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Security Adviser. Architect. Technical Auditor. Speaker. Author.
  I specialise in organisational and operational security. I help people do better.   Donor: Infosec.exchange :donor:
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2026-04-21 20:56:14 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/116399482954754093
Can I bring your attention to one of the best security write-ups I’ve read in a long while.
Bravo, Davi.
@npub1yg8…ccz0 flagged this one to me.
#note1859…6sa2

2026-04-21 17:15:33 UTC

Shame, that. Anyway…
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2026-04-21 15:03:38 UTC

Sigh. It’s exhausting isn’t it?
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2026-04-21 07:27:09 UTC

I’ve just witnessed a horrific LinkedIn trend in person.
There’s an increasing contingent of cultists saying:
“We should refer to the field of IT as ‘AI’ because that’s what the future is”
I’m not sure what podcast they heard it on, but some guy just said to me:
“You work in AI, don’t you?”
Um… no? Security and IT
“Yeah, AI”
This person made a choice to attend a major tech conference and be this stupid.
Stop the planet, I’m disembarking.

2026-04-16 13:55:48 UTC

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why?
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2026-04-15 21:25:10 UTC

Colleagues asking for opinion on absolutely any vendor:
"Do you trust..."
No.

2026-04-15 18:30:17 UTC

I just thought I’d make the server naming convention the least human readable possible. Because I can.

2026-04-15 18:22:43 UTC

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need to powder them like any other drug.

2026-04-15 18:20:19 UTC

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Scarface, but the cocaine mountains are AI.

2026-04-07 18:51:48 UTC

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Shit wrong chat.

2026-04-07 18:51:36 UTC

Just getting ready to do a genocide.

2026-04-06 22:10:44 UTC

How’s my echo chamber doing this fine evening?

2026-03-28 08:33:04 UTC

Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”

2026-03-25 19:11:15 UTC

@npub1vtx…e7wk just thinking through the inevitable nightmares inbound from UK, EU, and US age verification requirements for social media, where does this land us on Infosec.exchange?
Early days I know, but curious on your thoughts.

2026-03-15 06:30:47 UTC

Another day another requirement to say if you didn’t bother writing it, I probably won’t bother reading it.
The same goes for art, music, and any creative endeavour.
Human expression is meaningless if a computer accidentally outputs it.

2026-03-12 22:44:36 UTC

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116216357692725093
The MacBook Neo is an important, landmark device. You just don’t know it yet.
I say this as someone for whom the sheen of Apple has worn off, and I’ll look to move to different, open hardware in the coming years.
A good read from Sam.

2026-03-11 12:11:50 UTC

Love getting flagged by an AI service for using AI to plagiarise coursework.
They quote a reference on a AI slop outlet site which scraped the content from another source.
That source was….
Meeeeeeee
Currently arguing with their submissions team.

2026-02-24 10:00:05 UTC

IP stealing machine gets its IP stolen by IP stealing machine. Cries foul play.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/anthropic-says-chinese-ai-firms-used-16.html

2026-02-22 11:17:39 UTC

Up your CTI game by knowing the correct threat actor names for executive briefings.
Security isn’t about being right, it’s about being accurate, after all:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gayint-name-converter/
Courtesy of @npub1ezn…nyq3
#threatintel #cti #security #cybersecurity

2026-02-19 10:26:10 UTC

They’ve arrested the nonce. I can’t stop laughing.
On his fucking birthday.

2026-02-18 23:22:09 UTC

I am LOVING seeing so many AI projects being paused or binned.
There’s one silver lining in the mass layoffs, they can’t lay off their absurd investment in power, cooling, and hardware. Loss adjusters and liquidators are rubbing their hands with glee.
Also, many silicon spinners are demanding 5 year agreements on production. It’s go big or go home time, and there will be some casualties.
One org I reluctantly work with pivoted their entire operating model to AI and agents, and they royally screwed their staff over.
They’re not hiring them as consultants at twice their original salary as everything fell on it’s arse, and who knew that go to market suits with a prompt can’t keep infrastructure or business running. Hilariously I know one engineer negotiated a one-sided 12 month contract notice period.
These people are going to get desperate, fast. Fetch the s’mores and let em roast.

2026-02-17 18:52:05 UTC

Important stuff. Take note.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/european_parliament_bars_lawmakers_from/

2026-02-16 21:49:23 UTC

No I won’t learn.
I will not proof read my posts before publishing.
I am cursed for eternity.

