@patrick.risky.biz I don't think digital identity attestation is hard. but it's not commercially viable in that it probably needs to be a government service ( and done properly ). cause at the end of the day the source of truth is the government.

From the WTF files down under edition. There are layers of wrong in this. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@patrick.risky.biz did you see foreign correspondent last night. it was on the Iraq and Israel twelve day war. anyway there was this bit with an ex mossad station chief who said days of deep agents is over you just get a buch of people via the internet to do little missions that become a big one

I feel like one of the reasons the right is crashing out over the entire CK assassination is that they're frightened. I mean for a lot of them he was in the same line of work. And for Trump himself having gone through 2 assassination attempts in the last 12 months this must really mess with him.

@patrick.risky.biz Who have you annoyed recently?

The toilets blocked

Australian navy ship accidentally blocks wifi across parts of New Zealand

This is one of the reasons I think the media was so down on the Dems last election. The Biden Admin was boring as catsuit. Trump's is political journalism on easy mode with all the cheat mods installed.

Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾 Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨ Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

@patrick.risky.biz i was reading the seriously risky biz newsletter and could the reason chinese app encryption is all home rolled be due to US export restrictions?

Ok this report on Russian Disinfo ops is interesting. English PDF link at the bottom of the page. www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

I can't believe that they haven't just tried reversing the polarity of the neutron flow instead. Amatuers.

So a 32% Tariff on Taiwan, i wonder how all the tech bros are going to feel about their data centre capex increasing by a third.

See before there were grocery bags they had to tie onions to their belts.

Aside from everything else the graphic design on that handout is terrible.

That PC look like a gaming rig. I reckon the only things he does on that is game and shitpost, and I'm not sure about the shitposting.

@patrick.risky.biz so on docker "not being a VM". on MacOs it kinda is. community.atlassian.com/forums/Trust...

ok there are a lot of people saying that because the government is proposing the sale of government buildings they are not going to be using them. That's probably not the plan. 1/

Excuse me but what's happening in the U.S.? US congressmen propose adding Trump image to Mount Rushmore, making his birthday (14/7) a federal holiday, amending the Constitution for a third term, renaming Dulles Airport after him. www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

Look, many have said it, but i feel like this is the precursor to him saying what's the safest place in America? It's with the president. so let's move this gold to mar-a-largo so it'll be safer.

Personal Head Cannon, The Angels' song "Mr Damage" is set in the John Wick universe.

USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

This song rocks open.spotify.com/track/5gYbg3...

To be fair fucking up Americans ability to buy shit from Temu, Shein, Amazon and any drop shipper was probably even too dumb for Trump

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

MAGA propaganda so bad that even russian propaganda is debunking it, what the hell is going on anymore

One of the best hand-drawn protest signs I've seen in a while.

I think it’s probably just that they lack a practical means of dealing with a skajillion no-longer-exempt parcels and aren’t eager to pile them up in warehouses

the entire Musk/DOGE vibe seems to be "Fuck Chesterton and his goddamn fucking fence!"

I wonder what happens if the US Treasury accidently defaults on dept securities.

I wonder what happens if the US Treasury accidently defaults on dept securities.

Gold. 😂 www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/s...

Reading about birthright citizenship caused me to wonder, if you believed personhood begins at conception (I don't), how does that intersection with birthright citizenship?

So does that vapid Nazi saluting douche realise that his car company is going to take a fair revenue haircut when the EV subsidies get canned?

So we get that all embryos start as female right? That's why you all have nipples?

Elon totally did a Nazi salute, it's exactly the kind of edge lord shit he regularly pulls. I just hope it pulls enough coverage that Trump gets jealous and shitty with Elon.

I often see a lot of left people saying Biden did nothing. He did in fact do things, and some of them are quite good.

Taiwan, being in a state of political paralysis right now actually really scares me. This has the potential to turn into a very bad thing.

I know you’re prob sick of me but I got this off my chest earlier this week & I think a lot of comedy fans could find it cathartic maybe. I’ve been stewing about it for ages & Im happy that it came out as something other than me snarling and growling heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...

As pretty much everyone knows, the US banned TikTok for about 24 hours, and now the President Elect has unbanned it. ( Except for like app stores etc. ). Looking at it all, I don't think that the US government <em>intended</em> to ban TikTok.

In 2021, when I was a casual at ABC, I pitched a story about growing non-Chinese Australians using RedNote, and from there, explain what the app was. My manager rejected the pitch for 3 times, saying ABC wouldn’t commission stories that only focused on one platform. What’s the headline this week?

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

AI and Data Centres as a national industry policy is even more stupid than nuclear submarines and that’s saying something.

🧵Thread: Egged on by right wing media spreading vaccine scepticism during #COVID, 51 out of 77 Qld councils (where Cookers call the shots) have shunned fluoride, with devastating dental consequences. ⤵️ So, today, #NewsCorpse publications across Qld have launched a "State of Decay" series ... .../2

The fires in LA are terrible, and my heart goes out to those affected. As an Australian I'm, unfortunately, used to reading about bush fires in January, so it took me a while to do the geography and twig that this is happening in the middle of fucking winter. That's just wrong.

Elon Musk is like if an unsolicited dick pic was a person. Nobody asked for it. Nobody wants it. And please stop.

I think this is peak retro

What an honor to be invited to The White House Christmas party,,, and special thankx to the great Dr Jill Biden for the hospitality and the opportunity to meet her husband,,, the PRESIDENT of the United States of America, Joe Biden.