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Bruno Nicoletti

@bjn@mstdn.social

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Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial arts for fun https://www.armizare.uk. I paraglide and kayak when I can. I’ve also started to publish translations of historical martial arts manuscripts, https://www.armizarepress.com #HEMA #paragliding #kayaking

My open source code is at https://codeberg.org/bruno_nicoletti

Avatar : me flying a paraglider

376 Followers

192 Following

50 Posts

Joined November 05, 2022

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https://codeberg.org/bruno_nicoletti

Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cstross@wandering.shop @pluralistic@mamot.fr Yep, the Futurist Manifesto laid the ground for the Fascist Manifesto and is full of the love of speed and machines, revelling in violence “We will glorify war - the only true hygiene of the world”, it loathes women, hates thoughfulness and education. Andreessen’s recent “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” is an evolution of that, deliberately rewording elements of the Futurist Manifesto, but hiding the explicit love of violence. Hideous people all.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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@stib@aus.social @siftinsand@aus.social First Dog, who drew the Casso-wary signs is on the fedi @firstdogonthemoon@aus.social

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 3w ago

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@stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net @oxy@social.bsdlab.au They were luxury when they first appeared. I used to commute to school in the old red rattlers, having train doors that actually closed probably saved more than a few lives.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop Some people are arseholes. The chimpanzee hindbrain dominance thing rather than the bonobo hippy free love thing.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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@ketan@climatejustice.social Most of the same extraneous same guff is going into ICE cars as well, it’s not just BEVs that are getting enshitified.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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@pawv@tech.lgbt @concretedog@mastodon.social They should have bloody well asked me first.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@eric@social.coop @CppGuy@infosec.space You’d think that introducing a massive change to your design and production process would warrant a few trials and proof of concepts before you leap into the dark.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Great essay. My only quibble, Scrum is not good under any circumstances.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@ATLeagle@mastodon.online @davidgerard@circumstances.run One lives in hope.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 1mo ago

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@stux@mstdn.social Done

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @foone@digipres.club I’ve done that more times than I care to remember.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 61 and I loathe it.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@johl If the code was 100% generated by LLMs are they claim, it can’t be copyrighted according to US law. So surely they can take a hike on that?

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

RE: @TransitionShow@mastodon.energy

The ever insightful @chrisnelder@mastodon.energy talks with oil analyst Rory Johnston about the clusterf*ck currently underway in the Gulf. It is depressing but well worth a listen. Global oil and gas supplies are screwed and will be for a long while to come, no matter what. To quote IEA director Fatih Birol it is “the greatest global energy security threat in history”. The markets are in the Wile-E-Coyote phase of having walked off a cliff but have not yet realised they are about to plummet. #energy #wariran

mastodon.energy

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@baldur It also needs humans to follow it up to separate out the false positives and test that the errors were in fact real.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Security through procrastination?

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @RenewEconomyRSSFeed@mastodon.au

“But renewables can’t power heavy industry like nuclear or fossil fuels.” is an argument I’ve encountered often. Meanwhile, a gold mine, which involves mining and crushing hard rocks, has managed to run on 93.8% renewables for a solid month, they are aiming to scale up to 100%. #solarpower #renewables

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@BashStKid @ChrisMayLA6 @stekopf Gravity is a very weak force, so 1 tonne lifted by 1000m only stores 2.7kWh, which is not a lot. You aren’t getting many MWh of storage in mine shafts that way unless you can turn them into pumped storage somehow. It’s also relatively complex and fragile machinery that needs to do it all. Dams get away with it because water is cheap and we can store a lot of it.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@ChrisMayLA6 Along with storage alongside generation so you can buffer excess power when the grid is saturated. That can be built much faster than interconnects.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@mastodonmigration @jeeynet @briankrebs Automated theft by corporates. Joy.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop @newsguyusa@flipboard.social Can the both lose?

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@PaintedDurian@mstdn.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca @andrewnez@mastodon.social You are not alone.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@PeterLG@theblower.au @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Unfortunately first past the post voting in the UK makes that a much harder thing to do.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@robpike@cosocial.ca I’m 61 and I’ve never been angrier.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bruces The Luddites were cool. They didn’t object to technological change, they objected to being screwed over by it. Captain Lud was right, as Butler will be.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@hikhvar@norden.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca @tbortels@infosec.exchange Which is exactly what China did for themselves, their whole drive for electrification of everything was to insulate themselves from international fossil fuel supplies they have no control over.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Ideally the fallout should directly hit the NASDAQ 100 index as a reliable pricing reference because they’ve shot their own longterm trustworthiness for a very short-term gain. Passive index trackers funds should just drop them from their portfolio, or come up with an alternative “NASDAQ 100 without the premature forced listings” index.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club @iris_meredith@mastodon.social I’ve always wanted to be a wizard. Now I am!

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@autiomaa@mementomori.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange The manifesto was sufficiently vague and open to interpretation that I think it borders on useless.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@Geri@mastodon.online And Norway put all the money they earned from oil and gas into a sovereign wealth fund whose income now covers about 20% of their government’s expenditure. The UK’s plan under the then Labour government was to do something similar, but Thatcher came in, sold it all off and used any revenues they received on the sugar rush of tax breaks to bribe the middle classes.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@robloblaw @gusseting @JulianOliver Fortescue mining has an agressive decarbonisation plan based on electricifcation and renewables. It should also save them money and insulate them from volatile fossil fuels prices. Meanwhile the Bellevue gold mine is already 90% wind and solar powered. So even the supposed hard cases can be electrified.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@nworbmot@mastodon.social @chrisnelder@mastodon.energy @TransitionShow@mastodon.energy I listened to your interview with Chris Nelder today on his pod, excellent stuff. It gives me real hope. I then skimmed your blog post and hope to dig into it this weekend as well as playing with your model. #energytransition #solarenergy

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@stux Done

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@dpiponi I just saw the BBC article you shared, seems quite the bloodbath at Epic. I thought they were doing quite well. I hope you find something soon.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@dpiponi Hope the parting wasn’t horrible.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@stux@mstdn.social done

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@stilgherrian Screams “grift” to me. Cheese is fab.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@tante@tldr.nettime.org @davidgerard@circumstances.run Joseph Cox, one of the 404 folk, is on the fediverse and is worth following, @josephcox@infosec.exchange

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gusseting Further to that point, the top 10 selling ICE vehicles in Australia are currently cost over ten times as much to run as the top 10 selling BEV vehicles. Cheap clean electricity will flip things around. At those prices it will flip them _fast_. https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/march-2026-to-change-everything-tipping-point-for-global-ev-adoption-1.500484007

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gusseting @robloblaw Go read up on the primary energy fallacy.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@stux@mstdn.social Done

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@ZachWeinersmith I think the attraction is basically big freaking rockets. All that fire and drama that submersibles or snowmobiles lack. More action movie, less Attenborough documentary.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@davetortoise @mhoye Cheaper electricity will help with that.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@kaneel@mas.to @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Scrum is a rigid process that is distinctly anti-Agile, and Agile is not all that in the first place and is only narrowly applicable to certain domains.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@ketan@climatejustice.social The AI bubble can’t burst soon enough to stop this stupidity.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 1w ago

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@stux@mstdn.social Done

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@solar_chase@mastodon.green Australia is already giving electricity away for free in the middle of the day, but it is just a tad more sunny there than in northern Europe. I suppose it will just take a few more years before that happens here.

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@ErikJonker @geopolitics @hildo_biersma Makes a difference to stealing it from the American public I suppose.

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