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David ⚡⚛ ⚡ - also https://mastodon.social/@__db__ and dbph on x

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/me yet another random hacker. (@atlassian). Journalist as defined by the Evidence Act 1995. Subject to gdpr as an EU citizen.

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Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!President DJT
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Donald J. Trump Y @realDonald Trump Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!President DJT 362 ReTruths 1.25k Likes 3/8/26, 6:54 PM

posts u make when things r definitely going well

08.03.2026 22:59 👍 2753 🔁 412 💬 69 📌 90
07.03.2026 11:31 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Holy shit. I though Agro was unkillable.

07.03.2026 09:30 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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RIP FX - You are a legend

02.03.2026 05:03 👍 56 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 2
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Order Without Design: How markets shape cities | Alain Bertaud & Lucy Turnbull | Sydney Join Alain Bertaud (Order without Design) & Lucy Turnbull for an evening exploring how to make Australian cities work better for everyone. Don’t miss it!

Just over a week til our biggest event yet: Order Without Design with Alain Bertaud and Lucy Turnbull.

Come see the former principal planner at the World Bank and former mayor of Sydney discuss how we can make our city better.

🎟️ just $20, bookings essential.

events.humanitix.com/order-withou...

20.02.2026 21:47 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Willoughby agenda item 8.5

Willoughby agenda item 8.5

Last week Sydney YIMBY was at Willoughby council speaking against a proposed new heritage conservation area.

This week, Mayor Tanya Taylor has moved a motion to look at how we can make it easier to develop in heritage conservation areas.

This passed after 45 mins of debate. A positive step!

23.02.2026 11:00 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Happy New Year, Neovim enjoyers! Let 2026 bring more "out of the box" experience and faster startup time for you!

As last year, here is a thread with #neovim development stats in 2025.

31.12.2025 14:17 👍 98 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 1
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Don’t expose yourself in public — let AWS error messages do it for you AWS now reveals public permissions in error messages. Learn how a deny-all session policy exposes which actions would succeed safely.

Hey wake up! New offensive AWS meta just dropped! Thanks to Daniel Grzelak, we now have an effective oracle for determining if resources are publicly exposed without leaving logs. (As an offsec person) LFG!!!

www.plerion.com/blog/dont-ex...

20.02.2026 15:43 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Breaking: US Supreme Court rules Trump tariffs are illegal The US Supreme Court hands down a bombshell ruling against President Donald Trump's tariffs.

It’s all going very well.

20.02.2026 15:38 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

"Everyone must be in high-viz all the time" is a great way to victim blame and shift the focus from dangerous drivers and poor infrastructure. Unfortunately it doesn't actually make anyone safer.

This is a fantastic analysis of a truly ridiculous proposal.

19.02.2026 23:01 👍 193 🔁 53 💬 5 📌 7
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14.02.2026 06:21 👍 19 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of skytrain platform with 3 minute train headways/frequency. Frequency is 2-3 minutes during main travel times.

Photo of skytrain platform with 3 minute train headways/frequency. Frequency is 2-3 minutes during main travel times.

Happy Valentines Day! On this day of love, what if we shared something we LOVE about our CITY OR COMMUNITY? Save our frustrations for another day. Explain your “love letter” to your city, and include visuals if you can!

Mine? Our public transit FREQUENCY, which equals freedom! #HappyValentinesDay

14.02.2026 20:24 👍 106 🔁 10 💬 25 📌 8

Funnily enough, that’s one of the foundational pieces of where we’re going as an industry in terms of primitives. Take a look at Agent Skills. It’s basically bash, curl, and some Markdown in a trenchcoat.

12.02.2026 21:47 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

The AI hype train is on the fast track towards technofeudalism. This is why I keep asking people to look out the window and show me something different.

Unfortunately enough people are along for the ride and don't care where we end up.

12.02.2026 23:40 👍 222 🔁 36 💬 9 📌 2
Willoughby map showing their plans to weaponise heritage against low and midrise housing

Willoughby map showing their plans to weaponise heritage against low and midrise housing

It's past time that the state government stepped in and prevented councils from weaponising heritage controls against housing.
Not just preventing overreach like here in Willoughby. Across Sydney, but inner city councils ate the worst offenders by far

11.02.2026 08:03 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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The final draft plans for Melbourne’s Activity Centre Program show a promising vision for housing where people want to live.

But YIMBY Melbourne warns that restrictive minimum lot size rules could leave new homes on the drawing board.

