misterpurple
@misterpurple.bsky.social
cyber mischief warrior. black humour, grey beard, white hat.
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Frogger should be up there with Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and all the great pioneering classics of the video games age. But it rarely is.
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Frogger should be up there with Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and all the great pioneering classics of the video games age. But it rarely is.
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Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
I'm a lone voice about this at work, so it's nice to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this.
Currently, everything indicates that during our lifetime, quantum computers will never break the encryption systems in use.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I'm a lone voice about this at work, so it's nice to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this.
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Modest proposal to improve the running of His Majesty's Treasury: every time someone says they know a way to raise a few hundred million without anyone noticing, we throw them out of a window.
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Modest proposal to improve the running of His Majesty's Treasury: every time someone says they know a way to raise a few hundred million without anyone noticing, we throw them out of a window.
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But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
But he was SO FUNNY on Have I Got News For You.
This can't come soon enough.
Removal of cookie banners is to result in BILLIONS OF EUROS savings.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This can't come soon enough.
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The best ideas are usually stolen and then perfected.
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
It does seem bizarre that once upon a time you got free wine glasses when buying petrol in the UK.
Nov 1985: Lead Crystal Decanter ad from Shell
(+Wine Glasses)
«"The free Shell wine glasses and decanter M'lud."»
(+Wine Glasses)
«"The free Shell wine glasses and decanter M'lud."»
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It does seem bizarre that once upon a time you got free wine glasses when buying petrol in the UK.
Pluribus is excellent and captures the zeitgeist perfectly.
I AM CAROL.
I AM CAROL.
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Pluribus is excellent and captures the zeitgeist perfectly.
I AM CAROL.
I AM CAROL.
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Some bitter out of work DBA wrote this.
By the time they leave primary school, every child should know how to create, query, and update a simple SQL database. They should build on this in secondary school. In 20 years time, spreadsheets will only be for shopping lists, which is as it should be.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Some bitter out of work DBA wrote this.
Seems completely legit.
UK military top brass mix with defence executives at luxury Alpine event on.ft.com/43jIcqa
UK military top brass mix with defence executives at luxury Alpine event
Details of armed forces and industry attendees at Méribel competition raise concerns about conflicts of interest
on.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Seems completely legit.
The most important things to think about in cyber.
OWASP Top 10 2025 is going live now at owasp.org/Top10/
New is:
A03:2025 Software Supply Chain Failures
and…
A10:2025 Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
The last one based on assessments done with OWASP SAMM core team members. I can take no credit here whatsoever. Congratulations!
New is:
A03:2025 Software Supply Chain Failures
and…
A10:2025 Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
The last one based on assessments done with OWASP SAMM core team members. I can take no credit here whatsoever. Congratulations!
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The most important things to think about in cyber.
Electricity and clean water should be free. We have the ability to generate lots of both, if we cared enough. Imagine!
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Electricity and clean water should be free. We have the ability to generate lots of both, if we cared enough. Imagine!
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Road pricing is so easy. We already take mileage at every MOT. Don't overthink it/
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Road pricing is so easy. We already take mileage at every MOT. Don't overthink it/
If only we had, like, some annual test of the roadworthiness and safety of a car, that also recorded the mileage it had done. Wouldn't need any blackboxes at all.
Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.
Year one: "We can work it out as an estimate"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
Year two: "Oh, look, lots of people are dodging the system!"
Year three: "We need to fit mandatory trackers to every car in the country."
Year four plus: "Why shouldn't tracker data be used in evidence? What have people got to hide?"
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If only we had, like, some annual test of the roadworthiness and safety of a car, that also recorded the mileage it had done. Wouldn't need any blackboxes at all.
It's like one of those shitty WORLDS BEST DAD mugs.
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It's like one of those shitty WORLDS BEST DAD mugs.
Fucks sake.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Fucks sake.
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Some divorced Staten Island dad is googling sharia law rn
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Some divorced Staten Island dad is googling sharia law rn
Maybe, just maybe, the tidal wave of filth can be held back. Good job New York.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Maybe, just maybe, the tidal wave of filth can be held back. Good job New York.
Given the massive daily price scraping machine Amazon run, this is some brass balls right here.
Amazon won't allow agents on its site that don't identify themselves as such. Perplexity is not pleased.
Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing | TechCrunch
Amazon won't allow agents on its site that don't identify themselves as such. Perplexity is not pleased.
techcrunch.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Given the massive daily price scraping machine Amazon run, this is some brass balls right here.
This is excellent work. MIT should be fucking ashamed.
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is excellent work. MIT should be fucking ashamed.
Excellent.
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Excellent.
Amazon will be outraged by this picture. Their cabling is way tidier than that.
OpenAI isn't done securing the AI infrastructure it needs to rapidly scale agentic workloads. The ChatGPT-maker on Monday said it has reached a deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion in cloud computing services over the next seven years.
OpenAI and Amazon ink $38B cloud computing deal | TechCrunch
OpenAI isn't done securing the AI infrastructure it needs to rapidly scale agentic workloads. The ChatGPT-maker on Monday said it has reached a deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion in cloud computing services over the next seven years.
techcrunch.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Amazon will be outraged by this picture. Their cabling is way tidier than that.