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The highly anticipated ticket update: kawaiicon.org/news/ tl;dr Ticket wave 1 is opening tomorrow @ 10AM NZ, and lots of other very good, very kawaii details in the latest news post! Go digest, and see you tomorrow!

In order to give young hackers attending @defcon.bsky.social a way to learn how to solder, @blenster.com designed this awesome custom kit for young hackers attending @defconnextgen.bsky.social. If you are willing to donate any amount from $13.37 or $133.70, reply below & I will match your donation!

... are you STILL sitting on that talk idea for the Kawaiicon CFP? What if we told you it ended AUGUST 1st? Would you submit it then? Get to it! Go on, get! kawaiicon.org/cfp/

Rustle your jimmies, get your talks ready. NZ’s largest and cutest hacker con is back and our CFP is open

mdf is the hot dog of wood

Hackers at the Roxy with themed cocktails and dessert 👌 Hack the planet!

Is this anything?

excuse me ma’am what the hell

I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

i went here and everyone knew you @bimbo.phd

im AHAB, Assigned Hater at Birth, and I'm gonna make that whale pay

We're hiring! We're looking for someone to do our audio and video production (Audition and Premiere are our preferred tools), as well as to manage some of our social media. Position is wfh, but candidate must be based on east coast Australia or in NZ. Knowledge of cybersecurity is a massive plus 1/2

I spent the last month reverse engineering Call of Duty's anti-cheat! Blog post here: ssno.cc/posts/revers...

mitmproxy 11.1 is out! 🥳 We now support *Local Capture Mode* on Windows, macOS, and - new - Linux! This allows users to intercept local applications even if they don't have proxy settings. More details are at mitmproxy.org/posts/local-.... Super proud of this team effort. 😃

We spotted a stag who came to visit our street this week

Sydney has been good

got my local resident upset about cycle lanes/rates/whatever the youth are doing pic ready for my next op ed or vox pop quote in the paper

PRE-ORDERS OPEN! My new Never Lost stonewashed tee is now available for worldwide pre-order <3 For the cat lovers, the wanderers, the mystics, this one's double-sided on a premium stonewashed AS Colour Staple tee, sizes S-3XL <3

I wish a very godspeed and have fun to everyone enroute to hacker summer camp. Stay ludicrously hydrated, and don’t spend too many consecutive nights drinking with Australians if you’re over 30

Wellington ISIG tonight. Talk starts at 6PM so get there earlier, upstairs at the Thistle Inn. We’ve got an aspiring pentester telling us about their experience learning Rust via an educational ransomware project.

We’re getting the band back together. Aotearoa’s largest and cutest hacker conference returns to Te Whanganui-a-Tara next year. Mark the 6th - 8th November 2025 in your calendars. We would love to see you there <3 kawaiicon.org

apparently I have “my biker gang leader died” energy

come to ratbag market in the next 5hrs if u want an ass kickin

i've never had such strong domain knowledge of a computerpocalypse to be so wildly bemused at all of the takes from unwashed asses before

The overlap between the people whose job involves dealing with the fallout of the Crowdstrike update and people who have time to shitpost about the fallout of the Crowdstrike update is very narrow.

Once again, this shirt exists and you can wear it. It was a JOB and a half to draw and I’m realising that again as I try to repeat the magic for a client 😅 Shirt: pepperraccoon.com

I wound up being the way I am because I read this in the 90's

modelled for some tshirts yesterday, so if you want a @pepperraccoon.bsky.social shirt you’ll be subjected to my ugly mug soon. I suggest you act quickly

in 2013 I saw a man get a 100,000 hour probation on the SomethingAwful forums and today I saw him come off probation and immediately pick up the same argument, quoting a reply from 2013, absolute next-level hater, I can't even imagine, my man is the Count of Monte Posters

can you believe what they’ve done to the computer

My new Rogue Nocturne bandana design makes the loveliest side table tablecloth or divination space drape…I’m gearing up to design another one soon bc this one has been so popular! pepperraccoon.com/products/rog...

correct

Water, water. What has thou dunst

took two guitars in to a local guy for a fresh setup, my new (to me) RG7321 is getting fret levelled and going for Drop A and my workhorse RGRT421 is getting the perma Drop C treatment

went to an all ages hardcore gig last night that made me feel ancient, but it was nice to see that the kids are alright

This thing, upon taking an SSID and PSK string, connects to the network, takes a DHCP lease presumably to get the address range and gateway, then gives you a + and - sign to assign the last octet of the IP in a range between like 150 and 255

when the security team goes to an escape room

I loathe the way meta pushes Threads in their other core products. With all the respect it deserves, get fucked

yeah i'm into EDM. EDaMame

do rich people get strange collections of art before or after their house has an asking price of six million new zealand dollars

tl;dr: I made a TONNE of new stuff, I worked really hard on it, and I'm dropping it all online NOW. Bon appetit! BANDANA // GLASSWARE // ENAMEL PINS // STICKERS All artist-designed and produced to my ridiculously high standards <3 SHARES APPRECIATED: pepperraccoon.com/collections/...

tfw you forget to set the no-hackbacks bit to 1 when you send spike

I never know what’s going on here and I’m okay with it

Multiple hours into home office/workshop cleanup and reorg Still not past the getting worse before it gets better stage

Briefly pausing my clownish behaviour and general buffoonery to share this feature I wrote on punishment, which I first pitched years ago but has become, ah, more relevant as time has gone on www.webworm.co/p/punishment

HugOps to everyone reliving trauma due to the historical push notifications from RNZ, as well as to the development and infra teams dealing with it

Love to see the passkey implementation and now modal prompt to add one from Air NZ lessssgo

Is it okay to leave a little dirt under your pillow for the dirt man when staying in a hotel or is that frowned upon #dirt

Aiming for lunchtime in the Auckland office is so much more civilised than trying to get there for 9am. Gotta stop doing the latter unless I fly up the night before