Mastodawn

This week it gets all too depressing. AI didn’t change everything but made it more important to do it right. Politicians lack understanding. And one orange one is the ignoramus in chief and how we laugh at McKinsey for going all in on the metaverse. #WeaklyLink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_12/

Weakly Link 26/12

This week it gets all too depressing. We start by the fact that AI didn’t in fact change everything but just made it more important to do the right thing. How politicians may not have the right kind of understanding to make decisions that actually make sense. How one (orange) politician doesn’t understand how the world actually works and how we can all laugh and point at McKinsey for when they predicted how essential it was to go all in on the metaverse.

Gerald Benischke Mar 17

This week we're looking at zero days, zero reason for wearing Meta Glasses, zero reason to like AI slop.

Let's dive in.

#WeaklyLink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_11/

Weakly Link 26/11

This week we’re looking at zero days, zero reason for wearing Meta Glasses, zero reason to like AI slop. Let’s dive in. Look What You Made Us Patch The Google Threat Intelligence Zero-Day review came out at the beginning of March and I thought it was interesting for a good few reasons: The number of zero days actively exploited looks to be fairly steady over the last few years Security and Networking technologies are about half of the enterprise-related targets.

Gerald Benischke Mar 4

This week we’re looking at how some of the traditional thinking on security (detect it, patch it, monitor it) is no longer quite cutting it. It is interesting how cyber threats have very much moved on from malware. In my opinion, the latest CrowdStrike threat report can be used to argue that security is not something that can be fixed by buying a shiny security tool. It’s not a technology problem, it’s a social (engineering) problem… #WeaklyLink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_09/

Weakly Link 26/09

This week we’re looking at how some of the traditional thinking on security (detect it, patch it, monitor it) is no longer quite cutting it. It is interesting how cyber threats have very much moved on from malware. In my opinion, the latest CrowdStrike threat report can be used to argue that security is not something that can be fixed by buying a shiny security tool. It’s not a technology problem, it’s a social (engineering) problem…

Gerald Benischke Feb 24

This weak we’re looking at supply chains. We look at how AI is both a blessing and a curse for open source, how there’s a new sandworm attacking the npm ecosystem, how de-Americanisation of cloud is not easy and we also learn about an exciting new Agile certification. Sarcasm may be involved. #WeaklyLink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_08/

Weakly Link 26/08

This weak we’re looking at supply chains. We look at how AI is both a blessing and a curse for open source, how there’s a new sandworm attacking the npm ecosystem, how de-Americanisation of cloud is not easy and we also learn about an exciting new Agile certification. Sarcasm may be involved. Semantic Ablation But let’s start with something that puts a name to that feeling you get when you read an AI-generated wall of text and at the end of it, you feel like there has been relatively little meaning in what you’ve just read.

Gerald Benischke Feb 18

This week we’re looking at the impact of drugs on viruses, drugs on AI models, drug-addled bot behaviour and how the mainstream is catching up with AI Agent concerns. Oh, and some badly-drawn horses. #WeaklyLink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_07/

Weakly Link 26/07

This week we’re looking at the impact of drugs on viruses, drugs on AI models, drug-addled bot behaviour and how the mainstream is catching up with AI Agent concerns. Oh, and some badly-drawn horses. Drugs The first bit of news comes from over the pond, where it looks like the Trumpian regime is looking to piss away vaccine advances. Flu vaccines are saving millions of lives, and an improvement in efficacy would be a good thing.

Gerald Benischke Feb 10

This week, we're having a bit of a wild west theme to the GenAI related links. There's continuing hype around OpenClaw - though it looks more like a hangover than a party. And we'll end up with a cryptic warning from a siren. #WeaklyLink https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_06/

Weakly Link 26/06

This week, we’re having a bit of a wild west theme to the GenAI related links. There’s continuing hype around OpenClaw - though it looks more like a hangover than a party. We’ve also got some interesting use cases for GenAI that are directly not related to coding and we’ll end up with a cryptic warning from a siren. The Good I’d like to start off with a couple of links relating what is feasible with GenAI:

Gerald Benischke Feb 3

This week it's about autonomous AI bots going crazy: Moltbook is so hot it leaves behind molten agents. Of course, there’s a decent sprinkling of security issues where once again the usual suspects prove that security vendors are bad at securing software. #WeaklyLink https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_05/

Weakly Link 26/05

This was the week when the autonomous AI bots went a bit crazy and decided to burn tokens on social media. Moltbook is so hot it leaves behind molten agents. Well, no, stop there Gerald, people will start thinking you are using an LLM to do your writing. Of course, there’s a decent sprinkling of security issues where once again the usual suspects prove that security vendors are bad at securing software.

Gerald Benischke Jan 27

It’s been a busy week, hasn’t it? Fascism is on the rise and AI too. But it’s not all bad news… We’re looking at how magic strings and parameter injection can be bad, how mad AI coding is and how optimism is doomed. Did I say not all bad? #weaklylink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_04/

Weakly Link 26/04

It’s been a busy week, hasn’t it. Fascism is on the rise and AI too. But it’s not all bad news… (touches earpiece) I’m receiving new information. Aaaanyway. This week we’re looking at mad and bad. We’re looking at how magic strings and parameter injection can be bad, how mad AI coding is and how bad people make me mad. Telnet? In 2026? First of all, we’re reminded that running old services can be rather dangerous.

Gerald Benischke Jan 18

This week’s installment of my LinkBlog covers old tech that is new, operational tech that is secure, observability that is not expensive and a series of vulnerabilities for us to snigger at, then take a breath and take seriously. #WeaklyLink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_03/

Weakly Link 26/03

This week’s installment of my LinkBlog covers old tech that is new, operational tech that is secure, observability that is not expensive and a series of vulnerabilities for us to snigger at, then take a breath and take seriously. Mainframes are not dead I have often said that learning COBOL is on my bucket list and that my advice for young people in the software engineering sector is that learning how to program mainframes would be quite profitable as the current cohort of greybeards retire, and nobody understands anymore how the thing that holds banks and insurances and government together actually works.

Gerald Benischke Jan 12

In this edition, we hear about how to break US tech dominance, how your mate's phone can infect your TV when they pop round and some more AI insecurities. #weaklylink

https://beny23.github.io/posts/weakly_link_2026_02/

Weakly Link 26/02

My post is a little late this week as I went away with the scouts. Everyone else was in the bunkhouse, I was in a tent. Something about ratios. And I brought the summer sleeping bag. Freezing. Alone. Kind of like America must feel like. What does America have to do with tents, I hear you ask? Well, now that the US has abandoned an inclusive big tent approach and focuses more on pissing on everyone else’s tents, according to Cory Doctorow (of enshittification fame) it has handed us a golden opportunity to break free of American dominance of technology.