Oops… forgot to upload my COVID booster record to the appropriate website and have now been warned that if I don’t get my act together I’m fired. (NB: I got the booster in September.)
“Fired” seems a little harsh, frankly. Banned from campus might be a bit more proportionate? (I’m on a leave of absence from teaching.) Have never really sympathized with the antivax side before.
In fairness they won’t fire me until March 7, and they’ll send me two whole written emails before they terminate my tenured position ;)
Not reading my emails has freed up an enormous amount of time and effort, which would otherwise be spent (mostly) scanning and signing PDF documents. Sometimes it almost gets you fired. I’m still thinking it’s a good life hack.

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Feb 17
Periodic reminder that Apple has not officially abandoned its photo scanning plans, and could still flip the switch on a billion users at any moment. Image
Apple has been collecting feedback from the community. (I know this because I talked to them.) I don’t know that they appreciated my feedback that much but I sure felt better afterwards.
My biggest question for the company was: why do you think this is ok? They didn’t really say much. But without characterizing this as a specific response by Apple or anyone at Apple, I think I can try to get at the argument.
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Feb 15
“Decentralization” means very different things to different people.
I guess this is mostly a subtweet of David Rosenthal’s talk. I’m not sure if I even disagree with it, exactly. blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-…
It’s pretty hard to disagree with critiques of proof-of-work mining, which is an environmental catastrophe. But then what’s the objection to proof-of-stake? It “isn’t effective at decentralization”. Image
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Jan 25
I read the new location tracking complaint against Google filed by three state AGs and DC. It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who is familiar with Google, but it’s pretty detailed. Thread. 1/
The basic allegation is that Google (mainly via Android) made it extremely difficult to turn off location data collection, and when people *did* try to turn this off, Google still collected and used location data for advertising.
As described in the complaint, there are basically three ways Google can get your location. (1) via GPS, (2) by monitoring nearby WiFi networks, (3) through IP address. Even if you turn GPS off, Google uses some of these. 2/
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Jan 21
I don’t know what’s going on at Twitter. When CISOs leave social media companies unexpectedly it can mean all sorts of unpleasant things. nytimes.com/2022/01/21/tec…
On the other hand if @LeaKissner is interim CISO then there can’t be anything too weird going on.
(For those who don’t know the history here, it’s Alex Stamos vs Yahoo (2015) & Alex Stamos vs. Facebook (2018) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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Jan 17
This is not an experiment I’m super excited to do on my own hardware (plus I don’t have a Chinese payment method.) Has anyone tried changing their Apple account to “mainland China” on the iCloud website to see what happens to data flows on their devices? ImageImage
My question is: what warnings do you get on-device before it starts uploading your data to Guizhou? I hope someone is/has moved to China recently and is willing to try this for me.
What can I offer people to do this experiment for me? Happy to offer all the RTs in the world and I’ll even scrape up a tiny bounty if someone is willing.
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Jan 16
Although Facebook is the primary target of this pressure campaign, it’s hard not to notice how closely Apple’s client-side scanning announcement fits with the UK government’s desires.
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you “they’ll never give in to government pressure” when it’s obvious they already are.
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