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esther, 1 year ago to random

Time to pick a new book …

Fiction? Politics? Psychology? 🤔

dillonthebiologist, 1 year ago to random

New to Mastodon. Thought id give an #introduction!

My name is Dillon. I am a biologist and Science communicator mainly active on the instagram. If im not hyperfixating on my R code, I am creating online courses and educational material, being opinionated about conservation, or out looking for frogs!

Anyone mind giving me a primer for how Mastodon works? Im still very new to it all

Picture is of my favorite salamander! (Bolitoglossa mexicana)

mlevison, 1 year ago to random

Working conditions today

mattblaze, 1 year ago to random

This iPhone “rapid security response” update just showed up, FWIW.

TfTHacker, 1 year ago to random

If you are writing about Obsidian on Medium, let me know. I am cooking up something interesting and looking for those writing on Obsidian.

@obsidian

gvwilson, 1 year ago to random

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marick, 1 year ago to random

Question: has MacOS spelling correction gotten quite a bit worse over the past couple of years? Just now it told me “unpolitic” is not a word. It is so.

More annoying is that it frequently offers no suggestions for fairly minor misspellings of not-uncommon words.

Is it saying, as Dawn did not long after we met, that “you talk flowery”.

tvPlusNews, 1 year ago to random

May on #AppleTVPlus:

Premieres:
#HarrietTheSpy S2, #Silo, #ThePeanutsClassics, #CityOnFire, #STILL: A #MichaelJFox Movie, #HighDesert, #Stillwater S3, #PrehistoricPlanet S2, #Platonic

Finales:
#Schmigadoon S2, #TheBigDoorPrize, #BigBeasts, #TheLastThingHeToldMe, #PrehistoricPlanet S2, #TedLasso S3

Ongoing:
#DropsOfGod

What are you most excited for?

jitterted, 1 year ago to random

Some day I hope to write a book called "Useful Design Patterns that aren't from the Gang of Four".

So tired of retreads over the same ground (and, TBH, often not very good ones).

mysk, 1 year ago to infosec

Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.

TL;DR: Don't turn it on.

The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.

We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted. As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers. There is no option to add a passphrase to protect the secrets, to make them accessible only by the user.

Why is this bad?

Every 2FA QR code contains a secret, or a seed, that’s used to generate the one-time codes. If someone else knows the secret, they can generate the same one-time codes and defeat 2FA protections. So, if there’s ever a data breach or if someone obtains access .... 🧵

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #2FA #Google #Security

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mlevison, 1 year ago to random

Cool I just discovered @BetaCodex has a thin skin. I disagreed on post and rather than discuss I was blocked.

First time I’ve been blocked here. That might be a badge.

#Agile

BetaCodex, 1 year ago to random

Agile was born with the #AgileManifestoOfSoftwareDevelopment, of course.
Soon afterwards, #agile became #scrum. From then on, it only got worse. #Agile became a ‘training’ thing.
But ‘agility’ (just as actual #lean or #quality) is and must be a different theory about how to design and organize work and value creation. It requires re-thinking organization – and put #management thinking on the garbage heap of history.
#Training or #certification or #agilecoaching won’t help people rethink organizational theory.
The #Agile movement avoided the theory problem. That’s why it has been so popular and also why it failed, utterly and completely.

#aic #leanmanagement #totalqualitymanagement #betacodex

grimalkina, 1 year ago to random

I still don't really know what mastodon is FOR but I'm working on an analysis about engineering managers and how they talk about advocating for their teams and I simply cannot wait to share it, I can't stop thinking about it, it's such fascinating stuff.

Never has it annoyed me more that we're trying to reduce all the complex experience of running a functional and supportive software team to "tools" (aka "developer experience"--which is being completely co-opted by conversations about tooling)

birv2, 1 year ago to random

I almost backslid today from #obsidian. Saw an article touting emacs and thought it sounded really cool! Started to read about it and remembered that I've committed to obsidian for a year.

Whew.

coachtony, 1 year ago to random

It’s emerging public knowledge that #AICompanies are going to have to pay for #TrainingData. I’m assuming that this will happen.

Given that. Should #Medium participate on behalf of our Authors and how should we pass that money on to authors? The per article price is not going to be very much money, say $0.10. But we could put the money into the author payment pool and pay out by Quality/Popularity.

hacks4pancakes, 1 year ago to random

Forgive my bluntness, but I just do not understand who all these emails less than a week from RSA with, "want to meet the CEO of *insert ambiguous new cybersecurity startup??" appeal to. First of all, we've all been totally booked for months. Second of all, why would you want to go meet a random CEO unless you already had a business relationship? I get the party invites (though some are super late to the game this year) because that's a fun and somewhat appealing thing, but this one totally baffles me. I don't need to like go get their autograph like its Comic Con

mlevison, 1 year ago to random

From time to time the hosts of some of my favourite podcasts mention Will Power/Ego Depletion, citing the work of Roy Baumeister. It may not be common knowledge but the original work fails replication. As I document in this note sharing the theory has negative consequences since people believe they have limited will power. I'm pasting my notes on the subject from my Obsidian vault. These are rough and ready, they've not even been polished by Grammarly.

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#Myths #Neuromyths #Willpower

cabel, 1 year ago to random

🇯🇵👾💴💸 Hello 2023 and Hello Mastodon! It's time for a Mastodon-exclusive thread of mildly-interesting, (usually) video-game-related items that I've found up for auction on Yahoo! Auctions Japan. Let's (-a) go!