@jdub @dobes @alliecoyne What it really needs is an animated GIF of black and yellow crime scene tape.
@jdub @dobes @alliecoyne Akamai was recording 150Gbps DDoS peaks last year/ http://t.co/x8m7nH7oMU We can cherry-pick any narrative here!
@dobes @jdub @alliecoyne The green line is the compulsory line that goes up and to the right. Every business chart must have one.
Ah, if only the inventor of Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses was still alive to see the “block” button in action!
@mpesce That, yes, until the entire device is pwned by a Ukrainian sheet-metal worker.
@mpesce Does that work in Android?
Pro Tip: To “save” journalism and the news media, make more of the things which are already failing.
New blog post: “Weekly Wrap 147: Easter rush with added geekery” http://t.co/f7Z5z6FqwG
@punkrokk Well I’m definitely in Sydney on Friday, recording @DownloadABC at 1100 but otherwise free. Maybe other days. This may work.
RT: New blog post: “Algorithms and the Filter Bubble”, my UTS guest lecture (50 mins audio) http://t.co/KFyhqr25CH #mediastudiesyo
@punkrokk I would if I were in Sydney, but I’m 100km away in the Blue Mountains right now. How long are you in Sydney?
Easter Sunday evening consists of catching up on the @liquidmatrix podcast and bookkeeping simultaneously. I am such a rebel.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: Who knew so many people were obsessed with commercial airlines? [Qantas shareholders, Sir. Everyone’s super.]
Does @NSWSES have a helicopter that can deliver some vodka to (near-ish to) Wentworth Falls?
@riskybusiness @tyronmiller @sholtomac Ah! Yes, I remember using “attacking the lighthouse, not the port” early up, then had to drop it.
@sholtomac Oh, a whole swathe of IT journos were blue-ticked as a batch. Looks like you were missed. I’ll pass it on.
@sholtomac @riskybusiness @tyronmiller It’s the usual problem, though: journalists reporting on an event without the background.
@sholtomac @riskybusiness @tyronmiller Thanks. I also did a hose-down on @ABCNews24 Weekend Breakfast yesterday, don’t have a recording.
@sholtomac @riskybusiness @tyronmiller Yeah I got the feeling she was not sure how to word stuff. All the hard facts kinda got skipped.
@sholtomac @riskybusiness @BoxFreeIT Why thank you! @tyronmiller said cloud can be more secure. I said (not used) can be less reliable.
New blog post: “Algorithms and the Filter Bubble”, my UTS guest lecture (50 mins audio) http://t.co/KFyhqr25CH #mediastudiesyo
@iambradhanks @lucidchart @chuckfrey All that said, I will check you out. Just not for my personal mindmapping stuff.
@iambradhanks @lucidchart @chuckfrey It’s not about performance. It’s about personal data security. You can’t lose what I don’t give you. :)
@iambradhanks @lucidchart @chuckfrey Oh that’s good. But, and this is a show-stopper: I don’t want a cloud app.
@iambradhanks @lucidchart @chuckfrey For example, Freemind is a single keypress to add another node at the same level, things move to fit.
@iambradhanks @lucidchart @chuckfrey Ta, but doesn’t answer my key question about mindmapping as a process, as opposed to documentation…
ssharwood Fairfax’s outsourced subs in top form. Those Communist skin diseases sure were worth protesting against pic.twitter.com/1Hl1GgoYCY
Ultimately, @SnarkyPlatypus, and at its core, all media is a crappy photo blog.
“Live your life to the maximum by being more productive, so you can go after the things you want in life.” Productive, eh? I see.
So there’s a website called “Asian Efficiency” [Orly?] and it’s run by these blokes. asianefficiency.com/about/ Ping @SnarkyPlatypus
SnarkyPlatypus Future ALP cabinets will consist of head mates, mainly. A cost saving measure, if nothing else.
RT @NewtonMark: Easter is the one day of the year that otherkin can wear their rabbit suits without anyone thinking they’re weird.
Yes. Yes it does.
RT @semiboganman: @stilgherrian I agree with you entirely [See, people! This is a strategy for success you should ALL adopt!]
@intosix Yeah, the recent OS X update fixes architecture, and I won’t have browser plug-ins turned on. I forgot to tweet I’d decided that.
RT @caseyjohnellis: they be fluffy and such [So’s an alpaca but it’s no substitute for professional infosec or a proper sex life trust me.]
