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When the president is the ultimate insider-threat.

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

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Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything. "Are you feeling all right?" I asked her. "I feel all sleepy," she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

By Roald Dahl, about his daughter Olivia

Computer Tip: Opening the command prompt & typing 'run DMC' causes the PC to play a tune.

Why? Because...

I.T.'s like that. And that's the way I.T. is.

installed the feed that lets me read every bluesky post in alphabetical order. lot of screaming thus far

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Look at those violent thugs!!!

The accountants at HQ insisted that we must also send our deliverables (software and documentation) to them. For years they never checked them; I know this because they were encrypted, and we never sent them the key.

Worth 30 seconds of your time

GitHub Copilot Chat Flaw Leaked Data From Private Repositories A vulnerability in the GitHub Copilot Chat AI assistant led to sensitive data leakage and full control over Copilot’s responses.

The finding by Omer Mayraz regarding GitHub Copilot data exfiltration demonstrates why the AI revolution have shifted the balance of power from the cyber defender to the attacker. These systems have a stochastic nature, making attacking, easier than defending. www.securityweek.com/github-copil...

Genuinely thought this was nice until I got to the photo

Whyyyyyyyy is this a thing

‘Hitachi 3.5” floppy’

Maybe the 4000 figure includes his prediction about how many murders will be conducted by ICE agents, National Guard, and riot police, under federal directives.

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

they got me to do a welsh trump

Back in federal judge Sara Ellis' courtroom in Chicago for a second day of discussion on a proposed restraining order to rein in federal immigration agents' violent behavior.

Debate began on this issue on Monday, and ended without the court entering a formal order.

Liquor store clerk: I’m gonna need to see some age verification

Me: Prior to V.90 there were two incompatible standards for 56K modems. USRobotics pushed their own “X2”, while Lucent and Rockwell pushed the confusingly named “KFlex”

Liquor store clerk: enjoy your purchase.

The Oracle zero-day... kek

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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

If I were a rich Russian, I’d buy a bungalow.

Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account Microsoft is disabling the best local account workarounds

I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: www.theverge.com/news/793579/...

Did they hear about the Discord data hack?

Rewatching Hot Fuzz (2007) & only just noticed the evil residents’ committee’s motto is Make Sandford Great Again

Cody Dahler nailing it over on tiktok

Reminder to all those sales and marketing departments using Cybersecurity Awareness Month to peddle their wares: Cybersecurity is a single word, which is important if you also use acronyms.

Maybe, but that would be the workshop that took ~2 weeks to even power the car back up again once they received it.

It cost them £2.5k in the end; I’d paid the deposit on a credit card, so I got the credit card company to reverse the transaction. Took 45 working days to become permanent but was uncontested.