@HighlandLawyer

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Law, IT, & other stuff. Lingvemulo rather than polyglot.
North Scotland.
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I made a dodecathedral
Did you know that bionic limbs are mostly made for men's bodies and when they do come in women's sizes they are not being funded by healthcare services? TIL.
#casualmisogyny #genderneutraltech

From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance

'the increase of 71 is the settlement of a colony of Highlanders, who had been forced to emigrate from Strathnaver, where their farms were converted into sheep pasture.' - The Statistical Account of Scotland, Parish Walls and Flotta, Orkney . (1795 -98).

https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/27/from-sutherland-to-orkney-stories-of-clearance/

From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance

‘the increase of 71 is the settlement of a colony of Highlanders, who had been forced to emigrate from Strathnaver, where their farms were converted into sheep pasture.’ – The Sta…

The Orkney News

In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

repo: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

Florence Marian McNeill (1885–1973) was born #OTD, 26 March. A notable figure in Scotland’s 20th-century literary renaissance, she wrote on politics, food & folklore – including THE SILVER BOUGH, a 4-volume study of Scottish festivals & folk-belief

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https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #folklore #foodhistory

Florence Marian McNeill — Scottish Women Writers on the Web

Florence Marian McNeill was a folklorist, culinary writer, and novelist who was also active in the women's suffrage and peace movements. She was a founding members of the Scottish National Party in 1934, and its first vice president. She is best known for The Scots Kitchen, which documents Scotlan

Scottish Women Writers on the Web
Maximise pro-indy MSPs. Reduce Unionist MSPs. Block Reform UK becoming the official opposition. Increase chances of an SNP/Greens government where the Greens pull SNP to the left, and the SNP helps keep the Greens feet on the ground. What’s not to like?
#Scotland #Holyrood26 #SNP1SGP2 #IndependenceIsNormal
I’m learning recently that really running a business requires an extreme risk tolerance. I read somewhere that many entrepreneurs had traumatic experiences in their lives, and growing up living in chaos made them immune to the stress of entrepreneurial risk. All I’ve ever known is chaos. I’m not afraid anymore.

Snow showers here on the east coast of Caithness. No chance of them settling but still…

Also quite windy. Had a power cut 12:05 to 12:20.

Smokefree Scotland: a public health success story that continues to shape the nation’s wellbeing.

Smoking rates in Scotland have halved, and thousands of lives have been saved since smokefree legislation came into force twenty years ago.  As the anniversary approaches, Public Health Scotland (PHS) is highlighting the profound impact of the ban — a public health success story that continues to shape the nation’s wellbeing. Commenting on the forthcoming 20th anniversary…

https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/25/smokefree-scotland-a-public-health-success-story-that-continues-to-shape-the-nations-wellbeing/

Smokefree Scotland: a public health success story that continues to shape the nation’s wellbeing.

Smoking rates in Scotland have halved, and thousands of lives have been saved since smokefree legislation came into force twenty years ago.  As the anniversary approaches, Public Health Scotland (P…

The Orkney News
New consultancy: create your business plan using AI - Aleatory Images.