Ewen McNeill

@ewenmcneill.bsky.social

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Freelance IT consultant in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. Chaotic Lawful. They/Them. I'm mostly using this account for reading rather than posting; my short form posts are on Mastodon -- https://cloudisland.nz/@ewenmcneill/

Screenshot from URL in post, of the models that support tap to wake: • iPad mini (6th generation) • iPad mini (A17 Pro) | • iPad (10th generation) • iPad (A16) • iPad Air (4th generation and later) • iPad Air 11-inch (M2, M3, and M4) • iPad Air 13-inch (M2, M3, and M4) • iPad Pro 11-inch (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generations) • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4 and M5) • iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation and later) • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4 and M5) |
Screenshot of post by "johnbelliv" elsewhere, saying: "I clean actual swimming pools for a living. This will not work. The reflection pool used to act much like a natural body of water with natural filtration. It would (leak) drain through the granite and new water was added. Now it's been "sealed" with polyurethane and will no longer drain itself and the standing water will grow even MORE algae. With circulation and filtration added, it will no longer be a reflecting pool. Only still water perfectly reflects. It's ruined."
Profile page for @nztankerwatch.bsky.social, showing "Not Found" and "Account is deactivated" as the reason (suggesting it did exist, but is no longer active).
Health sector frameworks that should have applicable to MMH via contract rather than statute were: • HISO 10029:2022 Health Information Security Framework (HISF) • HISO 10029.4:2025 — supplier obligations The commercial documentation between HNZ and MMH sighted by the assessment team did not contain explicit references to these frameworks or minimum security or privacy obligations agreed to between the contracting parties as could have been expected.
199. We consider that some of the risks relevant to the incident were foreseeable before the breach occurred. While the precise sequence of events may not have been specifically anticipated, safeguards were not sufficiently effective to mitigate those risks at the time of the breach. If safeguards had been operating more effectively, both the likelihood of the breach occurring in the first place and the impact when it did would probably have been reduced. 200. Our overall assessment concludes that, at the time of the breach, MMH had not taken sufficient or reasonable steps to ensure that security safeguards were effectively implemented and operating as intended at the time of the incident. From p55 OPC phase 1 report into MMH breach
Street view from Google maps showing West Curry Court intersecting with South Curry Pike (in Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Image of the over-the-ear headphones at the link in the post. They are pink, with RGB LED cat ears, and a uwu logo on each earpiece.
MBIE Fuel Stock Update published 2026-04-22, showing in-country Petrol at 29.5 days as of 2026-04-19 From https://web.archive.org/web/20260423025046/https://www.mbie.govt.nz/about/news/fuel-stocks-update
Bluesky Server Status in app post saying: <video error> We are seeing elevated errors and timeouts on video uploads, and are investigating. With a link to: status.bsky.app
Firefox "HTTPS-Only Mode Alert" saying "Secure Site Not Available" for www2.metservice.com
Two page view of the Aotearoa National Fuel Plan (2024) response tables (where the detail table is inexplicably split over two pages in the original PDF)
Quote from page 12 of the PDF linked in the main post: "Commercial stocks of crude oil and refined product held within New Zealand (owned by the fuel companies) currently cover about 40 days of fuel demand net of oil exports. Membership of the IEA requires New Zealand to hold stocks equivalent to 90 days of net demand. To make up the shortfall (currently about 50 days), the government contracts with other parties for provision of petroleum reserve stocks. These reserves are currently held offshore, and the government has an option to purchase the stocks in the event of an IEA declared global emergency"
Google Maps satellite view with the Velodrome in the lower left. You can just see a path between the trees in the upper left heading up the hill.
"Going Concern" section of Native Instruments UK Ltd 2024 financial statements, saying "MCG UK is a global business funded through a combination of equity investments and external borrowing. As disclosed in its most recently filed financial statements, the Group's forecasts suggest there may be a loan covenant breach in Q4 of 2025."