2026-02-16 08:44:27 UTC

I have 384TB of ECC DDR4 across two blades with 4 CPUs for a combined core count of 96.
It powers a fully populated 192 disk solid state SAN.
I was told it was old and in need of replacing, but apparently now it’s worth more than the GDP of the UK.
Can’t afford to run it (or hear my thoughts when in the vicinity)… but I can sit atop it like a fucking dragon.
And I will.

2026-02-13 07:33:03 UTC

These fucking people.
Many of the linked Epstein photos have accompanying videos with audio.
Edit: it’s worse than that. I hope someone is all over this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1r3d2so/someone_found_a_way_to_lets_say_convert_so_called/?share_id=GwseQCbg2IXwjAGUQ1l86&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=4

2026-02-11 23:48:04 UTC

One million times.

2026-02-08 19:17:10 UTC

Have a lovely #superbOwl day.
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2026-02-06 08:41:24 UTC

Wife couldn’t remember name of the Navy Seals and called them ‘American Water Animals’.
Sorry guys, that’s your name now.

2026-01-31 09:01:36 UTC

A timely reminder that if you have an iPhone (8+) and press the power button and either volume key (think: just squeeze your phone tightly) for a couple of seconds, the phone will vibrate in an unfamiliar way, STOP holding the buttons NOW.
It will force you to input the PIN to continue using the phone.
*CAUTION* continuing to hold WILL call emergency services.
From this screen you can also leave it locked or power it off, or manually call emergency services, depending on your situation and time available to you.

2026-01-31 08:33:55 UTC

Fair play to The Verge for running this.
But rewind to 2015 and think how absurd a major tech outlet, known for covering cameras, phones, video games, industry news, and peripherals…
That is where we are:
The Verge - Best Gas Masks
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks

2026-01-27 22:59:15 UTC

If you don’t manage your own keys, it’s not your data.
If you don’t properly manage your own keys, it’s also not your data.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

2026-01-27 08:46:35 UTC

I’ve been pretty scathing of US politics of late. That isn’t reflective of my views of my friends stateside.
I have great friends, family, and colleagues there, and they’re as appalled as me. So the judgment isn’t on them.
Sure, you can’t measure anything or make tea correctly, but I love you all the same.:blobheartcat:
My issues are purely with the behaviours and attitudes on display for all to see.

2026-01-25 18:35:33 UTC

Surprised Pikachu face
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2026-01-22 14:57:14 UTC

“Are you enjoying this app?”
I fucking was until you interrupted me.

2026-01-13 23:33:54 UTC

The stop using non-deterministic technologies to do tasks requiring deterministic outputs challenge.
Let’s try that.

2026-01-10 23:51:19 UTC

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High sensitivity apparatus needs what’s called ‘low-background steel’ as anything after the Second World War is typically contaminated with trace readings of radiation.
To obtain this, you have to retrieve pre-1940s battleships and submarines from the bottom of the sea.
The same has already happened with AI.
There was art and information before AI, everything else is contaminated.

2026-01-10 23:42:35 UTC

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An identical song, book, or painting; one created by GenAI, one by artists and authors are not the same. One tells a story of people, culture, of sacrifice, emotion, human experience, and the connectedness of all things.
The other is devoid of meaning or merit. A near-enough cacophony of ones and zeros, stolen from its nearest neighbour.
And should always, always, be treated as such.

2026-01-10 23:34:53 UTC

When GenAI rolled along I was massively dissuaded from working on my creative endeavours and sharing them with people.
Not because I desire agency over my IP above, but to deny the tech giants of it. I denied myself the most human of things to spite soulless corporations.
Lately I’ve been picking up those creative pursuits again, because what I’ve noticed is that the people that actually matter want you output anyway, even when everything created by anyone, ever, is at their fingertips.

2026-01-09 13:13:18 UTC

The summary execution of people in cars driving away from aggressors in unmarked vehicles and unofficial clothing shows everything wrong with the state of law enforcement over there.
Poor training, poor discipline, poor vetting. It’s either incompetence or intentional.
You don’t draw weapons on a vehicle stop for starters, and you don’t stop in a way they can easily drive at you. You especially don’t discharge a weapon in a busy street with bystanders and colleagues nearby, in their direction.
This quote from one incident is really telling.
Standing in front of scared civilians with weapons drawn and expecting a rational outcome.
These people are scared of their own shadows. If your first instinct is to protect yourself (the implication of being ready to murder someone), and not the persons in the vehicle, or the general public, you’re in the wrong job. Intellectually immature without the emotional intelligence to de-escalate.
Stop giving away badges and guns in cereal boxes.
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2026-01-07 08:52:18 UTC

