I'm on my way to #39c3, if we know each other and you're going to be there, let me know!
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Em 
I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.
But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.
Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.
This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.
It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW ✊
There isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.
Democracy dies in silence.
- Everyone: Learn more here
- Everyone: Spread the word on social media
- Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your local media NOW
- Europeans 🇪🇺 Contact your MEPs NOW
The final vote is on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.
#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli
Paula BabbicolaI’m back into the job market 🎉
I’m not currently in a super hurry. I want to enjoy some time with my dog, do our scentwork class, enjoy some downtime after a prolonged period of stress. I’m employed until October 31st. After that, I’m free to take a new job as a senior software engineer. Alternatively, I’m also toying with the idea of changing paths to SRE.
_Important!_: Are you working at a non profit or doing good to the world in some other way but can’t afford to pay market rate? Let’s talk anyways 🤗.
What I bring to the table:
- Enthusiastic, positive attitude.
- Direct, clear, plain language communication.
- Empathy, and helpfulness.
- Systems thinking.
- Willingness to both teach and learn.
- Carefully written, human-readable code.
- 7 years of software development focused on Go.
- Solid foundation on programming language theory.
- Neurodivergency and general disability advocacy.
I can get you references from other developers in all parts of the stack, SREs, designers, engineering managers, and more.
Hard requirements:
- Not evil company, with a product that solves an actual need. (It should make someone’s life better, and shouldn’t exploit people. Also people != developers)
- Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Home office allowed at least as a disability accommodation.
- Kind coworkers.
- Not willing to relocate from Berlin, Germany.
Soft requirements:
- Strongly typed language. Very proficient in go but I’m flexible. Preference for compiled languages, or at least languages with one standard interpreter.
Preferences:
- I’m all in for science.
- Anything to do with dogs, I’m also game!
You can find my cv at https://paula.codes/software-dev/cv/
CV
Intro # I make resilient and reliable software. I enjoy doing so with kind people, and enjoy learning and teaching. My main technology focus is Go, but I have worked in other languages such as Typescript and Python. I believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are the cornerstones of an ethical workplace, and that they make our work better by bringing diverse perspectives on board. Links # Github LinkedIn E-Mail Work Experience # Ecosia · Senior Software Engineer # Berlin, Germany · June 2020 - October 2025
CharlotteGO SIGN THE ANTI CONVERSION THERAPY THING
Today is the last day and we're ALMOST THERE (in terms of pure signatures at least, we still need some from specific countries)
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
Today is the last day and we're ALMOST THERE (in terms of pure signatures at least, we still need some from specific countries)
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
mccHello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
Achievement unlocked: mailed a letter with the envelope bearing the appropriate hazmat placard and UN number.
Waldo JaquithI made a new Mastodon bot, called "I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I've been having fun reading these, so I turned it into a bot because you, too, might have fun reading them. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112295528875440987
I Hope This Email Finds You (@[email protected])
I hope this email finds you under a balcony and kisses you in the shadows until there's nothing left of you but sparkling fairy dust, and in your weakened state, you ask if she wants to hang out next weekend, and her face clouds and she goes, “Ohhh."
Dylan NugentI am deep in the rabbit hole of looking into an apparently deeply scammy looking zsh plugin manager called "zi".
I think it's an extremely bad idea to use "z-shell/zi" or anything else from the same "creators". There's an entire field of red flags here.
Thomas GerbetThanks to @delroth https://github.com/delroth/grep-nixos-cache/ and the following YARA rule [0] I have been able to check all the current #nixpkgs unstable Linux x86_64 packages available in cache for the known liblzma backdoor payload: no match 🎉
My main goal was to identify packages built from binary sources that might be using it.
It is nice that doing investigations like that is accessible to individuals and fast to do. It can even be useful to a wider community than just #NixOS
[0] https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/pull/313/files
mhoyeToday in Torment Nexus news:
Isaac Asimov: I've created the Three Laws Of Robotics to demonstrate all the ways simple, well-intentioned rules can fail catastrophically.
Google: To protect humans we are creating a "Robot Constitution" inspired by the classic sci-fi series, Look At All The Ways The Three Laws Of Robotics Can Fail Catastrophically.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-taps-asimovs-three-laws-of-robotics-for-real-robot-safety