David Harrison
@trawg.bsky.social
"On the appropriate day (unless, as was frequently the case, there had been some stupid mistake in programming) the right message would be automatically flashed to its destination."
Computer user in Brisbane, Australia.
Bio in link: https://trog.qgl.org
Computer user in Brisbane, Australia.
Bio in link: https://trog.qgl.org
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Really important to stress that 36 Months accused academics and experts critical of the ban of being 'paid' by big tech. When asked for evidence of this, the MD said "I haven't looked into it."
Meanwhile 36 Months itself was directly funded by a business helping promote the gambling industry.
Meanwhile 36 Months itself was directly funded by a business helping promote the gambling industry.
Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Really important to stress that 36 Months accused academics and experts critical of the ban of being 'paid' by big tech. When asked for evidence of this, the MD said "I haven't looked into it."
Meanwhile 36 Months itself was directly funded by a business helping promote the gambling industry.
Meanwhile 36 Months itself was directly funded by a business helping promote the gambling industry.
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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
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In news that may not shock anyone, the Trump regime has decided to not only continue privacy invasive border entry biometric data harvesting, but also now forcing the handing over of 5 years worth of social media history to make sure anyone entering the US won't say anything mean about him.
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
In news that may not shock anyone, the Trump regime has decided to not only continue privacy invasive border entry biometric data harvesting, but also now forcing the handing over of 5 years worth of social media history to make sure anyone entering the US won't say anything mean about him.
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ORCL has $19bn of cash and equivalents. They issued $18bn of corporate bonds last quarter and burned $10bn of cash. So without that huge deal they would be basically out of cash.*
*note: this does not mean bankrupt, that's something different
*note: this does not mean bankrupt, that's something different
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
ORCL has $19bn of cash and equivalents. They issued $18bn of corporate bonds last quarter and burned $10bn of cash. So without that huge deal they would be basically out of cash.*
*note: this does not mean bankrupt, that's something different
*note: this does not mean bankrupt, that's something different
Microsoft could do something clever (and funny) here and do a massive campaign to get enterprises migrating to SQL Server.
“.. Oracle executives have said that even if the business from OpenAI isn’t fully realized, the capacity it is building will be in demand from others.”
@wsj.com $ORCL
www.wsj.com/business/ear...
@wsj.com $ORCL
www.wsj.com/business/ear...
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Microsoft could do something clever (and funny) here and do a massive campaign to get enterprises migrating to SQL Server.
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Australia 10yr yield on a real heater.. 4.1% to 4.8% in a matter of weeks
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Australia 10yr yield on a real heater.. 4.1% to 4.8% in a matter of weeks
wat, the age limiting in bsky is client side?
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
wat, the age limiting in bsky is client side?
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Are you a renter, and have you ever had a property manager use a 360 camera when conducting routine inspections or condition reports? I really, really wanna talk with you. Get in touch!
I’m researching ways that digital technologies in Australia's private rental sector are impacting renters and housing justice.
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you!
More info and EOI here:
The Machine-Readable Renter — Samantha Floreani
Participants needed! Are you a renter in Australia? Have you ever used tech to find and apply for a home, log maintenance, or pay rent? I want to speak with you!
www.samanthafloreani.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Are you a renter, and have you ever had a property manager use a 360 camera when conducting routine inspections or condition reports? I really, really wanna talk with you. Get in touch!
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"We could address all that by forcing social media to regulate toxic algorithms, ban addictive features, and by imposing a Duty of Care that protects all users, but regulating billionaires is hard work. So we said: let's just ban the kids." 🙂
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"We could address all that by forcing social media to regulate toxic algorithms, ban addictive features, and by imposing a Duty of Care that protects all users, but regulating billionaires is hard work. So we said: let's just ban the kids." 🙂
The AAP being forced to write a statement like this is unbearably awful
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The AAP being forced to write a statement like this is unbearably awful
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Honestly fuck these people. Spend their lives finding ever-trickier ways to keep the public in the dark, then complain about the smallest accountability measures. Giving the public basic information is an abuse of laws??
"Albanese government staffers – as well as senior Commonwealth public servants – privately fume at what they claim are abuses of laws and practices surrounding transparency by people whose sole aim is to embarrass the government."
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Honestly fuck these people. Spend their lives finding ever-trickier ways to keep the public in the dark, then complain about the smallest accountability measures. Giving the public basic information is an abuse of laws??
Absolutely never understood "the algorithm" as an approach to find interesting things, possibly because I grew up on the Internet in the age of the Yahoo directory and Usenet.
The sense of discovery through exploration was the exciting part. Getting force-fed stuff by a robot does not appeal.
