It's great! The best thunderstorm in ages, although the dog isn't impressed.
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It's great! The best thunderstorm in ages, although the dog isn't impressed.
That seems to have worked, although it just shows me as a member since today. 🤣
Yeah I tried that and it doesn't recognise me, even using the password reset. I didn't receive a renewal notifcation either, which should have been around July.
Anyone an @owasp.org member and has successfully renewed their membership this year? How?
Our youngest is four and just asked what it was. Shows how long it's been since we had a good clattering!
Feels like.
I mean, the biggested car parking scams are operated legally. Just sayin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's coupled with one of the US's bigger exports over recent years, i.e. the grift. Attach a few quid to any enterprise and it gets people's attention and vigour. I mean, no one believes the likes of Farage and Robinson are doing things out of deep-rooted principles, surely?
Courtesy of Humans of Techno.
I'm not sure which is worse, Farage's squelching Nuremburg rhetoric, or Starmer's booming silence in response. World's fucked.
"A party that truly belongs to all of us..." So long as you're on Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. Would be more appropriate if "Your Party" stopped supporting toxic platforms and helped promote the likes of Bluesky and Mastodon. cc @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social, @zarahsultana.bsky.social
lol fuck off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Noah Michael Urban, a key member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy in April.
ICYMI soundcloud.com/michael-thom...
#TACO
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Note to vendors: If you put an unsolicited meeting in my diary, for whatever reason, you're a dick.
Social engineering?
With those endorsements, it's in the bag, surely.
It enables her random murdering with full, plausible deniability.
I think we're unfortunately now living in a post-principles era, as well as post everything else - humanity, humilty and so on. The greed era is among us.
It won't happen, because he just promised them a bajllion dollars in increased funding. In other words, he's paid the military off.
People like Trump and Netanyahoo don't get a heaven or hell. They get a purgatory of forever in a 'care' home being neglected, unfed and sat in their own piss and shit. Mind you, Trump would probably love that.
If you can hear this image, you're old.
What happens when you have a dyed in the wool Tory running th UK's national broadcaster. You get a publicly funded Fox News.
The BBC's (and the Government's) broadcast code of ethics.
Ooof!
I'm in a webinar about ISO 42001. How's your day going, folks?
Retirement's not sitting too well with Daft Punk, it seems.
Where there's a will, right?
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We had Music Box as well, which I suppose was a contemporary / competitor. That was pretty good actually - the first time I remember there still being telly on at like 2am.
Oddly, I remember MTV showing the film American Graffiti way back in its early days. Not quite in keeping with the format. 🤣
44 years ago today, MTV became a thing. Here are the first 50 videos it aired. Mental. Courtesy of Charlie's 80s Attic Radio Station.
We will be opening our CFP at 1337hrs and posting the link. Some tips: Read the front page. You don't have to complete your submission in on go, you can edit it until it closes on 30th Sept. Give the CFP team a reason to pick your talk! You can do this. #BSidesLDN2025
A (marginally) Blue state. Interesting.
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The elite bug-hunters at Google Project Zero are taking aim at how long it takes to fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities by publicly announcing bugs within a week of reporting them privately to vendors.
Swing and miss. #PhishFail
NEWS! Woman uses salt and pepper pots to patiently explain to confused husband how Lionesses are more successful than England's men
Commiserations Spain, WELL DONE ENGLAND!!! P.S. Joey Barton's boiling piss makes the celebration even sweeter.
New music. My rip off of a 35 year old track by The Shamen. Much bass. Enjoy! soundcloud.com/michael-thom...
The US invented the grift. So, well done there.
Haha YES. The facial recognition was fiddly but it was OK. If it's to be believed, the process includes deletion of the image once verification is done. And tbh I'm less uncomfortable with it than the other options and I'm also broadly OK with the concept itself.
I got it last night and verified. It said I looked old enough, which was... comforting...
RIP 🤘 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
That'll be her pushing up the daisies by the weekend. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In other news, Royal Ballet and Opera said the protest (unfurling of a Palestinian flag during a performance) was "completely inappropriate for a curtain call". Fuck. Off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Biggups to @bsideschelt.bsky.social ahead of tomorrow's event. Lots of great pals of mine will be there, sharing their insights on matters cyber. Have a cracking time, folks and I hope it's not too hot. 🤘 #Doughnut4Life
And build their world view from reading The Telegraph (et al). We could be here for hours. 🤣
These are likely the same people that voted based on what was written on the side of a bus.
A SIM scammer’s sentence has been increased from 18 months to 12 YEARS, after failing to pay back $20 million to his victim. At the time of his original sentencing Nicholas Truglia was shown to own assets worth a stonking $61,830,828.10 including crypto, art and jewellery...
I used to work with Noel. Small world!
But yeah, Bob Vylan are a fucking outrage. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You're conflating a poorly conceived piece of legislation with the platforms that have to try and make sense of it (or be penalised), so to blame them specifically isn't really fair imho.
Elton John Marmite™ wasn't on my bingo card.
Wishing everyone involved with @steelcon.info well for this weekend. Have a brilliant time at this truly wonderful conference. Obviously, here's a share of our *legendary* performance, back in 2019. Will we ever see its like again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=I581...
I see.
This'll be entertaining, as well as expensive. He should be made to fund the operational security cost himself, or better still YOLO it and take his chances. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was tempted to include "Thank you for your attention to this matter!" for crossover comedy.
"We'd like to thank all staff for recently opting into our impromptu salary sacrifice scheme. To opt out, please contact your bank".
Have Oasis split yet?
It only spits when it hears the trigger word, which was included in your email to attendees.
You can borrow mine, Bri. I always keep it well trimmed.
Listen to I Don't Care [Explicit] by Mike Thompson on #SoundCloud soundcloud.com/michael-thom...
John Lennon: "Give peace a chance" Rod Stewart: "Give Nigel Farage a chance"
I sincerely hope that Rod Stewart gets so much shit, it ruins the broadcast. Fucking hypocrites.
The BBC's selective moral highground approach to censoring Palestinian support at @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk is fucking shameful. As is the event's appeasement reaction to the faux outrage from shithouse politicans to some of the acts. Reminder: People are dying. Politicians are mostly watching.
And to think people bemoaned Cyndi Lauper struggling to hit her notes last year at Glasto. At least she fuckin sang them.
Today's shit image from Glastonbury yesteryear. This was at the Scissor Sisters show, where Kylie made a guest appearance.
Here's another cool pic from my time at Glastonbury in 2010. Enjoy.
As @glastonburyfestivals.co.uk kicks off for another year, I thought I'd share one of my favourite photos from back in 2010.
Who made this? 🤣
I can still here the voice of the security bloke at the venue knocking on the cubicle door and asking "Are you OK in there mate?" No. No I wasn't.
Oh I dunno. I felt pretty wiped out in the loo at the after party. At least I lasted longer than @phat-hobbit.bsky.social though, who had to go 'freshen up' right after we finished the gig.
Sorting through some photos and found this, the year we nearly wiped out the @thebeerfarmers.org photos.app.goo.gl/8UMj5mrCkAEP...
The fabled Huawei 'security appliance' is due a comeback. IYKYK.
His bulletproof screen's a bit shit.
Gives me inspiration for a new song though!
Sad men, big bombs, tiny willies.
Exactly.
I'm relieved, because I too believe that only stable regimes should have nuclear weapons...