Screenshot of the text from https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-pilot-helps-small-businesses-harness-ai (upthread link) which shows multiple paragraphs with an opening quote and no closing quote (as explained in post).
Manage My Health sitemap-1.xml showing the breach update posts, with the times of most updates around 17:00-17:15 NZDT (5pm-5:15pm NZDt; 04:00-04:15 UTC), but the 12-january-2026-2 post created/updated around 18:14 NZDT (6:14pm NZDT; 05:14 UTC)
Section of utf9k.net post about Manage My Health breach, which originally contained a moderately detailed, but generic, description of types of data found in the first breach sample, and now almost the entire page is black bars.
Manage My Health login page replaced by Scheduled Maintenance notification saying 09:30pm to 10:00pm, but the top right corner shows the time is 22:15 (10:15pm), 15 minutes later
Manage My Health app "login" page, replaced by a message saying "Attention: Scheduled Maintenace" with no login option, even when checking 5 minutes before the announced maintenance period.
Section of Manage My Health "terms-of-use" which says: "1. You must advise us, and your registering GP practice if you change your email address. All emails sent to your account will be assumed to have been read. 2. You must advise us in writing should you no longer use ManageMyHealth™ and want us to delete your data. 3. If in 24 months there is no usage of the patient portal, we will communicate with you to about the inactivity and confirm that we will delete the data"
Screenshot of Manage My Health very first FAQ titled "What is Manage My Health?" which says: "Manage My Health is a secure online tool that puts your health information in your hands. It gives you a single, convenient place to see the health records sent from your doctor. This means you get secure access to your personal health information whenever you need it, from any device, anywhere in the world."
Screenshot of Companies Office "Registered Document" showing Russell Clarke Trustee Ltd shares transferred from Russell Graham Clarke to R G Clarke & Associates Ltd, filed on 17 November 2025
Companies Office listing for R G Clarke & Associates Ltd (562319) showing 100% (100 shares) ownship by Russell Clarke Trustee Ltd
Screenshot of section of ManageMyHealth press release, with the anchor text showing a simple URL, but the hover text of the URL at the bottom showing an Outlook Safelinks URL.
Screenshot of ManageMyHealth Terms of Use saying: Use of ManageMyHealth™ and your obligations 1. You agree in using ManageMyHealth™ that you will: 1. comply with all laws; 2. comply with all ManageMyHealth™ policies; 3. comply with all ManageMyHealth™ code of conduct; 4. keep all access details including passwords and codes secret; and 5. notify ManageMyHealth if you learn of a security breach related to ManageMyHealth™ by emailing us at support@managemyhealth.co.nz .
Screenshot of ManageMyHealth terms of use section saying: 6. If you access someone else’s information, you acknowledge and warrant you have the authority to do so. 1. You must advise us, and your registering GP practice if you change your email address. All emails sent to your account will be assumed to have been read. 2. You must advise us in writing should you no longer use ManageMyHealth™ and want us to delete your data. 3. If in 24 months there is no usage of the patient portal, we will communicate with you to about the inactivity and confirm that we will delete the data
Screenshot of ManageMyHealth FAQ "Security and Connection" section, with the text "We use a digital certificate from VeriSign" outlined in red, and the browser showing "Verified By: Google Trust Services" also outlined in red.
Screenshot of Pascall Jet Planes candies link above (as it does not have a good preview). The Jet Planes candies are different colours, and have their noses pointed into the centre.
Photo of screen showing the post replied to on screen, with Michael Abrash's "Graphics Programming Black Book" and Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" books (referenced in the post above) in front of it.
Oregon Trails end screen, saying "You have died of a spelling mistake"
Photo from the original post, cropped to be taller than it is wide, so it is 1.333 times taller than it is wide, with the horizontal centre around the chessboard.
Screenshot of post I replied to, with the Firefox link context menu visible. There are options "Copy Link" and "Copy Link Without Site Tracking" towards the bottom of the part of the context menu shown.
Google search for "how many days between 9 december 2019 and 18 september 2020" showing 284 days