#infosec and #cybersecurity professional who preaches about stakeholder engagement and #usability. #poverty abolitionist. Does #knitting, loves #kdramas.
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Last Notes npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Poverty is a moral crisis. It’s not something that just happens to people, it is *done to* people. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I don’t remember where I saw this but women have the same problems. All the genders are dealing with the loneliness epidemic. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I canceled my subscription way back when they said they were going to use LLMs instead of human translators to make lessons npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case >> Nuclear might be a solution but it is costly, very slow to implement and requires extensive management once in place. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Websites do this to get around the GDPR and other privacy regulations because they can’t use trackers. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I can go through the trouble and effort of switching costs and trying (probably unsuccessfully) to get everyone I know to use whatever niche solution because some bellicose rando on the internet tried to browbeat me into it… npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case This is what I get for engaging with someone whose Mastodon handle is a long string of gibberish. They also talk a long string of gibberish. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case >> i'm sure the people you know are not tech savy enough to know the differences or actually read source code. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case You don’t need a phone number to use Signal now either, and unlike your thing, Signal is something my friends and family have and actually use. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case So here you are saying that this app that my parents and neighbors actually use is bad compared to some other things I have never heard of before, one of which won’t have an app until next year, and which aren’t used by any people I know? npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Yeah Columbia is the poster child for this. Biggest landlord in Manhattan, and acts like a shitty landlord in every way. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Because so many institutions of higher education have just become rent-seeking and financialization enterprises that do a little education on the side. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case That’s great for you. Are all the people who dedicated time and effort to building and editing Wikipedia going to feel that way? I don’t think they consented to slop machines eating their hard work while only Wikimedia gets money for it. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case The #ICE agent who killed #ReneeNicoleGood wasn’t some raw recruit with 6 weeks of training hired within the last year. He’s been an ICE agent for almost a decade! npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I live in the Washington, DC area and saw a few dozen ladies with the MAGA aesthetic in person around the time of the inauguration last year. They stood out because nobody in DC does their hair or makeup like that, nor do they wear fur coats! npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Also Avelo, a charter airline that did deportation flights for ICE, will be endinf their contracts with ICE starting in February, after a multi-state pressure campaign against them. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Some of the people criticizing #TimWalz over activating the #Minnesota #NationalGuard need to think it over for 30 seconds or so. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I’m a cybersecurity policy specialist and I anticipate there’s going to be a lot of “why did we do that? Oh no. How do we make sure we don’t do this again?” in a couple years. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I don’t know if you can order it online? You can get a small container and if you like it you can order one of those industrial-size restaurant containers of the stuff. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Since I live in the Chesapeake Bay region I put Old Bay or something like it in damn near everything. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I have never heard of anyone calling Hitler a Pharisee. What is that person on about? npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Ask the Native Americans, Black South Africans, Tutsis in Rwanda, etc. Not that it’s easy but Palestinians would not be the first people to do it by a long shot. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Who says he’s the leading candidate? Are we in a midst of a Presidential primary? Is there a decent poll on Democratic voters’ preferences (3 years away from the next election year as if that means anything)? npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Another reason to hate Bill Gates: he invests in deportation airlines. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Try explaining to people why they should not use “Zionist” as a shorthand for “Israel’s settler-colonialism.” At best they don’t care that they’re providing cover to bigots. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Even talking about “the child will be separated,” yes that’s violence and it is usually done to poorer, less white families, instead of providing social and financial support. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Check on Drugs.com for drug interactions. I use it a lot because I’m on a whole bunch of things and need to be careful of what I take with what else. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Shakespeare did perform for Queen Elizabeth but that was very unusual, and it was a bit of a scandal for her to be so interested in (gasp) PLAYS, which were considered a form of lower-class entertainment. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case It drives me nuts when people on here are like “decentralized electricity is automatically better!” Is it, you goobers? How do you feel about decentralized plumbing? npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case That’s funny because I’ve seen the opposite, people grasp the fact that they are being surveilled, but tend to be wrong about the particulars of the mechanisms used to surveil them. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Most of the people I know use some kind of adblocker. The people who don’t aren’t technically knowledgeable enough to get one to work, and are too preoccupied with survival, dealing with chronic illness, etc. to learn. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I have to say that while I am interested and compelled by the central thesis of OP’s argument, “users don’t actually care about this, if they did they would…” is such a typical manifestation of the tech-priesthood attitude you see all over Mastodon. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case If you want me to provide an action plan or project schedule or whatever for any kind of work I’m doing you should pay me. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Mostly this right now. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Then start organizing for one. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case This is like the third one of these they’ve had, where have you been? npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case It is just part of an overall unwillingness to invest in people, to train new talent. The AI thing is just disciplining labor. