Daniel Axtens

Happy to report that the finder.com.au chat bot can be chipotle’d.

Rather than quitting tech to farm or run a cafe, I’ve decided that I’d start Chestertons Fencing.

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

this is an incredibly thoughtful post

I think I come down to the "you put your name on it, you vouch for it unconditionally, every word, regardless of LLM use" side of the debate rather than the "you should explicitly say if you used an LLM always" side. Too much potential to use the machine to dodge accountability

No-one has let me change my Australian constitution joke in decades

“Cautiously optimistic about <small area>, extremely scared about <large areas>” is an AI take I think I’m hearing more frequently from serious people.

Hey grok, what’s the opposite of “go woke, go broke”?

#apropos #cops #lawenforcement

An image I would like for my work slack but which I have too much self-respect to generate with AI: sickos-yes.jpg but with Ferris the rust crab

Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.

Amid all the arguments back and forth about if the government should ban twitter or not I think we’re leaving out one of the key details: they should ban twitter because I would personally find it very funny

Tragic: local man wants to solve technical problems at scale, realises that at scale they’re all ultimately social problems

boldly rebuke vice

Every once in a while I wonder about supply chains. Like what if we couldn’t make new (modern) computers for a decade or so? Or, idk, how are the medicines I take made - and where?

on the job market, if you've got any leads for mid-level software engineering roles (in Canberra or remote), let me know!

Were there problems with early VeggieTales? Sure. Do I still use the line "But I must go into the world and do noble things for the good of all" about once a week? Absolutely.

Pretty accurate summation of that teaching, for sure.

Well Americans, if you want to try any more successful Australian governance arrangements, might I suggest copying this 1977 referendum? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Au...

People are using AI to refactor code, which suggests a collapse in the great computer art of horrifying single-use regexes

Naww, you are very kind Kate! Also, yes, come work with us!

Ok we finally use enough rust at work that compile times irk me

Come work at Fastly with Kate and me! It’s an opening on my team, and we do really cool stuff.

Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?

I have often wondered how far society can bifurcate. You can get woke/anti-woke coffee or film or tv but could you get woke/anti-woke _groceries_? Turns out, probably yes?

It’s inverse Itanium - iykyk

king solomon looked upon the monolith and said "simply cut the baby in half" and both of the developers nodded back "i am ok with half a baby" — traditional microservice story

War Thunder has the chance to do the funniest crossover promotion ever with Signal right now

Just doing some reading about the design of cryptographic protocols.

Apparently Signal is military grade now

Get the polish crew that did the train drm hack on it!

As an Australian I only learned about Stoxx the other day and my goodness what a name. Stoxx. It's an index of (well, a family of indexes of) Stocks. Stoxx. Stocks in Stoxx. Friendship ended with ASX, SXAUP is my best friend now.

I’ve been thinking about this reading from Isaiah 58 since I heard it at the Ash Wednesday service today. “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Let's do it

you

Helicopters in the distance Music of the spheres on the wind It's gonna be a rough ride from here down to the exit Some might look back and laugh at the end We may run out of bullets We're never going to run out of hostages!

Every day I wake up to something like "US government appoints Measurehead as director of foreign affairs"