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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 31/12/2025

In 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

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 30/12/2025

This 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?" 😏

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 26/12/2025

What sort of irony is it when the age verification system doesn't work because of your long white beard?

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 18/12/2025

This was probably a pure accident but this is an absolutely devastating comeback question to ask of a South Australian

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 17/12/2025

Stop trying to force AI into everything - web browser edition

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 10/12/2025

I am sad to inform you that Calibri is now officially woke

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 01/12/2025

ASD'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

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 30/11/2025

For some dumb reason "you can just add Szechuan pepper to the sauce" had never occurred to me before this conversation. Freshly pounded peppercorns, laoganma crispy chilli oil, black vinegar, soy + a pack of hoisin duck dumplings straight from the freezer. Took less than 10 minutes to cook

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 27/11/2025

To give a concrete example - my team did some work earlier in the year analysing data from about 2.5k pentest reports. Looking at critical issues found during webapp pentesting, this mostly matched the OWASP Top10. But there was one standout difference - our #2 issue was File Upload Vulns...

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 27/11/2025

...This is OWASP's own summary of the Top10. The goal is not just abstract/academic categorisation - it's to provide an *actionable resource* to devs about what they need to be concerned about. "Be concerned about this abstract category" is not as useful advice as something more concrete would be...

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 27/11/2025

Hot 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...

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 26/11/2025

"absolutely no idea who chewed that blue thing up"

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 25/11/2025

I 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

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 12/11/2025

Apparently 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

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 11/11/2025

Would you believe this gaslighting little shithead has actually already been fed dinner?

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 09/11/2025

An 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...

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 08/11/2025

Check out this grouse pallet I found at #kawaiicon

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 28/10/2025

I didn't like the harsh direct light from the naked globe above my desk (and it reflected off my bald head on video calls). Couldn't find a light shade I liked, so I got a studio lantern diffuser and mounted it to the ceiling over the globe 💡🏮

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 23/10/2025

And while we're on the topic of "things non-security people shouldn't worry about", VPNs are snake oil and don't increase your personal security. If anything, they may weaken it. About all they're good for is streaming region-locked content. Don't take security advice from snake oil salesmen

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 23/10/2025

Counterpoint: no, they can't Source: this has never happened

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 14/10/2025

Henlo frens. I am back after a sabbatical. If you're at #CyberconMelb25, you can catch me talking about what we learned by analysing the results of 2,500 pentests at 14:50 in room 212 today melbourne2025.cyberconference.com.au/sessions/ses...

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 15/07/2025

Just another day on the Internet with an apostrophe in my surname. GG broadcom

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 31/05/2025

Y Gelli, Cymru / Hay-on-Wye, Wales. The town of books. Population 1,600. 30 bookshops. I love this sign. Sharp. Crisp. Clear. A work of art 😍

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 31/05/2025

Harsh. But fair. Hay-on-Wye, Wales

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 24/05/2025

The logo of the bus company I'm using. Perfection.

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 05/05/2025

The improvement that some upgraded lighting makes to image quality is huge. Pic 1: Overhead light. Head looks like a full moon, shadows all over face, no background separation. Pic 2: Key light + fill light. Skintones look much more natural and healthy. Added a blue LED at the guitar just for fun

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 08/04/2025

Today my team released a report which draws on a year of pentest data - 2,500 engagements for 800 customers. 26,000 individual findings. We analysed this data to look for the root causes of the most common high-risk issues, and compared issues across industries.

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 27/02/2025

The Australian parliament has this too. We even have an odd name for these questions - "Dorothy Dixers" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 19/02/2025

Very hard to tell who to believe here 🤔

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 26/12/2024

If "scandi-noir, except Irish" is something that sounds like it might be your thing, the series Crá is highly recommended. It can be watched anywhere in the world for free with subtitles and no ads on the @tg4.bsky.social app (and probably on BBC or something if you're a Brit)

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 26/12/2024

I must have been good(ish) this year, Santa brought me this sick mouse mat. As well as looking cool, it's also super glidey. Will definitely make me at least 0.03% more efficient at computering

A pretty sick PC with some subtle purplish RGB lighting

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 26/12/2024

Classic example of AI being completely unable to use context (spoiler: I do not have a Mercedes. Even if I did I don't think I'd be insufferable enough to call it "the Benz")

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 24/12/2024

For anyone planning on singing The Fairytale of New York this Christmas (and why not, it's an S-tier Christmas song), my humble suggestion is that the word "braggart" fits in perfectly with the metre and tone of the song instead of one particular word you may feel uncomfortable with I'm 2024

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 24/12/2024

There's going to be an adjustment period for getting used to Australian idioms. "On the nose" means something completely different here 😆

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 23/12/2024

@hacks4pancakes.com just so you're fully informed what you're getting yourself into, this is the Melbourne forecast for the next few days

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 22/12/2024

The finished workspace. The thing about Noctua fans is that their tan and brown colour scheme is horrendous and doesn't go with much... but on wood panelling, it just about works

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 22/12/2024

This was said in jest, but it planted the seed in my mind. It's a 12 volt DC fan, so it would also mean I wouldn't have to pay an electrician. So I did it. It has the same airflow as a bathroom fan, but is completely silent 😎

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 22/12/2024

Today's completely cursed project creation - a 7.5 metre cat6 4-wire PWM fan cable #DIWhy

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 19/12/2024

Hey Aussie hackers, great news! As of today, our job is officially recognised by the Bureau of Statistics www.abs.gov.au/statistics/c... I start disagreeing with the job description from the very first sentence, but hey, it's a start!

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 17/12/2024

Some fascinating stuff in there

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 15/12/2024

By default, the Microsoft Teams mobile app sends you notifications 24/7. Even if you turn on "quiet time", it defaults to making you contactable 7am-6pm, Monday-Saturday. Fuck this US grind culture defaultism

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 11/12/2024

If a website asks you this when you're registering, they're determining if they need to give you GDPR privacy protection or not

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 02/12/2024

As an outside observer, Irish politics is wild. The main contenders are two centre-right parties who barely have any policy differences and are governing in coalition and are responsible for every current issue affecting the country. Then there's an election and... the mix of seats barely changes

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 02/12/2024

I logged in to my locked badplace account for the first time in about a year to make one final post 📯

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 30/11/2024

Seeing all the old familiar faces from the glory days of infosec twitter pop up here feels like

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Liam 🦆 @liamosaur.ragequ.it · 28/11/2024

me: the whole state vs state and city vs city competitiveness in Australia is silly. all places have their pros and cons. also me, proud Victorian, reviewing something written by a Queenslander:

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