Dr. David McBride (dwm)
@dwm.me.uk
I'm not that kind of doctor. IT specialist and occasional patient magnet.
Also: https://mastodon.social/dwm
Also: https://mastodon.social/dwm
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Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
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-Malvertising as entry point
-Didn't pay ransom
-Recovery cost the state $1.5mil
gov.nv.gov/Newsroom/PRs...
-Didn't pay ransom
-Recovery cost the state $1.5mil
gov.nv.gov/Newsroom/PRs...
NEW: Nevada officials on Wednesday released the most comprehensive report yet on the late August cyberattack, revealing they did not pay a ransom and that the infiltration of the state’s system began in May.
Read more about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/repo...
Read more about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/repo...
Report: Nevada didn’t pay ransom in statewide cyberattack, spent $1.5M on response - The Nevada Independent
The state ultimately recovered 90 percent of the affected data. The remaining 10 percent is still in the state’s control, but it was not required to restore essential state services, so it is still…
thenevadaindependent.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
-Malvertising as entry point
-Didn't pay ransom
-Recovery cost the state $1.5mil
gov.nv.gov/Newsroom/PRs...
-Didn't pay ransom
-Recovery cost the state $1.5mil
gov.nv.gov/Newsroom/PRs...
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"Is there any chance for these people, who are shielded by their well-paying jobs, their exclusively occupational media diet, and stimuli all happen to reinforce the default world view?"
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...
DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis
Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind them...
blogs.gnome.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Is there any chance for these people, who are shielded by their well-paying jobs, their exclusively occupational media diet, and stimuli all happen to reinforce the default world view?"
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...
@patrick.risky.biz Thank you for today's chat with Chris and Alex on F5!
Snapping the Solarwinds attackers == mind blown.
Discussion of trimming product lines also very interesting—I noticed that ~10 days after compromise was detected, F5 announced EOL of BIG-IP NEXT…
my.f5.com/manage/s/art...
Snapping the Solarwinds attackers == mind blown.
Discussion of trimming product lines also very interesting—I noticed that ~10 days after compromise was detected, F5 announced EOL of BIG-IP NEXT…
my.f5.com/manage/s/art...
myF5
my.f5.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
@patrick.risky.biz Thank you for today's chat with Chris and Alex on F5!
Snapping the Solarwinds attackers == mind blown.
Discussion of trimming product lines also very interesting—I noticed that ~10 days after compromise was detected, F5 announced EOL of BIG-IP NEXT…
my.f5.com/manage/s/art...
Snapping the Solarwinds attackers == mind blown.
Discussion of trimming product lines also very interesting—I noticed that ~10 days after compromise was detected, F5 announced EOL of BIG-IP NEXT…
my.f5.com/manage/s/art...
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Cloud data management company Rubrik has found traces of the Brickstorm backdoor inside its customers' backups.
Brickstorm is the backdoor planted inside networks hacked by a Chinese cyber-espionage group.
zerolabs.rubrik.com/blog/unmaski...
Brickstorm is the backdoor planted inside networks hacked by a Chinese cyber-espionage group.
zerolabs.rubrik.com/blog/unmaski...
October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Cloud data management company Rubrik has found traces of the Brickstorm backdoor inside its customers' backups.
Brickstorm is the backdoor planted inside networks hacked by a Chinese cyber-espionage group.
zerolabs.rubrik.com/blog/unmaski...
Brickstorm is the backdoor planted inside networks hacked by a Chinese cyber-espionage group.
zerolabs.rubrik.com/blog/unmaski...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
New propagandist accounts can't even figure out how to domain-validate themselves properly.
October 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
New propagandist accounts can't even figure out how to domain-validate themselves properly.
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All crew,
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
All crew,
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu
Worf
The assumption of deference from the press to the US government appears to be waning somewhat.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
October 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The assumption of deference from the press to the US government appears to be waning somewhat.
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Login screens say 'Ryuk'?”
“Login screens say 'Ryuk'?”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Didn't test the restore”
“Didn't test the restore”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“There’s no recovery plan”
“There’s no recovery plan”
October 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Login screens say 'Ryuk'?”
“Login screens say 'Ryuk'?”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Block device split brain”
“Block device split brain”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Didn't test the restore”
“Didn't test the restore”
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“There’s no recovery plan”
“There’s no recovery plan”
October 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
“Block device split brain”
“Block device split brain”
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All my comics have happy endings!
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
All my comics have happy endings!
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'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
Does anyone here think that this person will tell the government something other than what they want to hear after conducting appropriate investigations to find out the ground truth?
Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Does anyone here think that this person will tell the government something other than what they want to hear after conducting appropriate investigations to find out the ground truth?
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
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Reposted by Dr. David McBride (dwm)
Earlier today, I tried to find a post I'd written a few years ago, because it has a useful checklist that I consult regularly.
You now can't search for it with the regular FB UI. The link to the URL endpoint has been removed.
The *total* bastards.
You now can't search for it with the regular FB UI. The link to the URL endpoint has been removed.
The *total* bastards.
A couple of months ago, I wrote about how tech products are increasingly designed to frustrate the user when trying to find stuff.
Well, Facebook no longer lets you search for posts and organize (albeit algorithmically) by date.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/losing-con...
Well, Facebook no longer lets you search for posts and organize (albeit algorithmically) by date.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/losing-con...
Losing Control
How tech became impossible to understand, and thus, impossible to control.
whatwelost.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Earlier today, I tried to find a post I'd written a few years ago, because it has a useful checklist that I consult regularly.
You now can't search for it with the regular FB UI. The link to the URL endpoint has been removed.
The *total* bastards.
You now can't search for it with the regular FB UI. The link to the URL endpoint has been removed.
The *total* bastards.
I had no idea who this person was before today. Apparently he recently spoke at the Cambridge Union:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiM...
Charlie Kirk + Q&A / Debate | Cambridge Union
YouTube video by Cambridge Union
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I had no idea who this person was before today. Apparently he recently spoke at the Cambridge Union:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiM...
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My resume is my mistakes they can trust me never to do again
September 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
My resume is my mistakes they can trust me never to do again
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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
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My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet?
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so...
Boss: What's the point of Copilot then?
Me: Exactly.
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You know what finally got me off of Xitter?
OceanGate. I’m serious. 1/🧵
OceanGate. I’m serious. 1/🧵
A bunch of them are literally addicted to the site and afraid of losing the massive followings they've staked their careers on bsky.app/profile/marl...
What’s annoying is that journalists covering social media are almost allergic to pointing out this ludicrous level of bias because they’re invested in the idea of a marketplace of ideas and it makes them feel bad.
September 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
You know what finally got me off of Xitter?
OceanGate. I’m serious. 1/🧵
OceanGate. I’m serious. 1/🧵