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Tinker ☀️Feb 27

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification

#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI

@tinker why do they have to ruin everything ughhh

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@de3ev @tinker it is beyond exhausting, what's a word for being ground down with anxiety and "are you f*cking serious?! really?!" every day?

@christoff @tinker society will collapse because of these idi*ts

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@de3ev @tinker I mean post-apocalyptic stories and novels are one of my favorite genres, but didn't think I'd be getting a front row seat.

But hey, I got a unique seat! Got to see the rise of the Internet and commodity technology to AI to corporations owning everything, including people's lives via their livelihoods and medical care, with no hope of things changing on the horizon. If anything, prepare for it to be much worse :(

It's a lot. I don't get how people are making it cause I'm barely

Tinker ☀️Feb 27

@christoff @de3ev - I loved loved loved cyberpunk.... but yeah, living in a more mundane boring version took its appeal away from me.

Big way I am making it is through solarpunk (for this VERY reason). I need something to hope for and something to build towards. So it's solarpunk literature, art, and in my actual life - building solarpunk apparatus and community.

@tinker @christoff I need to follow all your steps y'all.

Tinker ☀️Feb 27

@de3ev @christoff - I've been building Free Fridges and Food Rescue in town. Lots of folks are building out solar panel microgrids for them and their neighbors. We're doing a lot more community third spaces (community theaters, beefed up libraries). We have repair cafes and monthly meetups where we bring in something to be repaired for free and then help others repair their stuff for free.

We're building a better world and living in it now.

@tinker @christoff Thank you for what you do and for making a difference in this world we live in, Tinker.

Tinker ☀️Feb 27

@de3ev @christoff - We're all just trying to live and doing the best we can. I'm not the only one in my town doing this and many are doing more - but what I'm doing is what I can and that has to be enough.

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@tinker @de3ev amen, i like you're walking and creating a world you want to live in with others... guess that's the point :)

I need to *get involved*

@christoff @tinker Tinker is one of the people who have helped me voice out stuff in Infosec and whenever I need help! especially back on Twitter (RIP Bird app)

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@de3ev @tinker tinker also helped me with my career with a brief intro to social engineering, I took it and ran with it and accidentally became a better person. forever grateful :)

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@tinker @de3ev I should do more. I don't even have a library card here and been in IL for over a year now.

Tinker ☀️Feb 27

@christoff @de3ev - Oooh! That's a fun thing to do!

I get FREE WITH NO ADS movies, series, ebooks, audiobooks, and music through my library's Hoopla and Libby apps.

The Library also has a lot of weekly events that I can go to and participate with for free.

DM me your current town (I remember where you used to be, but not sure where you're at now) and I'll take a look at what you're library offers and send it back.

@tinker I wonder, do those who attend pretend COVID isn't a thing or have you managed to be better?

I'm quite disappointed with what little local community there is here.

Tinker ☀️Mar 1

@lispi314 - Yeah, that parts hard. There are plenty of people that still mask up, but plenty that dont.

If you started (or took charge) of a group, you could require masking at meetings, but when you work with the greater community, you won't have that control.

Rachel Rawlings Mar 2

@tinker @lispi314 I'm the only person who masks at my bimonthly in-person LUG meeting (12-15 people). The other meetings we have are over jitsi.

@tinker @christoff

If we think about it, we are just living in borrowed time. Not to be negative and all that. But, if you stop and realize it, its just a very short time. If these billionaires only realize how short this life is, they'd make this world a better place.

I am not sure if they have moral compass to realize that kind of stuff. But anyway, it sucks

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@de3ev @tinker indeed, folks giving me part of their life time to share in it with me, that's the greatest gift.

of course, the opposite is what fascists love.

still... wtf am I doing in my community? am I even *in* my community, uncomfortable self-confrontation. words and ideals need to match actions, even if I'm beat down hard. it's a way to get back up.

Even if it all goes to crap, at least I tried, eh? I can live with that.

@christoff @tinker Go get out there, it's not too late. You can still make a lot of diff ! :)

Tinker ☀️Feb 27

@de3ev @christoff - "The best time to do it was yesterday. The second best time to do it is today."

You're at a point in life where you not only have recognized the need but you can start meeting that need.

Don't beat yourself up.

Be happy that you've arrived at this conclusion and desire and start doing it, easily, and with relaxation, comfort, and celebrating your victory.

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@tinker @de3ev appreciate you man

clonedhuman Feb 27

@de3ev @tinker @christoff I can think of a few productive ways to help them realize how short this life is.

@de3ev @tinker @christoff > If these billionaires only realize how short this life is, they'd make this world a better place.

It actually makes even less sense to make things worse if one assumes they'll live forever, because then one actually has to deal with the consequences of it.

Christoff, the human Feb 27

@tinker @de3ev that's true brosif, remember you introducing it to me and it was a spark of hope. I need that again. I introduced it to my girlfriend anyway, mainly when bitching about cement jungles they drape plants down, like they're making a difference in a real way :(

Had to explain the culture and overall mindset of it all.

Tinker ☀️Feb 27

@christoff @de3ev - Yeah absolutely. But. Focus on the positive things as much as you can. Having hope and surviving is a form of rebellion.

Cliff'sEsportCorner Feb 28

@christoff @de3ev @tinker "existential dread" is one phrase I use :/

Christoff, the human Feb 28

@CliffsEsport @de3ev @tinker oh I just get that with self awareness, which seems to amplify as I am aging, but also at peace with it all :) the rest is extra! But eventually a profile pic will be my last and obituary image.

I just hope I can melt into some overall energy of the universe again after being its sensory organs for a bit, eh?

Until then, stoked I got the full neck chord permutations down on my guitar now :)

@de3ev @tinker @christoff this keeps repeating 🤦‍♂️

Christoff, the human Mar 4

@obrientg @de3ev @tinker yuuuuup