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Mark Dowd

@mdowd.bsky.social

Internet hacker

2,557 Followers  |  73 Following  |  53 Posts  |  Joined: 30.04.2023  |  1.7336

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New 10km PB: 38:07! Official race time was 38:43 though (course was 10.2 km apparently). Beat my previous PB by over a minute!

26.07.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In all my years in cybersecurity, I don't recall ever attending a talk given by someone with a scouse accent, which is an outrage.

I have a presentation coming up this week, maybe if I do some practice I can correct this

22.06.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Old school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k

New school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k tokens

05.06.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Survivor Island - Vigilant style!

12.05.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vibe coding is rather convenient, but I think one downside of allowing coders to fast track making stuff is missing out on some potentially interesting discoveries had you taken the time to learn the technology. Similar to fuzzing vs manual auditing

05.04.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Totally patted an alligator

05.03.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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lol. Halvar's final slide

21.02.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 129    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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DistrictCon kicking off with opening remarks from @winnona.bsky.social

21.02.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going viral on Bluesky should be called "the butterfly effect"

05.02.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy birthday @runasand.bsky.social !

05.02.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People like to keep their friends close and their enemies closer. So I guess my advice is to observe the relative distance someone is keeping you at, and if it's closer than other people, you should destroy them.

31.01.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My ancestors originally came to Australia as convicts, eventually getting their freedom. Since then, we mostly haven't reoffended. The system works!

Happy Australia Day!

26.01.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Agenda β€” DistrictCon

We're officially 1 month away from DistrictCon Year 0! Check out our agenda for talks, exploits, round tables, and more!
www.districtcon.org/agenda

21.01.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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DOGE off to a strong start improving govt efficiency. Already fired half of their own management staff. Lead by example eh

20.01.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In the business world, we should rename short term contracts to quests. It sounds way cooler.

"What do you do for work?"

"I'm currently on a quest to streamline logistics for a big importer"

29.12.2024 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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When you're too busy hacking to do exercise -- do both!

10.12.2024 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I guess we will find out!

09.12.2024 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My understanding is you can just replace all govt income with tariffs, so no problem

09.12.2024 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably the best time in history to be a mathematician was around 600 BC when you could get rich just for discovering triangles

06.12.2024 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3708    πŸ” 378    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 28
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Ahhh checks out. lol

05.12.2024 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How is this real life

05.12.2024 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

This site is actually Russian. It's pronounced "blue-skee"

04.12.2024 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Duo somehow has access to my internal monologue

03.12.2024 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think this estimate is low, Duo

03.12.2024 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

If there was a reboot of "The Wire", it'd just be these guys running Signal zero clicks all day

27.11.2024 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Speakers β€” DistrictCon

DistrictCon Talks Have Been SelectedπŸŽ™οΈ
www.districtcon.org/speakers
Check out our incredible speaker lineup for DistrictCon 2025. Agenda (and more talk announcements) coming soon

26.11.2024 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Really? My TL here is pretty good. Nearly all tech and very little politics or other

24.11.2024 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I know right

22.11.2024 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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