I click the "keep me logged in" checkbox Hoping that tomorrow is the day It finally does something

In 2025 I read the Irish language books Dún an Airgid, Cath Fionntrá, a few chapters of Táin Bó Cúailnge (an ongoing project), and I'm halfway through Conaire Mór (only started a week ago!). My low stakes new year's resolution is to finish more than 3 Irish books in 2026

This is what happens when editors no longer have younger staff members to run headlines past before publishing. "'Bricked up' means the same thing as 'Bricked', right?" 😏

What sort of irony is it when the age verification system doesn't work because of your long white beard?

"no worries, I can chop all the salad" - the words of a man who thinks he's getting off Xmas meal prep lightly until he remembers that he's in a holiday rental and all the knives are blunt as a hammer

Wanna re-live the ✨kawaii ✨ magic? Well lucky ducks, guess what we have prepared! All of the Kawaiicon 3 talks are up on YouTube! Check em out! youtube.com/@kawaiiconnz

Kawaiicon NZ

New Zealand's cute infosec con (& book publishers) ✨

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"If you have a soft backpack, please place it under the seat in front of you" With respect - fuck no. I took the time to check my larger bag. I'm 6'3". The only thing going under the seat in front is my feet. I'm not going to be punished because I didn't bring the biggest allowable cabin bag

Stop trying to force AI into everything - web browser edition

Don’t forget the Segway!

Nicholas Kole@nicholaskole.bsky.social · 8mo ago

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are: money being born into money knowing other people with money

Jennifer Wright@jenashleywright.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Just in case I'm kicked in the head by a horse in the future and decide I want to revisit the US, this is a pre-emptive declaration that the current administration is insane, harmful and is getting worse. Chilling effects on free speech can get fucked🖕 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan

Plan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and France

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We’ve seen other orgs attempt 3rd party bug bounties, thinking it will help their ecosystem become safer. Inevitably, the safety of software depends more on the maturity of the org producing it than how many bugs are reported to it. Bug foie gras isn’t the safest path to maturity

Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻@k8em0.bsky.social · 8mo ago

When I started Microsoft Vuln Research in 2008, we found out just how few orgs were ready for vuln disclosure. When I started Microsoft’s 1st bug bounty in 2013, I never imagined it would grow to paying for 3rd party bugs. I hope the 3rd parties were warned & OSS gets tested patches supplied to them

Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan

The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.

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I am sad to inform you that Calibri is now officially woke

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

"GenAI images look like shit hurr" isn't a great argument to make. Not because AI slop doesn't look like shit (it does), but because as soon as the tech incrementally improves and looks less like shit, your main complaint has been refuted. GenAI images are shit because they're built on theft

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

ASD's social media team launch an attempt to get another category added to the #hacklore "this is not a realistic threat, please stop worrying about this" list 😔 I find this advice inexplicable and hard to align with any real-world threats

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

The Economist@economist.com · 10mo ago

China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB Photo: Eyevine

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Hot take about the updated OWASP Top10 - it's a great resource, but I have some concerns about the trend in categorisation. If the goal was "create categories that cover the top critical security risks to web applications", the new Top 10 would nail it. But the stated goal is slightly different...

It seems the "X, but with computers" model needs to be tested with everything, including white-collar crime. As much as some people would like to believe otherwise, algorithms (inc AI), are not an accountability sink. Collusion is still collusion. Crime is still crime

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 9mo ago

BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents. RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.

I got sick of meetings filling up my day around lunchtime, leaving me without a time to eat, so I wrote a Power Automate flow that detects when I'm close to having no time for lunch and auto-reserves a lunch slot in my calendar

I love everything about this letter - a list of things the general public should and shouldn't worry about when it comes to security www.hacklore.org/letter

Before a certain year, Subarus have a 3-way light switch in the roof of the cargo space. It runs in line with the body of the car, so if you're say... unloading cargo (crazy), it's possible to accidentally flick the switch to light-always-on. If you don't notice the light, you flatten your battery.

Our Call for Villages is officially OPEN, so if you’ve got a brilliant idea, a hands-on activity, or something totally wild you want to bring to the community… now’s the time to submit! forms.gle/JNCA421jfxWj... #BSidesMelb2026 #SecurityBSides #CFVillages

Academic cryptography: "we need post-quantum cipher suites, which will solve everything" Real world crypto: "key management is hard lol" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Nice work @kawaiicon.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/this-h...

This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System

At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

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Tis the seasson #Cybercrime @liamosaur.ragequ.it

If you're into history, I can't recommend the @fallofcivilizations.com podcast highly enough. Thoughtful, vivid, critical, humanistic, detailed, humble and exceptionally well researched