Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 19/01/2026I click the "keep me logged in" checkbox Hoping that tomorrow is the day It finally does something 240
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 31/12/2025In 2025 I read the Irish language books Dún an Airgid, Cath Fionntrá, a few chapters of Táin Bó Cúailnge (an ongoing project), and I'm halfway through Conaire Mór (only started a week ago!). My low stakes new year's resolution is to finish more than 3 Irish books in 2026 100
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 30/12/2025This is what happens when editors no longer have younger staff members to run headlines past before publishing. "'Bricked up' means the same thing as 'Bricked', right?" 😏 000
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 26/12/2025What sort of irony is it when the age verification system doesn't work because of your long white beard? 031
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 25/12/2025"no worries, I can chop all the salad" - the words of a man who thinks he's getting off Xmas meal prep lightly until he remembers that he's in a holiday rental and all the knives are blunt as a hammer 100
Reposted by Liam 🦆Kawaiicon @kawaiicon.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Wanna re-live the ✨kawaii ✨ magic? Well lucky ducks, guess what we have prepared! All of the Kawaiicon 3 talks are up on YouTube! Check em out! youtube.com/@kawaiiconnzyoutube.comKawaiicon NZNew Zealand's cute infosec con (& book publishers) ✨ 15223
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 21/12/2025"If you have a soft backpack, please place it under the seat in front of you" With respect - fuck no. I took the time to check my larger bag. I'm 6'3". The only thing going under the seat in front is my feet. I'm not going to be punished because I didn't bring the biggest allowable cabin bag 130
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 17/12/2025Stop trying to force AI into everything - web browser edition 000
Reposted by Liam 🦆Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/12/2025The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are: money being born into money knowing other people with money 502331484
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 12/12/2025Just in case I'm kicked in the head by a horse in the future and decide I want to revisit the US, this is a pre-emptive declaration that the current administration is insane, harmful and is getting worse. Chilling effects on free speech can get fucked🖕 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump planPlan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and France 020
Reposted by Liam 🦆Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 11/12/2025We’ve seen other orgs attempt 3rd party bug bounties, thinking it will help their ecosystem become safer. Inevitably, the safety of software depends more on the maturity of the org producing it than how many bugs are reported to it. Bug foie gras isn’t the safest path to maturity 0317
Reposted by Liam 🦆Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control. All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...nbcnews.comForeign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration planThe Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter. 1139126233845
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 10/12/2025I am sad to inform you that Calibri is now officially woke 053
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 09/12/2025"GenAI images look like shit hurr" isn't a great argument to make. Not because AI slop doesn't look like shit (it does), but because as soon as the tech incrementally improves and looks less like shit, your main complaint has been refuted. GenAI images are shit because they're built on theft 010
Reposted by Liam 🦆mcc @dryad.technology · 05/12/2025Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"lyra.horseSVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0A novel and powerful twist on an old classic. 242013574
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 01/12/2025ASD's social media team launch an attempt to get another category added to the #hacklore "this is not a realistic threat, please stop worrying about this" list 😔 I find this advice inexplicable and hard to align with any real-world threats 242
Reposted by Liam 🦆Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/11/2025While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry. 272531802
Reposted by Liam 🦆Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong... 4589592545
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 27/11/2025Hot take about the updated OWASP Top10 - it's a great resource, but I have some concerns about the trend in categorisation. If the goal was "create categories that cover the top critical security risks to web applications", the new Top 10 would nail it. But the stated goal is slightly different... 110
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 27/11/2025It seems the "X, but with computers" model needs to be tested with everything, including white-collar crime. As much as some people would like to believe otherwise, algorithms (inc AI), are not an accountability sink. Collusion is still collusion. Crime is still crime 000
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 25/11/2025I got sick of meetings filling up my day around lunchtime, leaving me without a time to eat, so I wrote a Power Automate flow that detects when I'm close to having no time for lunch and auto-reserves a lunch slot in my calendar 150
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 24/11/2025I love everything about this letter - a list of things the general public should and shouldn't worry about when it comes to security www.hacklore.org/letterhacklore.orgThe Letter — Stop Hacklore! 121
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 23/11/2025Before a certain year, Subarus have a 3-way light switch in the roof of the cargo space. It runs in line with the body of the car, so if you're say... unloading cargo (crazy), it's possible to accidentally flick the switch to light-always-on. If you don't notice the light, you flatten your battery. 100
Reposted by Liam 🦆BSides Melbourne @bsidesmelbourne.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Our Call for Villages is officially OPEN, so if you’ve got a brilliant idea, a hands-on activity, or something totally wild you want to bring to the community… now’s the time to submit! forms.gle/JNCA421jfxWj... #BSidesMelb2026 #SecurityBSides #CFVillages 021
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 21/11/2025Academic cryptography: "we need post-quantum cipher suites, which will solve everything" Real world crypto: "key management is hard lol" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...nytimes.comCryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results. 021
Reposted by Liam 🦆Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/11/2025X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas” 1242322419214
