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Cyber-rat in a boring dystopia | Malware Enthusiast | ICS Tinkerer | Wannabe Threat Analyst | dysfunctional internet communist

My toots are reflective of my addled mind and not of any employer.

Cyber Security PhD @ University of Bristol Cyber Security Group focusing on ICS and threat intelligence.

Header Alt: Cyberpunk city art by Deathburger. A street in shades of yellow and orange, covered in trash and broken machinery. In the back there is a person spraying graffiti over a mural with his mate sat in a trolley nearby.
Avatar Alt: A big ol white rat being gripped and staring at the camera like they've done something wrong

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eating berries i probably shouldnt have
I think that's my biggest gripe with the harry potter series, even as a kid I could see that for a soft magic 'anything can be done if you learn the words and flick the wrist propely', all the magic is shockingly bland.
Writing my totally original fiction novel where a boy goes to magical school and learns like one spell that he somehow solves 90% of problems with throughout the series.

"But Jacob! You can never know for sure where your money is going!"

That's true, but giving your money to someone who ends up being outed as donating to the Orphan Obliteration Fund™️ is quite a bit different to giving money to someone who preempts receiving your money with "I am totally going to give any money I get to the Orphan Obliteration Fund™️".

My opinion on liking problematic media is that its OK so long as the creator isn't actively using the income to fund a bigoted pressure group that seeks to ruin the lives of folk who just want to be left alone.
If your router isnt 100% murican reared and grass fed microchips you are hereby banned from the internet. Also you have to salute your American router and say 'thank you for your service' whenever you load a webpage.
Got stopped by a street photographer on the way home, which was weird because a part of me didn't believe that sort of thing actually happened.

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are:

🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role
💻️ where you can use your programming and data skills
🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too
🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job

https://careers.cats.org.uk/job/851046

(Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology at Cats Protection, £49k, apply by April 3)

#FediHire

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Its kinda wild that JKR is as transphobic as she is but Brandon Sanderson, a literal Mormon, wrote the regenerative function of the stormlight power system to be gender affirming.

(This is not saying that brandosando is perfect, he's very much not. Its just food for thought.)

If AI platforms are gonna start popping their clogs, can Suno go soonish? Please? Hate that shit.