"If your tests are complex, convoluted, and hard to explain, then know that your testing experience is likely to match their [human operators'] operational experience as well."
_Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir_ (https://www.propertesting.com/)
This was a great talk: https://invidio.us/watch?v=1SKpRbvnx6g
tl;dr Beware of tl;dr's and hot takes. Though there's plenty else to it.
Find out more at: https://19.re-publica.com/node/30297 We are building the new neuro-anatomy of the human race. In the process we are destroying the human attention system, changing our idea of what i
Katharine Gun's story as a whistleblower is remarkable. She was in a position to recognize the lack of justification for the Iraq War, and collusion between the US and Britain to find dirt on UN Security Council nations.
When she was eventually brought to trial she pled "not guilty" and the prosecution...gave up. They knew the only way to win the case was to argue the war was legal, and they weren't willing to open that can of worms.
If somebody reaches out to you from new accounts claiming they are "<somebody you know>" because their familiar accounts are compromised, it should reduce your trust in both old and new accounts related to the person.
To figure out which you can trust, try to reach out to that person through other trustworthy channels, including other people close to them in their familiar web of trust.
One concern I've had about @Mastodon since joining is the lack of support for provably migrating an identity to another server.
@keybase has an answer to this: use your profile to cryptographically prove to everyone which mastodon identities you control and currently represent your public persona. This web of trust model is has a lot of benefits over Twitter's blue check.
this talk by @mako last year on how the tools of free software have been co-opted in order to create freedom for companies instead of freedom for humans did a great job of bringing together a bunch of threads I've been following recently as well as pointing out new insights and ways forward.
highly recommended if you care about ways in which software can help people and are concerned about our work being subverted.
alcinnz
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