I’ve seen a lot of theories flying about. The most prominent ones being that this is to get rid of the buzz about the Epstein files. Maybe.
My theory is that the Greenland thing was injected into western manosphere and tech bro circles on social media by foreign powers around a decade ago, and that many US corporations are demanding more cheap rare earth materials. Like those in Ukraine, Venezuela, and Greenland. And who does the administration have closest to them? Internet tech bros, who are worshipped by the right wing public. One big echo chamber, with little seed ideas dropped in.
So if Russia were to covertly attack the US military base in Greenland with drones, the US would be right to load up on resources in the area. Effectively enabling a staging area for further action in the name of ‘securing’ Greenland.
Only it doesn’t need to be ‘Russia’. It could be anyone, including the US. And it’s probably not in Russian interests to do so.
An *unprovoked attack* by the US would draw European military retaliation, bringing US participation in NATO to an end, enabling Russia further in the European theatre. A reminder that the disillusion of NATO, the EU, and nuclear disarmament is an agenda pushed by both the far right and the far left... and hostile nation states. Sounds fishy, right?
So what’s the goal? Well, it’s the same goal as all propaganda misinformation operations. Create political turbulence. Making us fight each other, while allowing the fringes to align on actions that ultimately cause all of us the most harm.

2026-01-05 19:04:43 UTC

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I appreciated it. My bar is low, however.
Make of that what you will!

2026-01-05 09:12:21 UTC

Opening Outlook for the first time in 2026:
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2026-01-02 08:05:16 UTC

Whew.
I just found that my iPhone’s flashlight lets you control both brightness and FOCUS from the interface.
You can literally see the beam pattern change and now I need to know how it works.
I use the flashlight all the time, and have it mapped to the side button. I have had this phone for over a year.

2026-01-01 11:36:11 UTC

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The brain rot is real. Also ban fireworks 🤷

2026-01-01 00:16:38 UTC

Witnessing my pay rise literally be strapped to explosives and launched into the air.
What a way to start the year.
Hope this year treats you better than the last my friends.
Kindness, love, and hope ❤️

2025-12-29 08:19:05 UTC

Ugh. Back to work.
Where’s the automated luxury socialism I was promised as a child?

2025-12-28 09:35:33 UTC

Fondly remembering the time I was neck deep in a digital provenance project and they were coming up with some really impressive tech.
And the first time the team that had demonstrated their work to IT teams in the business, this is how the conversation went:
“Introducing the world’s first fully immutable, non-repudiable, immutable unidirectional storage migration protocol”
They went on to demonstrate how it worked for 30-40 minutes.
“And that’s how these files can only exist in one place at a time”
We were all thinking it, but a colleague raised their hand:
“How do we back it up?”
The research team went silent.
24 months, 30 people, tens of millions of pounds.One of the most cutting edge computer laboratories in the world.
Unraveled by tech cavemen in Metallica and Star Wars T-shirts only there because they have to be, and desperately wanting to get back the Quake LAN party they had set up in the server room.
We’re all guilty of it, but it’s so easy to get stuck in the detail that you miss the most obvious things.

2025-12-27 12:18:19 UTC

There’s a point in Metal Gear Solid (PS1) that’s effect will be totally lost on modern audiences, which I think is a bit of a technical marvel.
A wonder of fourth wall breaking. Most people know that Psycho Mantis was an interesting fight, with lots of fourth wall breaking points. Reading your memory card, moving your controller with vibration, swapping controller ports, and most people saw the screen with the word ‘Hideo’ in the top corner.
On that last point, most people don’t understand what was actually happening, and it was really cool…
#retrogaming #metalgearsolid #crt #retro

2025-12-25 09:08:34 UTC

Not to be a Grinch, but I’m now exhausted from texting everyone Merry Christmas. I don’t even know that many people.

2025-12-21 10:23:33 UTC

More good news if you’re into cunts being punched in the face…
Andrew Tate got fucked up good and proper by DeMoor.
Hardest part of that fight for DeMoor was finding Tate’s chin.

2025-12-17 09:58:15 UTC

Being Buddhist and from a largely pagan, folk-centric Irish family, I get more amused with every passing year with the traditions of humanity.
“Oh, you brought a tree… into the house… and decorated it?”
And look, I could talk for days about weird animist or pagan traditions, but this one always makes me laugh.
Our family still did it! I did stop when I moved out, but it always puts a smile on my face.

