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Gavin Atkinson

@gavinatkinson

IT Security Specialist @UoYITServices, @FreeBSD committer, @YorkHackspace, @ttnyork, @flossuk, York based DJ.

 York, UK
Joined December 2008
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'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Package Repo Where This Regularly Happens stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-c…
axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity

axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity

Hijacked maintainer account used to publish poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The attacker injected a hidden dependency that drops a cross platform RAT. We are actively investiga...

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Jonty Wareing ⍼@jonty15 Dec 2020
Incredible rebranding of us-east-1 here xitter.cf/jeffbarr/status/133889…
Jeff Barr ☁️ (@jeffbarr) profile pictureJeff Barr ☁️
@jeffbarr15 Dec 2020
Coming soon (I've seen it and it is cool) - AWS Fault Injection Simulator - aws.amazon.com/fis/
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Looks like somehow @LloydsBank have screwed up the separation between their and @HalifaxBank online banking portals, just got the Halifax logout page after timing out and being logged out of a Lloyds Business account session... Check the URL @LBGplc
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I have the same username on that other (sky blue coloured) site, for anyone migrating.
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How do you manage to miss out a vital word on your main front page headline? @yorkpress
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Ollie@whalefern18 Apr 2021
the crucial 4th ice cream bowl was lost at some point, forever altering the vibe
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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Sounds like a pretty useless ATM then
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What fresh Hell is this? @AerLingus now charge you extra to carry your carry on baggage on to the plane, else it goes in the hold. And the bag you are allowed to take on board with you is not big enough to hold a laptop.
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Over COVID @AerLingus must have thought long and hard about how to make flying more appealing again when the world starts to get back to normal, and instead thought "fuck it, let's try and screw them out of even more money"
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Even stopping calling it a "carryon allowance" would have been enough. "Hold luggage unless you pay extra" may not have the same ring to it but would be a damn site more clear. And I'm still concerned about all the lithium that must be ending up in the hold.
The sign of trustworthy documentation...
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Paul Lewis
@paullewismoney29 Jul 2022
Too important for a paywall - Attorney General, upholder of legal standards,and wannabe PM, bans Govt lawyers from telling ministers their policies are unlawful when they are
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Nobody ever really warned me about just how much of my life would be spent fixing other people's crappy python code :(
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Edwin Hayward
@edwinhayward31 May 2022
Jacob Rees-Mogg crowdsourced Brexit opportunities from the public. From that brown firehose of over 2,000 nonsensical suggestions plus his own efforts, he drew up this absurd list of the top 9 opportunities. No, we really did leave the EU for this.🤦‍♂️ express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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I spent a few weeks dismantling CVSSv3.1 and came away disappointed. In my newest essay you can learn why. Bonus feature: you can play with how the calculator works to understand it better! theoryof.predictable.softwar…
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The #FreeBSD Project is excited to announce that we will again be serving as a mentoring organization in this year's Google Summer of Code. Find out how to take advantage of this fantastic opportunity and work with FreeBSD: ow.ly/YnaP50Ij4Ln
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I can't help feeling that this might have been better advertised with an LED sign. – at Leeds, England
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Alternate caption: over the course of 50 years, we've managed to design two languages that, at run-time, use 75 times as much as energy as C, and not a single one that uses less.
Colm MacCárthaigh (@colmmacc) profile pictureColm MacCárthaigh@colmmacc11 Feb 2022
This table says it all. One of the reasons we're going big on Rust it because it delivers incredible economies, without trading off safety. On Cloud, sustainability is a big motivator, and on devices battery lifetime is the biggest differentiator.
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