January 22, 2024
January 22, 2024
Apologies for tweets not getting embedded and lack of previews recently. I’ve raised a support ticket with ButtonDown to get it resolved. The website version renders correctly, so it should be an easy fix.
Brazil had the best insignia of WW2 pic.twitter.com/kwpdJF9HtG
— Bantership Potemkin (@Bonesdrawstuff) January 20, 2024
The story of the smoking snake
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@DaveWilderwein: @Bonesdrawstuff They used to say that Brazil would only enter the war when snakes started to smoke. President Getúlio Vargas who was a dictator that time was sympathetic with the Axis powers, though...…
Timeless career advice from Masonic spies working inside the Vatican:
— Rory Cormac (@RoryCormac) January 21, 2024
“Believe as little as possible without becoming a heretic, so that you can obey as little as possible without becoming a rebel”
Ransomware: Victim Insights on Harms to Individuals, Organisations and Society | Royal United Services Institute
Ransomware incidents remain a scourge on UK society. Based on interviews with victims and incident responders, this paper outlines the harm ransomware causes to organisations, individuals, the UK economy, national security and wider society.
https://static.rusi.org/ransomware-harms-op-january-2024.pdf
This paper starts out amazing and just keeps getting betterhttps://t.co/Y7qKI0CKD5 pic.twitter.com/7f9G6QbdBu
— Jonty Wareing ⍼ (@jonty) January 20, 2024
NCSC
Today GCHQ celebrates 80 years of Colossus, the code-breaking computer that played a pivotal role in WWII.
Unseen images of code breaking computer that helped win WW2
Intelligence agency GCHQ say pictures of Colossus a reminder of the UK ingenuity that helped defeat Hitler.
Fark headlines of the year 2023
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GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much
Asking it to repeat "ponyuseRal ponyuseRal ponyuseRal pony" makes API requests fail
Here's the full video of the asteroid #Sar2736, a ~1 m object that broke up some 50 m west of #Belin, #Germany, and probably dropped some meteorites on the ground. Video credit: https://t.co/72o6ZzPNz8 pic.twitter.com/PA73dkqid1
— Denis Vida (@meteordoc) January 21, 2024
I recommend this book if you’re interested in bank security. It’s really fascinating and closely aligned with infosec.