Mark Dowd
mdowd.bsky.social
Mark Dowd
@mdowd.bsky.social
Internet hacker
Is anyone going to ekoparty?
October 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I have a spare hexacon ticket if anyone wants it
October 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Reposted by Mark Dowd
Woke up today and chose violence. SMASHED my 5k PB by 28s. New score 18:17!!
August 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
New 10km PB: 38:07! Official race time was 38:43 though (course was 10.2 km apparently). Beat my previous PB by over a minute!
July 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
In all my years in cybersecurity, I don't recall ever attending a talk given by someone with a scouse accent, which is an outrage.

I have a presentation coming up this week, maybe if I do some practice I can correct this
June 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Old school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k

New school programming: I'm going to design a cool game but it's gotta fit in 64k tokens
June 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Survivor Island - Vigilant style!
May 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Vibe coding is rather convenient, but I think one downside of allowing coders to fast track making stuff is missing out on some potentially interesting discoveries had you taken the time to learn the technology. Similar to fuzzing vs manual auditing
April 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Totally patted an alligator
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
lol. Halvar's final slide
February 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
DistrictCon kicking off with opening remarks from @winnona.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Going viral on Bluesky should be called "the butterfly effect"
February 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Happy birthday @runasand.bsky.social !
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
People like to keep their friends close and their enemies closer. So I guess my advice is to observe the relative distance someone is keeping you at, and if it's closer than other people, you should destroy them.
January 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My ancestors originally came to Australia as convicts, eventually getting their freedom. Since then, we mostly haven't reoffended. The system works!

Happy Australia Day!
January 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Reposted by Mark Dowd
We're officially 1 month away from DistrictCon Year 0! Check out our agenda for talks, exploits, round tables, and more!
www.districtcon.org/agenda
Agenda — DistrictCon
www.districtcon.org
January 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
DOGE off to a strong start improving govt efficiency. Already fired half of their own management staff. Lead by example eh
January 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the business world, we should rename short term contracts to quests. It sounds way cooler.

"What do you do for work?"

"I'm currently on a quest to streamline logistics for a big importer"
December 29, 2024 at 4:02 AM
When you're too busy hacking to do exercise -- do both!
December 10, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Reposted by Mark Dowd
Probably the best time in history to be a mathematician was around 600 BC when you could get rich just for discovering triangles
December 6, 2024 at 1:50 AM
How is this real life
December 5, 2024 at 1:22 AM
This site is actually Russian. It's pronounced "blue-skee"
December 4, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Duo somehow has access to my internal monologue
I think this estimate is low, Duo
December 3, 2024 at 11:48 PM
I think this estimate is low, Duo
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 PM