"May he die surrounded by friends.
You know, like Julius Caesar."
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.
There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.
"Curious. What ritual is this?"
"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"
"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.
“I was working on a technical post about DNS resolution when I encountered something unexpected. Every time I typed the path to the hosts file (/etc/h*sts - intentionally obfuscated to avoid triggering the very issue I'm discussing), my Substack editor would display a ‘Network Error’ and fail to autosave my draft.”
https://scalewithlee.substack.com/p/when-etchsts-breaks-your-substack
given ::waves hands:: the single most important question leadership should be asking of line managers is:
how are you creating and defending psychological safety for your team?
performance and innovation flow *from* that place of safety – if you are treating it as an earned privilege you are failing your directs and have no business managing people
free advice I give to anyone who asks these days : LIE to every part of the internet that isn’t a government like you got your first PC in 1993 and were part of eternal September
birthday, name, gender, occupation, location, interests, favourite colour, ALL OF IT
data brokerage gets a whole lot darker under an autocracy, and one of the few things you can somewhat control is the fidelity of *your* data. lie, use disposable/temporary emails whenever you can, and make it muddy af
"Please consult with staff if you plan to shoplift"
Lower left: "I'm shoplifting"
Lower right: "I'm calling the cops"
idk how widely know this is, but you can access emergency contact numbers in your Medical ID while your iPhone is hard-locked and this has *many* use-cases
if you are resident or travelling anywhere other than your passport country, add contact numbers for your embassy / consular services and any legal assistance you have access to
now you can access those numbers without unlocking your device 💫
HT @jalefkowit for sharing 👇
https://daringfireball.net/2022/06/require_a_passcode_to_unlock_your_iphone