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tasket

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Most things do not belong on the Internet.
#IoT #InternetOfShit

Imagine if we put wheels on everything and expected it all to navigate the Interstate.

Made some things for #QubesOS.

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dymaxion , to random
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I would really like to start being wrong more often about the trajectory of the world.

Any chance someone could give the world a little kick back in the right direction? Idk, like off all the billionaires or something?

tasket ,
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@dymaxion ...all of the billionaires

What followed the first Gilded Age?

jerry , to random
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To those people who are coming at me about security training - at best, it reduces the problem, but doesn’t come close to eliminating it. And you’ve not lived until you have a person who opened the wrong email being skewered by senior management, who insists the whole thing was their fault, after all, “they took the training”

No, I am not on that train. It is part of a program, but it is NOT a security control. I will die on this hill.

tasket ,
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@jerry I have opinions about this. Focusing on elimination by automatic detection and filtration and the enemy of the good.

No one knows what TF a URL is anymore or why that domain name looks strange but they can't put their finger on it because "domain name" isn't in their vocabulary. An email program isn't going to put up a "going to web domain xyz" dialogue with a 3-second timer because that is considered too gauche.

Meanwhile, you're supposed to psychoanalyze the email sender's intentions based on vague linguistic cues.

Most of this stuff in practice is dictated by fashion; there are no computer science principles guiding it anymore so security keeps getting worse.

drewharwell , to random
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With Threads' entry into the fediverse, I'll be posting and playing around with two accounts now.

This one, on Mastodon.social: @drewharwell

And this one, on Threads: @drewharwell

How are y'all planning to do it?

tasket ,
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@drewharwell @Bam @randahl I'd question whether this incentive to create an account on was an intended effect.

Edit: I think fedi users should consider blocking people who make this "bargain".

pluralistic , to random
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Apple's most valuable intangible asset isn't its patents or copyrights - it's an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple's shareholders.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

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tasket ,
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@pluralistic I would love to see your analysis about Apple refusing to put SD storage slots on their products, and then switching iOS Photo's default mode to store images as (much larger) movies... thus forcing many users at inopportune times to use iCloud (before E2E encryption was a feature).

BTW, I use an older iPhone and #iOS constantly nags that its not fully setup because I don't have #iCloud linked to it.

#Apple #darkpatterns #dataheist

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