RT @mumbrella: Meet The Press is about to do a segment on mummy bloggers… [Quick! Notify the media! And then, please, the Death Squads.]
Giving in to the Cloud. Because these cunts won’t let you get on with your day without it. And Insiders is too busy masturbating to notice.
RT @caseyjohnellis it’s made of cloud now [“Cloud”, you say? That’s OK then. Everything cloud is perfectly good and in my best interests.]
@artywah Exactly. So why am I being asked again? I think it was @jdub who called Apple ID sudo-in-the-cloud. They Lost it? Bodes well…
Also, the “Skip” button’s “Are you sure?” warning “explains” only vague hand-wavey problems. Well fuck you, Apple. Skip.
Not impressed that the “Learn more” link mentions a couple hand-wavey benefits, nothing more. This is not informed consent, Apple.
Does this mean the OS wants to be linked to the Appleverse at all times, not just when in iTunes or individual App Store sessions?
Um, so I just installed the OS X update, rebooted, and it wants my Apple ID. Doesn’t it know this? What’s this new scam?
@SnarkyPlatypus Je comprends. J’ai eu ce même problème avec l’Anglais cette semaine.
@SnarkyPlatypus Je ne peux pas penser à la blague impliquant correcte à coucher avec les femmes basketteurs. Je suis un échec.
@jodiem I gather that in corporateland that’s what happens with most mindmaps. The creative moment must be hidden! Everything is ordered! ;)
Hey parents! Here’s a great video to show your kids this Easter Sunday! Contains traditional values, mostly. http://t.co/V545WxA3i7
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. Je profite de la forêt calme et la pluie imminente. Un changement bien nécessaire après cette semaine! Et vous?
@semiboganman Oh exactly! Hence my “Kaspersky’s right: Apple, lift your security game” http://t.co/ch7EuYOR1O
The key bit, @jodiem, is the process of dumping your thoughts into the map, not the map itself. You’re mindmapping, not making a mindmap.
RT @jodiem: wouldn’t an outlined list suffice as an alternative to a mindmap? [Sketching in 2D adds a LOT to the process. Poor substitute.]
There’s much in that cult comment, @peter_tonoli, though the cultishness is “The tool is my saviour!” stuff. Getting Things Done has it too.
RT @peter_tonoli: There’s Xmind which is open source… xmind.net (personally, I think mindmapping is a cult)
RT @michaelneale: you could do the mapping in dirt with sticks and rocks and animal blood. [Well yes, @Beaker said much the same thing.]
RT @Beaker: Whiteboard and an iPhone for pictures [Good point. The analog process has strengths. And it even works on Android! ]
@garthk Ah. I’m being told that mindset.com is not currently a thing.
RT @jdub: Could be a collective noun in either direction. [True. Also the collective term “an arsehat of columnists”?]
Now there’s a title for a blog post or even a regular podcast: A Cloud of Arsehats.
“Online tools” you say, @garthk @jplonie? Yeah I’m not such a fan of putting highly personal information into yet another arsehat-run cloud.
This chap seems oblivious to the actual point of mindmapping: the improvised mapping out of ideas, not diagramming existing structures.
Watching this (slightly old) video of a chap clunkily making a mindmap in Omigraffle does not inspire confidence. http://t.co/2u9wKpJ0Id
That is, is Omnigraffle just fine for making final, polished mindmaps for presentations, but harder for the actual mapping? @cafedave
So, @cafedave, there’s Omnigraffle stencils for mindmapping, but does it handle the spacing etc automatically, which is the key?
I find it telling that I bought this MacBook Pro in Nov 2011 and yet it’s only today that I noticed it didn’t have Java on it. Go, Java!
If I had enough RAM, I could just run a separate OS X virtual machine with Java in it for running Freemind. Or is that a bit over the top?
Oh it’s not about “platform of choice”, @Mal_2509, I’m reasonably agnostic. But Apple have been (were being?) shit with their Java security.
And here’s Apple’s security note on that Java update, such that it is. support.apple.com/kb/HT5677 @semiboganman
That’d presumably be Apple’s Java update from 4 March, @semiboganman? support.apple.com/kb/HT5675 [Starts reading…]
RT @semiboganman: doesn’t Java now use a trust system, so maybe you can trust Freemind, so we can escape the sandbox [Oh I think it does.]
