Notices by evacide (evacide@hachyderm.io), page 5

This is your regular reminder that "I did this thing 20 years ago" is not the same thing as "I have 20 years of experience." It's not even an indicator that you have any idea of how things are done now.

My co-worker has proposed an AI chatbot that answers every legal question with a long sigh and "it depends..."

This chatbot could also be used for digital privacy and security advice.

@evan Silks and rope, mostly.

@evan 10-12 hours of circus training a week.

I was on the beach and my friend said "I want to have your abs but I don't want to have to do your gym routine" and it is the realest compliment I have ever received.

Listen, I understand that people believe I exist in an endless state of incandescent rage, but they are going to have to invent new words for how angry I am about Glassdoor adding real names without users' consent.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/

This website says you should send it a photo of your partner's penis and they will tell you if they have an STD, using the power of AI.

This is so misleading, inaccurate, dangerous, YIKES, that I assume it is an elaborate joke.

https://www.calmara.ai

@inthehands Pestle. She should be flying on a pestle. I'm a Baba Yaga fundamentalist.

There are days when I stare at the amount of work that I have agreed to do and I want to light a match, set it on fire, and go live as a bog witch in the woods.

I see that we are in for another round of "the US govt banning TikTok is good because I don't like TikTok" discourse, so it's a good time for me to be on vacation.

Articles in which people with bad opinions complain at length that their bad opinions make it difficult for them to get laid demonstrate that at least something is still functioning properly in this dystopian hellscape.

If you make a commercial product that allows someone to remotely access video, audio, or location data from a device, I am begging you to threat model for domestic abuse BEFORE YOU SHIP YOUR GODDAMN PRODUCT.

@lzg I had a project I was avoiding all week and my house is so clean.

Avast told customers its products would prevent online tracking, then they sold their browsing data to data brokers. Now the FTC is making them pay $16.5 million.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/ftc-bans-avast-selling-customers-sensitive-browsing-data/

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed? Because yeah.

Signal has finally introduced usernames so you can use it without giving out your phone number. This is the number one feature I have seen prevent people from using Signal for many years and I’m happy it’s here!

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

This is some of the most staggering incompetence I have ever seen.

U.S. Internet Corp business unit Securence promises filtered, secure email to businesses, schools, and govt agencies, but actually leaves all mail unencrypted on the open web for a completely unknown amount of time.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/u-s-internet-leaked-years-of-internal-customer-emails/

I have decided that the only way that I can write this CV is to pretend that a man has just condescended to me on the internet regarding a professional matter. This will bring me the rage I need to channel in order to recite my qualifications.

Google's new report on the commercial surveillance industry calls out some shady companies that usually manage to fly under the radar, such as Negg Group and Variston: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/Buying_Spying_-_Insights_into_Commercial_Surveillance_Vendors_-_TAG_report.pdf

You know what I love? Watching stalkerware companies get shut down. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/02/phonespector-highster-stalkerware-shut-down/