Benno

Benno

@benno.au

Old-school carbon-based nondeterminism machine.

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Benno
@benno.au

Me: "All dogs are Good Dogs*." AI Techbro Fuckwad: "... but what if they _weren't_?" * except the class traitors of the Paw Patrol.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

forbes.comBillionaires Palmer Luckey And Ben Lamm Spin Up Startup To Genetically Engineer Military DogsBen Lamm of de-extinction startup Colossal has teamed up with Palmer Luckey’s team at Anduril to create a dog that’s optimized for military use. The new “warhounds” will be cloned and gene edited.
Benno
@benno.au

The iPhone 3G came out closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than to today.

Benno
@benno.au

So what I'm hearing is that you need to replace all your PHP code with the number 4?

Benno
@benno.au

This is one Rob Liefeld looking guy, right down to the lack of feet.

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@benno.au

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie.

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Benno
@benno.au

Parody opportunity: Matt Canavan "get ready with me" video where he puts on his "coal miner" look.

Benno
@benno.au

This implies you could make a "dual-format" CD because CDs read from the inside out...

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social

prefer analogue CDs, the sound is much warmer

Benno
@benno.au

Something I noticed during last night's TISM gig. They've changed the chorus to "Aussiemandias" so it no longer contains the N-word. Good on 'em.

Benno
@benno.au

Apparently the new line is "vaffanculo a tua razza" being (according to machine translation) Italian for "fuck your kind".

Benno
@benno.au

🎶 The rich kid becomes a junkie! The poor kid an advertiser! What a tragic waste of potential! (Yeah, the junkie's not so good either...)

Benno
@benno.au

Terrible news, Victorians.

Oregon Plates@plat.es

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Benno
@benno.au

Things I'm really looking forward to finding out with regards to @500songspodcast.bsky.social: Do Devo get one episode for "Whip It", or do they get one for something like "Jocko Homo" and then one for "Whip It"?

Benno
@benno.au

Devo's "Freedom of Choice" (both the album and the song) still rock.

Benno
@benno.au

My favourite band that famously kept politics out of it is Rage Against The Machine.

Benno
@benno.au

Your yearly reminder that if you don't have a plan to follow through if the answer to asking "R U OK?" is "no" then don't do it.

Benno
@benno.au

Political poem called "The Second Coming" containing the line "the centrists cannot hold".

Benno
@benno.au

This one was a lot of fun to present but really hard to write. Both of us found the subject matter depressing but the on-stage result was delightfully chaotic.

nextdayvideo.bsky.social@nextdayvideo.bsky.social

#pyconau @benno.au Productivity: a dialogue http://youtu.be/c5k-blqtk9g

youtu.be"Productivity: a dialogue" - Benno Rice, Daisy Leigh Brenecki (PyCon AU 2026)What does it mean to be productive? If you work in software development that generally means shipping code, or at least changes to code. There’s always been a tension in how to measure the output of a software developer though, and that’s partly due to the at least partially creative nature of the work we do. So when a tool comes along and promises to make you more productive, how do you
Benno
@benno.au

Despite what the thumbnail suggests I am not trying to illustrate the size of the one that got away.

nextdayvideo.bsky.social@nextdayvideo.bsky.social

#pyconau @benno.au State of Exception(s) http://youtu.be/FLZKFNzpvDE

youtu.be"State of Exception(s)" - Benno Rice (PyCon AU 2026)Errors. They happen. Sometimes we wish they wouldn't but they do and the code we write and the systems we build have to handle that. The processes by which we detect failures and handle them varies a lot though and the "right" way to deal with failures has been a topic of discussion generally only eclipsed by how to do packaging and how to format code. Different languages, platforms, and
Benno
@benno.au

I actually kinda hope that they're really digging my vibe.

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Benno
@benno.au

Looking forward to Victoria staying resolutely behind the curve on this courtesy of our glorious* new leadership.

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Benno
@benno.au

The Claude text watermarking thing is hilarious. So many people getting upset about it as if for some reason they don't want people to know they're using Claude to generate text for them? I wonder why that is?

Benno
@benno.au

“How old are you in Adelaide terms?” “I used to catch Red Hens to Bridgewater as a kid.”

Benno
@benno.au

"We in the ALP understand that everything the labour movement achieved was won through calm discussion and never rocking the boat."

Elise Thomas@elisethomas.bsky.social

He does understand they're walking out for a day or even just a few hours, right, not dropping out of school