Information Security in Financial Services, Ireland.
Certified auditor.
PADI Rescue Diver.
Has two black cats.
MSc in Climate and Meteorology
BSc in Cybersecurity
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens | Kevin Patel
｢ “It’s a shame, but what can you do? This is just the price of building modern web apps,” said Senior Frontend Engineer Mark Vance, echoing the sentiments of a community that completely relies on a 40-level-deep nested tree of unvetted packages maintained by pseudonymous strangers to capitalize a single string ｣
Tech has tricked us all - and Europe has made itself increasingly incapable of protecting against itself against this influence. How did it get to this point?
As the director of Enforce and prominent critics of the adtech industry in Europe, Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) explores the dangers Big Tech poses to society. At #rp26 he while outline possible solutions to lessen Big Techs influence on Europe.
➡️ https://re-publica.com/en/news/rp26-speaker-johnny-ryan-how-we-avoid-dystopia
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children
TIL crows, starlings and similar birds only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯
Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”.
Some colors just require different eyes.
The move comes directly in response to 404 Media’s coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the device’s notification storage.
Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit)
Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites fainter than magnitude 7! (They have not https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2025MNRAS.544L..15M/PUB_PDF)
Don't worry, they won't actually start Kessler Syndrome! https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/
Don't worry, they won't actually launch a million AI data centres into orbit!! https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366
This is the fucking worst I-told-you-so https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
ECB adopts open standards to reshape payments for digital euro rollout
The European Central Bank has signed agreements with three European standards bodies to use existing open technical standards for processing digital euro online payments.
jbz
re:publica
Steven Reed
ProPublica
Lea Verou, PhD
Joseph Cox
Eoin O'Beara
Prof. Sam Lawler
Viss
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