Of all the AI movies of the past 2 decades I did expect 'Her (2014)' to be the movie most similar to how things currently seem to be unfolding. (Re grown ass men w/ GPT GF's and clawdbots self organizing with each other). This is the dumbest timeline. www.imdb.com/title/tt1798...

Gets up early to get a head start on the day ⚡ *incident* 🔥 (reader, it was DNS)

Wait, that’s really the name of New Zealand’s energy minister? Fair enough.

Traumatic first experience bleeding the hydraulic braking system of a 2nd had e bike I picked up last month. Mineral oil everywhere Did not fix the problem. Fml.

Happy New Years from the Future (GMT+13) 🎉🎊🥳🍾

Housing market with bits tacked on.

Self-care today looks like spending extra time doing some chores that have piled up. Namely, cleaning the coffee machine so that I'm not taunted by the blinking light every time I make a coffee.

Found some old Lectures / Speeches from Sir Paul Callaghan. MFW, we haven't really improved much in 15 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCA...

Wait, the Regulatory Standards Bill passed? 🫠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSY...

I'M GOING TO TOUCH GRASS 🌱

big deal. I've also been to a Rust meetup.

You know YouTube is enshitified when browsers ship with multiple native settings to make it less user hostile.

Partner upgraded her iPhone so, after a decade using mostly Samsungs I am maining her old iPhone 12 for a while as a trial. This will be interesting. The last iPhone I mained was a secondhand iPhone 4 which was given to me free because it wouldn’t boot and I managed to revive it in DFU mode.

Because I am a masochist, I subscribed to a bunch of NZ Personal Finance and property channels, and the way they still talk about property in 2025 is mind-boggling. An increase of $700k to $1M in 5 years assumes a 8.9% p.a. return compounded monthly. Unhinged numbers.

Huh since the Aoeteroa Tech Union doesn't even have a website I don't see how I can stop payments? I'd rather not have to go to my card provider and ask to block them but its looking like the only option.

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POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

Today was a good day even though I had to work. Finally broke a bit of a funk I've been in for the last few weeks and got some shit done.

This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding

"With the OCR and interest rates having taken a big downward shit lately" Beautiful typo.

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I had a nightmare about trying to debug the 'Windows App' RDP client on macOS because it wouldn't connect to a Fedora workstation/server. It wasn't a dream.

In a race to stand for nothing, we are increasingly heading for first place.

Highest level of cowardice per capita good job New Zealand

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The Covid inquiry reboot is inspiring all sorts of revisionism on LinkedIn, including this little gem from Covid Plan B stalwart Ananish Chaudhuri “By October 2020, we knew that the vaccines did not prevent transmission”. This is not true, but how did he even come up with this? Thread. 1/N

I was pondering the same about how it might steer people towards Infrastructure as Code for cloud management because you can't vibe code ClickOps.

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Is it because they keep replacing trains with busses?

I love that my entire bluesky feed right now is InternetNZ AGM shenanigans. Well done, team. Ya'll turned up for NZ 🫶

Lmao, what are these default, generated Docker container names

From now on, I'm pronouncing NuGet as 'Noojay'

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Oh no. All the poor Australian visitors disboarding the first international flight to arrive in Dunedin in 5 years and getting ambushed by TV cameras, an army orange shirt wearing staff and volunteers, and a wall of the palest white kapa haka group to ever exist - who were, to be fair, pretty good.

This!

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

My vote next election goes to literally whoever will bring in a CGT. Single issue voter. Please, won't someone think of the housing market with bits of an economy bolted on. @labournz.bsky.social @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social www.interest.co.nz/banking/1336...

Since this comes up far, far too often in my life... (With apologies to @xkcd.com.)

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Lol. Westpac Australia advertising to Kiwis now.

The inverse relationship between a persons hype for what LLMs can do and their understanding of what LLMs can't do. Is there a name for this yet?

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

It's giving extreme Skinner vibes.

😂😂😂 No words. Someone with too much money and not enough sense buys an overpriced - extremely well documented turd of a car from a billionaire oligarch who just spent the last 4 months shitting the nations collective pants and can't understand why people aren't lining up to pat him in the back.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

DevTripleSecOps xkcd.com/323/

Meanwhile in New Zealand...