2025-12-16 21:02:54 UTC

All those countries based in London…
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2025-12-05 09:05:03 UTC

Cloudflare, you ok, hun?

2025-12-04 08:18:12 UTC

Ok. I think I’m back.
How you all doing?

2025-11-22 16:20:17 UTC

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The year is 2025, humanity harnesses the most advanced, interconnected technology in its existence.
Also humanity:
Install our bespoke software to make interacting with the service which is already functional in its current form. Oh, and the bespoke software just loads a web interface.

2025-11-22 16:17:43 UTC

THEN MAKE YOUR WEBSITE BETTER
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2025-11-13 17:57:15 UTC

The fucking state of this:
https://www.securityweek.com/chatgpt-vulnerability-exposed-underlying-cloud-infrastructure/

2025-11-11 12:49:57 UTC

People marking Teams messages to me as ‘Urgent’ mysteriously get dealt with more slowly.
Don’t know what it is, must be a technical issue.

2025-10-15 21:02:00 UTC

You gotta fuck up good and proper to make SolarWinds look like a tabletop.

2025-10-13 22:54:19 UTC

AI isn’t an arms race, it’s a race to the bottom.
If you think otherwise, you’ve been duped.

2025-08-28 08:35:26 UTC

Maybe, just maybe, selling guns and ammunition in supermarkets in a country whose people are scared of their own shadows isn’t a good idea.

2025-08-18 16:01:56 UTC

Might be a humblebrag but I’ve not used any mains water this year for crops or watering the lawn.
All from water reclamation. The investment was worth it.

2025-08-18 11:05:08 UTC

I think Trump has dropped a bit of a bollock in a bid to get Zelenskyy to cave to Russian demands.
Because that’s what it is. It’s not Trump putting the ball in Zelenskyy’s court by saying it’s up to him now, as he’s done all the ‘hard work’, it’s telling him to cede to all of Putin’s demands—including surrendering MORE land than Russia has been able to claim so far, and give up on ambitions of unifying with Europe and joining NATO.
Russia will not be negotiating with Ukraine. They will be negotiating will all of Europe (except maybe Hungary, until their reliance on Russian gas and oil subsides). This doesn’t make Zelenskyy look weak. It makes Europe look united, and that’s a far more worrying prospect to Putin than a strong-man in Ukraine.

2025-08-12 09:09:41 UTC

This might sound a bit like vapid influencer bullshit (it’s hard to tell these days), but treat interviews like you’re seeing if the place is good enough for you to work there.
Don’t be arrogant, just be quietly confident and to the the point.
(Note: this only works if you know what you’re talking about for the role in question)
Brief story time…

2025-08-12 08:06:10 UTC

I’ve had my phone on ‘Do Not Disturb’ for three weeks now, it has been amazing.

2025-08-08 06:52:00 UTC

That’s what happens when you steal everybody’s research and regurgitate it.
I could make Excel ‘PhD level’, whatever that means.
You should note that this new model is only 2-5% better at making shit up than the last one.
It will take me, as usual, two minutes to have to correct this ‘expert’ and whatever field I choose. 🙄
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5prvgw0r1o

2025-08-07 22:54:45 UTC

Hey 👋
Hope you’re all ok.
I’ve been having some time away from social media, constant media exposure etc. as I work though some things.
Recommend. The world won’t stop turning. I promise you.

2025-08-05 06:40:53 UTC

I just want to point you to this short and well written piece about the Online Safety Act.
I predicted this years ago, and the outcomes, as many others did.
It desperately needs to be repealed, and the EU needs to take note on the harms it would bring to implement similar.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/

2025-08-01 06:59:47 UTC

I couldn’t sleep, so I was remembering that time I was given ‘facts’ about how efficient AI usage was compared to Google search.
Then my brain wandered into the entirety of Googles water usage for data centre cooling, using their figures.
Where I ended up was, as there’s no way to conceivably store this much water: a 15m diameter pipe, to each of Google’s data centre’s internationally with 3,500km of pipe for *salt water* on the cold side, and the same on the hot side, heating 1% of the world’s total water to around 60 degrees C, every day.
Then I started wondering where all that sweet, sweet silicon is hiding, because that amounts to something like 35 quadrillion 2U server units… or 1.5 quadrillion 48U racks. An area twice the size of France if no room is left between them.
I’m not even getting into power infrastructure.
And that’s just Google. Microsoft and AWS are far bigger.

