It's World Backup Day 🗂️
Phone in the canal — what would you lose?
Short, no-jargon guide covering photos, iCloud, and Time Machine.
One more layer than you have today. Pass it on.
👉 jonathanstrong.org/posts/world-backup-day/
#WorldBackupDay #Backups #Privacy #CyberSecurity
I’ve had a lot of love for Trivy over the years.
I’ve used it both locally and in CI pipelines via @github.com Actions.
Given last week’s supply chain incident, I wanted to share my own experience — and a lot of it applies to any GitHub Action, not just Trivy.
jonathanstrong.org/posts/trivy-...
The signal has been confirmed.
📡 0121 (13:21)
🎟 BSides Birmingham tickets are now live.
Grab yours before they disappear - bit.ly/3NbjxPN
#BSides #BSidesBirmingham
🚨Brum 2600 delayed a week🚨
For anyone expecting to meet up tomorrow, we decided to move it back a week given it is the day after New Year’s Day.
So next Brum 2600 meetup is Friday 9th January 2026
@2600brumbtek.bsky.social
@2600meetings.bsky.social
This Friday!
It's 2600 time!!
👾 Birmingham 2600 Meetup
📍 The Wellington, Bennetts Hill
🗓️ First Friday of every month
🕡 6:30PM
🍻 Hackers, devs, students, curious minds welcome
No agenda—just great convo, pub vibes, & tech talk
🔗 5 min walk from New St
📲 @2600brumbtek.bsky.social
💻 #2600Meetup
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢
It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐
Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let...
Site: www.hacklore.org
Hello!
Another update for the October 2600 meeting
We have a guest speaker!!
Their name: Andrea J.
Title - “threat modelling”
#infosec #cybersecurity #IT #threatmodling #twentysixhundred
This Friday!
It's 2600 time!!
👾 Birmingham 2600 Meetup
📍 The Wellington, Bennetts Hill
🗓️ First Friday of every month
🕡 6:30PM
🍻 Hackers, devs, students, curious minds welcome
No agenda—just great convo, pub vibes, & tech talk
🔗 5 min walk from New St
📲 @2600brumbtek.bsky.social
💻 #2600Meetup
Hello 👋
It's that time again!, if you want to host a talk at the next Brum2600 meeting please submit ideas to me and I will ensure the conference room is booked out.
Please scan the QR to join the discord!
Next meeting time is Oct 4th @ 6:30pm
The location is The Wellington Bennetts Hill
This Friday!
It's 2600 time!!
👾 Birmingham 2600 Meetup
📍 The Wellington, Bennetts Hill
🗓️ First Friday of every month
🕡 6:30PM
🍻 Hackers, devs, students, curious minds welcome
No agenda—just great convo, pub vibes, & tech talk
🔗 5 min walk from New St
📲 @2600brumbtek.bsky.social
💻 #2600Meetup
A litle bit later than planned, but our tenth birthday video playlist is finally available.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Thanks to @ministraitor.bsky.social for all his hard work in getting them online.
Who else has got a ticket and is coming?
Who wants to come and still needs a ticket?
ChatGPT response not counting the right number of r
ChatGPT5 is doing well
This evening in Brum #2600Meetings or find your local one at www.2600.com/meetings and @2600meetings.bsky.social
If anyone is around in Brum Friday evening, pop along.
The petition to repeal the #onlinesafetyact has now passed 310,000 signatures, making it the third largest petition so far this Parliament.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=all
ChatGPT screenshot
Taking over the world one word at a time 😀
I asked it to check it and it gave the right answer. Then asked why it got the first wrong…
“It is a good reminder that even simple questions deserve careful attention”
Congrats! Sounds like relaxing and taking the pressure off helped. But also getting quicker. Keep chipping away at those last 40 minutes.
It’s just done on geolocation of IP by the looks of it.
Might just vpn from anywhere other than the UK occasionally for DMs.
Don’t really DM on here though thankfully.
Screenshot showing logo and Windows 10 One product family. One platform. One store
And the world got the last version of Windows…
Run your own email server?
Or at least configure your own email domain?
SPF, DKIM and DMARC are all worth setting up. Here is a fab site that tests your settings and walks you through it. www.learndmarc.com
Thanks to @freddieleeman.bsky.social
Got tech friends? Or at least friends? Share the latest episode with them! 🤖 The future’s not so bright and we’re breaking it down. 📱💡 Let’s spread the knowledge! #TechPodcast #ShareTheLove EP 705: Vibe Defunding gog.show/705 #podcast
I bet your setup is pretty resilient anyway. But is it a real LAN party if they don’t have to run their own 10BASE2 and hope someone can find the cap that terminated it? 😂
Do you have a date for the hearing yet?
Make our voice heard at the Apple encryption hearing!
On the sly, the UK government tried to force a backdoor into the firewall that protects your privacy. We made the hearing public.
Now we need to win ✊
Donate now to fund legal representation ⬇️
#e2ee
action.openrightsgroup.org/make-our-voi...
While you are sat with your feet up recovering, why not add you photos to this year's album to help us all remember the wild and wacky stuff that went on:
photos.app.goo.gl/ucd7XPVSFc4s...
Thanks it looks really good! Great job catching typo squaring when not the full name is used.
