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Wish I could like this more than once mate!

March 2026 Meetup - John Follin We're slightly late announcing our speaker for this month but are excited to announce we've got John Follin with his talk "Making Shor: cryptography in a post-quantum world" We're meeting at the usua...

Slightly late announcing this one - apologies!

This month (11th March) we've got John Follin presenting his talk "Making Shor: cryptography in a post-quantum world".

All are welcome. Full details in the link:

dc151.org/march-2026-m...

February 2026 Meetup - Seán Guthrie and Liam Follin For our February meetup, we've got a couple of amazing speakers who most of you will know as they're regular attendees and speakers at DC151. In no particular order (because we don't have favourites ...

Update for our next meetup on the 11th Feb:

dc151.org/february-202...

Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm.

We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates.

support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

Pocket change. Who among us hasn’t forgotten about that spare £380k we pocketed in a 12 month period…..

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I have…. regrets. Did a 2km OM3 pull in 2009 because there’s no way we’d ever need more than 100Mbps of internet on that line ;-) back then the rationale was the difference in transceiver cost between multimode and single mode. Now it’s fractional - same with cable cost

You probably won’t have issues with OM3 right now - you’ll get 10Gb at up to 300m, but the cost of the work is the labour and not the cable - and in 10 years time if we’re all hanging on the back of 100Gb domestic connectivity then you’ll have a bottleneck

Ex-fibre engineer here. Futureproof thyself and go single mode. Limitations on throughput at distance with multi mode. You should be looking at OS1 rather than OM3/4.

Ends/connectors less relevant as you can always use patches that will switch connector type.

Time to dump Trump? Europeans whisper last-resort options to save Greenland The alliance is already broken, officials say, so why not threaten to cut ties with America on military collaboration?

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.

Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far | Wikimedia UK With a decision on whether or not Wikipedia will be considered a category 1 service under the UK Online Safety Act 2023 expected in 2026, it seems like a timely moment to reflect on the journey to …

Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far | Wikimedia UK
https://alecmuffett.com/article/140584
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns #wikipedia

Hack Glasgow 2026 tickets are scheduled for release on the 16th January. As with last year, there's no additional drops or hidden General Admission tickets - once they're gone, they're gone!

Grab yours at hackglasgow2026.eventbrite.co.uk

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Same! Half disappointed, half glad 😌

January 2026 Meetup - Fabien Bourdaire and Venus After our plea for January speakers, we've received 2 offers to talk at the January Meetup which we've gratefully accepted. Venus will be visiting us from Manchester 2600 to deliver their talk "Priva...

Happy New Year!

We have 2 amazing speakers for our next meetup on the 14th Jan. All details in the link: dc151.org/january-2026...

Hope to see as many of you as possible there

Stopped clocks twice a day….

Weirdly I find trail long distance less stressful on the hips and joints. Less impact and more variation of motion. I feel better after a trail marathon than I do a road half….. would recommend any of the Hardmoors race series if you do feel compelled. My first ultra was the 55 :-)

Hardmoors 60

To run again. Cursed injury has kept me off the trails for 2025. Need to ease back into it.

For your 100km challenge, may I suggest the www.hardmoors110.org.uk/hardmoors-60/

Organised by lovely people, great scenery and a challenging race!

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Right to the very core…… thank you for articulating

I should add - great, actionable advice though!

I’d add a footnote to the MFA/Passkey section. Literally ever SME I’ve worked with has users who refuse to install Authenticator apps on their devices - rather than arguing, offer Yubikeys - £25 and the problem is solved

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Just a reminder that our last meet of the year is tonight (the 10th December). If you've got a talk you'd like to share in 2026, just let @laurawhit.bsky.social , @glenn.pegden.com or @roachy.net know :)

We've managed to release some more general admission tickets for #BSidesLDN2025 this Saturday (13 Dec).
Please only snaggle one if you can be with us on Saturday!
bit.ly/BSidesLDN202...

#Security #BSides #London

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Is cloudflare acting up again?? LinkedIn is DOWN. How will I get inspired by tales of professional success against the odds?

December 2025 Meetup - Lauren Spokes It's time for our final meetup of the year - and for the first time in December the Cross Keys have assured us that we'll have the room so we can actually have a speaker! Most of you know Lauren as ...

Just a week to go until our last @dc151.org of the year!

For our last meetup, we've got
@laurenspokes4.bsky.social presenting her talk "The Christmas Pi"

All details in the link - hope to see as many of you as possible there:

dc151.org/december-202...

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Woohoo. It’s nearly Orange Club time ❤️

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