Topologically a mindmap is just that, @cafedave, yes. Nice insight. And I have Omnigraffle. I’ll have a look shortly. Stand by.
RT @cafedave: Isn’t a mind map just a nested bullet list wrapped in a circle? Can omnigraffle or omnioutliner do it?
All the cool kids used to say Freemind was the mindmapping tool of choice. But, you know, Java. What to do? Are there alternatives?
Oh yeah. “To open ‘FreeMind, you need a Java SE 6 runtime. Would you like to install one now?” asks OS X. I’m having feelings now…
@michaelneale @davidpetersimon @semanticwill It is both real and parody. “Thought Leadership” is self-parody, generally.
@ataraxite “Banality”? I thought it might be worth following the advice to ensure Success.
Oh so this is an actual thing. thoughtleadershipstrategy.net HT @davidpetersimon via @semanticwill and the planet Fn’n’blint.
Sun plan, draft: Blogging, various things; Sunday lunch (where?); considerable laziness; think about Certain Matters of Importance.
Hello. Happy I Thought I Told You Bastards To Kill That Annoying Jew What The Fuck Is Wrong With You Sunday. Give me an egg.
The nightmare is nearly over.
The Village Evening instagram.com/p/XeVk3FCFgF/
Why are people picking on North Korea? They’ve been busy addressing the global shortage of fake hovercraft! http://t.co/lzehpu4Or4
Sorry that I haven’t responded to many of your tweets today. It’s been a cunny Saturday.
@nigesando What, the thing I just wrote?
Yay. Story finally filed for @CSO_Australia. What an effingly annoying week! Beer please! Oh wait.
Mixing metaphors.
Adding bonus feelpinions to my article.
I have arrived at Wentworth Falls and am having a beer to: 1. finish my @CSO_Australia story; 2. deal with bad news from the engineers.
Crossing the Nepean instagram.com/p/XdvEIliFnS/
Help. “The classical security paradigm of Protect, Detect, React” is classical, yes, but it wasn’t written by Beethoven. Who was it?
I am about to take the 1218 from Central to the Blue Mountains. However OS X tells me I don’t have enough battery reserves to make it.
RT @giz_au: New Cyber Therapists Can Diagnose Depression Using Kinect - http://t.co/wKDhP1HjzB [You’re doing it wrong. Cyber = badness.]
So do you know what I am going to do? I am going to go have brunch before writing on the train westward. That’s what I’m going to do.
@darrenarnott Cyber black t-shirt, yes, but I should’ve warn a hoodie of hackerdom.
@manaz_d Thanks very much.
@Mal_2509 Not yet. There was a typo in the ethernet config, but that’s not all apparently. Anyway, an engineer is on the case.
@unixbigot Oh dear. You are absolutely right. I am an arsehat. But so, apparently, is everyone else. Shocked? Sad fuck? All this is true.
So it’s 10 minutes or so until I’m on @ABCNews24 talking about the cybers. No digital TV? Streamed at abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/ #cyber @cyber
@SnarkyPlatypus @SnarkyPlatypus Maybe the Easter Testicle are full of Quaaludes. [There’s a sentence you don’t see every day.)
These Easter eggs look more like gold plated testicles instagram.com/p/XdXrS0CFkZ/
@SnarkyPlatypus Well, there are other Green Rooms in this building. Green Rooms only sound glamorous to the uninitiated.
@chading_aus Indeed. My theory is that the buzzwords go up as understanding of the topic goes down.
Can you see them? The @ABCNews24 green room has Easter eggs! instagram.com/p/XdWud2iFiv/
@chrisjrn Oh I think it could be better described as “fucking magnificent”.
@franksting I got a little bit of sleep, between about 2200 and 0100. But I wasn’t drinking. I’ll look tired but not hungover. I hope.
Mobile: Check out; train to Town Hall station; pants, purchase some; get to ABC Ultimo by 1000 for the 1010 spot on @ABCNews24.
I’ll ignore that suggestion, @SnarkyPlatypus, and just make use of the time I have to grab a clean pair of pants on the way through the CBD.
RT @SnarkyPlatypus: The ABC should have an emergency belt, surely. [HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]
More to the point, I seem to have spilt something onto the lap of my pants that makes me look like I’ve been having sex with a seagull.
@chrisjrn Correct.
My belt buckle just broke. And @ABCNews24 Weekend Breakfast is pants-on television. Sigh.
Would somebody be so kind as to record my bit on @ABCNews24 at around 1010 AEDT for me please? Those spots don’t end up on iView.
Sydney, apparently instagram.com/p/XdN0lgCFkm/
@SnarkyPlatypus Nous voulons que les meilleurs vins disponibles à l’humanité, nous les voulons ici et nous les voulons maintenant!
Sat plan: Wrap these effing server problems; 1000 AEDT @ABCNews24; finish @CSO_Australia story; return to Wentworth Falls; drink everything.
@SnarkyPlatypus Bonjour. L’univers entier est complètement et totalement baisé. Et vous?
Ah yes, having two different DEVICE= lines in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:99 will fuck things up. Well spotted.
Cry, I think.
So guys, you probably should’ve figured out that failed interface problem before rebooting the server again. Dunno whether to laugh or cry.
Suddenly realising that knowing what “cat /etc/fstab | grep nas” means and actually choosing to type it makes me… something.
@Mal_2509 When the server was rebooted, one of the Ethernet interfaces didn’t come back up. We don’t know why, yet.
Right, the server appears to be back online. Now let’s find out what the fuck went wrong.
Sat plan, draft: Get this effing server fixed; check out; 1000 AEDT @ABCNews24; finish @CSO_Australia story; return to Wentworth Falls.
Hmmm. 0330 AEDT. The odds of getting back to sleep before having to get the main part of the day started are pretty bloody tiny.
Waiting.
I do not wish to be discussing what a data centre engineer can see on my server when he plugs in a KVM. At least not when he’s seeing this.
Excellence in use of screen real estate by @servepath and @salesforce. twitpic.com/cfcph8
Things should not escalate TO me but AWAY from me.
I’m thrilled to be awake at this hour. The support team upgrading a server ran into upfuckage, and it escalated back to me because arsehats.
Re-plug of yesterday’s @zdnetaustralia piece: “Summly sale storytelling hides horrible home truths” http://t.co/rkGIH5TDHL
New blog post: “Talking DDoS attacks on ABC TV’s ‘The Business’” (3.5min video with @riskybusiness @tyronmiller) http://t.co/9FHBWgvp9F
Slothful day was slothful.
@jodiem That’s a great idea. I’ll see if someone would be willing to pay for it. I think there might be a possibility there.
RT @R_Chirgwin: “a data-plotting glitch and NOT due to the effects of the attack.” http://t.co/eJ4VZTNeaq [Hah!]
Fri plan: A fair amount of slothing; finish writing a thing for @CSO_Australia; more slothing.
@jodiem When Wealth Focus got hit by a DDoS, their hosting provider closed their account as a risk! http://t.co/MFzFhT0XWE
@jodiem Oh I talked about businesses checking that their hosting providers can deal with DDo, ‘cos many can’t. That’s what was left I guess.
Cyber spat!
“The cyber spat putting the brakes on the internet” with @riskybusiness @tyronmiller and me on @ABCNews24 http://t.co/GOiMt35obK
Oh hello, Good Friday. What do you have in store for me?
Being upgraded.
OH: “What is WRONG with you, Chelsea?”
I’ve just been told to “look less suspicious”.
OH: “Look, I’m a Protestant. Everything I know about Christianity is from Jesus Christ Superstar.”
OH: “… when the next Labor government…” “What? In 2047?”
dannolan_ebooks france yo
@jonoabroad You must be doing them wrong.
@ApostrophePong @CameronWatt That suddenly all makes perfect sense, as do many previous things. Thanks.
cxi Adobe Air really wants to update! And Adobe can really go to hell!
OH: “There are all wonderful options, but it’s nearly eight o’clock and I wish to have meat in my mouth.”
Subject “Pinterest Account Suspension” from Willard Rodriquez <handel727@iceweb.net>, “She’ll be grateful for the night!” Seems legit.
RT @sylmobile: Is paper.li still a thing? [Fucking hope not. It’s lame.]
joshgnosis Sydney, I like that we do small bars now but do we all have to try to go to the same one?
@BrianHonan Sorry, meant to say, thank you for your praise re #cyberbunkum , it’s appreciated.
RT @smperris: But what is the source of the information in the map? [Read the bottom line on the map.]
Silly me, @ApostrophePong, Tiger Cave is the name of the bistro. But, do tigers live in caves? instagram.com/p/XZQDuHCFjH/
RT @jdub: Not sure if rain or sweat. [Is it coming out or going in?]