2025-07-31 06:24:11 UTC

If I had the time I’d make a browser extension that just replaces the word ‘AI’ with ‘slop’.

2025-07-29 04:34:49 UTC

Maybe it’s time to start the anti-AI propaganda by telling people their utility bills will rise due to AI usage.
Because they will.
Taxes and utility bills seem to be the only language some people understand.

2025-07-23 14:17:53 UTC

Sam Altman looks perpetually confused.
I would be too, if I’d found myself as mediocre as he sat atop a multi billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
Any time I see a photo of him, it might as well be captioned “why are all these people giving me money?”

2025-07-23 06:30:21 UTC

I didn’t really have the words to talk about Ozzy last night. I probably still don’t. I also don’t know if here is the right place. But I just need to blurt them somewhere.
Ozzy was not only my favourite artist, but also the most influential person to me growing up. I won’t explain why but he probably saved my life. I’m not ok with this news.
Beneath the dark exterior was a man who’d fought a lot of his own demons, and didn’t always win. But was always a kind and loving person who brought laughter to anyone who met him. He always served as a reminder to stay humble and stay honest.
He will forever remain the Prince of Fucking Darkness.

2025-07-19 12:35:31 UTC

Cows are plotting to take over the world.
They say there will be a new world udder.

2025-07-19 09:34:44 UTC

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Blade Runner opens with “do you, or have you ever identified yourself as ‘Mecha Hitler’?”
Roll credits.

2025-07-19 09:19:16 UTC

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“We have Weyland Yutani at home”

2025-07-19 08:19:25 UTC

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I just know some cunt is going to tell me to use Linux.

2025-07-19 08:13:31 UTC

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Me in my teens expecting having to choose between being a rebel street-rider or corpo slicker.
Choosing the underworld before turning corpo to try to change from the inside, using technology to overthrow corrupt officials and cruel oligarchs.
Looking at the cyberdeck I was promised, and it has a 2hr battery life, adverts in the UI, applications frequently stopping responding, can’t be repaired, or augmented with black market parts, and can be compromised by a cool summer breeze.

2025-07-19 08:07:07 UTC

I think when my best friend and I first used the word ‘enshittification’ to talk about the trends of technology in 2005-2006, I think we assumed that the people enshittifying it would be better at their jobs.
Not ruthless, calculated change. Just clueless project managers in CEO roles poorly managing everything while ‘maximising’ profit. However even the maximising profit part isn’t working.
Rinsing investors is what’s happening, while gaslighting everyone else.
This isn’t the technological dystopia I was promised.

2025-07-17 08:02:31 UTC

Seeing as Musk won’t fight Zuckerberg in that cage fight he agreed to, I’ll take his place.
Honestly, I don’t mind, I’ll take one for the team. It really is no inconvenience to me, don’t worry.
I’m only a foot taller than him and more than double his weight, he’ll be fine, I’ll be fine. It’ll all be fine.
I’ll do it. Save yourselves. I’ll cast myself into the darkness to save you.

2025-07-15 18:58:27 UTC

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Ok, since you’re inexplicably really into microwave content, and the ‘hottest’ takes.
Microwaves are not for boiling water in, you maniacs.

2025-07-15 18:54:15 UTC

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Y’all need to stop pointing out very obvious issues. I’m right, and you just need to get with the program.

2025-07-15 18:42:05 UTC

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I’m sorry…
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2025-07-15 18:06:55 UTC

Has anyone ever used any of the buttons on the microwave other than +30s, cancel, and open door?
I don’t think they have.

2025-07-15 09:54:57 UTC

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Confused as to how this translates to “Windows is shit, use Linux” to some people. But I’m quite literally using Linux and MacOS.
This isn’t an OS issue, it’s an issue of us allowing non-native applications to be the norm, allowing technology monoliths to dictate if an application works on a given day.
Dictating performance. When something ran slowly we used to re-home it onto faster hardware or upgrade components. Now we have “no matter how fast your device is, you’re gonna get shit performance”.
Waiting a second or more for an action to complete may be acceptable to some, but it’s a problem we solved around 2002.

2025-07-15 07:28:00 UTC

Just thinking about cloud apps like Microsoft 365, Dropbox etc. and how we now have a generation that doesn’t know what performance looks like.
That’s pretty sad.
I have a 10 gig pipe to my *desk*, running an ultra low latency enterprise network stack, with high-end current generation hardware and the majority of my work is done in… electron and web apps.
By god it’s depressing.

