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Chris Boyd

@paperghost.bsky.social

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Award winning security researcher | 7 time Microsoft MVP | Google Hall of Fame | Music and video | UK Immigration (family reunion) https://soundcloud.com/umawing

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 22d

i spent way too long drawing this and i'd do it again

the "i think we're gonna have to kill this guy steven" panel where steven universe meets hitler, except it's a drawing of wonder woman saying it to captain america who says "damn"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 59m

yeah did we really just watch 3 seasons and get dragged away from the leads to hear some chatgpt style "hello i would like a tap beer, on tap, also twenty nine cups of water"?? god it's so irritating

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1h

you know at the end of ghostbusters when louis tully says "i wanna go with those guys", and he gets bundled into the ambulance instead? this kind of ending is the loius tully ending. you're in the ambulance and it sucks

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 1h

alice in borderland spoilers: netflix really needs to not keep ending shows of 2/3 seasons with cutaways to 5 minutes of bad western acting with the express intention of setting up a US spin-off. it soured the ending of a certain other show, and it is beyond groan worthy to see it done here too

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 4h

We've found the only online xl bully

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 5h

also bonus laughter for the "scrambling" bit

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 5h

I showed her this and she couldn't stop laughing

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 6h

oh my *god* lmao

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 7h

I just decided if the rest of the police department ever looked into Columbo’s personnel files, it would be an empty folder and no one will actually remember when he he actually joined the force.

Kay Profundo @unicornosis.bsky.social · Feb 18

An idea came to me in a dream that Columbo is not so much a cop as he is a ronin*

*masterless samurai

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 7h

i'm seein' double here. four jovis

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 7h

tbh i'm just glad she didn't swing the chair round and knock me out with the backrest because hoo boy there was not a lot of floorspace involved

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 7h

the background: she asked me to surprise her so i posted the tweet, waited for her to see it, and when she turned round i was down on one knee behind her holding the ring. the timing to make sure it all came together (esp with our flaky manila internet) was quite the challenge

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 7h

me: we first met on here, so... *deep breath* will you marry me?
jovi: oh god you took me by surprise. of course, YES! :D

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 8h

midnight was very bad for this, esp as the blink and you'll miss it save icon was easy to..er..miss. at the end of a session i had no idea at all when the last save was, so i'd just run in circles or whatever till i saw it pop. it's bafflingly inefficient

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 9h

the funniest part of hearing blackpink's "jump" was thinking "this sounds like an upside down version of spice up your life with the bass turned up", and then the next verse included the words "spice up your life"

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 9h

oh, while i'm thinking of it: younger people tend to be on social media in places where follow up scams exist to offer to get their money back (and then they're ripped off a second time). super common on twitter, instagram etc

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 9h

iirc a few studies have mentioned that older people are more fearful, which may also explain why they get hit by fewer attacks overall as opposed to younger people feeling invincible and then doing something very stupid

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

used to be the case (old = pensions, savings, physical investments etc) but now you're as likely to run into some kid with like eleven billion cyber coins or whatever (and i'd say many of those younger losses are comparable, if not bigger. every day is "i just lost £40k bitcoin before breakfast")

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

and tbh you can barely swing a cat for people in the 20 to 40ish range having their brains turned to soup by mis/disinformation and the stupidest get rich quick schemes you've ever seen. maybe we should also focus on these things too instead of "save granny"

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

pretty much every study sourced from businesses to governments show that genz/millennials/genx fall for scams relentlessly, but over 60s lose more money from fewer attacks. every other post saying "i just lost all my money" on help forums is some guy in his 20s or 30s. we're way past "save granny"

The Register @theregister.com · 11h

As real life banks close, network operator starts a Scam School to stop Granny getting mugged online

Broadband biz teams up with Good Things Foundation to teach the digitally doddery how to dodge fraud UK network Virgin Media O2 is taking steps to combat fraud with a nationwide education scheme that aims to help vulnerable people and older folk avoid becoming victims.…

dlvr.it

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

does it impact that too? what value is there paying NI? do we need to change lots of sort of but not quite related residency rules for tax, lots of other stuff? has this guy even considered any of this? of course not. the magnitude of messing to do any of this, and for what besides nothing at all

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

imagine taking 5 to 10 years minimum to become british while paying sky high fees and then finding out it's 15 to 20 in total before you can be...what...a small chunk of benefits, often with a time cap on them? how does this work for pensions, seeing as you need to be here 10 years before eligible?

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

one of those old timey snub type things on the inside of the door which occasionally trips if it bangs shut due to gusts of wind. thankfully there's a little emergency release thing on the outside but replacing that mare of a door is on the to-do list

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

if the non emergency turns into an emergency, does the non eu spouse just die then? do you think that's stupid, because i do

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10h

"Recourse to public funds, including housing, welfare, and non-emergency medical treatment, should be limited to UK and settled EU citizens" so you're saying someone who's british with a non eu spouse with permanent residency can't go to the NHS for treatment? despite paying tax/NI and surcharges?

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 11h

when i recently landed in the UK and turned off airplane mode my wife told me the dog locked himself in the bathroom

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 16h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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