Roachy

Sad to be the last speaker at the Cross Keys :(

🚨"We have a new home" klaxon🚨 From this month, we'll be meeting at the Brew Society on Aire Street, LS1 4HT. For our first talk in the new venue, we've got our very own @laurawhit.bsky.social delivering a talk on OSINT and Pokemon Go. All deets in the link: dc151.org/posts/octobe...

🚨July Speaker Update🚨 We've got a couple of brilliant talks lined up for July thanks to Harvey Baxter and @tomnomnom.com Meeting on the 8th July at the usual place and time - all details in the link: dc151.org/posts/july-2...

🚨Update for the meetup on the 10th of June🚨 This month we have @scottmcgready.bsky.social delivering a talk about the strange things he's found in buckets, and @matthewwilkes.name discussing cookie recipes...... or something. Hope to see as many of you as possible dc151.org/posts/june-2...

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Slightly late announcing this one - apologies! This month (11th March) we've got John Follin presenting his talk "Making Shor: cryptography in a post-quantum world". All are welcome. Full details in the link: dc151.org/march-2026-m...

Update for our next meetup on the 11th Feb: dc151.org/february-202...

Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm. We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates. support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.

Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far | Wikimedia UK https://alecmuffett.com/article/140584 #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns #wikipedia

Hack Glasgow 2026 tickets are scheduled for release on the 16th January. As with last year, there's no additional drops or hidden General Admission tickets - once they're gone, they're gone! Grab yours at hackglasgow2026.eventbrite.co.uk

Happy New Year! We have 2 amazing speakers for our next meetup on the 14th Jan. All details in the link: dc151.org/january-2026... Hope to see as many of you as possible there

Just a reminder that our last meet of the year is tonight (the 10th December). If you've got a talk you'd like to share in 2026, just let @laurawhit.bsky.social , @glenn.pegden.com or @roachy.net know :)

We've managed to release some more general admission tickets for #BSidesLDN2025 this Saturday (13 Dec). Please only snaggle one if you can be with us on Saturday! bit.ly/BSidesLDN202... #Security #BSides #London

#BSidesLDN2025

Is cloudflare acting up again?? LinkedIn is DOWN. How will I get inspired by tales of professional success against the odds?

Just a week to go until our last @dc151.org of the year! For our last meetup, we've got @laurenspokes4.bsky.social presenting her talk "The Christmas Pi" All details in the link - hope to see as many of you as possible there: dc151.org/december-202...

Woohoo. It’s nearly Orange Club time ❤️

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#BSidesLDN2025 #WorkShops

The final ticket release for #BSidesLDN2025 is now live! bit.ly/BSidesLDN202... #BSides #London #Tickets

Today is going to be a good day…. 🙂 Daily Quordle 1377 3️⃣5️⃣ 6️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

If only someone could have predicted that uploading your ID to age verification services was a bad idea and that ultimately one of these providers was going to get popped…..

Whoop - it's October and we're back. This time with our very own Dan giving a talk on manipulating our AI overlords to do naughty things. Meeting at the usual time. Deets in the link: dc151.org/october-2025...

So, they do have an issue with free speech after all. Local lad gives articulate interview to the media and gets abused, pushed, shoved and chased by this set of absolute tossers. Makes me embarrassed to share their nationality

Well, looks like I've somehow hit 1000 followers on here so, to celebrate, I'll revive a favourite thread on the other place from July 2023 when Threads launched.

Any of my Northern friends (or at least are in the North in the next 5 days) heading to BSides Bristol ? I have a MASSIVE (but hopefully simple) favour to ask.

Wow. Just. Wow.

Something about stopped clocks twice a day. Really infuriating that I actually agree with anything Reform say. The trouble is, now, the horse has bolted. The genie is out of the lamp and we’re slightly buggered.

July's event is now posted. Presentation 1: Daniel Raines: My hacking adventures as a software dev Presentation 2: TBC 19:00 for 19:30, downstairs bar, The Greene Man, 383 Euston Road Closest stations: Great Portland Street, Warren Street, Regents Park, Euston. dc4420.org

Wrote a thing. grokconsulting.co.uk/privacy-engi...

Suffering from mild disbelief that it's already July and time to announce our next meetup. 2 great speakers this month (9th July). All details in the link: dc151.org/july-2025-me...

Have you got any old tech lying around that is too good to throw out but too much effort to sell on? If you bring it along to our bring and buy stall then you can make room on your shelf for some cool new stuff while also making some cash for charity. A win for everyone.

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

This is a very good, succinct piece by Ben Saul. "International law is only law if we demand that our allies, not only our adversaries, obey it. If we apply it selectively, we cannot expect others to respect it, or to respect us."

This is incredible

Reminder that we're back as usual tomorrow (Weds 11th June)

PSA: label your Yubikeys kids 🤨

Sharing's caring. Make me poorer by following these tips: grokconsulting.co.uk/seven-essent...

Update for this months #DC151. We're really happy to have Anicet Fopa Tchoffo, CISSP joining us to present his talk: "Deploying Operational Honeypots for High-Fidelity Threat Detection and Intelligence" Wednesday 11th June at the usual place and time. dc151.org/june-2025-me...

Hey @dc4420 & any other Hackers in the area I’ll be at 56/59 Strand, London WC2N 5LR, United Kingdom at 18:00ish for an hour or so having pizza come say hi! I’ll have hugs & stickers! 😊 #HackerAdventures #HackerMeetUp

I notice that at times a laptop will change the colour temperature from ~6500K to nearer 5000K making the image look more yellowish. Is this some standard OS feature somewhere, and does anybody know how to turn it off?

"But what if you didn't have to do the fun and rewarding stuff?!" - AI fetishists for some reason