This map is nearly a decade out of date, but, “Who has the oil?” http://t.co/kj1IzWPwEF Anyone know of a new version?
@lukebunyip @michaelneale More an anti-marching powder.
Note to everyone on #mediastudiesyo, I’ll be posting the transcript and links over the weekend. For sure. For some value of “sure”.
@GreenJ “football ho”? I believe the better term is “footballer’s wife”?
RT @nphair: You didn’t see http://t.co/i8C8pdDZpK [No. No I did not. So now, after you and @mpesce, I’m sloppy thirds. T’riffic.]
@leslienassar Congrats to you and yours, and Good Fortune.
RT @michaelneale: is your avatar viagra? [No, it’s more a “societal viagra”, if that’s a suitable clue?]
“The largest DDoS attack didn’t break the internet, but it did try”, writes @mukimu http://t.co/vPGttURqFi
Discovering an excellent free thing that I’d forgotten about.
@smaimlcwaelhiil Ah. I see (finally, sorry) where you’re going with this. Please feel free to be ashamed of yourself.
@mpesce I thought so. So I didn’t use it. I also see you’ve effing gazumped my “The Business” spot by going on The Drum. Pig. :P
RT @smaimlcwaelhiil: how many years of breast feeding before you‘re an expert? [As sucker or suckee?]
@russellmahoney Oh, oops, to be honest I forgot to turn around and pay much attention to the “set”. I’ll have to look tonight.
Committing further acts of journalism.
I’m talking BIGGEST DDOS EVAH on “The Business”, @ABCNews24 at 2030 AEDT, ABC1 at 2300, then http://t.co/Chq6HCpgfF and @ABCIview_AU
@jeamland No, but I’ve been a Scrolling System Logs Reflected In Spectacles Expert. And a Moving The Mouse Earnestly Expert.
Today I was a Standing In Front of a 19-inch Rack Expert. The cameraman refuses to create Walking Down Corridor Experts.
The television, it is done. I’ll pimp where you can see it fairly shortly.
The Magic of Television, part 5854 instagram.com/p/XY6ZhFCFlu/
Note also my podcast from Oct 2012: “DDoS attacks: 150Gb per second and rising” http://t.co/x8m7nH7oMU The 300Gbps spikes are exected now.
Now @Gizmodo gets it right in “That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie”, in this case. gizmodo.com/5992652
RT @StilCyber: cyber-Departing cyber-Blacktown [Oh you are SO behind the pace!]
Note the qualifiers @threatpost used. Amongst the biggest. Publicly. Recorded. Against commercial targets.
Here’s the original @threatpost story on this “Biggest ever internet attack”, which says nothing of the sort. http://t.co/cazfLZpPRG
RT @ambiej: My full Crikey investigation into PTSD among returned soldiers now up in one place: bit.ly/YFAHTY [Important work!]
@trib But hey, starting off that troll would be… well, some might say it’d be fun, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
@trib Someone, or somemany, is already trying to relate whatever random chaff fills their head to the story, and will comment so. ;)
@trib @zdnetaustralia You’d look a bit silly, since the article says that’s “natural language processing” in this business.
RT @lukehopewell: Being offered an interview with a “wizz kidâ€. Not sure I’ll be doing any hand-shaking there.
As I alight, other passengers pass on their sympathy for my Loud Typing indictment.
Arriving at Sydney Central station. I’ve time for a quick bite before hitting ABC TV in Ultimo at 1600.
@mpesce The “backyard snowball fight” line is yours?
@mukimu I have received urgent legal advice that I should not answer your question.
“Data retention as security theatre”, by @joshgnosis, in blogue form. http://t.co/CJ1mZjCufV
@mukimu Yeah that’s what Stephen said.
Now I feel like I should’ve tried harder to work “bedroom boy” into that story.
Me at @zdnetaustralia: “Summly sale storytelling hides horrible home truths” http://t.co/rkGIH5TDHL
RT @KathAlbury: Proper train noises = coughing up a lung, playing misogynist rap on a tinny speaker, or yelling at your ex on your mobile.
Kid, one of three: “What’s that?” Me: “A little 4G Wi-Fi hotspot.” Kid: “Cool! What’s the password?” Me: “Yeah no nice try.” [All laugh.]
RT @PriceyJohnDoe: Typing too loudly? On a train? Are there cymbals on every key? [Yep. Full brass band when I hit “return”.]