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Dr. Curiosity 💻🔬

DrCuriosity@cloudisland.nz

<p>A recovering computer science education researcher, Catalysta, pun criminal, overly literal, filthy enabler.</p><p>Not a purveyor of substandard copper ingots. Please don&#39;t burn my house down.</p>

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    Today in things you don&#39;t want to see in a telehealth privacy policy:

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    First day of a three-dayer in Wellington down. Now comes working out which nice food place near the hotel hasn&#39;t closed yet.

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    Internal soundtrack of the now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STTu41809bY

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    What do you mean there&#39;s no spelling mistakes in this redraft. I don&#39;t trust it.

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    Missing other meetings because I&#39;m still at work answering emails from a client who&#39;s still at work deadline time wheee

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    Expect New Zealand in general to be in mourning for the next little while. https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/361005656/actor-sam-neill-has-died

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    Wondering how different the country&#39;s politics around international cloud usage would be if we framed it as &quot;importing&quot; digital services. We usually only talk about digital services in trade terms when it&#39;s someone like Xero &quot;exporting&quot; to the world.

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    The spirits of cog and chip were never meant to be yoked to the same plough.

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    @aligorith@mastodon.nz I heard a crash on Yaldhurst, possibly too..?

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    Trying to install Java plugin stuff for someone on MacOS who needs to work with a JNLP on a government website. Boy does that suck.

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    Seems like the price of success is more meetings.

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    @GossiTheDog If I wanted to &amp;quot;program&amp;quot; by babysitting a bunch of approximately-competent workers who can almost follow instructions if I give them very specific tasks but not too much all at once, I&amp;#39;d... well. Probably be running a Silicon Valley AI startup, I guess.

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    Okay so which one of you is making inquiries about election results media feeds. 👀👀👀

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    Anyone I know in NZ looking for an AppSec Engineer job? My work&amp;#39;s got a role open.

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    RE: https://mastodon.nz/@davemosk/116462766299478383 It&amp;#39;s the utes of today that are the problem.

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    &amp;quot;Thank you, Captain Sarcasm.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That time I was _sure_ I was going to get Captain Obvious. Dangit.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;See he’s been promoted a few times, it’s now Fleet Admiral Obvious.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I keep getting busted down to Midshipman for understatements.&amp;quot;

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    I&amp;#39;m now experiencing the specific joy of &amp;quot;I had a knife but now I have a Good Knife&amp;quot;, which is kind of like getting a new set of spectacles but for your kitchen instead of your face.

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    So, uh, I might be a solution architect now? I foresee a lot of document-reading in my near future, and a good amount of meeting-having in a little while. Hopefully this means I can effect more good at scale. We&amp;#39;ll see.

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    For the #NZPol election watching crowd: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/590326/the-house-what-to-expect-when-you-re-expecting-an-election

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    Creating janky memes in solidarity because my partner is currently stuck in