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Posts by Alec The Geek

old tweet: Every year, Putting Away the Christmas Decorations Ken makes a series of decisions designed to infuriate Unpacking the Christmas Decorations Ken the following year. It’s a magical holiday tradition.

old tweet: Every year, Putting Away the Christmas Decorations Ken makes a series of decisions designed to infuriate Unpacking the Christmas Decorations Ken the following year. It’s a magical holiday tradition.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

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Tis the Season To Be Careful! Of course we should always be careful online, but at Christmas time there can be even more opportunities for cyber risk!

Just posted my fortnightly #CyberSecurity newsletter.

As it's December this one is about avoiding Christmas scams

alecthegeek.substack.com/p/tis-the-se...

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I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud
I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud YouTube video by Level 2 Jeff

Hey Designers of Consumer Products,

Stop making our domestic equipement cloud 1st and unusable without your (crappy) cloud service.


youtu.be/5M_hmwBBPnc...

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I may have given a workshop this morning on the #ValeTextLinter...

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welcome, TikTok refugees! we are basically nothing like TikTok whatsoever here but we’re an excellent place to complain about it

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PS -- Should be a current release. The examples have been tested with Vale 3.9

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A postcard for Vale Text Linter workshop at Everything Open. Details provided by the link in post

A postcard for Vale Text Linter workshop at Everything Open. Details provided by the link in post

I you plan to attend my workshop on the #ValeTextLinter at #EverythingOpen 2025 please make sure you have Vale installed, Git would be very useful as well.

2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/pre...

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I just got a notice from #Woolworths Supermarket (Technically Everyday Rewards) that everyone is being forced to downgrade to SMS based 2FA.

How is this a good idea?

#security

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I should add this word to my profile....

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Absolutely no modern day parallel to this.

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Happy Newtonmas day to everyone for tomorrow.

(that is the 25/Dec/1642 in the Julian calendar).

May gravity always suck!

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Everything Open 2025 program is now published.

Workshop “It's Proxies All The Way Down: Envoy/xDS 101” by Jacob Taylor

Everything Open 2025 program is now published. Workshop “It's Proxies All The Way Down: Envoy/xDS 101” by Jacob Taylor

Everything Open 2025 program is now published.

Workshop “It's Proxies All The Way Down: Envoy/xDS 101” by Jacob Taylor

Program: 2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/
Tickets: 2025.everythingopen.au/attend/ticke...

#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource

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Everything Open 2025 program is now published.

Presentation “Navigating the AI Frontier: Secure Adoption of LLMs in FinTec” by Rob Kenefeck

Program: https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/
Tickets: https://2025.everythingopen.au/attend/tickets/

#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource

Everything Open 2025 program is now published. Presentation “Navigating the AI Frontier: Secure Adoption of LLMs in FinTec” by Rob Kenefeck Program: https://2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/ Tickets: https://2025.everythingopen.au/attend/tickets/ #EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource

Everything Open 2025 program is now published.

Presentation “Navigating the AI Frontier: Secure Adoption of LLMs in FinTec” by Rob Kenefeck

Program: 2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/
Tickets: 2025.everythingopen.au/attend/ticke...

#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource

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Is it me, or are more and more browser based sites becoming unusable to force people to use the shitty mobile apps?

This is an #Accessibility issue IHMO, besides being bloody inconvenient!

#Enshitification

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Well it appears I am doing a think in Adelaide next month. I guess that's my Boxing day taken care of...

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For Christmas I would like more ticket sales for @everythingopen.au.... are you joining us?

#OpenSource #EverythingOpen #EO2025

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The amazing Steph Piper will be keynoting our conference. This brings me joy!

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Dear Bluesky,

Can anyone offer an opinion on #PowerShell vs #NUShell. Specifically on a POSIX style system?

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So now I'm getting shitty accounts following me. Not really interested in adult content or scammy looking "political" content TBH. Please fuck off!

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Related to my recent post, my local creative writing group have asked for a tutorial on regex because it's a feature in @scrivenerapp.bsky.social

I'm the only geek in the group, so this could be a challenge...

Anyone have resources on #regex for normal people?

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Is it a feature of #BlueSky that you can't edit posts to fix the typos?

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Reading the #Scrivener user manual (I was asked about regex support). Very suprised at the quality of #TechnicalWriting for a writing tool.

Anyone who "aforementioned" in a user manual should be taken behind the barn and given a jolly good talking to!

Also terms are not defined! #WriteTheDocs

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The Australian social media limits for under-16s
The Australian social media limits for under-16s YouTube video by Constitutional Clarion

It looks like Australia may be getting a social media for people under 16 next year.

It looks very problematic for a variety of reasons. See

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

and

youtu.be/moiV8aDWC_o...

for why.

IMHO Problems with social media need fixing, but this approach is doomed

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Hugo Shortcodes ($3682532) · Snippets · GitLab GitLab.com

As a follow up, I also made some notes on other handy #Hugo shortcodes.

gitlab.com/-/snippets/3...

PS: Is it me or does Hugo feel hard to use? (I do appreciate the power and speed though)

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