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friendly neighbourhood grc analyst and cybersecurity awareness gal. now with ☁️ aws ccp! all views are my own.

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I do find it extraordinarily difficult to believe at face value that Tesla sales are still in a nosedive - I've never seen so many Teslas on the streets, not even when business was booming. Do I just live in a highly Muskite community or something?
June 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Doing anything manually (even if you want to) at an AI-first company feels like a crime punishable by death 🙇🏻‍♀️
June 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reposted by néa
How someone makes you feel tells you all you need to know about that person.

This applies to any type of relationship and it also applies to security (phishing/ fake LinkedIns etc).

Ultimately if you feel anxious, agitated, walking on egg shells, depressed etc that person prob is someone to avoid.
May 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
"If AI makes writing code faster and cheaper, it's really making it easier to create liability. When you can generate liability at unprecedented speed, the ability to manage and minimize that liability strategically becomes exponentially more valuable."

alonso.network/the-recurrin...
The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype
AI isn't replacing developers, it's transforming them. Just as NoCode created specialists and cloud turned sysadmins into DevOps engineers, AI elevates engineers from code writers to system architects...
alonso.network
May 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AI is bad unless I'm using it and then it's ok because my heart is pure
May 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
reminder to self: git/hub itself isn't hard. learning everything about git is hard, but learning enough git to use personally isn't THAT hard.
a cartoon of lisa simpson and ralph from the simpsons saying " i 'm learning "
ALT: a cartoon of lisa simpson and ralph from the simpsons saying " i 'm learning "
media.tenor.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My pharmacy (which is in the city we previously lived in about 30 minutes away) is so good to me that when I called to transfer my information to a closer pharmacy for the refill, they said no, they'll still deliver it to me at my home *today*. 🥲
May 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
4pm meeting cancelled
Dylan Saunders Starkid GIF
ALT: Dylan Saunders Starkid GIF
media.tenor.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I've picked up my empty coffee mug three times to check if there's anything in it.
April 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I don't need to have my hard work recognized to work hard, but it sure does feel good to see tangible results right in front of my eyeballs that other people's eyeballs will also see.
April 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by néa
"The executive order against Krebs is not merely a personal vendetta; it is a test of constitutional norms and the independence of the cybersecurity profession."

A must-read from cybersecurity researcher Bob Rudis. h/t @zackwhittaker.com

rud.is/b/2025/04/17...
Trump’s Retaliation Against Chris Krebs — and the Cybersecurity Industry’s Deafening Silence - rud.is
Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), was fired by Donald Trump in 2020 for publicly affirming that the presidential election was secure and ...
rud.is
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I've been using a pretty tasty vanilla creamer or frothed milk with sugar-free mocha syrup in my coffee since Christmas, but I just made a plain-jane black coffee and it's the best thing I've tasted in a while. ☕ 🤎
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Holy hell, this CVE rollercoaster is not the most fun I've ever had on a Wednesday morning. 🫠
April 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Concerning trend apropos of nothing, (malicious) bots now account for approx. one third of all internet traffic and contribute to a 10% YOY increase in ATOs. 👍

www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/bot-tra...
Bot Traffic Overtakes Human Activity as Threat Actors Turn to AI
Thales report reveals bots now account for 51% of all web traffic, surpassing human activity
www.infosecurity-magazine.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
One of my favourite AI-centred reads this month. Annie takes a complex issue and breaks it down into clear, insightful, and inspiring sections without wearing rose-tinted glasses.

annievella.com/posts/the-so...
The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But...
annievella.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I can feel the beginning tingles of an "AI is not inherently bad but it still provokes a guns-don't-kill-people-people-kill-people argument" essay coming on.
April 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM