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

Show threadDeniceFeb 27
@tinker why do they have to ruin everything ughhh
Show threadChristoff, the humanFeb 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?
Show threadDeniceFeb 27
@christoff @tinker society will collapse because of these idi*ts
Show threadChristoff, the humanFeb 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

Show threadTinker ☀️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.

Show threadChristoff, the human

@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.

Feb 27 at 2:58pmWeb
Show threadTinker ☀️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.