Drink water, kidney stones suck.
Drink water, kidney stones suck.
We finally have a website (not just a page on steelcon.info).
stickerstalluk.github.io (oh, and this new BlueSky account)
Listening to a podcast about enshitification only for it to be interrupted with an advertisement for another podcast. π€
Bellingcat has followed up its 2023 article on testing LLMs on geolocation with a new review of LLM's geolocation skills, with dramatically improved results www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
Family day out - Hack Glasgow
Thereβs a special place in hell for people that eat fish in an open plan office.
What's that, you have a talk or workshop you would like to submit to Sheffield's best security conference happening between July 11 and 13 2025? Well, you are in luck, our CFP has just opened, throw your details in here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you have any questions, let us know.
Call for Crew
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It can be a hard but fun day. A really good way to network and improve your CV if just getting started or to give back if you've been around for a while.
edit of you wouldn't download a car old meme says you wouldn't go to sleep.
Need to read this some days
I mean it's not quite there but @phat-hobbit.bsky.social some of the AI photo editors are making things a bit crazy!
BOSTON NBC10 Boston @NBC10Boston Follow A man accused of hacking someone to death with an axe and eating part of the victim's brain and an eyeball has been granted conditional release after a careful review of his clinical progress, officials in Connecticut say.
Hacking is NOT a crime
We live in interesting times.
Just had a vendor email me from $VendorsDomain2.com after I blocked $VendorsDomain.com , apparently βa simple yes or no will workβ, how about GTFO?
It's not all about Cyber. But what can you do if not Cyber? How about learning about the Mushroom Lifecycle and what would be required to clone them. @tia568b.bsky.social can help you with that here:
youtu.be/5lgnwrOeMv4
#bsides #bsidesncl #InfosecCommunity
3 hours 24 mins sleep and about to do the 2 hour drive to the office in the pitch black rain so I can join Teams meetings with people on different continents in an open plan hell hole.
Whoβs hiring as this is a ridiculous way to pay my bills!
Most open source researchers rely on search engines to do reverse image searches. However, there are also niche tools like RootAbout: It lets you upload a picture and checks it against Internet Archive collections. @anisashabir.bsky.social tested it: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...
What the co-creator of DOGECOIN tweeted about crypto: βI believe that crypto is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcityβ¦
Poor Jeff Bezosβ¦ heβs going to have to wank over a corpse to get more attention than that!
Bravenet guestbooks were peak social media.
The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.
Somewhere there's an alternate universe where humankind has united to manage the precious dwindling resources needed to survive, find solutions to climate change and generally have a nice time, instead fighting over being slightly richer than each other.
I think it was around 2018-2019 when video calls became the norm for me, before that it was Skype for business, but anything involving a third party usually involved a voice bridge.
Itβs crazy how quickly what we consider normal can change!
Remember when we used to join online meetings by dialling in by phone for audio?
Yup!
Hey @darkenergy.bsky.social I feel like youβve been following me, my entire life.
Hey, itβs me, someone!
imagine being a beautiful cow and dying to become a short sleeved leather jacket