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• 45+ years of computing • Founder #LinuxingInLondon Britain's largest free educational & inclusive Linux group • Wikipedian • #Linux desktop specialist • I code, give talks and do training too! • IT Manager, I talk Mainframes

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Good @flutter.dev and FFI talk, thank you very much to Morgan McKenzie, essentially interfacing foreign languages, etc to Dart.
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Over at @flutterldn.dev for some interesting talks
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Good talk about AI slop at #Londroid
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Over at #zopa bank for Londroid tonight
A man by a lectern and screen.
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Afternoon from the #AWS summit 2026 London 😃
Inside of Excel London, people standing around chatting.
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
George introduces Matt Meades talking about the Tewke Tap at @flutterldn.dev mentions yocto #RaspberryPi and embedding hardware, even SystemD 😀
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Raouf Rahiche talking Flutter CI at @flutterldn.dev
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Over at Pod Point for @flutterldn.dev tonight #flutterdev
Three men in front a presentation screen.
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ben Guerin talking on : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Claude Code Write the Python, at @pydatalondon.bsky.social Very lively talk, mentions pubs a lot!
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The Register @theregister.com · 07/04/2026
Attackers exploited this critical FortiClient EMS bug as a 0-day
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Attackers exploited this critical FortiClient EMS bug as a 0-day
CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wild Fortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31.…
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 07/04/2026
Anthropic is making a preview model of its new AI model to find and catch hardware and software bugs, called Mythos, available to about 50 companies, including giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet-owned Google, and the Linux Foundation. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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Anthropic Set to Preview Powerful ‘Mythos’ Model to Ward Off AI Cyberthreats
Anthropic is taking steps to arm some of the world’s biggest technology companies with tools to find and patch bugs in their hardware and software.
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I like @kilocode.ai it is a nice setup (I’ve used a lot: cline, continue.dev copilot and even anti-gravity!)
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Gus @gusthema.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Gemma 4 changed from a custom license to Apache 2.0! opensource.googleblog.com/2026/03/gemm...
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Gemma 4: Expanding the Gemmaverse with Apache 2.0
Google releases Gemma 4, expanding the Gemmaverse with Apache 2.0-licensed AI models. Learn how this empowers developers and researchers.
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FlutterLDN @flutterldn.dev · 04/04/2026
💙Have you signed up? Our next event is April 14th at @powered_by_pod Flutter favourite @raoufrahiche will be showing us how to get the goods out of Flutter and Matt Meade's of Tweak on Smart Home & embedded Flutter meetup.com/flutterldn/e... Reserve your space!
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sparkylinux.bsky.social @sparkylinux.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The 3rd monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2026. sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-... #linux #debian #sparkylinux Thanks a lot for your support!
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Loren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Um OKAY. Breathtaking photos from the Artemis II crew's lunar flyby and eclipse viewing
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Reuven M. Lerner @lernerpython.com · 07/04/2026
Do you love analyzing data with #Python and #Pandas? And have you been following NASA's Artemis II mission? Then you'll really enjoy tomorrow's Bamboo Weekly! More info: buff.ly/e6EJcee
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
First talk tonight at @pydatalondon.bsky.social Nicoleta Lazar on Query federation in modern OLAP databases
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Out after a long hibernation, over at @pydatalondon.bsky.social
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Oh yeah, I saw in the sunrise from #London and it’s pretty miserable and cold today. 🥶
A screenshot of the Met Office app showing London and very poor temperatures down to as low as 4°
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
A festive good morning to all of my followers on #Bluesky and everyone in tech 🎅😃 On a cheerful note, I have to say, I am very grateful for 2025, I still very alive and doing plenty of #Linux Not posting as much on social media as I might, AI & other projects take a lot of my time and mind!
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
An marvellous event from the @golang.org and @rust-lang.org London community groups. Thanks to Ernest and Fergus. 😀👍
Two wise men standing by a Xmas tree.
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Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Glad to be back "slán abhaile", Brian. #AWS re:Invent was HUGE, seemed like the Dawn of AI. More to follow in @irish-tech-news.bsky.social
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Over at the @rust-lang.org London and #GoLang #Xmas do at Red Badger. Very popular and well organised.
Seated people in a packed room in front of a large screen.
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Jill Bryant Ryniker @jill-linuxgirl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
A new #DestinationLinux has hit the road! 😂🐧🐧🐧 youtu.be/CyvVbkePeZ0 AI Sends RAM Prices up, DasGeek’s 2025 Ultimate Geek Gift Guide, Linus Tech Tips vs Linus Torvalds 🎉 #Linux #FLOSS #podcast Thank you @SandflySecurity! destinationlinux.net/sandfly
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I love @sparkylinux.bsky.social 👍😀
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Original Syn @original-syn.com · 10/12/2025
The end of the kernel Rust experiment #Linux Interesting title 😎 lwn.net/Articles/104...
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Liza Chami @lizachami.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Good #WednesdayMorning :)
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Christian Findlay @cfdevelop.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Absolutely massive release of dart_node - especially for React Check out all the elements that have been implemented dartnode.org/api/dart_nod...
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dart_node_react library
dart_node_react library API docs, for the Dart programming language.