2025-07-07 09:55:11 UTC

Good morning
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2025-07-06 22:54:33 UTC

I’ve just seen some galaxy brained takes from the US describing 1-2 weeks every 12-18 months as ‘micro-retirements’ with absolute sincerity, describing how gen-z are taking them to avoid burnout.
By fucking god I want to spoon my eyes out.
If that attitude ever became accepted anywhere else, I’d sooner just walk into the sea than deal with that dystopian shit.
Toodaloo motherfuckers, and I’m taking my labor with me🖕

2025-07-05 17:31:31 UTC

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Additionally, I know work can be hard to find, but if you need to tap out, it’s not a sign of defeat.
You’re just deciding not to be told to make talking sand talk better by people that don’t really care. I know how these things can go.
And if you move on, I’d 100% want to be shoulder to shoulder with someone that’s been on the frontlines above someone that hasn’t.

2025-07-05 17:28:32 UTC

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My thoughts are with IM’s security team right now. I know how hard the next few months are going to be.
I won’t lie to you either, this shit can change people, so please don’t be afraid to ask colleagues or the community for help.

2025-07-05 17:19:40 UTC

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Confirmation. Insiders are saying they’re having to wipe absolutely everything. From servers to end user. Very few services unaffected.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ingram-micro-outage-caused-by-safepay-ransomware-attack/

2025-07-04 10:42:54 UTC

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The answer is no, because their EU, UK, and US sites are still down.
Word is everything has been switched off.

2025-07-04 09:15:44 UTC

Ingram Micro, you ok, hun?

2025-06-30 06:55:43 UTC

The reason so many of us #autistic and #neurodivergent folk have to not only tolerate, but actively consume media such as Ky Dickens’ The Telepathy Tapes isn’t because we somehow perversely enjoy it—It’s because we need to stay abreast of how we’re being attacked, how the narrative and public perception is being changed by those peddling fictitious pseudoscience.
It’s an act of self defence. An early warning.

2025-06-28 07:17:24 UTC

The Venn diagram of public transport absolutists, security fundamentalists, Linux purists, and AI evangelists would be a circle.
All converging on ‘everybody dislikes them and can’t take them seriously because they live in a world free from nuance and they are blind to actual problems that need to be solved for them to be viable, because that would make their world view complex and multi-faceted, and they’d realise the thing they’ve based their identity on is built on sand’

2025-06-27 22:04:02 UTC

Have a great weekend all. Down-tools and get some rest and self care if you can.
Look after yourselves, you deserve it.

2025-06-26 16:38:02 UTC

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wish I could do more right now, but I’ve donated what I can.
Really sorry to hear this my friend.

2025-06-24 07:17:33 UTC

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Would you like another prediction?
Generative AI as we know it is a bubble.
It’s unsustainable.
Relying on it now will result in very expensive work to undo that damage in years to come. And we’re going to live with the accuracy debt for decades.
We are going to have an enormous skills and critical thinking shortage in the very near future, once the layoffs have slowed, and organisations start to cave in under the weight of their own shortsightedness.
Consultancy demand will go through the roof for people who actually know what they’re doing, attracting large salaries, and many won’t be able to afford this, dooming them further. There will be some bittersweet justice in those being laid off picking up the big money.
Vendors will transition to alternative technologies while trying to convince us that the technology is improving and AGI is just around the corner. They’re selling you something they haven’t figured out yet, and you won’t be able to afford (or will likely be dead) when it does actually arrive.
Alternative technologies will continue to be researched, and progress will be made. But they’re not the same thing, don’t let them fool you.

2025-06-24 07:06:04 UTC

It seems after 10 years of previously serious and respected people saying the cloud is the future and that I’m a dinosaur for telling them it’ll be back on prem before the end of the next decade, I was right.
It WAS more expensive.
It WAS less performant.
It WAS less secure.
It WAS a gateway to increasingly more exploitative pricing models.
A lesson in getting carried away with the hype and not looking at the actual trends. This was always going to happen. Threats increasing, and compute, storage, and bandwidth costs reducing faster than your upgrade cycle.

2025-06-10 21:35:43 UTC

https://futurism.com/atari-beats-chatgpt-chess
Another lesson in dedicated vs generalised software.
Not everything needs to be ‘dynamic’. In fact, most things suffer when they are.