Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 

@dave_cochran@infosec.exchange
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We do not have much in common, you and I - still, this encounter feels special. I hope you will not mind if I consider you a friend.

he/him

enthusiastically anti-nazi

RTs are *absolutely* endorsements unless I'm arguing with whoever got RT'd in the replies - and sometimes even then.

old mastodon profilehttps://mastodon.social/@dave_cochran
My office computer just crashed and now all the other computers have slowed down so they can see whats happening.
What term do you prefer to refer to
software/products/services/people that
aren't using any generative AI or any AI system training on user inputs 🚫🤖
NoAI
AI-free
AIless (I know, I know)
Ailess?
Robotless
Anti-AI
Without AI
Certified AI-Hype Free
Other (explain) 👀
Poll ends at .
The battery on my new Lenovo M11 tablet was draining fast and it didn't make any sense because the tablet and battery is brand new. It's supposed to last all day. Turns out it was the Facebook app running in the background nonstop spying on everything I'm doing on the tablet and using all the battery power. Deleted the app. Problem is fixed.

I wrote about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle.

https://www.the-reframe.com/be-bolder-not-a-boulder/

Be Bolder, Not a Boulder

Advice to my fellow people of privilege on not being an obstacle. Part 1 of 2.

The Reframe
This is the truth. Is it fun? Maybe. Could it be sad? Probably. Do they oversee it all? No! But they are ultimately responsible. For all aspects. Both business and security… So if you are a CEO or a CISO. Talk about this together in the near future.
druids per git commit
😬 this isn’t going how @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social expected

This is the MAGA/Trump mentality:

Stop collecting #climate data and doing research and climate change disappears.
Eliminate disaster programs and disasters disappear.
Stop reporting disease statistics and diseases disappear.
Stop freedom to speak and dissent disappears.
Resistance isn't futile.

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