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joncamfield

@joncamfield@mastodon.social

Thinking about tomorrow's threats against human rights and Internet Freedom. Frustrated Optimist, gardener, salsa dancer, cook, husband, dad, embarrassed Texan. Toots are my own. he/they

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jwz, (edited ) to random
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Before they will let me publish a new release of XScreenSaver on the "Play" [sic] store, Google, the most rapacious privacy violator ever, insists that a screensaver have a privacy policy.

This is where you come in!

I'd like this policy to be a series of bullet points: "Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will not [Thing.] An endless, concise catalog of their sins.

I need both your snark AND a link supporting your snark. It's critical for the joke to land. Include both.

GO!!

https://jwz.org/b/ykUc

joncamfield,
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@jwz not privacy specific, but you’ve gotta snark in an “unlike google, xscreensaver will not randomly be deprecated and stop working” angle in there.

aiefel, to random
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    joncamfield,
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    @aiefel yeah but wait until you hit the payment needed workflow graphics.

    joncamfield,
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    @aiefel it starts starving.

    joncamfield,
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    @aiefel iirc if you fail to renew you just see a fish skeleton left on the ground and nothing else.

    lzg, to random
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    my friend teaches creative writing at a private school. he’s now forced to upload a calendar and a detailed syllabus with itemized evaluation points and not deviate from this at all, because the school considers this a contract with the customer (the student). absolute hell.

    joncamfield,
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    @lzg I look forward to stories of joyous malicious compliance, as that is the only sane response to these systems.

    joncamfield, to random
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    Some days, it feels like mastodon is 100% subtweets with few if any paths to what is being subtweeted about.

    joncamfield,
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    @vitriolix this feels true both literally and metaphorically.

    lzg, to random
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    striking fear in the heart of my reports by asking “can you help me set up a dev environment for your project”

    joncamfield,
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    @lzg this is the way.

    evacide, to random
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    There is always a point, when I am writing a new talk, that I look over my slides and need to resist the urge to make it positively unhinged.

    joncamfield,
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    @aiefel @evacide we clearly need an invite only, tlp:red rant presentation session after hours at a digital security conference

    glyph, to random
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    My kid just wanted to do an impression of me giving a talk and they shifted into a much louder register and said “blah blah blah apple blah blah blah python blah blah blah docker blah blah blah” and I have never been roasted so hard in my life

    joncamfield,
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    @glyph this is hilarious, but also do we need to get you to the nearest burn center?

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg …but they might be able to stop me.

    mshelton, to random
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    Privacy theater is when we use privacy practices to demonstrate intention, even if it doesn't mitigate risk in the wild. For example, why do the Ninja Turtles wear masks? Are there other squads of anthropomorphic turtles with weapons in these streets? What's the point of this? This is keeping me up at night, make it stop

    joncamfield,
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    @tlariv @mshelton @jalcine these answers only bring more, worse, questions.

    lzg, to random
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    joncamfield,
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    @lzg s/live/die/ by regex.

    aiefel, to random
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    @aiefel I will ghostwrite a proposal for this and shadow project manage it.

    lzg, to random
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    @lzg sunchokes have entered the chat

    joncamfield, to random
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    This story, from late last year, continues to eat at me. The potential for massive surveillance and opsec gains by cartels here is hard to get my head around. https://mastodon.mit.edu/@marielgm/111188513397473965

    lzg, to random
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    joncamfield,
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    @lzg a true hipster. Getting into things before they were cool.

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    @jsrailton Microsoft’s ongoing foot dragging on bitlocker for all licenses boggles the mind. It was the top ask of ngo partners … a decade ago. L

    mcc, to random
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    The absolutely infuriating thing about Tumblr potentially starting to silently sell off your posts unless you affirmatively check a deeply-hidden opt-out box you can only find out about through word of mouth is, if I bring up my own Tumblr and try to scroll back more than a few posts, it stops me literally saying "Stop: Classified". So I don't get access to my posts, but OpenAI does.

    https://chat.noelle.codes/@noelle/112005577930056541

    joncamfield,
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    @mcc if we can get everyone else to disable this, I promise to leave it enabled on my (functionally abandoned for years now) https://icanhazdigitalsecurity.tumblr.com/ so it can be the main source of training data.

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    Nobody uses imagemaps anymore. The mid 90s web was absolutely lousy with imagemaps. These days? Nothing!

    joncamfield,
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    @foone @cstross y’all ever try to make VRML sites? Those were wild(ly useless)

    joncamfield, to random
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    2024 self care discoveries: I should probably work on my anger management w/r/t people who format headers in documents with bold/ital/font size instead of the actual heading 1-6 options.

    joncamfield,
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    @ninavizz and just for ... the underlying value of a semantic web which never quite was, and I might still (now what, almost 2 decades past) be bitter about?

    joncamfield,
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    @ninavizz That time we made developers listen to their security apps and websites in screen readers with USABLE was... very educational.

    joncamfield,
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    @ninavizz Aw, thanks - they were great projects because of all the amazing folk we got to work with.

    joncamfield, to random
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    Ugh. UTexas is planning to raze a historic building (first integrated school in the area), which now houses the School of Social Work - to make more space for the football team to practice: https://www.savethepastforthefuture.com/general-4-1

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