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🥷 British hacker and coder 🎩 Black Hat EU review board 🚘 Ex-T⋆sla security engineering ✨ Space and language nerd 🐈 Neurodivergent. Poly. He/him. 🛠️ https://github.com/bitquark
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www.risu.co.uk I am increasingly taking on support for students who can’t access education and need study support. What began as subject coaching has become support and encouragement for children who find school challenging and who are failed by tutor agencies schools recommend. I love it.

Blue Ghost is on the Moon! Images are coming in now from what appears to be the first fully successful commercial lunar lander. Over the next 2 weeks, it will drill, study lunar dust, and observe an eclipse of the Sun...by the Earth. 🧪🔭 fireflyspace.com/news/firefly...

Turns out doing a duckduckgo image search for pussy willow produces a very different set of results to a text search 🙈

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

The only use I want for brain scanning systems is to read my mind and limit the apps I can open on my phone until I've finished the thing I actually opened my phone to do #adhd

Sweden. It seems the government wants a backdoor for @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social reiterates Signal would leave a market rather than compromise security & privacy. This is a growing issue. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

Me too stone face, me too

LOST CAT! A cat (male) arived in Sweden with english goods trailer! Poor guy is not chipped but clearly has belonged to someone! He is currently in Skåne, Sweden! Since I know I have alot of Brit followers, please share! Lets try to get this poor lill guy home! #lostpet #lostcat #Sweden #England

BlackHoodie @blackhoodie.bsky.social will be back at @ringzer0.bsky.social Bootstrap conference in Austin, TX 🤠 On Friday March 21st Marion Marchalek @pinkflawd.bsky.social will be teaching Compiler Internals for Security Engineers, a class for women by women, and it's free.

BlackHoodie will be back at @ringzer0.bsky.social Bootstrap conference in Austin, TX 🤠 On Friday March 21st I'll be teaching Compiler Internals for Security Engineers, a class for women by women, and it's free. Register here blackhoodie.re/Ringzer0_Boo...

It's been said before, but it really is striking how even within what he's pitching as a potentially limitless VR world beyond our wildest imaginations, the only things that Zuckerberg can imagine are new ways to do meetings.

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Every day of 2025 I feel like we are closer to figuring out the answer to the Fermi paradox.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

Excellent explanation of how and why most western music ended up using the same 12 note scale (in short: physics and convenience!)

Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough

Here's a PDF version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism: 🔗 www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-...

I’ve updated the bug bounty & content creators starter pack with classic research group @hackerschoice.bsky.social! Let me know if you’re not on this list and would like to be added. go.bsky.app/GD7hKPX

Highly recommended talk for both women and men who care about women (hopefully that's all of you). I saw this live at #38C3, and watching the audience reactions as things clicked in their minds was quite something. You'll likely learn something, too.

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

Highly recommended talk for both women and men who care about women (hopefully that's all of you). I saw this live at #38C3, and watching the audience reactions as things clicked in their minds was quite something. You'll likely learn something, too.

Thank goodness for archive.org

The Road To Point Reyes (Rob Cook with Alvy Ray Smith, Loren Carpenter, Tom Porter, Bill Reeves, and David Salesin; 1983)

gorgle gorgle

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

I'm having a very good time right now.

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

Gonna say it was autism when I karate chop a Nazi.

This is such a good talk and on a very important topic, so glad this is now available as friends told me about it and I’ve been waiting !! Really great way of presenting how abusers work

Happy new year, dear friends! Please enjoy my (quite funny) talk on digital domestic violence from #38C3 and support your local women's shelter 💃 media.ccc.de/v/38c3-escap...

Neato work from @cotesia.bsky.social lab. Our screamy cicada friends have a cool secret weapon against bacteria! www.science.org/content/arti...

P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of #meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I still find it ridiculous that universities, journalists and even a bridge have left Twitter.. but the cybersecurity sector- you know the one that screams at the public for not recognising risk or threat.. has not yet left. NCSC, ICO, Ofcom, all the cyber “experts” are all still on there.

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