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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@mu It's not that. It's the demotion and decrease in job titles as part of the process.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@Linza I'm a PR, my immigration process is all done. The question is about the industry here.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I don't want to ask a subreddit or something, they're all too toxic right now.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Hey friends, I'd like your thoughts on this on this, our friendly platform. Especially Australia IT pals. I took a huge demotion (years of work) to be able to move to Australia. Happy with my decision, love my work, love it here, going for citizenship, no issues on my side. Life is worth more […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

My final note on this rant is just that, a single visa revocation or refusal for a violation is usually asked about and considered as you enter every single country after that for the rest of your life. And many countries share that information behind the scenes.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

If you want to do your remote job from another country: - First, talk to the employer in case their are security, tax, or contract restrictions. - Check if the country you are interested legally allows digital nomad visas - Understand the tax and work restrictions included in that arrangement […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Any please, please - privileged Americans, Australians, Europeans, British people, stop flaunting the visa system while brown people are being thrown in detention for doing less. Holy shit.

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Katrina Katrinka :donor: @katrinakatrinka.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@hacks4pancakes Yep. I was working in HR for a company with many independent contractors producing digital art and I had to prepare annual 1098s for their tax reporting and look up their countries in the US Code to determine if the US had a tax treaty with them or not. It's a whole thing

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

So I get fighting the man and return to work but bitching about not being allowed to work from Paris for six months with no discussion with your employer is just utterly bananas and your privilege is absolutely showing. Fight them on return to office and open office and every other ludicrous move.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

You can’t just do your remote job in a foreign country without the right visa. Several South East Asian counties are booting out Americans and Europeans for visa violations like this. When I moved to Australia, which has no digital nomad, I had to fly to New Zealand to not violate my visa if I […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Note that neither class allows substantial productive work even for your employer back home. There’s a visa class for remote workers to do that in some countries and it’s a digital nomad visa. It’s often a real application, time bounded, and may have tax obigations. Not all allow it at all.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Business Visitor is the class of visa aside that most Redditors and social commentators from America have experienced. Similar low bar for strong passports. But the activities you can do are very limited and structured. Most prohibit any actual productive work. You can go to meetings and take […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

In general you need a visa or travel authorisation to go to another country. If you have a strong passport it’s often defacto or in principle on arrival for tourists, so you don’t even think about it. You might have a fairly rapid ETA on an easy app. This is privilege. Most on earth need papers.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Americans and other white people with strong passports are absolutely going to drive me to a bottle of whiskey with the perpetual, “my company shouldn’t complain when I work with no proper visa or authorisation from a foreign county, without asking” comments, and I’m a huge remote work advocate.

@hacks4pancakes what about when you travel internationally for work?
There's no legal or tax implications and no visa needed for that.
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@ of course you need a visa to travel for work. It's a business visitor visa. People with strong passports aren't really aware we're getting one when we apply for evisas or have visas in principle. But we absolutely have to have them too. And they are limited to business visitor activities.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

It's Australian Information Security Association (AISA) #CyberCon in my home city of Melbourne this week! I'm doing a lot of stuff and hope to see you and grab a coffee or beer! - Tomorrow, Tuesday 13 October, I teach a free SANS ICS310 course with Bruce Large. lnkd.in/gSDsYGcT - In […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The fact that my ballot appears to have been conveniently lost or delayed by US customs despite every effort to be early and discreet is tied to why I try to avoid going to America anymore at all even as a citizen and why I don’t have services like Global Entry which could be weaponised against me.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I got put back in red team after ten years this week and damn it felt good to pop a few boxes and flex those muscles, but damn bloodhound had some drama and it’s all too dramatic for me.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Yeah a million bucks is great but have you tried —-after two years I can finally eat with the fork in my left hand.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Rather be poor and not famous than have anyone question in twenty years where I stood on human rights, or if I was afraid to take a stand against evil.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Don’t drunk text Meshcore with no region Don’t drunk text Meshcore with no region Don’t drunk text Meshcore with no region

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I was actually pretty excited about the iPhone Duo until they went all in pro-Israel and set a price point higher than my hcol inner city rent.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

You might think you’re prepping for the apocalypse but have you seen Victoria’s LORA mesh networks?

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Supportive Tree-based lifeform @basic-bench.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@hacks4pancakes I think that's the thing the fallout tv show really captured. The true freaks commit all kinds of atrocities while wearing a tailored suit.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I'm sorry but the shiny and chrome people are doing free airbrush makeup in the unisex bathroom and immortan joe is a tradie by day who's buying rounds of Hard Rated at the bar from a pretty trans lady in leather. You have to worry about the ones in suits.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Mad Max is actually kind of a shitty series because when you move to Australia as a punk and you find all the Mad Max people, they are.... pretty much like all the punks everywhere, and absolutely the people to leave your small child with. It's the... other ones you have to worry about.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I am kind of sad I'm not quite important enough to have them want to put me on some wall so I could tell them to go fuck themselves.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I'm not sure how I disassociate from Naperville further but honestly it's my biggest accomplishment I am living right now.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

One of the Chicago news anchors asked what High School I went to and mate I moved 20,000km to never meet anyone who knows what Naperville is or what it was like being the poor kid there.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

My boss just put it out there that I just flew across the planet, spoke at a stadium, organised a rager and closed out a bar, pushed code at 3am, and then woke up to give a 7a news interview before teaching a class.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I’ll be on NBC Chicago talking about the recent water (and other stuff) cyberattacks this evening. All the way groggily from Australia.

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Flipboard @flipboard.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Flock surveillance is under scrutiny again. Reports of wrongful detentions and civil liberties concerns are piling up. Read stories from NBC News, @Futurism, @Gizmodo, and local news orgs across the U.S. to better understand the issue. flipboard.com/topic/flocksafety #Flock […]

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Flipboard Tech Desk @techdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Just in, in "water-is-wet"-type news, a study from journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that X's algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it. Here's the full story from @404mediaco. flip.it/wtOlNf #Technology #SocialMedia #ElonMusk

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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds

X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I’ve had one marg and zero sleep and I’m starting to conspiracy theory this being about Siemens being German

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

We can’t discuss systemic problems anymore because they don’t get clicks on x

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Par for the course on stupid messaging these days ofc

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

It’s so completely the wrong message about priorities, and things will continue to get worse.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

You don’t know how it feels when you’ve spent a decade taking to a void about serious threats to faltering water ICS security and the news finally breaks and the headlines are “vulnerable PLCs can be hacked”. I’m just wrecked.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

If I gambled on both NFTs and the metaverse to the tune of millions and millions of dollars and even renamed my company accordingly I would be so canceled I’d be farming potatoes, but people are still quoting Zuck AI predictions on my daily news feed.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Just food for thought, but in 43 years of life, I had never seen grocery bread mould (in a normal lifespan to eat a loaf of bread) before I moved from America to Australia. Not once. I didn’t even understand what had happened. And I like, know stuff.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

This stage of Fight Club, but at least the SANS crew showed up. 🥹🫠

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Ok so, some idiot signed themselves up to teach three international six day classes in a row

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