Just another day on the Internet with an apostrophe in my surname. GG broadcom

Y Gelli, Cymru / Hay-on-Wye, Wales. The town of books. Population 1,600. 30 bookshops. I love this sign. Sharp. Crisp. Clear. A work of art 😍

Harsh. But fair. Hay-on-Wye, Wales

The logo of the bus company I'm using. Perfection.

Out of Office message: Set ✅ Teams and Outlook mobile apps: Deleted ✅ Long Service Leave commences right now. This time tomorrow I'll be in Vietnam 😎

The improvement that some upgraded lighting makes to image quality is huge. Pic 1: Overhead light. Head looks like a full moon, shadows all over face, no background separation. Pic 2: Key light + fill light. Skintones look much more natural and healthy. Added a blue LED at the guitar just for fun

The current economic bloodbath from the Trump tariffs is a good argument against the world/US being run by a shadowy conspiracy of the uber rich. They're all losing tons of money for no benefit. This whole thing is being engineered by a small group of economically illiterate clowns close to Trump

Here's a tip for people who are watching what's happening in the markets and wondering if they should "buy the dip" - you can quite often find a large 1kg tub of hummus for only a dollar or two more than the 200g dip-sized tubs. It's much better value.

Today my team released a report which draws on a year of pentest data - 2,500 engagements for 800 customers. 26,000 individual findings. We analysed this data to look for the root causes of the most common high-risk issues, and compared issues across industries.

This is admittedly a semantic argument, but i'm strongly of the opinion that there's no such thing as "Automated Pentesting". Even with the latest AI, these tools can't compete with what a human Pentester can do. Unfortunately, "Spicy Vuln Scanning" is less likely to catch on as an industry term

Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.

International World Standards Day is 14/10 (14 Oct) * * Except in the US, when World Standards Day is 11/14 (14 Nov) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_S...

The Australian hacker scene lost a real one. This legend was always there, sharing knowledge, jokes, mischief and comradery. Vale saty 💔 Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir! Má tá suim agat - táim ag déanamh #100DaysOfGaeilge le cuntas eile. Lean mé @liamosar.bsky.social Postáilaim as Gaeilge amháin leis an cuntas sin

If "scandi-noir, except Irish" is something that sounds like it might be your thing, the series Crá is highly recommended. It can be watched anywhere in the world for free with subtitles and no ads on the @tg4.bsky.social app (and probably on BBC or something if you're a Brit)

I must have been good(ish) this year, Santa brought me this sick mouse mat. As well as looking cool, it's also super glidey. Will definitely make me at least 0.03% more efficient at computering

Classic example of AI being completely unable to use context (spoiler: I do not have a Mercedes. Even if I did I don't think I'd be insufferable enough to call it "the Benz")

For anyone planning on singing The Fairytale of New York this Christmas (and why not, it's an S-tier Christmas song), my humble suggestion is that the word "braggart" fits in perfectly with the metre and tone of the song instead of one particular word you may feel uncomfortable with I'm 2024

@hacks4pancakes.com just so you're fully informed what you're getting yourself into, this is the Melbourne forecast for the next few days

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

Today's completely cursed project creation - a 7.5 metre cat6 4-wire PWM fan cable #DIWhy

Merry Christmas you filthy animals #UserGenerated @dustrial.net

I sometimes worry that with so much of modern DevSecOps tooling/pipelines being attempts to automate finding bugs, that we're creating a system of natural selection where we're breeding bugs to be resistant to the only techniques we have that work

Christmas is a time of joy and giving, but also can be a time of humility. Like when kids who get their first Nintendo and get sick of beating their younger siblings at Mario Kart look for more challenging opponents and challenge their Gen X/Y uncles/aunties to a game

Hey Aussie hackers, great news! As of today, our job is officially recognised by the Bureau of Statistics www.abs.gov.au/statistics/c... I start disagreeing with the job description from the very first sentence, but hey, it's a start!

It's absolutely shocking to learn that Carbon Capture and Storage, the completely unproven technology advocated for by the companies that stood to gain by delays in transitions from fossil fuel generation, is close to a 100% failure in every respect (other than delaying investment in renewables)

Companies that bet on laziness being the apex of human motivation but finding out our highest motivating force is actually spite

I'm at the stage of coming to terms with the fact i'm not going to get everything done at work before the end of the year, so writing detailed notes (with apologies for screwing him over by loading him up) to Future-2025-Liam

The fourth episode of a popular computer game series will have a female protagonist and the reaction from interpersonally spavined freaks demonstrates why I am a gamer but not a Gamer

By default, the Microsoft Teams mobile app sends you notifications 24/7. Even if you turn on "quiet time", it defaults to making you contactable 7am-6pm, Monday-Saturday. Fuck this US grind culture defaultism

It's been over a decade since I first heard it, but pronouncing HackerOne like it rhymes with macaroni will never not be funny to me

If a website asks you this when you're registering, they're determining if they need to give you GDPR privacy protection or not

the three genders

oh now you don't like people using other people's stuff huh?

If you are filling in a feedback survey and asked to rate a person/company out of 10, the survey system is probably using "Net Promoter Score". The exact number you rate doesn't matter, only which range it falls into. 1-6 = you are a "detractor" 7-8 = you are "neutral" 9-10 = you are a "promoter"

as someone who employs people who specialise in breaking into or out of computer systems (penetration testers), I would like to thank the Australian government and school IT admins for helping train the next generation of hackers 🫡

Yessssss, new Fall of Civilizations pod just dropped. If you're at all interested in history, I can't recommend this podcast strongly enough

How I arrived at Bluesky

Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model. The results of a collapse could be catastrophic. wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it

Make sure if you swap to a custom domain, that you create a placeholder account for your bsky.social handle as well, so no one else can snag it <3

Delivering training is such a peculiar mix of energising and draining

As an outside observer, Irish politics is wild. The main contenders are two centre-right parties who barely have any policy differences and are governing in coalition and are responsible for every current issue affecting the country. Then there's an election and... the mix of seats barely changes

I logged in to my locked badplace account for the first time in about a year to make one final post 📯

@liamosaur.ragequi.it enters the chat New vanity domain handle, new me. Thanks heaps @snare.ho.ax !

These Spotify push notifications reminding me to buy tickets to local concerts that sold out weeks ago are less than unhelpful

It is worth learning indigenous and endangered languages, even if they aren’t “useful.” We don’t make art because it’s “useful.” We don’t meet a friend for coffee because it’s “useful.” We do these things because they enrich our lives. #Gaeilge #LanguageRevitalization #linguistics

@sarahyo.com and I are doing a big piece of research on the role of #securityarchitect If you are a security architect, know a security architect, or have a team of security architects where you work, could you PLEASE fill this out for us for forward it on 🙏 forms.gle/abWk4eDPws9m...

Seeing all the old familiar faces from the glory days of infosec twitter pop up here feels like