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Also @DamonHD and @EarthOrgUK ...
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jerry , to random
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Just a reminder that Infosec.exchange and most of the other associated sites (pixel, meetups, infosec.space, infosec.pub, infosec.place, etc will be down for maintenance to swap database servers in about 2 hours. I expect the downtime to take about 90 minutes to 2 hours. Depends on how long the dump and load process takes.

DamonHD ,
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@jerry The rest of the Internet and space-time will just freeze until you're done so that we don't have to notice, right?

18+ dgar , to random
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DamonHD ,
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@darklyadapted @RobertWT @NormanDunbar @Steve_p_photos @buddhawilliams @dgar @weirdfolks

And you know why they sometimes paint their toenails red instead?

So that if there is no custard to hide in then instead they can disappear into a cherry tree...

DamonHD ,
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@Devonkiwi @darklyadapted @kinsale42 @RobertWT @NormanDunbar @Steve_p_photos @buddhawilliams @dgar @weirdfolks In the old days he would have made a trunk call and tried to reverse the charges...

aram , to AcademicChatter group
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It's time for us professors who study to start hassling our university IT departments whenever they integrate extractive platforms into our professional workflow.

Feel free to repurpose my verbiage in your own emails.

@academicchatter @academicsunite

This “enhanced” experience, per Ellucian’s own privacy policy, doesn’t in any way benefit me. Instead, what it does is increase the amount of personal data the company is allowed to harvest from me, and share with third parties, including sponsors, government agencies, and unnamed “third parties” whose intentions, and data security practices, are not specified, and who therefore have no accountability to me whatsoever. This is bad data security. It makes me personally vulnerable, and more importantly, it makes my sensitive data vulnerable in a way that might compromise my own data sources, to whom I have made my own data security pledges (in some cases, per the legal requirements of AU and other institutions, such as informed consent for human subjects research). In the best world, Ellucian would NEVER ask me for these personal data. In a better world, they would ask ONCE and take “no thanks” as a permanent answer. I research data security as a scholar, so I understand what’s at stake, and am willing to take the extra energy and effort to click “No thanks” a hundred times per semester (and to email administrators like yourself about it). But most AU employees don’t have my level of expertise, self-efficacy, and willingness to take on the extra labor of pushing back against this extractive darta regime. Especially when data surveillance is described in vague and bogus terms like “enhanced experience.” That’s both unfair and unsafe, and we should change those policies...
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    DamonHD ,
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    @aram @academicchatter @academicsunite @commodon I'm trying to get my uni to stop burying (actual or potential) tracking links undeclared into most emails...

    breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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    This might be an unpopular opinion, but I’ll state it anyway.

    Those of us fortunate enough to have access to washing machines and dryers should use them as little as possible.

    Try to wear your clothing — shirts, trousers, socks — more than once, ideally several times, before washing them again. That will save water, save energy, cause less pollution, and make your clothing last longer.

    DamonHD ,
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    @breadandcircuses I'm on it. I don't think that I was ever wasteful, but I hope that I have roughly halved my laundry throughput over the last few months. Reduced shedding of microfibres into the wastewater was another of my motivations.

    RolloTreadway , to random
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    Reminder to anyone who lives where it's cold right now: if birds visit your garden (or balcony, yard, whatever), please make sure they have fresh liquid water. It can be very hard for them to stay hydrated when it freezes.

    DamonHD ,
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    @RolloTreadway done: thanks for the reminder!

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