Everyone will make their own tradeoffs but when I depart I fear it will go down in technical expertise, rainbow rep, and number of women, — and go up in age, outside agenda, and unwillingness to compromise. If you bring what’s needed but aren’t sure if you’ll stand at least make sure to join now!

My term on InternetNZ board is ending soon after nine long years. In my seat please prioritise those with a broad lived experience & real technical knowledge. We have values driven people, we need DNS/Domain name knowledge. I had real-world expertise with internet scams, phishing, abuse etc.

I’ve worked out how I conceptualise LLM/agentic programming: a printing press moment. It’s taken something that was previously very specialist and expensive and made it cheap.

I know I regularly joke about it being DNS. But it sure wasn’t DMARC.

Important note about cyber security and media interaction during active incidents: When those who know the details can’t talk, those who can talk won’t know the details.

*taps sign*

Tips on improving my combat-roll technique?

The extra interesting thing about this article is whatever someone’s first reaction is when they read it: spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...

I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair. Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them. It was me.

I’m floating around kawaiicon. If you’re looking for me sometimes I’m the bright yellow person. You’ll see what I mean in the sea of hackerblack. (Do make sure to introduce yourself as I’m peopled out from this last week and might have facial recognition failure)

Show you wrote it an not AI, fill it with speling and grandpa errors

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Huh. A new article on MPTCP? Protocols move so slowly - I was talking about this in... *checks notes* …2012… *feels old* blog.cloudflare.com/multi-path-t...

Wave 1 tickets, merch, and event tix are up, y'all: kawaiicon.org Don't worry, there will be another wave next week if you miss out today! We will announce the day/time once we recover from the gauntlet of con things this week :D

Who needs cloud seeding when you can go cloud deleting. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Know your data terms! Data Data base Data warehouse Data lake Data lake house Data lake house boat Data lake house jetski Data lake house scuba dive Data lake house scuba dive coral reef Data lake house scuba dive coral reef clownfish Data lake house scuba dive coral reef clownfish AI

Science and tech/AI aren’t magic. You cant go making unsubstantiated claims and expect them to be accepted because “Advances in [science/tech/AI] will save us”. They might, they might not - but just blindly trusting or giving assurances is called something else entirely.

Science and tech/AI aren’t magic. You cant go making unsubstantiated claims and expect them to be accepted because “Advances in [science/tech/AI] will save us”. They might, they might not - but just blindly trusting or giving assurances is called something else entirely.

Turns out that the evil bit should have been an evil vector.

Wtf sort of timeline have I found myself in. … “In this paper, we identify directions in the model's activation space—persona vectors—underlying several traits, such as evil, sycophancy, and propensity to hallucinate.” arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21509

Did you know they put the phone number and email address of nz’s local government candidates online for anyone to access. The 2022 lists are still online too. One the one hand great transparency, but on the other hand I did not know doxxing was a requirement to stand?

I fed the #internetnz #agm2025 into a free range open source local LLM and it made this song. #nzpol

What day is it? Oh yeah, the next day.

Catching up on the #InternetNZ agm skeet’s give me big Covid era watch party vibes. And I feel like I missed out because I was the entertainment! Keep this engagement. Learn from it, take the collective and unified spirit forward to your next battles!

I apologise for screaming KITTY!!!!!!1!!! on the zoom.

It’s been a really intense time and I’m just hoping we navigate a positive path forward from here. And that I get some sleep.

InternetNZ was really the topic of the evening on bsky eh…. here I am just catching up after getting home.

Can I sleep now???? #internetnz

When is awareness day awareness day?

I am unreasonably annoyed about this in a government weather app. Metservice ad-free monthly subscription.

It is that time! Call for Participation (CFP) time! Got a talk in mind? Done some cool research? Want to do something for hallway con? Want to be able to summon sparkle pots on cue? Submit to our CFP! Closes eventually, so just get your submission in now! kawaiicon.org/cfp/

Me playing with ai agents and debugging handover and context switches. I want the quickest way to get an llm agent to tell you its name. The resulting prompt? “who dis”

Damn, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s prologue hits hard. Beautifully done. I don’t know when I last actually cried so early into a game before.

Patch 8 will be ready to roll out on Tuesday, April 15th! To celebrate, get ready to join us on Twitch where we’ll talk all things Patch 8 with guest developer Ross, whose work on the new subclasses will be arriving next week. 📆 April 16th, 1pm UTC 📺 twitch.tv/larianstudios ▶️ youtu.be/h5ZC8Y_X78Y

My thoughts on the current discussions around InternetNZ and DNS Censorship: mattb.nz/w/2025/03/31...

Maybe I can get a proper night’s sleep in now.

Thank you. You know who you all are.

I just introduced my wife to Balatro. I wonder if I will hear from her ever again.

Watching the Zero Day series on Netflix as an expert is…. Something.

⚠️ You have changed you language to: Australian English. Do you want to keep these changes? [Nah, Yeah] [Yeah, Nah]

When AI model releases cause a trillion dollar blast radius you know we live in strange times. That’s more than a dollar a parameter. There’s an example for open source/open data economic impact i guess. 🫠 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Anyone know of training material on spotting poor quality generative LLM content online that I can point colleagues to? Getting more cases where i immediately peg something as AI garbage. But I am noticing a lot of others struggle to do that. (Things like confident redundant repetition explaining)

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

"Not only did you share a thoughtless, cruel recipe, but you also had the audacity to call it the 'best chili recipe in the world.' Really? Have you tried every chili recipe? How do you think this makes the creators of other recipes feel?"

If you want a good cybersecurity follow list, pretty much follow everyone @serghei.bsky.social is following. Damn, that’s a rock solid 800 accounts.

Phew. That phase of a large piece of work is finished. [further details redacted]

Interviewer: so, what made you decide to pursue a career in information security? Me: well, I had all this anxiety lying around, so I figured I’d see if anyone wanted to buy any?