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This was central London however - I suspect it was just performative art. Anyway they succeeded in preventing me getting in so I wasted an evening.

When your restaurant needs airport style security I am afraid it's not the place for me.

interesting - copilot has been updated it seems. In the distance 1000's of electricians scream and are then silenced :)

hmm maybe a run streak is what i need - its weird that it seems to think that my HRV is in the dumps but i am sleeping well

how on earth do you stay "productive" ? my garmin has been stuck on strained for 2 weeks now. It even has dropped my vo2max down a point to punish me further. It was happy when i was running 120km a week now i have cut back to 80-90 it hates me

X has a problem with foreign accounts profiting specifically on right wing extremism because it’s really hard to rage bait someone with “everyone should have access to affordable healthcare”

NOS plaatst vanaf vandaag geen nieuwsberichten meer op X - Over NOS De NOS en Nieuwsuur (NOS/NTR) zijn gestopt met posten op X. Het platform past niet meer bij onze visie op...

As of today, NOS will no longer post news items on X
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11... some of these councils where have to relatively recently if I recall correctly. The impact on people when their council is compromised is significant especially to those that depend upon their council for basic social services.

They should invent a slice of pizza that's 100% pineapple 🍍

narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

The state of political discourse on X. A picture is worth a thousand words.

ShinyHunters 'does not like Salesforce at all' EXCLUSIVE: Shiny talks to The Reg

www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/s... Salesforce have a serious issue with 3rd party hacks - I wonder if the problem is always been there but it just now catching up with them? Complexity is the enemy - make something too simple and users don't understand what what the risk is

Absolutely true, the ERP space is an absolute nightmare to patch and maintain. People often forget when they are putting their money down how much the servicing costs. I really think that the gartners of the world need to have a category for how easy it is to manage maintain and update

Now also on my personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/11/trum...

Although oracle did say if you had applied in July critical patch update you would not be vulnerable... Something that later turned out to be not true. My point was really around just how much effort it is to patch oracle instances. It isn't the same as patching Microsoft windows applications

When I hear people say "just apply the patches" if it's pertaining to oracle you know that they just don't understand the reality

It can take even an organisation with huge amounts of resources months of planning to apply one CPU in its entirety across a whole different set of e-business suite..

There's something that people just don't understand which is how God awfully difficult it is to patch oracle instances. They really need to make it easier to apply patches. In fact if there's one thing they could do to improve their security it would be to make it easier to apply the security fixes

Oracle Allegedly Breached by Clop Ransomware via E-Business Suite 0-Day Hack The notorious Clop ransomware gang has listed Oracle on its dark web leak site, alleging a successful breach of the tech giant's internal systems.

cybersecuritynews.com/oracle-breac... so if oracle themselves have been hit by the same ransomware and their own corporate data has been stolen you would have to have a scent of humor failure not to laugh like a drain.... If something comes out of this whole attack I hope oracle make patching easier

Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit

Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator

Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit

A new post by me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-th...

New Sunderland-made Nissan LEAF qualifies for £3,750 discount under government’s EV grant in a boost for North East manufacturing Vs Rachel Reeves to curb high-end bike purchases in Cycle to Work scheme

Compare and contrast the Government language.

£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.

Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.

And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

Screenshot of a report on the BBC News website (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0y07959djo) original headline reads: Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance I have scrubbed out the word Trans The headline is above an image of a sign for toilets from Getty images The BBC staff are: Alison Holt Social affairs editor @AlisonHoltBBC Ewan Somerville Kate Whannel Political reporter

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

Today's news about a Russian money laundering network mentions Evil Corp. "Operation Destabilise began by tracking the activity of the ransomware group Evil Corp, but ended up uncovering "eye-watering scales" of money-laundering". As we say in our podcast series: the tentacles spread far and wide

Teenage knife deaths 11 year low in London

I'm sure the Londinistan guys will be delighted to read this... really good news... they'll be talking about something else altogether now... sure of it... because they were genuinely concerned weren't they

although this one is probably my favourite

if we are talking about terrible marathon photos that you paid for can i present

we are guilty of this - no one in the house likes turkey so we do beef ( which everyone likes) - does anyone actually like roast turkey ?

Snowing in London ! It's just also been raining for the last day or so so it's not settling but there's definitely snow in this rain

Gentle spin