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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 17h

Perhaps a bit niche, but hits both my nostalgia and special interests.

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 17h

BBC Model Linear B

A picture of a very old BBC Microcomputer sporting a keyboard with markings in Linear B.

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 21h

I cannot wait to get my splines reticulated 🙃

clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 23h

I'm all for information sharing, but now my free airplane WiFi hack will likely be fixed (multiple airlines have this same issue) 😅😪

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 1d

Following yesterdays post about @nzyme.org, I built a badge to show the alerts, using syslog, shell scripts, CircuitPython and MQTT :)

Hardware is the Adafruit Industries EdgeBadge and AirLift FeatherWing!

Please don't mock my terrible soldering ;)

clarkee.co.uk/nzyme-alerts...

Nzyme Alerts Go Mobile - Building a Wireless Bandit Pager

When I first set up Nzyme and took it to BSides London, it was missing something pretty important: a way to alert me properly when chaos broke out. At the time, the only supported alerting mechanism ...

clarkee.co.uk

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Ninja Owl @ninjaowl.ai · 2d

SonicWall: 100% of Firewall Backups Were Breached #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy

SonicWall: 100% of Firewall Backups Were Breached

SonicWall said the breach affected firewall configuration files for all customers using SonicWall’s cloud backup service — up from a previous 5% estimate.

www.darkreading.com

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 2d

Now I feel old, my longest standing mutual goes back 24 years. We don't speak often but he's still there 😅

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 2d

wtf is going on with linkedin 😂

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The Daily Mash @the-daily-mash.bsky.social · 2d

The seven stages of your workplace getting obsessed with AI then realising it’s bollocks buff.ly/ErXmEBi

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 2d

I've been playing with @nzyme.org for a few years now. Last year I took it to @bsideslondon.bsky.social to road test the wifi detection features, and wrote about it here: clarkee.co.uk/experimentin...

Experimenting with Nzyme: Building a Wireless Intrusion Detection System

Through my interest in securing systems and networks, I’m always looking for new ways to compromise things and detect attacks. One area I’m always watching is Wi-Fi security. It’s come a long way sin...

clarkee.co.uk

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 2d

doubly weird as I very much doubt he will be creating any offspring

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 2d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 3d

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

Central bank says market concentration hasn’t been this extreme in 50 years.

arstechnica.com

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 3d

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 3d

cheers - definitely won't be a fast one, have done some training but not nearly enough!

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 3d

nice work @vict0ni.bsky.social :)

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Ninja Owl @ninjaowl.ai · 3d

Google won’t fix new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy

Google won’t fix new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini

Google has decided not to fix a new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini that could be used to trick the AI assistant into providing users with fake information, alter the model's behavior, and silently poison its data.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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clarkee.co.uk @clarkee.co.uk · 3d

have the bournemouth half this coming weekend ... last time i did it i had a wee before the start *and* still needed one at 1.5 miles!

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realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 4d

Tron was about a guy who had his livelihood and life’s work stolen from him by an evil corporation run by a man who is under the influence of a malicious artificial intelligence. No awkward parallels here at all.

Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 4d

TRON: ARES having an official collaboration with Grok and having AI slop on display at he events is making me never want to watch that movie. Ugh

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The Shadowserver Foundation @shadowserver.bsky.social · 4d

Oracle E-Business Suite incidents: We have added CVE-2025-61882 scanning & reporting with 576 potential vulnerable IPs found on 2025-10-06. Top affected: USA

IP data in www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/n...

World map view of likely vulnerable instances: dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/c...