Notices by skry (skry@mastodon.social)

@killyourfm “Got it” is bad #ux both because it’s an American colloquial expression and because it’s a response to notifying about something that people already don’t want and have no choices in.

“OK” is not good in this case bc people do not want to OK things they don’t want. Similarly, “Submit” to computers and companies is a poor label.

“Close” is a much better choice for this. <What the action does from a user’s point of view> is the best solution for the default and terrible “submit”.

"The Border Patrol has defined its own criteria for which drivers’ behavior should be deemed suspicious or tied to drug or human trafficking, stopping people for anything from driving on backcountry roads, being in a rental car or making short trips to the border region. The agency’s network of cameras now extends along the southern border in Texas, Arizona and California, and also monitors drivers traveling near the U.S.-Canada border.”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd (2/2)

#uspol
“The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports, former officials say, even going so far as to propose dropping charges rather than risk revealing any details about the placement and use of their covert license plate readers. Readers are often disguised along highways in traffic safety equipment like drums and barrels. (1/2)

"Vienna researchers retrieved all #WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history"

"...downloaded all 77 million profile pictures visible to everyone—a proud 3.8 terabytes in total. In a random sample of half a million images drawn from this, a facial recognition routine found a human face in two-thirds of cases."

https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html

Paper: https://github.com/sbaresearch/whatsapp-census

#privacy

@Gargron I hope you can have a relaxing holiday to celebrate your new role. Yay, now you have a whole crew to share the load.

Thank you for all your hard work so far keeping it all together.

#mosstodon

@killyourfm Why did the first one fail?

Senator Ron Wyden says there's a nationwide #abortion ban in the Senate government funding bill currently.

https://www.tiktok.com/@ronwyden/video/7570460937652604190

Women in #uspol, heads up. Make your views clear to your congress members now. https://www.congress.gov/

@annika I really appreciate your response being constructive, especially because of the rudeness of the other ones I have received.

I have an MS and have worked on computers since 1982, so men assuming I know nothing is one of my favorite fucking things in the world. ✊🏻

@annika Situation looks a bit grim in the Firefox extensions.

@annika There was a Firefox extension that tried to do this redirect trick (graze?) but new users have to choose an instance, have the problem, get someone to tell them about a browser extension, download install config the extension.

When a client opens a post on the #Mastodon web, why doesn’t it open in the user’s instance so that they can just interact normally with posts? This seems like a huge blocker for new users because the mental model doesn’t match the way all the other websites in the world work. #ux

@Gargron @Su_G @Ameboid I have friends everywhere
Human-made
Happy Caturday
No billionaire BS

@killyourfm The small round rocks that look like lava or geodes in the cracks of the sand dunes?

@killyourfm Nevada still?

ooh, what are those nodules made of?

@bruces This guy belongs in the engineering hall of fame. #airpunk

More info https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/analog-computers/3/138

“That an American president sent masked agents to a rival’s political rally is quite obviously an ominous sign for our country, but politically, it also just looks stupid for Republicans. This plays right into #Newsom’s hands, it plays right into the Democratic Party’s hands, and it does the exact opposite of what the administration would want to do, which is to show that immigration forces in this country have not been politicized by Trump.” https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-gavin-newsom-rally-immigration-democrats-rcna225230 #uspol

@killyourfm Where is this magical lake?

@mayank I can vouch for Panic. They are one of the best small makers of software, and they've been around forever. I used BBEdit, but I suspect Nova is better now.

You might prefer https://www.sublimetext.com/