Victoria Walberg

Sixteen years I wrote this post about who gets ahead in tech and honestly it’s even more depressingly true today than it was then. plasticbag.org/archives/201...

big one

Trying To Clean-Up The CPE Fucking Mess - Alexandre Dulaunoy #HackLu #LightningTalk youtu.be/mYvNa8VKFzY

For those of you kicking yourselves for not getting in on the recent wave of phrenology startups, I’m pleased to announce that there are now alchemy startups!

Can I claim that my To Do list is down because it runs on PHP?

regular expression engines considered harmful security is cooked, folks

In #security sharing is not caring 😉 by @mccune.org.uk at @kcduk.bsky.social #KCDUK

If maybe a few months after that it can also deal with Workday for me I might have to reconsider it

Global remote nonprofit tech job klaxon: @openrxiv.bsky.social is hiring an engineering manager. You would be managing the team and tech around science journal preprint servers. They're looking for someone who can overlap with US timezones. openrxiv.applytojob.com/apply/ggcbCV...

Giving "Blossom" vibes. The entire thing is available on YouTube, probably more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennife...

A reminder of how our music/age perceptions need updating -- a London council is offering a "day disco for over 55s" featuring music from 1950s, 60s and 70s But if you're 56 years old, most of that is your parents' music, not yours.

The wait is over! 🎟️ Workshop and conference tickets for the 18th edition of #INSO27 are on sale. AI Security, Cloud, IoT, Malware, Forensics & more, for all levels. 🛠️ Workshops: Feb 1–3 🎤 Conferences: Feb 4–5 https://ow.ly/kgok50ZWKs9 #INSO27 #InfoSec #CyberEvent #CyberWorkshops

Shame it's closing again. I spent a fair few of my lunchtimes in there (2003 - 2005).

@mrobinson.bsky.social Since you are affiliated with a political party, surely you are aware of the SJP and its issues? www.theguardian.com/media/2024/f... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11... www.2harecourt.com/2025/06/11/t...

I think we all knew this, but good to have research backing it up. Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommissio... Deadline is 3rd Nov

It feels like someone in the music department has been inspired by 90s gym remixes. #strictly

@kpnwebcare.bsky.social What is wrong with the feed from BBC1? It keeps breaking up and seems worse with the weather. Do you get it via satellite before pushing it out to the boxes? We rebooted our router mid programme and the issue still reoccurred.

The Home Office refused twice as many student visas on the first half of 2026 as they previously, while halving the % of visa rejections universities can have before they're not allowed to ti recruit international students. Are those refusals on good grounds? Oh no, not at all.

The annual murder-gonk cull is upon us. I hate these things with a passion. Every year at my old job, we'd be instructed to destroy them on sight because they're a massive fire & cancer risk. I've ripped the heads off so many, I feel like some kind of elven serial killer. www.gov.uk/product-safe...

#VanityFair

But unlike a David Lynch production, you can't turn it off if you're not enjoying it, nor do you know when it will be over.

You may not relish the tech being forced into every element of your life – but don’t worry, the made-up voters advising government think it’s a great idea! More A-EYE in the new Private Eye, out now.

Who or what is behind the direction of the government’s AI policy? According to minister for artificial intelligence Kanishka Narayan it’s, er, AI!

“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger

Proving once again that spell check is no substitute for proofreading.

"Historic England was spending six figures to wrap photographs the taxpayer had already paid for. Then the wrapper died, and the public cannot see them at all."

🚌 4 DAYS TO GO! 🐻 The #BSidesLDN2026 CFP is rapidly approaching its final stop! Got an idea, some research or an experience worth sharing with the security community? Get it submitted! ⏰CFP closes midnight 30 September bsides.london/cfp2026 #Security #BSides #London #CFP

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

Hahaha, absolutely the fuck not Instagram

@blowdart.me Is this you? mastodon.social/@fesshole/11...

From Sweden Longitudinal epigenetic rewiring in lung immune cells in patients with post COVID-19 condition link.springer.com/article/10.1... s4me.info/threads/long... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #COVIDLung #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19

Turnitin contract cancelled, and to be phased out this academic year at Southampton. meshed.cloud/@webmink/117...

I would love an ibreakit dot com that showed you how to physically clip the cameras, mics and outbound telematics out of all sorts of things like TV’s and cars

Watching live TV for the first time in a while - Celebrity Masterchef Final time.

@paperghost.bsky.social Had to send you this from @kevsoft.net lnkd.in/p/eZp2JPWN

TL;DR: using compression before encryption is much weaker than we thought. Tiny length differences can be amplified - almost without limit - and noise-based or bucketization countermeasures are then easy to bypass. Joint work with @prefix-free.bsky.social and Lenka Mareková, to appear at CCS 2026.

Number crunching: Graduate vacancies From the new Private Eye, out now.

I feel terribly sad for all those old-school Economy 7 teleswitch meters still out there, listening for a radio signal to switch them into off-peak mode that will never ever come now that they've switched off BBC Long Wave. Like V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

Also bizarre that those people who profess to feeling so threatened by hijabs and burkhas are so comfortable wearing balaclavas.

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton