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Principal @ https://t.co/pJHNODbjVH. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️‍🌈 @ kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
Dec 21, 2022 39 tweets 3 min read
Oh my lord A Twitter spaces on “scale,... I feel like I’m listening to an argument between Markov chainers
Dec 20, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
So you’re gonna start going to church again I mean I want to watch
Nov 8, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
"All of this took place against the backdrop of a company that still has yet to hear anything official from Musk, via email or a companywide meeting."

...Wait is he managing Twitter *BY TWEETING*??? "One person I spoke with was told that any technical manager should expect to manage at least 20 individual contributors, while also spending at least half their time writing code. Others have been given much higher numbers of direct reports."

I have no words.
Nov 8, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
My singular skill as an incident manager, when called in to an incident on a system I’d never heard of before the call, was to listen to the people who understood how it worked or work the company directory/social connections til I found the people who did. This is a nightmare I have also been part of the spelunking expeditions necessary when everyone who understands a system has left the organization, and let’s just say those took a lot longer
Nov 7, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Oh hey would you look at that (lol of course signups are closed) masto.host
Nov 6, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
I really don’t think this was true. All of those things already existed, just look at Usenet or forum raids, but advertising did maybe let them scale to society? I’ve been thinking about this—when Twitter started nobody knew if ad supported social media could even work (I don’t subscribe so I can’t read the article, sorry Zeynep)
Jul 5, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
Just spitballing, but I’m guessing Audacity decided to add end-user analytics and their lawyer is being very (but maybe not overly) paranoid How the hell do you make desktop app analytics COPPA and GDPR compliant anyway

(Yes, yes, I’m sure there’re all trying to implement differential privacy techniques faster than you can say k-anonymity)
Jun 3, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
The good news is that decisionmakers in the wider public have started to listen to security and privacy experts! This is extremely important, and long overdue.

The bad news is that this means we need to be much, *MUCH* more careful about what we say and how we say it. This particularly means that we need to better understand the threat models of both median users as well as users who are marginalized on various axes, and offer advice that applies equally to all. (Most of us don't even systematically understand our own threat models, frankly.)
Jun 13, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
@benhutchingsuk The latter @benhutchingsuk Although it would not surprise me to discover that the processor did very little OOO or pipelining compared to any modern Intel chip