BSides Canberra CTF 2024: ServeR

Last month, I went to BSides Canberra, an offensively-minded information security conference which is also the most important regular technical conference in Canberra and attracts plenty of people from both infosec and the broader Canberra tech community. As usual, there was a CT…

Co-operatives in the ACT

Co-operatives are a rare and strange form of business entity in Australia. Unlike regular companies, which are federally regulated by ASIC, co-operatives are regulated by states and territories, in accordance with a national uniform legislation scheme. A few weeks ago, for reason…

Getting COVID in the ACT

So last week, SARS-CoV-2 came for me. We had a weekend church camp, and God decided that we'd also get a weekend church COVID outbreak with it. I was even wearing a KN95 mask for much of it, unlike most people, but it still got me - that's life in the time of living with Omicron.…

The Griffith Manor House Open Letter

tl;dr: sign our letter if you care about the future of the Inner South Canberra is a growing metropolis. At 108 years old, we've come a long way from when Walter Burley Griffin began sketching out plans for a garden city capital, to becoming a thriving city home to over 430,000 p…

Hello, world

I've decided I need a blog again. I'm totally going to write some content. I will definitely not completely neglect it for several years. I also blog about my Linux and PowerPC work over at Store Halfword Byte-Reverse Indexed, and I'll crosspost my future sthbrx posts here as wel…