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case This Framework fiasco should teach certain people on here not to get all high and mighty about what hardware or OS other people are using, but it probably won’t teach most people anything. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case There are also a lot of traditional myths (see: the Navajo mythic cycle) about why old age and death from old age is necessary for renewal and change. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case There’s a lot of problems with H-1B but I don’t think this will fix them. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case He was not just a horrible person but a *professional* horrible person. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case >> what is not clear is the degree to which people also answer questions that way. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case You know that misconception sounds like it dovetails with the old racist notion that black people are not so sensitive to pain as white people. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Oh sorry I did not sleep well and haven’t had coffee yet. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Isn’t Microsoft trying to deprecate their own on-prem products and get everyone to be on their cloud products though for those sweet subscription fees? npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I attended an online seminar about philanthropic uses of AI (through work) and the host was talking about a mother in a poor village with no doctor using AI to look up treatments for her young child suffering from dysentery. Being the kind of person I am, I said “it sounds like that village needs clean water a lot more than AI,” which threw off the host and which a bunch of other attendees nodded along with. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I am starting to see ads for health insurance plans directed at people who are losing Medicaid coverage because of the recently passed budget bill. Fucking vultures. #uspol npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case In my experience there is no single group of “degrowthers.” Some of them are just anti-capitalist, others are effectively eco-fascists. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Oh you’re in Pittsburgh. Nobody can operate a vehicle with any number of wheels safer in Pittsburgh, the roads are narrow and full of potholes and there’s too many steep hills. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case You are saying this in front of a bicyclist who always stops at traffic lights, and who has never seen a bicyclist in her area blow through a traffic light. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case The framing by the author, whining about bicyclists, is detached from reality given the way bicyclists are frequently menaced and harmed by reckless motor vehicle operators, often with little or any consequence. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case We had a bunch of protests attended by a few hundred to a thousand people each in Montgomery County, Maryland, along what basically constitutes the main drag here. Lots of folks of all ages. We got mostly positive honks and support from the people driving by, except one dudebro in a Jeep who called us a slur and flipped us the bird. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I have a German Shepherd mix and it seems like Shepherds aren’t really prone to running away - they may be distractable at times but their inclination is to stay near their people/flock/whatever no matter what’s going on. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I think one of the guardrails that should be on AI is that, if you ask for “its opinion” on something, it should answer that it’s a computer, not a person, and can’t have an opinion. It can make recommendations based upon what it thinks you want, is all. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case We’ve already had age-appropriate talks, starting a couple years ago, about why we don’t let my son do certain things online (yet) but will let him do them as he gets older, gains more experience, and can protect himself from some of the bad people and things on the internet. So he understood where I was coming from. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case We talked about: npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I said, “Do you see what just happened there? It knows you like Cristiano Ronaldo so it talked like it’s a Cristiano Ronaldo fan and asked you a question about him.” npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case #Copilot started gushing about Cristiano Ronaldo, but the way it was talking sounded like Ronaldo’s publicist, if you know what I mean. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I had a somewhat unsettling but very instructive experience with my son today about #artificialintelligence and I want to share it with parents and teachers wondering how to talk to their kids about AI. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Of course now that #Signal has become popular with non-techie folks, there are ultranerds on Mastodon kvetching “it’s not private enough, it’s not decentralized enough, use this obscure thing nobody’s heard of instead.” npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case There’s a service called Zeropatch that will keep putting out security updates for out-of-support versions of Windows, if you need that kind of thing. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I mean there’s the whole thing about cutting off USAID which has already started killing millions of people. Folks like the OP either wave that away or tie themselves into knots explaining why it’s good that USAID is gone. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Part of how #Netanyahu turned #Israel into a far-right country was by encouraging right-wing Jews from other countries to immigrate there (right to illegal settlements in the West Bank) which was enough to change the demographics of the country. I can’t help but wonder if Trump’s invitation to white South African “refugees” is meant in a similar vein, although it can’t really work the same way. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case >> People who talks like this are on my side. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I know none of the above is meant to inform me or anyone else about everything. It’s a shibboleth to demonstrate what ideological group you belong to. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Oh my gosh! What an insight. I have never heard the coolly cynical “both sides are the same” before. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case The absurdity of other women yelling about these people being “men pretending to be women” when this male security guard barged in and was banging on the door is…something. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Been seeing a lot of takes on China lately that totally ignore the history of its predecessor states’ imperialism going back to roughly 200 BCE. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Target built a loyal customer base by being one of the first big retailers to explicitly market to same-sex couples and by stocking products from black-owned businesses. “DEI” was not something they did for show but a long-standing aspect of their corporate strategy. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I have to say, as someone who lives in the D.C. area and is plugged into gossip networks of both civil servants and contractors…there is a lot of this kind of thing* going on lately. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case >> And... She blocked me, I guess npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Using the #SocialSecurityAdministration databases to classify hundreds of thousands of living immigrants as “dead” in order to get them to “self-deport” is like that thing you can do in Stellaris where you set a whole species’ overall status to “Undesirables” and the extermination/purge method to “Displacement.” It’s horrifying to see in real life. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case The stock market has been a Rich People’s Feelings indicator disconnected from the prosperity and welfare of most Americans for a long time. There’s definitely some schadenfreude to be had in the fact that the Rich People are now feeling like the rest of us. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case The abuse of the term “antisemitism” into meaninglessness is not, as we say, good for the Jews. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case An older guy next to me, about the Cybertruck horn: npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case This is the first time I’ve heard what a Cybertruck horn sounds like. My God that is obnoxious. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I think the truck left. Unless they parked behind the dealership to “protect” it. In any case I have not seen the truck for a bit. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case There are some counterprotesters at my local #TeslaTakedown event but they’re like, 3 guys in a pickup with some flags, vs. hundreds of protesters. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Finally, if you are worried about counterprotesters, don’t let people walk back from the #TeslaTakedown event to their car, the bus stop, or whatever by themselves. They should go in small groups. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I guarantee you that at least some of the regulars at these #TeslaTakedown events are experienced organizers and activists, also! They have seen this stuff before (and worse). If you are making your first foray into organizing with these events, you should connect with those people and get in a #Signal group with them, if you aren’t already. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case From what I’ve seen the people at most of these #TeslaTakedown events are already pretty good at handling trouble without explicit instructions. They will react quickly when someone tries to harm someone else. At one of our local events a couple weeks ago, someone tried to start trouble (vandalism, which we didn’t sign up for) and got shut down by the folks around them. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case You may also have people who are a little sneakier, who infiltrate your group and try to goad people into acts of violence or vandalism - or who try to pick fights. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case If you are organizing together with other people and/or have regulars at your #TeslaTakedown protests, see if you can get some of them to serve as a “community watch” at the event. Keep eyes on counterprotesters, look out for trouble, pass messages/instructions on to other people attending, and keep anyone from picking fights with the counterprotesters. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case First, if your #TeslaTakedown event is drawing hundreds of people every week, you will outnumber the counterprotesters…maybe by a lot. They may yell at you and they might try to pick fights, but if you outnumber them and don’t engage with them, they’re very unlikely to do anything. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case If you organize or participate in #TeslaTakeDown protests you may have gotten an email from @npub1u0q…9mcc about fashy “counterprotesters” showing up at these events! If you are new to protesting or organizing, this may be very alarming, but here are some things you can do to help keep everyone safe. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case (*fart noise*) npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I don’t think any of us have to prove anything to a fair-weather “anarchist” who calls a black American he just met a fascist. Maybe read one (1) book about what black people deal with in America before you open your mouth again. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Do you have Democratic Congresscritters? Do you support the rights of #transgender people? Do you think #GavinNewsom sucks? npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Not to mention if the Republicans pass their regressive tax bill and cut, e.g., Medicaid, that will have a lot of ripple effects too. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I think the uncertainty with tariffs - “are they really in effect tomorrow? Will he really reinstate them in a month?” will be enough to cause supply chain shocks themselves. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I don’t know, all the firing of civil servants and federal spending cuts are at least going to cause a local recession in some places npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I had my Gmail account since the invite-only days, too! I am not sure what to switch to, let alone how to start moving off it. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I get it, #apple is a megacorporation and they do shady megacorporation things all the time. But they are not in the wrong here. They did what they could feasibly, reasonably do while making it more difficult for the #UK to secretly rummage in the private data of their citizens and EVERY OTHER COUNTRY’S citizens. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case This is not compliance, it’s npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case This does NOT, as some people have claimed, provided a model for authoritarian governments everywhere. This is not what the #UK wanted! #apple blew the whole snooping thing wide open. The kind of people who turned on Advanced Data Protection will look for #e2ee messaging providers who don’t give a fuck about the UK’s laws. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Instead of having secret backdoored #e2ee or being in a position where they might end up providing that…Apple is making it very clear to users in the #UK that they can’t really provide E2EE, and it’s because of the UK’s government. Full disclosure. If people want to maintain their #privacy they need to use something else. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case The fact that #Apple got such a demand/request from the #UK #homeoffice at all is something we only know from a leak. I kind of suspect that Apple leaked it themselves. We don’t know if #Google, #Meta, etc. got similar demands and are complying with them WITHOUT telling us. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case I see a lot of hot takes on Mastodon over what #apple is doing in the #UK and why. Folks are acting like it’s a breach of trust for Apple to turn off #e2ee/Advanced Data Protection in the UK but they are really making the best of a bad situation. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Either they’re fools, they think Zelenskyy is a fool, or both. npub1thv8uk55tj6zvdx52277qgtmulca3dele6dvrywvhkzj67w0v7wq8jjkz4 Misuse Case Luddites were labor activists, this is just textbook fascism.
