Ben Aveling

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The best time to improve your OpSec was a long time ago. The second best time is now.

There is a fully visible insect in this picture.

I swear.

See alt-text for the spoiler.

#insects

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WTAF?

so if AI is so amazing, why don’t articles and books written with it have huge “proudly made with AI” banners and stickers on it

we all know why

I hope we're going to see many charges for incitement to racial hatred, incitement to violence and incitement to riot, all of which have been happening blatantly and prolifically on social media. Or will two-tier policing in the UK, favouring the right and the far right, prevail yet again?

Nasty little phishing attempt unwittingly facilitated by Cal.com

First was this meeting request. Someone filled in my calendar request form.
Looks like a plausible invite - someone wanting to discuss something and a link to a document to review.

This is quite normal. People often want to hire me and will send along a project brief. What happens if I click on the link?

1/4

You know something is off in your #democracy if somebody complying with a court order is considered newsworthy.

It looks like Microsoft's DevOps libraries for Azure Functions might have been compromised. No statement yet but Github is nuking Microsoft's own repos.

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/miasma-reaches-azure

The Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds

GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps — in a 105-second sweep on June 5. The recompromised durabletask package sits at the center, and the fingerprints point at the open-sourced Miasma worm.

Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title ‘jumping ship slowly’ about leaving Windows (XP was awful, it was mind boggling to me that Vista managed to make people nostalgic for XP). My advice remains the same:

Don’t try switching OS first. The OS is the most easily replaceable bit in the stack. Switch applications first. Most ‘Linux’ apps are cross platform. They’ll run on Windows, and the few that don’t will run in WSL2. You can switch out apps one at a time, and take the time to get comfortable with the alternatives.

Once you’re comfortable not using any Windows-only apps, changing the OS but using all of the same applications is very easy to do. Changing OS and application stack at the same time is an enormous obstacle.

I believe this is also why a lot of corporate and government Linux migrations fail: they try to change everything at the same time and that’s too steep a learning curve.

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/116697843468959676

#Alt4you A popup error, titled Torment Nexus. Text: For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience.