Teaching was my first love. Packets were my second.
I make classes to teach people how to defend themselves against hackers. In my spare time, I teach college students to compete in cybersecurity competitions, or try to take back my home automation from the cloud.
he/him 🏳️🌈 ❤️💜💙
(Profile banner is a sunset sky from underneath a bridge with kayakers and the edge of the Austin city skyline)
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If you're in California, here's all the rapid response orgs to push back against ICE tearing apart your community.
You'll need these numbers. Share them.
Started a YouTube channel. No jump cuts. No background music. No dopamine slot-machine thumbnails. Just ideas I think are worth hearing, said clearly, once.
If that sounds like something you’re craving, I’d love to have you there.
https://youtu.be/CjSWwmg-JRM?si=ZQQaQ8zTHdSVor_3
So here's what happens practically:
First, I get a disgusting remark (or several) and block/defederate/whatever.
This remark does not pass through to other servers, who often enough *also* are blocking/defederating/whatever.
That means you, dear end-user, don't know that any of this happened.
So when I say something like "harassment is rough today", you're not seeing what I saw.
I personally feel like that's a problem. It gets in the way of understanding the scope of the issue.
Like many women online, I get sexual harassment in waves here on the good ol' fediverse.
Today was a rough day, other days are less rough, all of it is unwelcome, and that's a bigger problem than one online community. I don't expect Mastodon (or any other ActivityPub thing) to solve that problem 100%.
When I see it, I block it. Often enough it's a bad server, and I defederate.
This impacts the visibility of the comment.
Have you been laid off? Me too.
What if instead of just finding another job we all team up and build something together? At least we could act as accountability partners and help each other through this phase in our careers.
It doesn't have to be too formal, we could just take turns talking about our next steps and checking in on progress.
If you're interested join the #Matrix server https://matrix.to/#/#fedihire-funemployment-club:matrix.org
Invite your friends!
"Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness... it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
"To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. (1/4)
AP spent a day outside a LA detention center: "On a recent day, dozens of people arrived with medication, clothing and hope of seeing their loved one, if only briefly. After hours of waiting, many were turned away with no news, not even confirmation that their relative was inside. Some relayed reports of horrific conditions inside, including inmates who are so thirsty that they have been drinking from the toilets."
For immigrants who are detained in the Los Angeles region, their first stop is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in the basement of the federal building downtown. A recent day outside the facility shows the profound personal impact of the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration. U.S.-born children and other family members arrived with medication, clothing and a bit of hope of seeing their detained loved one. Many are turned away with no news, not even confirmation that the person is inside. Those taken into custody are from a variety of countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, India, Iran, China, and Laos.
I designed a Bi-Pan Unity Flag for these trying times.
@cstross @spacehobo @grmon @neil
Needing a modifier for the escape key wasn’t great for vim either. I used mine to write a lot of articles and a few book chapters, but that kept tripping me up.
@spacehobo @cstross @grmon @neil
[ requires a modifier on this keyboard, and control is not quite where I expect it either (and isn’t consistent across other keyboards), so not good for muscle memory when using multiple machines. In contrast, escape is always in the corner, the easiest key to hit without thinking. It’s even there in this one, it just needs a modifier.
@neil I had a Nokia Linux N800 tablet with a tiny Apple keyboard that looked just like that. If it and mobile Internet hadn't been so appallingly slow at the time, it would have been great :-).
[I checked - 2007! :-O ]
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