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Dave Mason 2h ago

~n 3h ago

OH: "EBITDA - Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs & Donald Announcements"

Dave Mason 19h ago

Doctor Roo 22h ago

Good luck to the Artemis II crew.

#PlanetOfTheApes #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi #Astronauts #CharltonHeston

Dave Mason 22h ago

Matt Blaze 1d ago

Trump signed an executive order today about mail in voting. It's an attempt to restrict postal delivery of mail in ballots to people on a DHS-compiled list of citizens.

Rick Hasen has a nice summary (tl;dr: not much to get worked up over here, for both legal and practical reasons):

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=155187

Breaking: President Trump Signs New Executive Order on Elections: It is Underwhelming Compared to What Was Threatened. It's Key Part is Likely Unconstitutional: Directing the Post Office to Reject Mail Ballots Except from Those on Federally Approved Voter Lists #ELB

President Trump has signed a second executive order purporting to regulate federal elections (especially mail ballots). His first executive order from last August has already been enjoined in key parts for violating the Constitution. As Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote in one … Continue reading Breaking: President Trump Signs New Executive Order on Elections: It is Underwhelming Compared to What Was Threatened. It’s Key Part is Likely Unconstitutional: Directing the Post Office to Reject Mail Ballots Except from Those on Federally Approved Voter Lists →

Election Law Blog

Dave Mason 23h ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 23h ago

“The answer isn’t to try to take a dictator and make them a better dictator, right? We’ve got these social media dictators,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said on The Daily Show. “The answer is to get rid of the dictators and make them less important.” https://www.thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/culture/daily-show-cindy-cohn-ai-social-media-x-meta-video/

Cindy Cohn Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta 'Less Important' | Video

Cindy Cohn touched on the toxicity of the social media space in a wide-ranging interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart Monday night.

TheWrap

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Dave Mason 1d ago

@JohnJBurnsIII

* Personally Identifiable Information.

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Dave Mason 1d ago

@JohnJBurnsIII
And that part is bad enough as it is.

Equally bad: the vast majority of folks give up their PII and think nothing of it...as if it's normal and OK.

(And when I claim "vast majority", I'm estimating something within a whisker of 100%. I wish I wasn't kidding. 🙁)

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Dave Mason 1d ago

@JohnJBurnsIII
More and more 'things' seem to be this way.

"Give us your #PII or you can't <do the thing>."

Dave Mason 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DaveMasonDotMe/116330881730354518

When I'm on a mobile device, I generally do *not* want to use 'apps', mostly due to surveillance capitalism. Gimme the same or similar functionality in a web browser instead. (Yeah, yeah, yeah...there's some exceptions to this 'rule', such as Signal or a Maps app, etc.)

When I'm on a laptop/desktop, I prefer apps. When you've got a full sized keyboard and mouse, web apps suck compared to native apps.

If that's a contradictory stance, so be it.

Dave Mason 1d ago

Being forced to use anything in the Big Tech stack for work is bad enough.

Having to use a web client for calendar/email is doubly bad. I just wanna use Thunderbird. 😭

Dave Mason 1d ago

Khalid ⚡1d ago

Is there a tool in #dotnet that can determine if an object being accessed is a Singleton within a given code block? I'm guessing no, but maybe there's some static analysis tools that look for code patterns of "oh this is definitely a singleton 90% of the time”.

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