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Liran Tal @lirantal.com · 10/12/2025
listen to this yoda dude, he knows a thing or two write-up here on the Snyk website: snyk.io/articles/mcp...
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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 10/12/2025
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is from @alan678.bsky.social, ands is #AlansNemesis, the #kingfisher. I have not yet photographed the Wandle kingfishers, so from my archive, here's a belted kingfisher in the Seattle locks. #birds #birding #seattle #photography
A small blue-grey and white bird sitting on a rope over rippled water.
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Hackster.io @hacksterio.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Waveshare's $10 PCIe to M.2 adapter for the Raspberry Pi 5 adds full-size HDMI ports and an NVMe SSD slot for daily driving.
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A Cheap Upgrade for Your Raspberry Pi 5
Waveshare's $10 PCIe to M.2 adapter for the Raspberry Pi 5 adds full-size HDMI ports and an NVMe SSD slot for daily driving.
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The Pi Hut @thepihut.com · 09/12/2025
Need some gift ideas for Crimbo? Not sure what to get for that maker in your life? Check out our 2025 Christmas Gift Guide for inspiration!🎄 thepihut.com/blogs/raspbe...
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The Pi Hut Christmas Gift Guide 2025
Discover the best Raspberry Pi gifts for Christmas 2025 with The Pi Hut’s Christmas Gift Guide 2025, featuring Raspberry Pi kits, Pico projects, books, tools, micro:bit, Arduino and more.
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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 09/12/2025
Aww, I was hoping the more artsy thumbs would win. At least with the initial video audience, it looks like me in the thumbnail helps. I may re-run the test again next week, once the video's out in 'general' recommendations, and the main audience has already seen it
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CIQ @ciq.com · 09/12/2025
Happy 5th Birthday to Rocky Linux! Celebrate by getting involved. Watch our new video on how to contribute, from chat support to testing to hardware and architecture help. Join the community shaping the next five years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9-lVtg2N8 #RockyLinux #OpenSource #RESF
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Les Pounder @biglesp.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
These are my three top tips to solve maker problems without dedicated tools. That is such a click-bait headline, but honestly, these are three hacks to solve a problem when you haven't got the right tools to hand. Yes, those are bat LEDs from Poundland #MakerAdvent youtu.be/qXZ_vmWP9KM
Purple LED bats, used to illustrate how to test that battery powered LEDs work.
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Just sitting here in a slightly brighter London with a cup of Irish tea, and admiring the perspicacity of @billylinehan.bsky.social in Las Vegas with #AWS 😀 Well done!
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Liza Chami @lizachami.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Good #MondayMorning :)
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Chris Ebert @realchrisebert.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I just shared my reflections from re:Invent 2025. Big themes this year: agentic AI, Rust performance wins, Arm everywhere, DSQL, and ABAC. It's always a great week of learning. chrisebert.net/another-aws-...
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Another AWS re:Invent 2025 Is in the Books
In this post I share my experience attending the AWS re:Invent 2025 Conference in person.
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Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev · 07/12/2025
It's so good to sleep in one's own bed.
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Michael Horne @recantha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I've realised that BlueSky is like original Twitter... But with more intelligent sarcasm. I am totally here for that.
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Sam Stepanyan @securestep9.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If you missed @shehackspurple.bsky.social 's talk "30 Tips for Secure #JavaScript" at the @owasplondon.bsky.social meetup last week - you can watch the recording on the #OWASPLondon YouTube channel [please subscribe!]:
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Jason Perlow @jperlow.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
25 years later.
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Liran Tal @lirantal.com · 05/12/2025
well written postmortem report from posthog on their Shai-Hulud malware incident:
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Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025 - PostHog
At 4:11 AM UTC on November 24th, a number of our SDKs and other packages were compromised, with a malicious self-replicating worm - Shai-Hulud 2.…
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Good morning from a mild London Just enjoying a rather decent Irish tea out of my new favourite #Jerusalem mug.
A tea mug with Jerusalem on it, next to a black Amazon mouse in front of a black keyboard and various bits of clutter on the desk behind it.
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pyladiescon.bsky.social @pyladiescon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚀 New Workshop at #PyLadiesCon 2025! Building a Full-Stack FastAPI App with DocumentDB A hands-on lab led by Patty Chow from our sponsor @Microsoft. Learn FastAPI + Docker + open source DocumentDB. ⏰ Sat 12/6 • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PST 🔗 Register: 2025.conference.pyladies.com/en/ #PyLadies #Python
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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Sam Stepanyan @securestep9.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
#Swiss government urges citizens to ditch #Microsoft365 and other #Cloud providers due to lack of proper E2E encryption citing US Cloud Act requirement to hand over data to US authorities, even if it’s stored in Switzerland: #DataSecurity 👇 www.techradar.com/pro/security...
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Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption
Switzerland is worried about data privacy
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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
A big thanks to @lernerpython.com We met in Jerusalem yesterday had a delicious burger and chips, my very first proper meal in #Israel and it was delicious. He is such an engaging and intelligent person, in person. Very privileged to meet him. 😃
A very happy gentleman smiling in a restaurant in Jerusalem. Tables and chairs abound.
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