Dave Dustin
@dustin.nz
Semi competent Principal Engineer based in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Formerly a Microsoft SQL Server MVP but still a big fan of Azure. Primarily working with AWS these day.
Formerly a Microsoft SQL Server MVP but still a big fan of Azure. Primarily working with AWS these day.
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Opinion: Most Corporate Compliance Training Isn't Training and Doesn't Work
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Opinion: Most Corporate Compliance Training Isn't Training and Doesn't Work
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How much does the soldering hurt?
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
How much does the soldering hurt?
I love this place. It's so brutally honest.
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
I love this place. It's so brutally honest.
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Finally, a serious contender to replace Firewire
USB4 OverDrive HyperConnect Type‑G‑TwinRow Deluxe 4.3X(n)™ aka USB Type X: For the multi-tiered, data-fragmentation connectivity compatible device, enabling nominally predictable data propagation conventionalities through user adherence to interfacial alignment protocols.
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Finally, a serious contender to replace Firewire
My Par Avian collection from @pepperraccoon.com is complete
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
My Par Avian collection from @pepperraccoon.com is complete
Really good peel of thunder direct overhead just now. Whole house physically shook.
December 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Really good peel of thunder direct overhead just now. Whole house physically shook.
Just discovered my Hot Sauce Advent Calendar has a best-before date of May 2025. I bought it beginning of November. 😭
December 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Just discovered my Hot Sauce Advent Calendar has a best-before date of May 2025. I bought it beginning of November. 😭
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Software can only be as good as the guy setting the requrements for it.
The new integrated payments on Christchurch Metro lets you use a credit card, but you can only buy one ticket. Driver was having to give free rides to family members because there was no way to pay for them. Surprised nobody anticipated the rare scenario of buying two bus tickets.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Software can only be as good as the guy setting the requrements for it.
@lttstore.bsky.social Sorry for using your BlackFriday offer and getting $340CAD worth of stuff sent to New Zealand with free shipping.
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
@lttstore.bsky.social Sorry for using your BlackFriday offer and getting $340CAD worth of stuff sent to New Zealand with free shipping.
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Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild.
- Kiwi (New Zealand)
- Koala (Australia)
- Cobra (India)
- Badger (UK)
- Grizzly (US)
- Kiwi (New Zealand)
- Koala (Australia)
- Cobra (India)
- Badger (UK)
- Grizzly (US)
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild.
- Tuatara*.
- Kangaroos.
- Sperm whales.
- Glowworms.
- Stingray.
*in Zealandia, but as they were free-range I'm allowing it.
- Tuatara*.
- Kangaroos.
- Sperm whales.
- Glowworms.
- Stingray.
*in Zealandia, but as they were free-range I'm allowing it.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
- Beluga whale
- kiwi
- whio
- eel
- kangaroo
- Beluga whale
- kiwi
- whio
- eel
- kangaroo
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild.
- Kiwi (New Zealand)
- Koala (Australia)
- Cobra (India)
- Badger (UK)
- Grizzly (US)
- Kiwi (New Zealand)
- Koala (Australia)
- Cobra (India)
- Badger (UK)
- Grizzly (US)
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Not every book is currently in print.
Not every type of book is available new everywhere - and sometimes publishers and distributors don't realize how badly some communities need something different.
Not every new book is affordably priced for all communities.
Not every type of book is available new everywhere - and sometimes publishers and distributors don't realize how badly some communities need something different.
Not every new book is affordably priced for all communities.
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Not every book is currently in print.
Not every type of book is available new everywhere - and sometimes publishers and distributors don't realize how badly some communities need something different.
Not every new book is affordably priced for all communities.
Not every type of book is available new everywhere - and sometimes publishers and distributors don't realize how badly some communities need something different.
Not every new book is affordably priced for all communities.
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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Beyond Thanks. www.patreon.com/posts/beyond...
![Panel 1 [chickens visiting and drinking wine] - caption: "On Thanksgiving, we give thanks for everything we have."
Panel 2 [chickens shopping] - caption: "On Black Friday, we go shopping for everything we don't have."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nnca7gsyvvyriz43tped5um5/bafkreicatpepkfr7vd45b6iml5p4pgt2ul7bdnbg5bxzcfrzq24nnrno4e@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Beyond Thanks. www.patreon.com/posts/beyond...
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If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
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Found on Reddit with no source attribution, a seasonal NOTAM for the CVG area.
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Found on Reddit with no source attribution, a seasonal NOTAM for the CVG area.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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The people who claim that some AI model is ”PhD-level” don’t have PhD degrees for a reason.
It took an actual PhD friend just a single attempt, with a first-year exam question, to prove that LLMs are better at generating rocket emojis and bullet points than actually producing anything ”PhD-level”.
It took an actual PhD friend just a single attempt, with a first-year exam question, to prove that LLMs are better at generating rocket emojis and bullet points than actually producing anything ”PhD-level”.
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The people who claim that some AI model is ”PhD-level” don’t have PhD degrees for a reason.
It took an actual PhD friend just a single attempt, with a first-year exam question, to prove that LLMs are better at generating rocket emojis and bullet points than actually producing anything ”PhD-level”.
It took an actual PhD friend just a single attempt, with a first-year exam question, to prove that LLMs are better at generating rocket emojis and bullet points than actually producing anything ”PhD-level”.
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
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i’m so happy for him
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i’m so happy for him
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DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
DOORDASH: imagine a $12 sandwich
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
ME: oh dang that sounds so good
DOORDASH: now imagine that it could be yours for just $37
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this oughta do the trick
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
this oughta do the trick
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Our wildlife deserves better.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Our wildlife deserves better.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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