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PHP/JS Developer since forever. Building cool things.

Western Australia
Joined February 2011
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It is insane that the government in Australia want to ban under 16s from @YouTube, the worlds biggest source of educational video content. #ESafety #Auspol
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The Online Safety Act will affect any platform where 2 or more people interact including messaging services. Think your kids will be able to play Fortnite or Roblox? Will we need Digital ID to Skype work colleagues? This #ESafety madness has to be stopped.
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First look at my latest side project. A fast-paced 3D breakout game. 👾 Lots still to do.
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New environments and an animated player model. It's coming together nicely.
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Do you remember 'the sentinel' on #c64, #Atarist and other platforms ? Here is an updated version for windows, osx and linux. viperfish.com.au/games/pinna…
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 BlackRock's spot #Bitcoin ETF hit $3 billion in assets, and is now in the top 10% of all ETFs by assets. This took just 3 weeks 🔥
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SPEECH is the only tool humans have apart from VIOLENCE to resolve our conflicts. The Tucker Carlson interview with Putin will be a positive step in ending this ridiculous war.
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To give credit where it's due. "SPEECH is the only tool humans have apart from VIOLENCE to resolve our conflicts." is a quote from this incredible video by @IoniAppelberg. youtube.com/watch?v=5VAX3JL_…
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NEW: Mini-doc from @BitcoinShooter explores how #Bitcoin mining is bringing electricity to rural Africa and changing the lives of countless people 👀🙌 nitter.cf/BitcoinShooter/status/…
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Isn't it funny the world's most prominent #AI builder has the last name "ALT MAN". 🤯
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It's good to see the FTX scandal being portrayed for what it is - corruption and fraud "as old as time". For the last 12 months this has been described in MSM as a "crypto" scam. This was never a crypto or Bitcoin issue. It was outright financial fraud.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Attorney says Sam Bankman-Fried perpetrated one of the biggest financial crimes in US history.
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This is a great example of what can be done with AI right now. And to think this is just the first generation of publicly available tools.
Midjourney, DALL•E 3 and GPT-4 have opened a world of endless possibilities. I just coded "Angry Pumpkins 🎃" (any resemblance is purely coincidental 😂) using GPT-4 for all the coding and Midjourney / DALLE for the graphics. Here are the prompts and the process I followed:
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This is for all of you who think #Bitcoin hasn’t done a damn thing in 6 yrs. Watch this and then kindly delete.. yourself! @CivKitTV
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