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grrrr_shark

@grrrr_shark@supervolcano.angryshark.eu

Was once grrrr_shark on Twitter. Now not.

Has 'the dubious honour of having been mansplained to by the Swiss public broadcast company' - https://mastodon.green/@altitis

Nerdgirl. Software engineer, recovering privacy researcher, sometime linguist and writer (fantasy, romance).

Some topics and interests: #gaming (especially #DragonAge), #science, #privacy, #SocialJustice, #ADHD (that's me, so expect rants!), #autism.

Cishet. LGBTQIA+-friendly.

Not your mother.

#TeamFangirls (She/her)

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evacide, to random
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When AirTags first came out and I warned that they were Apple's gift to stalkers, so many Apple fanboys told me that I was overreacting.

https://www.404media.co/email/ce4cec4d-51c3-4101-b2b4-2c9a64aee5e8

grrrr_shark,
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@evacide of course they did 🤬

RickiTarr, to random
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My hacker name is KillSwitch, what is yours?

grrrr_shark,
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@RickiTarr I actually have one, though I took it unwillingly. Not sharing, because the whole idea is stupid, but it is what it is XD

grrrr_shark, (edited ) to random
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At Sbux. i just looked up to see my transfemme daughter picking up the Pride month schedule for our area from the counter while happily chatting with the transmasc barista and as shitty as the world is, some things are worth smiling about.

And protecting.

grrrr_shark, to random
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Need to get ready to visit the psychiatrist. Not really looking forward to it.

I'm going to start working 100% again, even though I am not really better. I have come to realise I will probably never GET better in this kind of work, but I will stay and work on this project because I need to finish it for myself - working on it 60% is actually harder than 100%, and I am prepared to be hardcore about boundaries.

If I can't work here on THIS project - one I have a great deal of control over - it's the environment and I need to go.

grrrr_shark, to random
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People who are lamenting the current state of US politics need to understand that this, now?

It's Nixon's cronies finally winning.

It's what happens when there are no consequences for domestic terrorism and insurrection.

grrrr_shark,
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I don't mean that figuratively - people from the Nixon and Reagan administrations keep popping up.

davidho, to random
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Hot take: HTML is the worst thing to happen to email.

grrrr_shark,
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@davidho from a technical point of view, even, this is correct. (I used to work on encrypted email client software, and it's an endless nightmare)

grrrr_shark, to random
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There is little more unpleasant than having to put your foot down with a colleague about their technical performance.

jasongorman, to random
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A lot of developers are from the "If it's new, I gotta have it!" school. I'm very much from the "If I'm still hearing about it 10 years from now, I'll give it a look" school.

grrrr_shark,
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@jasongorman too many young developers sound and act like MBA candidates rather than technically trained experts. It's very frustrating, because many don't understand that the flavour of the day is much less important than knowing what the problem is and how to solve it.

Holberg, to random
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Never thought it would be handy that I’ve never been a Jerry Seinfeld fan, but here we are.

grrrr_shark,
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@Holberg never, ever liked him.

grrrr_shark,
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@Holberg I watched Seinfeld a few times because Jason Alexander and Julia Louis Dreyfuss are so good, but Jerry drove me up the wall.

grrrr_shark,
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@Holberg and his standup just didn't seem funny to me

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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If you are reading the jury instructions, a lot of the stuff here is to reduce the appealable issues. In the olden days, before jury instructions were standarized, defense lawyers would appeal and say "the reasonable doubt standard given by the judge was unclear or misleading."

Standardizing a lot of this language prevents the judge from misspeaking and using the wrong term.

Judges have something to read.

https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/People%20v.%20DJT%20Jury%20Instructions%20and%20Charges%20FINAL%205-23-24.pdf

grrrr_shark,
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@robryk @Teri_Kanefield @dcm The jury is deliberating and discussing something and as a group decide they need to be reminded of testimony for the discussion, so they send a request to the judge. It's not abnormal.

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day -01 27 May 2024 - Arrival of night ferry, Malmö C - Stockholm, onto night ferry

Crossing these borders:
Only sea borders

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

grrrr_shark,
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@jon @grlodi I've been on that boat a few times. You're likely not wrong.

grrrr_shark,
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@jon @grlodi (well, route :)

grrrr_shark, (edited ) to random
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What I discovered when I got sick a few weeks ago was that even with my existing conditions and that that it was very likely NOT COVID, the fact that I now have to fight to consume enough water and cannot physically get enough nutrition means I get MUCH sicker with respiratory crap AND it is more of a challenge to kick it. I actually probably did need to go to the hospital at one point, but I got lucky in the end.

My surgery and its effects would have put me no higher than I already was on anyone's risk list, but there is no question that I am now at higher risk, mechanically (if no one is around to ensure I eat and drink and take meds when I am fevered and woozy, I will forget often, and hydration is like... Dangerously bad) if not inherently.

Please wear a fucking mask in crowded indoor places and when you are ill.

Please.

grrrr_shark, to random
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Briefly in Austria, and so now it is time for...

https://youtu.be/LQVu6g3sRug

grrrr_shark, to random
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I have a whole essay about neutrality sitting in my head, but I can't bring myself to endure the fire my convinced hot take would bring me...

grrrr_shark, to random
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I can't mention this to my daughter ever, but all of points all around this may finally drive me into the arms of Arch installs.

She and her army of Blåhajs would emit squees that would rattle the bones of the Earth

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.

Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.

grrrr_shark,
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@ZachWeinersmith and democracy. And human knowledge.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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Question for security-minded people:

How are you handling video calls in light of Win 11 Recall / Copilot?

I do not consent to other people randomly recording me. How on earth do I vet everyone's operating systems for work calls?

Right now I am angry & thus not framing the question elegantly. For the love of all that's holy, do not lecture me about asking the wrong question or in the wrong way.

If you have mandatory work video calls, how are you handling this yourself?

grrrr_shark,
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@ShaulaEvans this is always the issue - end-to-end encryption only works when the endpoints are secure.

This is not the first time MS has done something egregiously privacy invasive by taking advantage of the OS (they stopped doing any number of things years ago because the EU fined the ever-living shit out of them), but they have appeared to decide they are going to try again. They will never stop.

It is really infuriating - you more or less have to trust your hardware and/or operating system. Yes tech nerds like me can (and do and will) influence choices there for ourselves, but even then one is still at the mercy of the other participants' choices re: communication.

grrrr_shark,
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@kevinriggle @ShaulaEvans this.

grrrr_shark,
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@Oggie @ShaulaEvans but Microsoft will only care about its own products having the functionality - probably only for enterprise users - to do this. They will give zero shits about offering that functionality to non-MS apps until some government makes them, historically, and even then they will have gained a terrible concession.

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day -02 26 May 2024 - Ravières - Montbard - Paris - Köln - Hamburg - Travemünde, onto night ferry Crossing these borders: Lille 🇫🇷 - Bruxelles 🇧🇪 HSL Aachen 🇩🇪 - Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 These borders on the borders map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/50.766/4.263 Today's routes on the routes map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/50.766/4.263

grrrr_shark,
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@jon oh wow. That is... Pretty gross.

Mer__edith, to random
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Ignoring expert consensus, feeling no shame following exposés showing tech lobbyists shaping these EU surveillance proposals, EU politicians are at it again

So, we'll reiterate: Signal would rather leave the EU market than subject our users to mass gov surveillance. FULL STOP

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/

grrrr_shark,
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@Mer__edith and as an intentional EU citizen I would have to have to make my use of Signal more complicated to gain its privacy benefits in spite of the EU, but am very glad Signal is taking this stance.

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