The sense of discovery through exploration was the exciting part. Getting force-fed stuff by a robot does not appeal.
also this thinking is why the internet is awful? being served what an algo thinks we want instead of people building weird shit for themselves that the rest of us can either live with or make our own is like, half the problem.
unfortunately, this paragraph of the manifesto is not correct in any way whatsoever.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Absolutely never understood "the algorithm" as an approach to find interesting things, possibly because I grew up on the Internet in the age of the Yahoo directory and Usenet.
The sense of discovery through exploration was the exciting part. Getting force-fed stuff by a robot does not appeal.
The sense of discovery through exploration was the exciting part. Getting force-fed stuff by a robot does not appeal.
it me
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
it me
It's kind of wild this is still a thing given how little traction it seems to have literally anywhere. At this rate, can only assume they will wind it down year-on-year until they're forced to change the name again.
Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/48kJ1lB
Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget, Bloomberg News reports
Meta is expected to make budget cuts of up to 30% for its metaverse initiative, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It's kind of wild this is still a thing given how little traction it seems to have literally anywhere. At this rate, can only assume they will wind it down year-on-year until they're forced to change the name again.
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Serious Cryptography is the current default answer to “how do I learn cryptography engineering from a book?”
This Humble Bundle has a lot of really good hacking books from No Starch Press, and it supports EFF! Get it!
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December 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Serious Cryptography is the current default answer to “how do I learn cryptography engineering from a book?”
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update on organising against the teen social media ban:
- Human Rights Commission "considering" whether it would join the High Court legal challenge
- Teens mass unfollowing Anthony Albanese's social media accounts on Dec 9 lol
- Human Rights Commission "considering" whether it would join the High Court legal challenge
- Teens mass unfollowing Anthony Albanese's social media accounts on Dec 9 lol
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
update on organising against the teen social media ban:
- Human Rights Commission "considering" whether it would join the High Court legal challenge
- Teens mass unfollowing Anthony Albanese's social media accounts on Dec 9 lol
- Human Rights Commission "considering" whether it would join the High Court legal challenge
- Teens mass unfollowing Anthony Albanese's social media accounts on Dec 9 lol
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So chosen because of the way it will prompt those online to say "actually, that is two words".
qed.
qed.
CONFIRMED: Oxford University Press has named ‘rage bait’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2025.
#OxfordWOTY
#OxfordWOTY
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
So chosen because of the way it will prompt those online to say "actually, that is two words".
qed.
qed.
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A useful overview by Professor Sarah Joseph (from November last year) on how the social media minimum age obligation might violate the implied freedom of political communication in the Constitution:
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
A useful overview by Professor Sarah Joseph (from November last year) on how the social media minimum age obligation might violate the implied freedom of political communication in the Constitution:
reminder that @roryblank.bsky.social has already made the accompanying t-shirt for this moment
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November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
reminder that @roryblank.bsky.social has already made the accompanying t-shirt for this moment
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The desperation to create more ways to gamble and pretend they're just good ol' financial services is truly insane to me
File this under things no one asked for: yet another prediction "market" to inside trade on manipulable and/or uninvestable-for-a-reason BS events. We're gonna look back on this time like smoking in the 1950s. We know all the risks but there are dimes to squeeze.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The desperation to create more ways to gamble and pretend they're just good ol' financial services is truly insane to me
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Also a nice little graph in Alan Kohler's finance report last night showing just how much the ambition of the Govt public/social housing is. Let's hope they get there...
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Also a nice little graph in Alan Kohler's finance report last night showing just how much the ambition of the Govt public/social housing is. Let's hope they get there...
anyone who mentions the sunk cost fallacy is going straight to prison
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
anyone who mentions the sunk cost fallacy is going straight to prison
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How broken is today's frontend culture?
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
HTTP Archive: Page Weight
This report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.
httparchive.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
How broken is today's frontend culture?
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
@jpwarren.pivotnine.com : you ever FOI'd for docs on something like this? Wondering what sort of breakdown they might show or if it's all like a single line item from Accenture that sayings "consulting and web development services"
How can a website cost $96 MILLION?! 🤯
Yes the BOM website is complex, but this seems like is a waste of taxpayers dollars that we need see some accountability for so it doesn’t happen again.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Yes the BOM website is complex, but this seems like is a waste of taxpayers dollars that we need see some accountability for so it doesn’t happen again.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million
In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.
www.smh.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
@jpwarren.pivotnine.com : you ever FOI'd for docs on something like this? Wondering what sort of breakdown they might show or if it's all like a single line item from Accenture that sayings "consulting and web development services"
insane
I could have mismanaged the BOM website for a 1/3 of the price!!!!
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
insane