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Simon Lyall

@slyall.bsky.social

Living in Auckland, New Zealand. I write about IT, Public Transport, Auckland, Food, Trailers, Audiobooks & Geeky stuff Work with Cloud Infrastructure. Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, Monitoring, etc. Blog: https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/

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Shane Phillips@shanedphillips.bsky.social · 17h ago

So many problems, in so many states, are downstream of our unwillingness to tax real estate at its market value, and more generally of our unwillingness to acknowledge that housing wealth is, in fact, wealth.

Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 18h ago

Seattle constantly adding new revenue––when the *entire state* needs an overhaul, especially to property tax––is bad for Seattle. It makes the city and arguably the state less economically competitive. Just abolish the 1% cap on levy increases and new local revenue isn’t necessary.

Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 14h ago

I think I need to move my AI programming up a level. I'm still mostly reviewing each change. Means I'm not spending much but should be able to do a lot more with a modest spend. Worker higher level with smarter models Especially at work where I'm about 20% through my monthly budget

Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thinking hope IT operations completely changed in the last 20 years while programming was a bit more static Deployment of code changed but the programming itself has been IDE plus version control for a while Now programming has got that huge change. Except they got it in 2-3 years instead of 15-20

Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 2w ago

So we have some internal command line tools at work we want AI to be able to run (on desktop) But some commands are dangerous so got AI to write a wrapper to discourage the dangerous commands from being run But the code-scanning security AI says wrapper isn't watertight (we know)

Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 3w ago

So the Tolkien Society is doing two conferences next year. It's usual Oxonmoot (I just attended 2926 remotely) and "Tolkien 2027" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Silmarillion. Exact the are one month apart so pretty hard to attend both if you're outside the UK/EU

Everything Open@everythingopen.au · 3w ago

3 specialist tracks will run alongside the main program. 🔒 Ops and Security in Practice Hosted by Simon Lyall and Danishka Navin The latest technologies, tools, best and emerging practices, and cybersecurity realities for Linux and open technology operations. 👇

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Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 3w ago

The anti-AI people are just finding out that most programming involves some degree of AI assistance and it is breaking them some of them A few talking of switching to a BSD operating system since Windows, Mac, Linux devs all use AI tools

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Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 3w ago

So I'm just catching up and somebody wrote a pro-AI article in a The Tolkien Society magazine In response a bunch of people are demanding the retraction of the article, an apology from the editors and some level of removal of the article from the archives. Or they'll resign etc

Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 3w ago

My project to use the Auckland Transport API seems to be mostly working. This output that shows buses due to arrive at your stop and is supposed. In "pretty" mode so it looks a bit like one of the physical boards

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Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 3w ago

Why do I keep running into otherwise sane people who seem to believe that the solution to all of the problems with social media is to arrest and jail Mark Zuckerberg Nothing else needed. Just get him and everything will be solved

NZ Earthquake Bot@nzquake.bsky.social · 3w ago

QUAKE: Mag 5.5, Wed, Sep 02 2026, 06:57:10 PM, 35 km north-east of Milford Sound. Depth: 10 km #eqnz https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2026p660242

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The quake may have been felt in Alexandra, Balclutha, Fairlie, Gore, Haast, Invercargill, Lumsden, Milford Sound, Mount Cook, Oamaru, Palmerston, Queenstown, Ranfurly, Roxburgh, Te Anau, Tuatapere, Twizel, Waimate, Wanaka, and surrounding localities.

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Greater Auckland@greaterauckland.bsky.social · 4w ago

The NZ government rushed to sign us up for one more "Road of National Significance"—but with zero transparency on what it'll actually cost us all, by the time it's paid off. So @connorsharp.bsky.social has done the grim maths. Hold onto your hats, folks! 😬 www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/01/w...

Warkworth to Te Hana deal to cost us over $9,000,000,000? - Greater Auckland

A few weeks ago, I asked This differs from the ‘nominal value’, aka the amount of money that is actually paid (without adjusting for change in value due to inflation). In the MCERT documents, the brea...

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Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today is the first day of Civil Spring in New Zealand Still a bit cold but it has been warming up a bit in the last few weeks Guess I need to start wearing sunscreen again when I go out walking

Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm remotely attending Cascade Moot in Portland First talk is someone reading extracts from "Three Men in a Boat" and compare it with quotes from the lord of the rings about Hobbits. But it's mostly her reading funny passages so far signumuniversity.org/event/cascad...

2026.08.29 Cascade Moot, Saturday, 29 August, 2026 - Signum University

Join us in Portland for Cascade Moot! Let's get hands-on with our theme, Taking Craft Seriously: Tolkien (and You!) as Maker.

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