Nick Maher

@nickmaher@aus.social
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Software developer from Sydney. Working on https://tripview.com.au, and some retro C64 development from time to time.
LocationSydney
Webhttps://www.tripview.com.au
Githubhttp://github.com/njm64
Nick Maher6d ago
Blau Feb 17
i don't want smaller keyboards. get outta here with that 80% nonsense. give me 100%. give me 120%. give me the hidden function keys windows doesn't want you to know about. if i don't feel like i'm in a nuclear reactor control room there aren't enough keys
Nick MaherJul 16
Rob IsaacJul 15
Much bigger AI fan these days. As a technology, it’s humanity’s last best chance to save ourselves and bankrupt Facebook. Where VR failed, AI may yet prevail, draining the monster’s life force and freeing our families from the eldritch spells of the mad boy king.
Nick MaherJul 14
daniel:// stenberg://Jul 14

Death by a thousand slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/

#curl #AI #bugbounty

Death by a thousand slops

I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we have recently not only received more AI slop but also more human slop. The latter … Continue reading Death by a thousand slops →

daniel.haxx.se
Nick MaherJul 6
Trying to set up some dust protection and the cat is inside licking it for some reason #catsofmastodon
Nick MaherJun 25
Show threadDave Wood 🇨🇦Jun 24
@marcoarment @caseyliss Carrot on top of it as always!
Nick MaherJun 20
Make Asbestos Great Again https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/epa-trump-asbestos-ban-delay.html
E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

The New York Times
Nick MaherJun 6
Maybe he could just get one of those "I bought this before Elon went crazy" stickers for it
Nick MaherJun 6
The level of incompetence here is just staggering https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

ProPublica
Nick MaherJun 5
Sir Ron GilbertJun 4

The day you've been waiting for is finally here. The Death by Scrolling sekrit beta sign up. We will randomly select a handful of people every few days to join (as to not overwhelm the team). If you're interested in joining, do not reply to this post, fill out the form below.

https://forms.gle/hpSrXvM3tuPqrGb86

Nick MaherMay 26
abadideaMay 26

Types of codebases my customers send me:

- Enterprise javabean factory factory... on a SIM card

- C# programmer retasked to write an authenticated bootloader in C for an arm platform with no training

- Beautiful well-written, easy-to-read C by an experienced systems programmer, with one mind-blowing 100-out-of-100-risk-severity bug buried in miscutils.c

- There is a hermit monk in a cave in Czechia. Once every three years, he emerges with a new revision of the codebase. It is horrifying spaghetti logic that repulses the human soul, but no matter how long and how hard you look, you can't actually find anything wrong with it