You know there was once a famous carpenter with long hair and some crazy ideas that turned out to be wise teachings. His name was John Carpenter and he taught us it's more fun to be stoned and play video games than work.

Heads up, if you're on Linkedin you've been automatically opted in for generative ai training - on everything you have ever posted, including personal data! Opt out: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

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I voted!* * Sydney Northern Beaches Council election

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Cloud News of the Month - August 2024

Hey, AWS launched a one-click opt-out for training AI on your data. This is a great change. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/orgs_manage_policies_ai-opt-out_all.html

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Double feature with Adventures in Babysitting

LLMs take away all the terrible "writing new code" that devs hate to do and turn all projects into "fixing someone else's undocumented code" which is the part of programming everyone loves

I'm still planning on running the Sydney Marathon in 2 weeks after just getting over COVID. My new goal is to finish, to hell with time. Bad idea or worst idea?