Dave ๐Ÿถ

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Random InfoSec guy (mostly architecture) screaming at the world. Maybe a bit of running, politics and puns dotted in there too.

Toots set to auto-delete after 30 days (for server space and so stuff doesn't come back to haunt me years later)

PronounsHe / Him / His

All those influencers thinking they were going to have some original content for once...

As many as 70 Brits detained in UAE over Iran war images under 'draconian' laws, claims group | World News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/as-many-as-70-brits-detained-in-uae-over-iran-war-images-under-draconian-laws-13525806

As many as 70 Brits detained in UAE over Iran war images under 'draconian' laws

A lawyer says the number of British citizens detained in the United Arab Emirates for taking photos and videos of Iranian strikes is higher than figures provided by the Foreign Office.

Sky

The problem with the whole "the PM doesn't answer my question" complaint is that most questions asked aren't really intending to be questions (i.e. genuinely finding out information they do not currently know). Most questions asked at PMQs are meant as some tactic to get a particular soundbite or trap the PM into something/a confession to match your viewpoint.

Speaker urged to stop Keir Starmer avoiding MPs' questions - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cre18z0gj8qo

Speaker urged to stop Keir Starmer avoiding MPs' questions

The public are growing tired of Sir Keir Starmer's conduct at PMQs, according to letters obtained by the BBC.

BBC News

I'm not sure the Tories really want to poke the "strange things that just coincidentally happen to mobile phones" nest...

Far-fetched to think McSweeney faked phone theft, says Sir Keir Starmer - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8j51r66rxo

Far-fetched to think McSweeney faked phone theft, says Sir Keir Starmer

Messages relating to Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador could have been lost in the alleged theft.

BBC News

UK society to millennials: "You need to make sure you're adding lots of money to your private pension pots - otherwise you won't have any money when you want to retire... Save! Save! Save!"

A bunch of old men (aged 70+) - not even from in the UK, or even Western Europe - decide to start unnecessary wars and wipe out investments in pensions plummet.

It's fine. I've always assumed I was going to die at my work desk anyway.

The best preparation for being a parent wasn't NCT classes or books; it was managing a team of software engineers. My 4 and 2 year olds are far better at playing with others than those maladjusted coders.

We'll just keep bombing our little hearts out

Yet another lie from Trump. We all know he has no heart.

Or brain.

Or courage.

He's all the characters from the Wizard of Oz combined into one.

I refuse to believe that Chuck Norris is dead.

I assume this is just some sort of ruse or strategic plan to make someone believe he's gone... then... BAM! He comes in again to save the day.

Plastic screening and some nearby roads have been cordoned off in an attempt to stop people filming into the base... witnessed people using ladders to look over the barrier

Bugger! Bested by a step ladder!

Roads closed and screens put up around RAF Fairford - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp854ez929yo

Roads closed and screens put up around RAF Fairford

The base has been used to launch defensive US military strikes on Iran.

BBC News

NCP's parent company, Park24, which is Japanese, said higher energy prices as a result of the outbreak of war in Ukraine in 2022 also put pressure on the business, adding to its operating costs.

Wait... so the large number of non-functioning lights in their car parks may have actually been an energy efficiency decision rather than simply poor maintenance???

Car park firm NCP collapses with nearly 700 jobs at risk - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e48zl4j7ko

Car park firm NCP collapses with nearly 700 jobs at risk

The car park operator says demand for parking has not recovered to pre-Covid levels, as its administrators look to sell the business.

BBC News

"Move to Dubai" all the influencers told us...

"The UK doesn't respect free speech anymore and it's becoming a police state" they said...

Whoops.

Britons should not take photos of strikes in UAE, embassy warns - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4wz092kejo

Britons should not take photos of strikes in UAE, embassy warns

It comes after a British man was charged in Dubai for allegedly filming Iranian missiles.

BBC News