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Kawaiicon 4: October 30-31, 2026

let the magical con ritual begin!

Looking forward to @baaconnz.bsky.social in December. NZ's latest hacker on/hackercamp.

There will be sheep.

Defying Gravity: The Audio Wizardry of Wicked's Live Vocals — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. In movie musicals, the vocals are almost never recorded live on-set. Instead, the actors pre-record their songs, then lip sync to those recordings while filming. But on Wicked, they threw out th...

I found micing speakers at @kawaiicon.bsky.social stressful enough. This podcast talks to the sound engineers who did the Wicked movie & how they tried to get all the songs recorded live so sounded more realistic. cool problems to deal with.

Was an interesting listen www.20k.org/episodes/wic...

Sign saying closed to public. Private function hackers only

Well that is a wrap on @kawaiicon.bsky.social for 2025.

Thanks to all the crüe for all your work along with all the support from the vols. Cheers to the speakers for all content. Hope my part getting you all on stage helped :)

And to the hacker community for turning up.

Also the Malthouse has moved to Willis St you won't find it on Courtney Place anymore

Random thought. For the Aussies coming to @kawaiicon.bsky.social fireworks are on sale until the 5th. So you can get your fix of contraband you can't get in Aussie 🤣

Please be careful no videos like Kiwicon 5 🤣

Waiting for a bigger crowd strike outage so we can forget about the Azure outage.

Health Minister: I would like to find a way forward to stop the strikes.

Well big idea pay them what they are worth?

Or he working on the PM's quote "go where the jobs are" keep the offers crap & get them to move the better jobs in Aussie.

So want to troll spammers at some times. You say you have sold software testing to businesses like mine. What cons are needing software testing services?

You are writing to a conference. Why does a conference need software testing services?

Can spammers please check their LinkedIn scraped mail mergers. Please don't send to my current business email about previous things I have been involved with.

A Tuatara by its burrow

A Toutouwai on the ground

A pair of Pūtangitangi eating grass

A Tūī in a tree

Hey, so it is a month until Kākācon. It will be great to see people there the day before @kawaiicon.bsky.social Thu 6 Nov at 1345 at Zealandia. 

There are no schedules just a great opportunity for hallwaycon chats outside while having a walk & seeing some birds.

Details: www.xn--kkcon-fwab.nz

It was great speaking at @bsidescbr.bsky.social the other day. For those who are interested I have put my slides up. If anyone has any comments or questions happy to chat.

www.karit.nz/assets/slide...

Never tried that version of the Tim Tam Slam

I would like to have a word to whoever invented "let's put this in a safe place so you can find it quickly later when you need it".

Where do I get a credit for an hour of my life?

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We can't run Kawaiicon alone. We depend on a boost from our amazing team of volunteers to make it a success!

Our Call for Volunteers is now open: kawaiicon.org/cfv/

Even if you just have a few hours to spare, we would love the help!

Plus not having to squish it all onto the arrival card where the box is far too small.

Run away on a plane somewhere.

Create some new VLANs and firewall rules for home network.

Watch some 90 day train wrecks

Crab loading 🤣

Also misses the bit that the US is making a big change where status quo across the world is that customs agency requests money from the recipient on arrival. Now US changing to model where only land stuff where paper shows duties & traffifs prepaid. majority of postal orgs arent set up for this

Hills Hats?

Do I stay in CHC the Sat after CHCon for Full Metal Orchestra?

Didn't know G&M were sponsoring 😭🤣

@sarahyo.com

Why does every OS put the clock in a different place. On any day I use:
Android top left
Ubuntu top centre
Mac Top Right
Win bottom left.

Always looking in the wrong place for the time.

Mental Health and Certificates in Infosec Background Discussion of mental health and burnout in the InfoSec community is a common topic across many mediums. This is something that many people say we as a community need to work on and improve....

Wrote a blog.
Are Infosec Certificates healthy?

blah.karit.nz/2025/08/17/m...

Use more malware techniques? They seem to install no issues 😂

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The highly anticipated ticket update: kawaiicon.org/news/

tl;dr Ticket wave 1 is opening tomorrow @ 10AM NZ, and lots of other very good, very kawaii details in the latest news post! Go digest, and see you tomorrow!

Kākācon is a fun opportunity to see some of your favourite birds from Aotearoa, have a lovely walk, alongside some great hacker friends. You can have your great hallwaycon conversations without the distractions that are common in bars.

It is happening Thursday, 6 November at 13:45 at Zealandia.

With all the airlines banning the use or charging of battery banks on planes. Can we look at making something like an NCAP Safety rating for battery banks? So people know what they are buying?

I buy more expensive brand names hoping for better safety features as they don't want reputation damage.

It will be great to see you there. There are great talks on the schedule

Looking forward to the aviation talks at @crikeycon.bsky.social . @sarahyo.com always has fun content.