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1. Footguns in Golang 2. Please stop exposing your LLM to the internet!
Fri, Oct 2, 8:30 AM*Talk Submissions*: [ruxmon@proton.me](http://ruxmon@proton.me%2A%2A/) **Footguns in Golang - Zoltan (@loltan)** Automated tooling and AI assistants have raised the floor for code review — the obvious Go bugs now get caught on the first pass by anyone. But that floor is also where most reviewers stop, because the tooling only flags what it already knows to look for. This talk goes past it, into Go's subtle and dangerous behaviours: silent integer overflows that smuggle SQL queries at the protocol level, null-byte auth bypasses at the CGO boundary, JSON marshallers that silently leak the very secrets they were written to redact, reverse-proxy hop-by-hop header abuse, and the JSON-parsing quirks that keep CSRF alive in modern REST APIs. These footguns and the Semgrep rules to catch them were the subject of a recent elttam blog post — but rules are only interesting once you point them at real code. So for Ruxmon, we've turned them loose on a swathe of large, widely-used open source Go projects to see what actually falls out **2\. Please stop exposing your LLM inference to the internet\! \- Griffyn Hancock** LLM backend and frontend vendor docs make configuration recommendations that are vulnerable in non secure networks. Those same backends often have no auth out of the box, or no native option for auth at all. This becomes a problem when non technical people ask chatgpt to set up "local ai" for them and end up exposing their inference endpoint to the internet en masse. This is likely a contributing factor to the hundreds of thousands (and counting) hosts that are exposed with no authentication, which at best can result in inference compute hijacking, and at worst result in for RCE with extra steps. We will also look at some of the whacky poisoned system prompts that I have found while scanning for this. Griffyn Hancock is a cybersecurity student who has had a hobbyist interest in machine learning for 10 years. He is always tinkering and learning, and loves to share what he's found. **Location** Room 080.02.002 at RMIT (Building 80) - 445 Swanston St, Melbourne **Discord** [Discord Invite](https://discord.gg/2qcaxce8Mw)
DDD by Night October - Hybrid event
Wed, Oct 14, 7:00 AMIt's DDD but \***lightning**\*. The evening will be a hybrid event hosted by the DDD Melbourne crew and consist of short & sharp presentations of fifteen minutes in length on a dev related subject. **We have limited space on the night** \- it will be first in best dressed\. If you RSVP and you can't make it\, please update to give others a space\! **ONLINE ATTENDANCE** You can join us online, we'll aim to get the call started somewhere around 6pm before we have our introductions and first speaker. Remote audience link --> *to be announced* You can ask questions of our speakers via Slido. We'll try to ask your questions as they come through on Slido, but we may not get to all of them. **TALKS** **No Idea What I’m Doing: Shipping Software Anyway** James Westall I spent five years at uni, racked up a healthy HECS debt… and never actually graduated. I work in sales now, and my background is in Security and Windows Server infrastructure. I’ve never written a line of code anyone has paid for. Which for many, might disqualify me from building software. Apparently, not anymore. This talk is a mix of introspection and light comedy, walking through what happens when someone like me starts building and shipping with LLMs. It’s about capability vs. credibility, vibes vs. reality, and what we’re all supposed to do when the rules of “who gets to build” have quietly changed. **Messy Bun, Messy Code but real Lessons - A hackathon experience** Hajra Parveen Akhtar A light hearted look at my hackathon experience with messy buns and messier code. I would like share about team work , problems solving under pressure, remote working and decision making in uncertainty. **Every village needs a Makerspace.** Kirsten Greed Now that Claude has sorted out my threading issues and memory leaks I no longer spend days coding in circles. I am too old for the hero's journey, but I find myself still needing people, place and projects **From dotfile Cruft to Fully-Fledged Projects: The Cases of Moonshine and Homegit** Javier Candeira I used to have a mess of dotfiles that just "worked for me". Now I have two repos with tooling that other people can use if they have the same needs as I do, or learn from as they build their own bespoke tools for themselves. This is the story of how I extracted Moonshine out of a janky script called *tv-session.sh*, and Homegit (temporary name) out of *alias homegit="GIT_DIR=\~/data/dotfiles.git GIT_WORK_TREE=\~ git"* **Lessons from Making Jira's Frontend Fast at Scale** Pushyami Gali Real stories from a multi-year performance push on a big, complex web app: how to find the real culprits behind a slow-feeling page, the patterns that moved the needle and why performance is less a project you finish and more a fire you keep putting out. **CODE OF CONDUCT** All DDD events are subject to the DDD Code of Conduct available at [https://www.dddmelbourne.com/code-of-conduct/](https://www.dddmelbourne.com/code-of-conduct/) **VENUE AND FOOD SPONSOR** [Atlassian](https://www.atlassian.com/) **FUTURE EVENTS** Are you interested in speaking at a future DDD by Night? That's awesome, we'd love to have you! We take speakers of all experience levels and offer training too. [Fill out this form](https://forms.office.com/r/12c0CvLwQk) and we'll be in touch. **FEEDBACK** Feedback, whether it's good or constructive, helps us grow and improve these events and so we'd love for you to fill out the form here --> [https://forms.office.com/r/MB8WGKv9Bi](https://forms.office.com/r/MB8WGKv9Bi)
SPIRITUAL PLAYGROUP
