Lots of Australian businesses are using Azure for authentication. It will interesting to see if ACSC have a statement on that, or if Australian cybersecurity is beholden to US politics.
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Trump's tariffs, calculated to cause a tariff and terms-of-trade war with Canada and Mexico, have a cause -- they are intended to blow up NAFTA.
BTW, Canada really needs to take some lessons from China. You don't tell the US that goods will be forbidden. You let the goods arrive, and then forbid them ('failed inspection'). This means the US exporter has paid to make the goods, but will have no revenue for them. Doubles the pain.
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Lake George has water.
(Taken this morning at the Anderson VC rest area, on the Federal Highway between Canberra ACT and Goulburn NSW.)
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Summer, walking to lunch
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One of the best books for cycling for ordinary Australians is on sale at Good Cycles for $10+shipping.
"Phil's Bicycle Book", Phil Latz.
https://www.goodcycles.org.au/good-bikes/bookphilsbicyclebook/
This was previously the "How to ride" book published by RideOn Magazine, before that house magazine of Victoria's Bicycle Network stopped publication.
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The time Tony Abbott flew into Mimili, a remote community in South Australia. Got his photo taken. Flew out again.
So much of Liberal Party politics seems similarly performative. Nuclear reactor which will never be built. Submarines which will never be made. All where the ideological messages mean more than content and action.
[#]auspol
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US sending an entire combat brigade to the Mexico border. It says a lot about actual Mexico - US relations that Mexico aren't moving up artillery, rocketry and air defence.
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Mike Jang give an interesting perspective on job searching at #EverythingOpen. His focus on the emotional aspects -- such as using empathy and avoiding anger -- were useful. The checklists need some modification for Australia, but Mike had enough knowledge of the world to signpost those.
Not sure if job recruiting in Australia is as based around LinkedIn. But it's been a long time since I looked for a role.
I liked his do-it-all-yourself approach. Recruiters take 15% of the funds available for a position. There is a lot to be said for that $20k ending up in your pocket.
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I could easily give a five minute rant on why ACSC's Information Security Manual is mere security theatre without a document giving the threat modelling behind the checklists.
Take this example of literally hundreds*:
"ISM-1984. Event logs sent to a centralised event logging facility are encrypted in transit."
Which seems fine and desirable at first glance.
But what is the threat? Is is a lack of privacy? Is it to prevent impersonation of the sender of log records? Is is to prevent impersonation of the centralised logger?
I am sure the first threat immediately occurred to all readers. But the second two are perhaps the more serious threats.
This is important, as many systems administrators won't deploy a public key infrastructure if they don't see the need for validation of the log sender and centralised logger.
Then there's the dirty secret of security -- exceptions. They make some sense: we'd rather have some syslog from that UPS than have no logging and going back to a dry contact wire for showing the UPS in an "alarm" condition.
But without the threat modelling behind the ISM the security coordinator approving requests for exceptions has to guess the reason for the recommendation. That's not going to lead to consistently great decision-making.
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A quick trip.past Port Augusta this evening. The old Northern Power Station region has maybe 50 windmills.
So what happens if you drop a small modular reactor into that? "Small" meaning the same output as the old power station. Who gets to use the transmission system?
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Everything Open is on next week in Adelaide, Australia. It's the free software and culture conference without any billionaire keynote speaker :-)
https://everythingopen.au/
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Things are kicking off in South Korea again. It's clear the cops want this sorted.
Hopefully this gets done before Trump and Hegseth take office and repeat the US errors of the past in South Korea.
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Scene: Bytedance office tower, Beijing
"Looks like Biden will make us sell the US operations of TikTok. Who can we sell it to for cash?"
"Masayoshi Son?" "Nah, he might make it work. We don't want TikTok US winning the global business from TikTok HQ. Anyway, he'd add LINE stickers, ugh"
"Bill Gates?" "TeamsTok la."
"Mark Zuckerberg?" "Solid suggestion. But will Lina Khan leave the FTC before Elon Musk sacks her?"
"How about Elon? " "<everyone laughs, then considers the sheer beauty of it> OMG imagine the wasteland which would be TikTok US, it could never hurt our business. It would probably radicalise the younger generation which Twitter and Facebook missed. We could be responsible for the fall of the USA."
"I'll report our decision to Comrade Xi."
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Microsoft Basic is archived at
https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC
The uploader quite cleverly set the date to 43 years ago. I do wish they'd also set the committer to billg and gregw. But maybe this is also why I am not an employee of a big software company.
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When returning to shore at speed in a surf life saving IRB the jetskis on the IRB's left hand side should give way, in theory by turning to their jetski to the right. They never, ever do.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-09/water-safety-jetskis-victoria-police-melbourne-beaches/104798476
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I welcome a provocative presentation, having given a few myself. But this point I feel has weight:
"Brazier's last point at the Channel Forum in Berlin was about the wider tech industry on this side of the pond, and it's perhaps a prescient one. He reckons the industry in Europe has missed the tech boat and every office worker in the region is paying a €100-a-month "tax" to American companies for a right to work."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/channel_stands_corrected/
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Me: rides to the bakery to buy a baguette. It's summer, so parking a car in the main street is a lot of hassle.
Strava: "Great work out here! Check out your stats now!" like empty praise from a high school PE teacher.
Edit: also Strava-dude: ISO kilometres but US calories? 242 kilojoules, dude.
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Apparently the Cleanaway rubbish trucks in Adelaide can only lift 80Kg. Should you have been gardening and filled the big green waste bin really full. Nice bloke waited whilst I moved some of my overweight trimmings into the neighbour's bin and then emptied both bins.
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Oh FSS. Your site is so SOEed it is first hit for vegetarian okonomiyaki: half of that recipe is promoting a frying pan, and the page has a pop-up every two seconds or so getting in the way of reading the text. Having made the mistake of persevering, the recipe is rubbish.
(If this has made you feel like okonomiyaki this recipe works: https://japan.recipetineats.com/okonomiyaki-japanese-savoury-pancake/)
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That Musk v. Loomer weirdness's references to Donald Trump are interesting. It's very reminiscent of the "If only the Tsar knew" we see in Russia today when their troops invading Ukraine appeal to Putin about their poor conditions.
In both cases, the Tsar doesn't care to know, because it's part of the strategy.
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