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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 11h

Is anyone going to ekoparty?

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · 2d

I have a spare hexacon ticket if anyone wants it

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DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · 18d

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DistrictCon Year 1: Call for Sessions

Empowering Hackers Across Industries to do Cool Shit. DistrictCon is a DC hacker con, focusing on hacking together and exchanging ideas over typical t...

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Aug 8

Woke up today and chose violence. SMASHED my 5k PB by 28s. New score 18:17!!

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Jul 26

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!

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · May 12

Survivor Island - Vigilant style!

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Apr 5

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

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Mar 5

Totally patted an alligator

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Feb 21

lol. Halvar's final slide

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Feb 21

DistrictCon kicking off with opening remarks from @winnona.bsky.social

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Feb 5

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

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Feb 5

Happy birthday @runasand.bsky.social !

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Jan 31

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.

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Jan 26

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!

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DistrictCon @districtcon.bsky.social · Jan 21

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

Agenda — DistrictCon

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Jan 20

DOGE off to a strong start improving govt efficiency. Already fired half of their own management staff. Lead by example eh

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Mark Dowd @mdowd.bsky.social · Dec 29

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"