I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

CARTOON/MAX.GIF

I'm really not comfortable with the number of Christmas decorations already up in town.

dreams can become reality… #lasercutting #tractor_feed #trypophobia

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The password has been changed to “Louvre2”, don’t worry

It needs to be more widely understood how much these models reflect real-world bias – and will continue to propagate it.

"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Seattle, @blackhoodie.bsky.social is coming to town! Thanks to IOActive we're hosting 2 days of trainings for women by women on Nov 14 & 15, brought to you by @barbieauglend.bsky.social Bhavna Supriya and Hanne! blackhoodie.re/Seattle2025/

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I just managed to do Ordsnille (Swedish Wordle) in one fewer try than English Wordle and I'm not sure what that says about my English skills 😂 (Though I am quite proud of my ability to guess plausible Swedish words)

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Languages are *fascinating*

Absolutely this. If nothing else public officials should not be giving legitimacy to such an awful platform.

Y'all fantastic news! Save the date, @blackhoodie.bsky.social will be at @districtcon.bsky.social this year 😱 the fantastic crew has offered to host us for a day of Malware Reverse Engineering! @synapticrewrite.bsky.social and myself will be hosting a training for women by women on January 23rd!!

What an absolute nightmare of a feature.

Ticket acquired for #39c3! See you there!

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

The HTTP Graph Collector extension for Chrome now supports Manifest v3. Analyze your browsing data to deconstruct the web with Gephi or other graphing tools for fun or research.

Stay safe out there, folks

[Exit King.]

If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.

It would be nice to be able to overlay missing alt text when quote posting an image @bsky.app

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

bitch what

Does anyone have any resources for #accessibility around classroom language listening activities for hearing impaired students?. Pls don’t suggest anything gen ai lol

Just did a 5 mile run on a trail I often use and beat my 1 mi and 1 km times without really pushing. I can definitely feel my speed increasing naturally as I run more, it's kinda fun :D

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

Perhaps a bit niche, but hits both my nostalgia and special interests.

Robot mower down 🥲

Germany has agreed to stop ChatControl for now, due to huge amounts of public pressure. Good job! The bad news is that it could come back as soon as December, and the German government has interpreted the feedback as a need to “moderate” the proposal.

And it won't be the last time this happens.

Well I just knocked another 6 minutes off of my last 10k time. Felt pretty good, too! Winning 💪

Everything old is new again.

An unusual item in my collection, Mister Black’s Secret by Catherine Barr. At first it seems like an early example of cheezburger speech but it was actually written in a shortlived teaching alphabet called ITA.

Just did a 10k run and knocked nearly 12 minutes from my last 10k time. I wasn't going for speed, looks like there's something to be said for pacing yourself! #running

Two more weeks until cybersecurity awareness month Prepare to be aware!

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Wordle 1,547 2/6 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well that was unexpected! #wordle

Tag yourself. I'm fish 2.

Looking forward to @sec-t.bsky.social this week in Stockholm! Got a preview of the venue today and it looks pretty special ✨

Talks from the SteelCon 2025 security conference, which took place in July, are now available on YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

If an adult uses a VPN to avoid age verification who does that hurt? None of this makes any sense.

I use USB daily but I have no idea how it works 🤔 USB 2 vs USB 3, USB-A vs USB-C, the PD standard… this talk is full of interesting details 💎 And now I even understand why my USB-C power bank doesn’t work with *this* cable unless flipped 🙃 media.ccc.de/v/why2025-25...

The moon is looking a little eerie tonight #WHY2025

Nothing says hacker camp more than World of Techno #WHY2025 #WorldOfTechno

The road trip to #WHY2025 is under way! 🤘