Tue, Oct 6, 8:00 AM**Event Info:** The purpose of this gathering is to get together as an inclusive Spiritual Playgroup without any set agenda. We will talk and discuss spiritual topics as well as exchange knowledge, skills, abilities, gifts and healing modalities to help each other unlock our highest potential. The evening is broken up into parts, starting with a group meditation, followed by an activity, then a tea break, finishing with group discussion Every level of experience and background is welcomed, whether you are just starting out with spirituality and want to explore more, or you are a veteran and want to share your wisdom with others. If you are new and don't know anyone, please come talk to me, I can introduce you to regulars. **Topics can include:** Spirituality, esotericism, metaphysics, philosophy, psychic abilities/gifts/intuition, mediumship, working with energy, working with spiritual guides/beings, healing/energy healing, health, wellbeing, mysticism, theosophy, shamanism, starseeds and many others. Whatever comes up during our gatherings, everyone is encouraged to suggest topics and participate. You are welcome to share any spiritual/healing/metaphysical knowledge, experiences, talents that you have with the group or simply enjoy the company of like-minded people & learn from each other through these sessions. **This group is for you if:** -You want to explore spirituality in a fun, laid back setting. -You are looking to unlock deeper aspects of yourself. -You are looking to unlock your intuition/gifts. -You are looking for your calling/purpose/how to be of service. -You want to reach a higher level of self-awareness and apply it to your everyday life. -You are looking to meet and make friends with other like-minded people. -You want to help anchor the spiritual energies. -You enjoy spiritual discussions. -You want to help others. This group is open and accepting of everyone looking to learn or help others, any disrespect will not be tolerated and you will be asked to leave. Keep in mind that this group is not religion based. **What to bring:** -A bottle of water -Optionally feel free to bring a snack but we do ask that you keep the place clean. -$5 contribution which helps cover the cost of the facility **Amenities provided:** -Chairs -Kitchen for tea/coffee/snacks -Toilets **Location:** Level 1/234 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000 **Getting there:** It is a short 3 minute walk from Flinders Street Station, with nearby tram stops as well. There is a parking lot on Flinders Lane as well if you are coming by car, which is 20$ flat rate for the night if you book online (otherwise it is 25$). **Important note:** The event has a capped attendance, and as such we ask that you only RSVP as attending if you know you are able to make it. If you can no longer attend, please change your RSVP to not attending, to allow others to attend. This meetup is also posted on another meetup group, so numbers here do not reflect complete attendance. Kind Regards, Emile and Gunnel Facilitators / your hosts: Gunnel Watkins is a board member of The Melbourne Theosophical Society, she has a background in Transpersonal Art Therapy and is a practicing artist. Emile has been hosting this group via Meetup Group [https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-spirituality-personal-growth-meditation-meetup/events/260755046/](https://www.meetup.com/melbourne-spirituality-personal-growth-meditation-meetup/events/260755046/)
HOW TO MAKE MORE MONEY
Wed, Oct 7, 2:00 AMWe are doing a seminar on how to help increase your income, and to give you some useable tools that you can help apply to your life/new business venture in order to take yourself to the next level, financially! It is no secret that the cost of living is continuing to grow, and will most likely only continue to. So how can you work around this? In this seminar you will learn: \- Who is the most important person in any business\. \- How to set achievable goals\. \- The power of surveying \- PLUS MORE\! Come along and learn some useful tools that could help set you on the right path.
GitHub Melbourne Meetup - Hacktoberfest Edition
Thu, Oct 15, 6:30 AMCome along and mingle with other developers, hear about GitHub, and get excited for all the amazing things happening this year. This is our Hacktoberfest Edition, so you'll hear talks and content from people who are building and using open source AI models. It should be a lot of fun. Food will be provided, and there will be SWAG (door prizes with GitHub merch and SWAG from our sponsors), so get excited! Agenda: 5.30pm - Arrival 6pm - Welcome 6:10pm - Mini talk 6:20pm - Talk: TBC 7pm onwards - Food, networking, drinks, and SWAG There will be a door prize for this event, so make sure you come along. Thank you to our generous venue sponsor: Microsoft, and our food sponsor Twilio.
Study Technology FREE Workshop! - How to improve your study or teaching.
Wed, Oct 7, 1:00 AMApplied Scholastics Study Technology is able to improve anyone's ability to study. Millions of people are already using this technology and whole countries are now adopting it. - You can learn Faster with less stress - You don't forget the information - You stay interested in the subject - Your marks increase English literacy rates routinely improve by 25 to 35 percent. Likewise, student test scores improve dramatically with students routinely meeting or exceeding grade level expectations in EVERY ACADEMIC SUBJECT. Our workshop will be focusing on how students learn. Study Technology can easily be incorporated into any educational activity—from classroom instruction and curriculum design to employee training or homeschooling. It provides a stable foundation enhancing all educational efforts. Study Technology is what teachers, tutors, trainers, parents and students can use to improve the quality of teaching and learning. No matter the curriculum in your current academic setting, Study Technology offers proven teaching strategies and resources that can help resolve classroom issues and improve student achievement. No matter if you are a teacher yourself or a good students or bad student we can all do better at study once we have this technology under our belt. Teachers who use this technology report amazing turn around with once troubled students. The application of Study Technology has quite literally changed millions of lives. You are most welcome to bring along a friend or those that struggle with study. (any topic) If you are unable to attend this meetup then let me know, We can arrange for you to meetup at a different time and date. Light refreshments will be provided.
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