Reposted by Liam 🦆Christian @xntrik.wtf · 21/11/2025Nice work @kawaiicon.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/this-h...wired.comThis Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring SystemAt New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. 052
Reposted by Liam 🦆Dustrial @dustrial.net · 20/11/2025Tis the seasson #Cybercrime @liamosaur.ragequ.it 1182
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 19/11/2025If you're into history, I can't recommend the @fallofcivilizations.com podcast highly enough. Thoughtful, vivid, critical, humanistic, detailed, humble and exceptionally well researched 120
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 19/11/2025Reminder: GenAI images aren't trash slop because they look bad and generate hands with 6 fingers etc. It's trash because the models are built on content stolen from actual creatives. The quality may improve with time, but it will remain slop derived from a poisoned source 020
Reposted by Liam 🦆ICIJ @icij.org · 17/11/2025ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. Here are our findings: 7179105
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 16/11/2025Me: "I think I'm finally getting ok at chess puzzles?" Chess.com: "You're in the top 5% globally! Me: "cool!" Chess: "...which places you at about 1.7 millionth on our leaderboards" Me: "wtf" 000
Reposted by Liam 🦆BSides Melbourne @bsidesmelbourne.bsky.social · 14/11/2025🥁 EXCITING NEWS - Our CFx's are now open 🎉 - Call for Papers - Call for Training - Call for Villages Visit our website for details - www.bsidesmelbourne.com If you are stuck, or would like to run your idea past one of the committee members, please feel free to reach out. #BSidesMelb2026 045
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 14/11/2025Now accepting funding for my startup that is a world leader in a-djentic AI. Drawing on progressive advances in math core, this highly technical evolution introduces polyrhythms, syncopation and palm muting to the technology space 030
Reposted by Liam 🦆Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 13/11/2025Traditional search has always had a problem with hacked sites being abused for sketchy SEO. AI is making it much worse. We're building systems that make mis- and disinformation campaigns easier www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/au...pickr.com.auAustralian sites part of a misinformation effort breaking search – PickrA concentrated effort to affect search means Google is amplifying lies and misinformation online unwittingly. What's going on? 001
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 13/11/2025"We built this tool that can be abused by threat actors in a completely predictable way - you'll never guess what happened next! Anyway, we figure by reframing it as us disrupting attacks (when we actually enabled them lol), we could spin it into a marketing piece?" www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...anthropic.comDisrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaignA report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack 000
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 13/11/2025Traditional search has always had a problem with hacked sites being abused for sketchy SEO. AI is making it much worse. We're building systems that make mis- and disinformation campaigns easier www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/au...pickr.com.auAustralian sites part of a misinformation effort breaking search – PickrA concentrated effort to affect search means Google is amplifying lies and misinformation online unwittingly. What's going on? 001
Reposted by Liam 🦆kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 11/11/2025I could not possibly be more fucking tired of hearing the word "agentic" on keynote stages 514516
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 12/11/2025Apparently there's a rumour going around that I was actually born with my beard. Absolutely ridiculous. To disprove this slander, here is a photo of me at age 14, sans beard 170
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 11/11/2025Would you believe this gaslighting little shithead has actually already been fed dinner? 230
Reposted by Liam 🦆🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 10/11/2025Hey uh bc I keep getting asked by Kawaiicon attendees: it’s pepperraccoon.com and yes you can buy cool things there xpepperraccoon.comPepper Raccoon: NZ Indie Visual Artist & Merch DesignerPepper Raccoon is an alternative New Zealand artist, with a deep commitment to sustainability and giving back to conservation charities through her premium merch, including nature-inspired enamel pins... 05419
Reposted by Liam 🦆Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff. 13143614268
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 09/11/2025An ABC producer asked if I could do a live deepfake of Julia Zemiro for... reasons. After a weekend of learning how to train a deepfake model, I recorded a segment for a pilot that eventually became Crime Night! You can see my short segment 18 mins into this episode: iview.abc.net.au/show/crime-n... 1114
Reposted by Liam 🦆Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025My day 2 photos of #kawaiicon are now online as well in the same album at www.flickr.com/photos/4nits... Have a great Sunday musing over all the fantastic talks and conversations. Many thanks @kawaiicon.bsky.social Crüe, volunteers, contractors, venue staff etc. who brought the event to life.flickr.comKawaiicon 3 - 7-8 November 2025Kawaiicon 3 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa 284
Reposted by Liam 🦆CrikeyCon @crikeycon.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Tickets are up and on sale! Grab yours at: events.humanitix.com/crikeycon-11events.humanitix.comCrikeyCon 11Brisbane hacker conference, run by the community for the community. 154
Reposted by Liam 🦆errbufferoverfl @errbufferoverfl.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Good news #Kawaiicon friends! Slides are now up on my site: garden.errbufferoverfl.me/soapbox/bull... Keep your eyes out for raw data, zines and recordings! Which should be there 🔜garden.errbufferoverfl.meIs My Job Even Real? Bullshit Jobs in Infosec – errbufferoverfl, enthusiastic zinester & artist, reluctant security engineerNotes about society, microfarming, and sometimes security engineering. 13415
Reposted by Liam 🦆Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025My Day 1 photos of #Kawaiicon are online along with the earlier uploaded bag and tag and axe throwing photos. www.flickr.com/photos/4nits... @kawaiicon.bsky.socialflickr.comKawaiicon 3 - 7-8 November 2025Kawaiicon 3 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa 1147
Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 08/11/2025"I helped the security researcher with developing an exploit for the vuln, which contributed to the price of their $200k payout" - incredible generosity from @quidity.bsky.social 💜💜💜 #kawaiicon 030