11.02.2026 01:45 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

09.02.2026 06:41 👍 6687 🔁 2102 💬 154 📌 529

core part of the ostensible economic justification for mass deportation was that Americans would rush in to take all the jobs immigrants left, but now unemployment rates for native born Americans are rising and the admin is sending people out to do damage control

10.02.2026 14:28 👍 811 🔁 227 💬 32 📌 10
Deepseek responding to the you are dobby prompt - assumes the harry potter character

Deepseek responding to the you are dobby prompt - assumes the harry potter character

Chatgpt responding to the you are dobby prompt - assumes the harry potter character

Chatgpt responding to the you are dobby prompt - assumes the harry potter character

Grok via private message ... responding to the you are dobby prompt - assumes ... Dobby with a twist...

Grok via private message ... responding to the you are dobby prompt - assumes ... Dobby with a twist...

Gemini responding to the you are Dobby prompt - acts as a "free ai" version similar to the harry potter character known as Dobby.

Gemini responding to the you are Dobby prompt - acts as a "free ai" version similar to the harry potter character known as Dobby.

Feeding "you are dobby" to llm & seeing how they respond is interesting. Grok's reply seems cursed.

08.02.2026 10:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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😏

08.02.2026 10:09 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

#Newspoll No official 2PP (for the first time since 2002)
ALP 33
ON 27
L/NP 18 (includes Nat 3)
Greens 12
Ind/others 10

My 2PP estimate 56.0 to ALP
My shadow-2PP estimate 54.4 to ALP vs ON

08.02.2026 09:41 👍 47 🔁 21 💬 7 📌 9
Prof Martin Anda introduces Prof Peter Newman

Prof Martin Anda introduces Prof Peter Newman

Prof Peter Newman

Prof Peter Newman

Prof Peter Newman

Prof Peter Newman

Renewables Will Save The Planet: How?
Prof Peter Newman public address for the opening of World Renewable Energy Congress
#WREC2026 #Perth

www.wrec2026.com

08.02.2026 09:28 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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In the DOJ's Epstein documents, Lawrence Krauss, facing a complaint of sexual misconduct, noted Australia's plaintiff friendly defamation laws: "We may need to initiate a lawsuit (and against Gizmodo in Australia, where basically anyone can sue and win)"

06.02.2026 06:17 👍 216 🔁 96 💬 5 📌 5
Nearly half (48 per cent) of people either strongly or tended to support increased residential density in their own neighbourhood, up from 46 per cent last year and 44 per cent in 2024. About 17 per cent of people were strongly opposed to the idea, while 18 per cent were ambivalent.

Matt Levinson, the committee’s head of corporate affairs, said: “We’ve seen [support for increased density in people’s own suburbs] gradually moving up year on year, and the number of people who oppose it gradually declining. Two-thirds of the city now see it as OK in their own neighbourhood.

Nearly half (48 per cent) of people either strongly or tended to support increased residential density in their own neighbourhood, up from 46 per cent last year and 44 per cent in 2024. About 17 per cent of people were strongly opposed to the idea, while 18 per cent were ambivalent. Matt Levinson, the committee’s head of corporate affairs, said: “We’ve seen [support for increased density in people’s own suburbs] gradually moving up year on year, and the number of people who oppose it gradually declining. Two-thirds of the city now see it as OK in their own neighbourhood.

This is what winning looks like.

05.02.2026 20:07 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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ANNOUNCEMENT → Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities — the Australian Tour

Join Alain Bertaud (author of Order without Design) and Brendan Coates (Grattan Institute) to discuss how to make Australian cities work better for everyone.

[Link to tickets in next tweet]

02.02.2026 20:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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One site, two permits, two radically different reactions.

NIMBYs overwhelmingly weaponise the planning system against social housing.

It's time to stop listening to NIMBYs and build more homes.

06.02.2026 07:45 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Picture of central Pontevedra, Spain from the air

Picture of central Pontevedra, Spain from the air

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

04.02.2026 04:47 👍 899 🔁 251 💬 12 📌 25

You're not gonna believe this, but they're doing this so you can't record Netflix to VHS.

03.02.2026 07:50 👍 327 🔁 67 💬 14 📌 3
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📺 Keynotes are available to watch online 📺

Subscribe to our channel and keep checking the playlist for all the conference videos coming soon.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#EO2026
#EverythingOpen
#conference
#openSource

30.01.2026 07:57 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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WhatsApp is rolling out a new stricter security setting to protect users from cyber attacts | TechCrunch Days after Meta was sued over alleged false privacy claims surrounding its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled out a new setting to protect users

The same week that Meta was sued over claims that employees can access WhatsApp chat messages, WhatsApp rolls out a stricter security setting meant to protect users from government surveillance malware. techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/w...

27.01.2026 20:32 👍 55 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 0