necopinus @necopinus@refactorcamp.org

When you're lagging

I'm taking a break from being on @HackerRadioShow@twitter.com to focus on my last semester at school and applying for jobs, though I'll still be helping out with production behind the scenes. If you have any leads for entry-level positions in infosec please let me know!

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But they were all of them, deceived. For another ring was made.

#lotr

I think some folks can't distinguish between chaotic good and lawful neutral

Fit bits are just Tamagotchis for adults but turns out you're the blob you're trying to keep alive.

runes-of-arecibo (seed: 24615)

bluetooth audio:

- compatibility issues
- stability issues
- latency issues
- one hojillion patents

tech industry: "well our work here is done!!! time to retire the ol' headphone jack!!!"

I imagine that some day, effectively everything will be created by autonomous machines. Humans will be the intended consumers of the machines' wares. In the machines' quest to know how well they did, they will enslave all of humanity as forced labor focus groups, who endlessly participate in A/B tests until they die of exhaustion.

"SJWs are ruining Star Trek with their progressive agenda."

???

#StarTrek

the skyscraper spire
the solace
filling up with snow

when the boss tells us to deprioritize fixing tech debt "so we can ship more product features"

some fancy drone flying

So I realize I've been thinking of social networks as graph-based and set-based.

Graph-based means you follow other users and get a feed of their posts. (E.g. Facebook, Goople, birdsite, here).

Set-based means you are either in or out and if you're in, your feed is the same as everyone else who's in. (E.g. subreddits, mailing lists, USENET groups, web fora.)

I'm finding this to be a useful distinction.

In case you missed it, switching.social has a search page for public domain eBooks:

https://switching.social/public-domain-ebooks-search/

It uses a custom DuckDuckGo search for ebooks in Gutenberg, Adelaide University, Wikisource, Gutenberg Australia, Gutenberg Canada, Faded Page, Standard eBooks, Runeberg.org, Lonnrot.net and dbnl.org

If you know of any other sources of PD eBooks, especially non-English sources, let me know.

#eBooks #PublicDomain #Books #Literature #Libre

One of the sadder things about the destruction of the planet is that most of the things causing it were put in place by people who were probably thinking about making life easier, safer, and more accessible - primarily plastic, which is the biggest oil product we have. For lower classes, plastic was a huge gain in a lot of way. Now, it’s kind of embedded into existence and propagated by people who only want profits, and how do we change it? Poor folk can’t afford to avoid it.

Now the President of the United States is putting his security, and maybe the security of the country, at the mercy of a bunch of crummy “consumer grade” telecom security protocols. Couldn’t be a better illustration of the phenomenon.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1055285401349509120

A few years ago a USG official asked a Microsoft rep why it mattered that consumer devices have strong encryption.

His reply: there’s no such thing as a “consumer device”. Our high-sensitivity customers (CEOs, politicians) use the same devices as everyone else.

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1055284954744188929