Adrian Watkins

@abidaker I figured 30 was (a couple years ago 🤭) Hope it’s a happy day for ya regardless Mate :)

@asrw1 49 might be a cut-off tbh

I'm 50 in five years yikes

I'd like to take a moment to give thanks to the incredible @abidaker. Abi did this commission of Vilnius, Lithuania for my wife, which is where we spent our honeymoon. My wife loved it, and Abi is such a tremendous artist. I highly encourage you to support her. ❤️

@alexlindsay @JoelEsler @cspan I’ll give you the background pre show EH

@JoelEsler @cspan I'm not making fun of it. I love watching it.

I would watch @cspan all the time if the US congress was more like this.

@abidaker Happy to :)

Does anyone want to read my description of that map of Paphos and tell me if I sound pretentious or not? I don't mind if you think I do

@photojoseph #3 :)

Realtime LUT is so cool. Which is your favorite; first, second or third?

@GailCCallaghan @abidaker @OurNewHomecoach +1 I can pop some pix up for ya Abi :)

@abidaker @OurNewHomecoach Dunedin New Zealand, a hilly city with fantastic architecture, a beautiful harbour and wonderful people

Global cityscape I want to do a new one of these, which cities should go in?

@brettroberts Psilocybin 🤭

@asrw1 wtf did they train it on ? 🙂

NZ AI peeps... I am very sceptical of the headline claims in this Accenture whitepaper. For comparison I have included NZ's GDP per capita numbers - the date shown is the launch date of the most transformative tech in modern history, the IBM PC. What am I missing here ?

@abidaker We need ya on the show with that walk thru :)🤯😍

Studio renovation/clear out is so I can film some process videos for my patreon, I really wanted to write about my working process, but I have found it hard to describe so I will try showing it instead. I'm also making some more animated walkthroughs, here's the recently completed one, which is supposed to be a promotional piece for a local business thanks to anyone who tried my patreon so far, appreciate the support, always.

Required watching... youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebco…

Please share this far and wide. As far and wide as you can. NIST Password Guidelines for 2024 are in the process of being updated. This is a HUGE pet-peeve of mine (when vendors in particular are still operating like its 2017 and keep changing passwords every 60 days, STOP DOING THIS, it's outdated and has been shown to put you MORE at risk than less -- NIST explains why it does in this document, meticulously outlining user behavior**) so I'm sharing this in the hopes all of you will pass it along to your bosses. The Special Publication series governing passwords is SP 800-63 "Digital Identity Guidelines". The 2024 version is 800-63-4. Here: pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/ The companion docs are also on that link. They are 800-63A, 800-63B and 800-63C. These are different documents for different scenarios in play at your org. The previous update was in2020. The changes in the 2020 version from the 2017 version were numerous but one of them was that the password verification method should NO LONGER require passwords be changed at specific intervals (i.e. every 60 days) but in the following circumstances instead: 1. After a breach/compromise 2. User request 2024 repeats this and adds a bunch more guidlines but here is a screenshot of page 13 of the new 800-63-4 (note the # 4 after it) which outlines how your systems should now and moving forward, be handling passwords. This goes for Active Directory, too. All your systems which have passwords should align with these guidelines provided there isn't another standard or framework you must adhere to which overrules this. Most frameworks, however, have moved away from arbitrary password resets and complexity rules. **We cybersec researchers and hackers use wordlists from breaches in a variety of different ways. Hackers use them in tooling to crack passwords whereas researchers use breach dumps to see the kinds of passwords users are creating and the psychology behind them. Using complexity rules gets you the user psychology of: Password1 Password2 and so on Use phrasing instead and allow for spaces, which is important. Humans type phrases with spaces. They also mention phish-resistant methods and most vendors are on-board with MS going to be turning off all Legacy Auth next month, across all free accounts and tenancies. I'm so excited for the new changes! Ok I'm off my soapbox. Share the love! Thank you!

please RT, I need to sell some of these drawings, they are extremely well priced

I post this every year on 9-11. No words. #remebering911

Next week I will be on Zoom showing images and telling stories from the Summer Olympics in Paris. you can register (and it is free) here: buff.ly/3z2Dlhc

@brettroberts And the horse you rode in on 🙃

Akshully…

@ZeroDistraction Coz it’s not x ;)

Bluesky looks exactly like X but with no monetization strategy. Why would anyone use that service?

@GlenBMulcahy Gotta be getting to the last straw but so many not on BlueSky yet 🤷🏻‍♂️