Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
You’re telling me you can make debt collectors f off forever by demanding to see form 27b-stroke-6?
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Judge Chutkan is going to single handily prove me wrong about the speediness of the Trump trial and it is *glorious.*
I’m about one hearing away from saying “Oh, you sending Judge Chutkan? Sheeet, Negro, that’s all you had to say.”
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NEW RESEARCH: most popular Chinese keyboard app (450 million monthly users!) transmits every key typed to @tencentglobal.
My @citizenlab colleagues found vulnerable encryption means the uploaded keystrokes could *also* be intercepted by 3rd parties. 1/
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/
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Starting immediately, daily standups will be delivered in the form of a musical. This is the way.
#StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #SpaceRhapsody #agile
https://music.apple.com/be/album/status-report/1699286071?i=1699286073
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Five days before a special election that should be illegal, voting locations for tens of thousands of Ohioans have been temporarily changed (presumably to make it harder for us to defeat this awful ballot issue). If you’re in Ohio, make sure you know where to vote! #Ohio #Issue1
https://fox8.com/news/polling-places-for-aug-8-election-changed-in-cuyahoga-summit-counties/
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re: the news about #Zoom scraping *all* data for training #ML/#AI, here's a useful guide on reading privacy policies: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2023/08/03/how-to-quickly-get-to-the-important-truth-inside-any-privacy-policy via @themarkup
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This essay is an utterly brilliant take on #AIhype. I'll put a few excerpts here, but you should definitely go read the whole thing:
https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for
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The First Big #Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of
@GeePawHill While we’re getting tired of it, though, it’s doing good & perhaps essential work disillusioning the public about the myths of tech utopianism and exceptionalism. Hope to hear it in a congressional hearing soon.
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Since Musk has officially announced his intention to train his "AI" on everyone's tweets, here, again, for anyone still there, is how to download your data:
https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
A few tweet deletion tools:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/delete-tweets-immediately/
And Darius @darius's Twitter archive tool:
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/
You know, I’ve wanted to get back to #neworleans for a long time now, but I don’t believe I’ll be setting foot inside #louisiana anytime soon.
Sometimes it really seems like the kids are all right. #climate #climatechange
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/05/montana-climate-trial-special-places/
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Every time you try to talk smack about how Europe is better at regulation than innovation
This is the whole point of the “I would simply” meme family.
From: @PavelASamsonov
https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/110822003666733456
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How’s this for a headstone epitaph:
UNSUBSCRIBE
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Surveillance marketers are changing how they track you online, so we’re joining forces with Consumer Reports to investigate.
If you have a Facebook account (even if it’s inactive), help us uncover what info companies are gathering and sharing about you. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/08/02/help-us-investigate-surveillance-marketing-using-facebook-data
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
