Daniel V.

@dvandal@infosec.exchange
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I break shit for a living.

Certified Pissed and ready to throw hands with this goddamn regime.

You'll get mostly pictures of my lovely Bean (cat), occasional politics posting, and some general yapping about tech.

"I'm glad to know that the Software Engineering department isn't the only team that expects Daniel to break everything"

He/Him/They/Grilled Cheese

I hate the expression "rubber bullet". Those bullets aren't rubber. They're hollow steel canisters with a coating of non-vulcanized rubber, like super-balls.

When they hit a person, they do considerable damage.

When they hit strangers on livestream, they leave significant and instant bruises.

When they hit my acquaintance Jonny, they tore off their fingernail and severely fractured their finger bone.

When they hit Linda Tirado, they took her eye and gave her progressive brain disease.

White people today: the protesters in LA are hurting their own cause, they should be like MLK and the Civil Rights Movement!

Meanwhile, white people during the Civil Rights Movement:

#Oregon just became the first state to end private equity and corporate control of doctor and clinical practices.

This is huge. I do wish California and other states would follow suit, but the corporate money is so entrenched in politics here that it would take a miracle for it to happen.

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/09/bill-enacting-nations-strictest-limits-on-corporate-health-care-influence-signed-by-gov-kotek/

Tech people must resolve to treat Palantir employees in their spaces - conferences, meetups, hackathons, etc - identically to how they would treat the masked gun-brandishing irregular-uniformed gestapo out there right now arresting every latina mother and child they feel like.
Palantir are the computer job counterparts of those thugs and one wouldn't exist without the other, and they should experience 100% identical social consequences.
I'm still reflexively unfollowing/blocking when i see AI art in my feed.

If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it.

"The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."

"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."

If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.

digging around in my 2K Marin-era (2008-ish) archives and came across this outstanding error message, props to whatever IT(?) person decided to phrase a simple seat license conflict as "Human Combat Required":

๐Ÿง  Heading to a protest? Protect yourself from gov surveillance before you get there.

๐Ÿ” Use Signal, not SMS.
๐Ÿ“ด Airplane mode > just "silent."
๐Ÿ“ต No face unlock.
๐ŸŽญ Mask up. Both kinds help.
๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Donโ€™t post live from the scene if it includes others' faces or locations.

We stand for privacy, protection, and public action.

๐Ÿ“š Full guide via @Wired@msdtdn.social ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/

#PrivacyMatters #DigitalSecurity #CivicTech #ProtestTools #Surveillance #ACTNetwork

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit Americaโ€™s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

WIRED

Glendale, which is a city in LA County, just canceled its contract with ICE.

Because protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works. Protesting works.

#LosAngeles #LosAngelesProtests #AbolishICE

programmers who think copilot helps them code without destroying their brains should really consider what else that same tech is doing in the world. but I guess if more thought about that kind of thing, we would neither have a tech industry nor one currently burning the world down