay Equity Claims
- Given $10bn tax cuts for landlords and businesses
10 of the authors I've read 5+ books from in the past year
@pipersheldonauthor.bsky.social
@heidihutchinson.bsky.social
@clareashton.bsky.social
@catswrites.bsky.social
@kehealey.bsky.social
@authorpennyreid.bsky.social
@cathyyardley.bsky.social
Chloe Liese
Melissa Brayden
Terry Pratchett
@pipersheldonauthor.bsky.social
@heidihutchinson.bsky.social
@clareashton.bsky.social
@catswrites.bsky.social
@kehealey.bsky.social
@authorpennyreid.bsky.social
@cathyyardley.bsky.social
Chloe Liese
Melissa Brayden
Terry Pratchett
But I digress a long way... Here's Ten writers by whom I’ve read than more than five books:
* Jane Austen
* Anthony Powell
* Anthony Trollope
* Evelyn Waugh
* Anita Brookner
* P.G. Wodehouse & Georges Simenon (not as fast as they wrote 'em, still...)
* Iris Murdoch
* Philip Larkin
* Alice Munro
* Jane Austen
* Anthony Powell
* Anthony Trollope
* Evelyn Waugh
* Anita Brookner
* P.G. Wodehouse & Georges Simenon (not as fast as they wrote 'em, still...)
* Iris Murdoch
* Philip Larkin
* Alice Munro
Ten writers by whom I’ve read than more than five books:
Anita Brookner
Charles Dickens
Terrance Dicks
Jane Gardam
Tove Jansson
Alan Moore
Marcel Proust (arguably)
Gwendoline Riley
Charles M. Schulz
Elizabeth Taylor
Anita Brookner
Charles Dickens
Terrance Dicks
Jane Gardam
Tove Jansson
Alan Moore
Marcel Proust (arguably)
Gwendoline Riley
Charles M. Schulz
Elizabeth Taylor
July 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
10 of the authors I've read 5+ books from in the past year
@pipersheldonauthor.bsky.social
@heidihutchinson.bsky.social
@clareashton.bsky.social
@catswrites.bsky.social
@kehealey.bsky.social
@authorpennyreid.bsky.social
@cathyyardley.bsky.social
Chloe Liese
Melissa Brayden
Terry Pratchett
@pipersheldonauthor.bsky.social
@heidihutchinson.bsky.social
@clareashton.bsky.social
@catswrites.bsky.social
@kehealey.bsky.social
@authorpennyreid.bsky.social
@cathyyardley.bsky.social
Chloe Liese
Melissa Brayden
Terry Pratchett
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Just heard a sound bite of Nicky No-boats saying council's don't spend money the way I would spend my money. Well Nicky, I wouldn't order a new SUV and new garage, then cancel the order costing me $80,000 in cancel fees, then buy a Nissan Micra and house it in a tent from Bunnings #nzpol
July 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Just heard a sound bite of Nicky No-boats saying council's don't spend money the way I would spend my money. Well Nicky, I wouldn't order a new SUV and new garage, then cancel the order costing me $80,000 in cancel fees, then buy a Nissan Micra and house it in a tent from Bunnings #nzpol
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chris hipkins repeat after me:
"we don't always agree, but what I *do* know is that both the Greens and Te Pāti Māori want a better future for this country - National, ACT and NZ First are making everyone's lives *worse*"
"we don't always agree, but what I *do* know is that both the Greens and Te Pāti Māori want a better future for this country - National, ACT and NZ First are making everyone's lives *worse*"
May 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
chris hipkins repeat after me:
"we don't always agree, but what I *do* know is that both the Greens and Te Pāti Māori want a better future for this country - National, ACT and NZ First are making everyone's lives *worse*"
"we don't always agree, but what I *do* know is that both the Greens and Te Pāti Māori want a better future for this country - National, ACT and NZ First are making everyone's lives *worse*"
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"It's not like I have a big money bazooka," laments the Minister of Finance who managed to find $9 billion of new spending on bazookas
May 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"It's not like I have a big money bazooka," laments the Minister of Finance who managed to find $9 billion of new spending on bazookas
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Business reps are centred everyday in the news - their concern is profit not people. It’s time RNZ & others centred community orgs in exactly the same way for balance. We could hear from food banks; hsg advocates; Iwi, beneficiary advocates, renters, disability orgs to get a 360 on the economy.
May 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Business reps are centred everyday in the news - their concern is profit not people. It’s time RNZ & others centred community orgs in exactly the same way for balance. We could hear from food banks; hsg advocates; Iwi, beneficiary advocates, renters, disability orgs to get a 360 on the economy.
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Buried lede: government is getting rid of requirements on Treasury to consider wellbeing.
May 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Buried lede: government is getting rid of requirements on Treasury to consider wellbeing.
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I'm done, as a nation we all need to take shit more seriously.
We should all educate ourselves on politics and become active members of democracy.
You might not fuck with politics but politics will fuck with you - @philipdefranco.bsky.social
#nzpol #onetermgovt
We should all educate ourselves on politics and become active members of democracy.
