Gen X tech nerd

South Africa
Joined December 2007
Duncan McLeod retweeted
Is the South African Reserve Bank overstepping its mandate? From taking over ATM networks to tightening crypto controls, @mcleodd argues the central bank is risking major regulatory overreach. Read more here: tinyurl.com/ht55k6bt/
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What's actually happening in Ukraine, Elon, is that a brave people are fighting for survival against a brutal Russian invasion. They're defending their homes, their families and their freedom. History will remember who stood with them and who made excuses for their aggressor.
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people. The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
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Duncan McLeod retweeted
"What's actually going on in Ukraine" without mentioning the fact that Russia is invading it. Incredible.
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Is it really appropriate for politicians’ faces to appear in advertising paid for by taxpayers? This ad would have worked just as well without the minister in it
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The hits keep on coming. Java is widely used in business systems. This is a big problem.
‼️ BREAKING: Oracle Issues Emergency Java Update for Critical 9.1 HTTPS Trust Vulnerability Details: cybersecuritynews.com/emerge… Oracle has released an emergency Java security update to address CVE-2026-91403, a critical vulnerability affecting how Java applications trust digital certificates. Published on October 21, 2026, the alert assigns the flaw a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.1 and covers Oracle Java SE and GraalVM. The update blocks affected intermediate certificate authority certificates linked to eMudhra. According to Oracle’s security advisory, the issue affects the Java Secure Socket Extension, or JSSE, component. Oracle rates exploitation as low complexity, with no authentication or user interaction required. Successful attacks can expose or change sensitive data, although the risk matrix lists no availability impact. #cybersecuritynews #vulnerability
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The presidency has taken its website offline, citing a "global cybersecurity event", two days after emergency fixes for critical PHP flaws were released. We checked more than 100 other SA government websites. Here's what we found: techcentral.co.za/presidency… @TechCentral
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Duncan McLeod retweeted
“What is it mein Fuhrer?” “It’s from Steve Witkoff. He’s nominated me for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
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Them's fighting words
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …
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Duncan McLeod retweeted
BREAKING. The lost tape from James Cameron's 1984 Terminator auditions just leaked. You won't believe the last 2 who walk in.
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Up the Irons! 🤘
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Duncan McLeod retweeted
Replying to @elonmusk
Fascism 101: relentlessly discredit the media.
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This is very serious. Patches should be out by 4pm SA time today. Cloudflare is offering some mitigation in the interim.
Critical PHP vulnerabilities put a large part of the web at risk techcentral.co.za/critical-p…
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The owner of this platform has blood on his hands 👇
EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, The Telegraph can reveal. The billionaire tech entrepreneur approached the US president with the proposal to introduce speed limits on the system, which hampered Ukraine’s drone defences, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Sad to see so many South Africans prostrating themselves before Donald Trump. People who should know better. People I once thought were liberals, but who clearly have little regard for the values liberalism is supposed to represent.
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Duncan McLeod retweeted
Ossoff: "Maybe you saw Trump so desperate that he's begging Putin for diesel. But listen to this -- at the very same time, the White House is brokering the sale of billions in Russian energy assets to people who fund the Trump family and the Trump campaign. Y'all remember Jared Kushner?"
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Después de las atroces declaraciones de Trump, apoyando a Putin, pidiendo la rendición de Ucrania y afirmando mentirosamente que ésta inició la guerra, el director del @MetOpera , Peter Gelb, pidió a los asistentes a la función de ópera, pararse para escuchar el himno nacional de Ucrania, interpretado magnificamente por la orquesta. El Met estaba lleno: el público se paró, acompañó el himno y aplaudió con entusiasmo. Tenemos esperanza
The Metropolitan Opera in New York asked its audience to stand in solidarity with Ukraine as the orchestra played the Ukrainian national anthem. Hundreds rose together, and one voice in the crowd began singing along.
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