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hactually

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About hactually

Software/Product leader based in Australia. Good at web, likes embedded, loves Linux, builds for speed and scale with Postgres, Go, Tailwind and either Vue or React (depending on who lands the first PR!).

Builder of Jogly, Tagmail, QuickaPay, FeeWise and now MatchBox

find me as `nick` at curiola.com and see my stuff at http://www.github.com/17twenty

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48852124

    The populist left are happy to use video too. All UK and Australian politicians are on Twitter and Tiktok and numerous podcasts that then get soundbite sliced.

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    Comment #48713312

    kinda. but not really. they just showed a lack of effectiveness and has emboldened other countries to further restrict things like VPNs and roll out ID based net access

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    Comment #48614569

    The UK government have at least made it clear that they intend to ban right wing media and parties that aren't aligned. A leaked strategy document from UK Prime Minister Keir Starm…

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    Comment #48614539

    Got any numbers/sources for that specific claim?

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    Comment #48605083

    So just DNS block them in the UK. They don't need YouTube

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    Comment #48605068

    you don't use YouTube?

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    Comment #48418595

    house prices

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    Comment #48368703

    yeah, add that to the negatives.

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    Comment #48349841

    standard in DSP. Super cool and can be used on stock trades and other predictive markets.

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    Comment #48341052

    right wing?

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    Comment #48188530

    yes - a fair few

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    Comment #48153693

    Must be some heinous crimes to enable dragnet surveillance. That or the rotten state of Britain really is trying anything from splitting at the seams. Must be the heinous crime thi…

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    Comment #48014787

    uhm. Europe is ID gating their entire internet - they're not bothered about foreign powers, just control.

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    Comment #48003574

    same in Australia

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    Comment #48002232

    > Banksy was born Robin Gunningham but later took the name David Jones long been known as establishment friendly

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    Comment #47917659

    Incredible news. I've ordered one myself... wish the 16 Pro was out but I figure it makes sense to support companies doing the things you want. The last thread on framework was dis…

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    Comment #47759713

    The go tooling and ecosystem and how it "just works" runs rings around the Java clowncar.

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    Comment #47748581

    The classic "if it disagrees with me, it's a far-right neo-Nazi" rhetoric. Sadly thiss is becoming depressingly common in certain corners of tech discourse. X has the best AI news,…

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    Comment #47567698

    You're not really making a good point if you can't distinguish. Fin.ai by telecom is a full product powered by LLMs and makes $100m ARR. Make your point and save the attacks and ma…

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    Comment #47567652

    Except writing rust doesn't feels like flying, it feels like falling.

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    Comment #47561073

    what do you mean by "run AI"? as in, providing self hosted models? or running Claude code/Codex? or using it for support? or what?

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    Comment #47498867

    Great write up of a problem that I'm glad Golang sidesteps The problem with this is that it's systemic and central to Rusts trait-based ecosystem composition. Go’s has a version bu…

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