You might not fuck with politics but politics will fuck with you - @philipdefranco.bsky.social
#nzpol #onetermgovt
May 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I'm done, as a nation we all need to take shit more seriously.
We should all educate ourselves on politics and become active members of democracy.
You might not fuck with politics but politics will fuck with you - @philipdefranco.bsky.social
#nzpol #onetermgovt
We should all educate ourselves on politics and become active members of democracy.
You might not fuck with politics but politics will fuck with you - @philipdefranco.bsky.social
#nzpol #onetermgovt
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The Green budget has great stuff in it and it frustrates me no end that they get treated like "tree-hugging weirdos" while National, who were told that their landlord tax cuts didn't add up before the election, get to throw women under the bus and still are somehow "safe hands" for the economy.
May 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The Green budget has great stuff in it and it frustrates me no end that they get treated like "tree-hugging weirdos" while National, who were told that their landlord tax cuts didn't add up before the election, get to throw women under the bus and still are somehow "safe hands" for the economy.
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robots.txt is largely ignored, but I like that these coders are fighting back by building tarpits to trap the AI
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
robots.txt is largely ignored, but I like that these coders are fighting back by building tarpits to trap the AI
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
I'd like to move that the members of the privileges committee who voted for unprecedented suspensions be suspended for abusing their power as members of the privileges committee.
May 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I'd like to move that the members of the privileges committee who voted for unprecedented suspensions be suspended for abusing their power as members of the privileges committee.
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This wasn’t just about a haka, it was about refusing to let Māori resistance appear powerful, physical, proud, unapologetic, unompromising. It was about disciplining the very act of being fully Indigenous in a settler-colonial space. They couldn't kill the message, so they silenced the messengers.
May 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This wasn’t just about a haka, it was about refusing to let Māori resistance appear powerful, physical, proud, unapologetic, unompromising. It was about disciplining the very act of being fully Indigenous in a settler-colonial space. They couldn't kill the message, so they silenced the messengers.
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A FAFO moment: China just cut off the US's supply of critical minerals as retaliation for their trade sanctions. Which will upset the US weapons industry (and, sadly, electrification). Oops. cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica
In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.
cleantechnica.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A FAFO moment: China just cut off the US's supply of critical minerals as retaliation for their trade sanctions. Which will upset the US weapons industry (and, sadly, electrification). Oops. cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...
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Dear the Media and the Labour Party,
It's okay, you can stop now. I can't vote Green any harder.
It's okay, you can stop now. I can't vote Green any harder.
March 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Dear the Media and the Labour Party,
It's okay, you can stop now. I can't vote Green any harder.
It's okay, you can stop now. I can't vote Green any harder.
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*applause* The very same day Stuff runs an article suggesting the GG story was a hit job shopped to them by dirty politics operators who hate the Greens, they headline another hit job clearly set up by dirty politics operators who hate the Greens
March 31, 2025 at 5:10 AM
*applause* The very same day Stuff runs an article suggesting the GG story was a hit job shopped to them by dirty politics operators who hate the Greens, they headline another hit job clearly set up by dirty politics operators who hate the Greens
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3 of the least popular men in NZ lost their minds to aggressively verbally attack Tamatha Paul, & media (&Hipkins) decided to join THAT team.
Honestly, this is probably good for the Greens in a number of ways. It certainly would be in a functioning democracy with balanced media.
Honestly, this is probably good for the Greens in a number of ways. It certainly would be in a functioning democracy with balanced media.
March 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
3 of the least popular men in NZ lost their minds to aggressively verbally attack Tamatha Paul, & media (&Hipkins) decided to join THAT team.
Honestly, this is probably good for the Greens in a number of ways. It certainly would be in a functioning democracy with balanced media.
Honestly, this is probably good for the Greens in a number of ways. It certainly would be in a functioning democracy with balanced media.
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So bloody infuriating and wearying.
It's disturbing that Hipkins could summon up so much outrage, complete with name calling and real hostility for Tamatha Paul, but not for the outrageous things Seymour, Peters and Jones have said or for the appalling policymaking of the coalition.
It's disturbing that Hipkins could summon up so much outrage, complete with name calling and real hostility for Tamatha Paul, but not for the outrageous things Seymour, Peters and Jones have said or for the appalling policymaking of the coalition.
March 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
So bloody infuriating and wearying.
It's disturbing that Hipkins could summon up so much outrage, complete with name calling and real hostility for Tamatha Paul, but not for the outrageous things Seymour, Peters and Jones have said or for the appalling policymaking of the coalition.
It's disturbing that Hipkins could summon up so much outrage, complete with name calling and real hostility for Tamatha Paul, but not for the outrageous things Seymour, Peters and Jones have said or for the appalling policymaking of the coalition.
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This is the Stuff politics section. Check the story in the bottom right corner then EVERYTHING else, then tell me this isn't an UTTERLY confected beat up
Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark
Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark
March 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This is the Stuff politics section. Check the story in the bottom right corner then EVERYTHING else, then tell me this isn't an UTTERLY confected beat up
Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark
Not sure I've ever seen an example so stark