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Bitquark

@bitquark.io

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🥷 British hacker and coder 🎩 Black Hat EU review board 🚘 Ex-T⋆sla security engineering ✨ Space and language nerd 🐈 Neurodivergent. Poly. He/him. 🛠️ https://github.com/bitquark

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 6h

Does anyone have any resources for #accessibility around classroom language listening activities for hearing impaired students?. Pls don’t suggest anything gen ai lol

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 9h

Just did a 5 mile run on a trail I often use and beat my 1 mi and 1 km times without really pushing. I can definitely feel my speed increasing naturally as I run more, it's kinda fun :D

Bitquark @bitquark.io · 13h

Don't let him out!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22h

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 1d

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

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1d

BBC Model Linear B

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

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 2d

Robot mower down 🥲

A rubber track from a robot lawnmower wheel laying on the grass, tragically broken in half

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Germany has agreed to stop ChatControl for now, due to huge amounts of public pressure. Good job! The bad news is that it could come back as soon as December, and the German government has interpreted the feedback as a need to “moderate” the proposal.

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 2d

How ridiculous.

Bitquark @bitquark.io · 3d

And it won't be the last time this happens.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks. Some users’ names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord’s customer service agents may also have been taken. The attacker has been trying to extort a ransom from the company. No full credit card details or passwords were seized. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 7d

Well I just knocked another 6 minutes off of my last 10k time. Felt pretty good, too! Winning 💪

Bitquark @bitquark.io · 21d

Just did a 10k run and knocked nearly 12 minutes from my last 10k time. I wasn't going for speed, looks like there's something to be said for pacing yourself! #running

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 12d

Everything old is new again.

jstnkndy @jstnkndy.bsky.social · 12d

I'm at the point where I've seen first hand production platforms running AI generated code and have found critical vulnerabilities in those platforms. We're getting to the point where the number of emojis in the code will be telling of the number of bugs.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 13d

An unusual item in my collection, Mister Black’s Secret by Catherine Barr. At first it seems like an early example of cheezburger speech but it was actually written in a shortlived teaching alphabet called ITA.

Page from a children’s book. There is an illustration of a black cat peeling around a piece of wood. Text reads “Mister black, the cat, peered around the corner. On the porch a stranger was eating the food put there for mister black by his family.” but the spellings are sometimes phonetic and use strange characters other than those of the standard Latin alphabet.

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 16d

Awesome, congrats! I was there last month and really enjoyed the place and the people (and the food!), I'm sure you'll love it! 🥳

Bitquark @bitquark.io · 21d

I had one of these! With different branding, but most definitely the same device. I've probably got it around somewhere still, great little thing.

Bitquark @bitquark.io · 21d

Just did a 10k run and knocked nearly 12 minutes from my last 10k time. I wasn't going for speed, looks like there's something to be said for pacing yourself! #running

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 26d

Two more weeks until cybersecurity awareness month

Prepare to be aware!

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 29d

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 29d

Wordle 1,547 2/6

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Well that was unexpected! #wordle

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · 29d

Tag yourself. I'm fish 2.

GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 29d

CLIP_ART/CLIP22.GIF

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · Sep 9

Looking forward to @sec-t.bsky.social this week in Stockholm! Got a preview of the venue today and it looks pretty special ✨

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · Sep 4

Talks from the SteelCon 2025 security conference, which took place in July, are now available on YouTube

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

SteelCon 2025 - YouTube

All the recordings of the 2025 edition of SteelCon

www.youtube.com

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Bitquark @bitquark.io · Aug 23

Oh no

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Aug 21

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

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💀 realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · Aug 21

If an adult uses a VPN to avoid age verification who does that hurt? None of this makes any sense.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · Aug 21

UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.

"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."

- UK government

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