Notices by Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange), page 5

@nonlinear
I've very carefully only touched lighting when it comes to consumer home automation — I run our house as a professional event venue, but not at a level where the professional venue lighting options would be accessible. Of the three landlord-installed smart devices, one immediately broke to a degree where it had to be removed and the other two have had intermittent failures. Everything else is either as dumb as it came, or automated with decoupled professional control layers (e.g. Dante and Artnet). It still takes an inconvenient amount of at unplanned times.
@akareilly

@deviantollam @Tarah
It's so sweet when cross-cultural relationships work

@akareilly
There's an annoying market trap here. In-wall stuff almost always means an electrician is installing it, so companies there target whole-house systems with custom wiring, which is only relevant for rich folks. Because this moves at architect speed, these systems are generally still dimming only, and if you want full color, you're looking at stuff built for professional event spaces. All of the nice wireless color stuff is targeting the lowest possible bar for end user installs, which means switches can't be attached by anything other than a command strip and have to be battery powered, hence removable.

There's no reason why someone couldn't make a box that replaces the in-wall switch, leaves the circuit always on, powers the transmitter off wall power, and gives the user nice firm predictable tactile buttons like they're familiar with, but it would need a lot more regulatory approval and in make markets a professional install, so it would cost ~8 times as much to the consumer, making it a specialty product relevant for maybe .5% of their customers, and thus not worth building. It's also a conceptually weird object, so it would take a lot of user education, making it a hard sell even for that .5%.

And thus, the world will continue to be awful.

@SecurityWriter
Regulators are starting to demand physical buttons for basic functions in some countries, which will shift designs globally for at least some vehicles
@akareilly

@quinn
I think it might be useful to frame it more as "so we know this isn't Christianity in any meaningful sense, but what do they get from this", in the "help folks see these people as human and what they can do to get them back to the real world"

@ErosBlog
It's very difficult to find prosocial outcomes for communities when griefers are trying to exploit all possible weaknesses. I think it would be a much easier conversation if hedge-fund driven media companies and platforms didn't exist, and I think it may be an impossible problem otherwise. Some things simply cannot be built within an adversarial frame.

@quinn
We can also hate disabled folks!

@willowbl00
Kind of the same ones you have — how to prescreen, maybe how to convert when that's possible

One of the complexities of thinking about resilience in an adversarial space like security is that we don't have cross-domain models with the same kind of structural utility — our intellectual peers are either scared 19 year olds trying not to get shot, their commanders who are trying to define behavior at scale via rigid rules to be executed by those scared kids, sociopaths in the business world who confuse ego and luck, spooks and criminals who can't or won't talk about their work, or football players with concussions.

There are models out there, but it's much harder to glean useful frames. Thankfully, we can lean heavily on work in the larger resilience engineering community.

[And yes, I, working in a field so young as to barely deserve the name, am absolutely selling everyone named above short, but hopefully even-handedly]

This piece from John is great as always: https://hachyderm.io/@allspaw/112962065290817895

I have jury duty next week.

Covid is running rampant in the Bay Area.

I'm at higher risk.

I will wear a mask, and attempt to distance myself from others. (I wear a mask in all indoor settings.)

I revere jury duty (though I've never made it past voir dire).

It absolutely sucks that crowded jury rooms don't have mask mandates.

Masks aren't perfect (or close to perfect) protection. But they are vastly, vastly better than nothing.

@kissane
Oh, this is really useful! I've never seen a clear "this is how to do a good fit test" description before.

Which, thinking of it, is kind of weird.
@dangillmor

@lorenzofb
Welp, I guess someone's gonna have to mass-own all their vacuum cleaners at once, just to make the point.

@willowbl00
Interested in seeing where this conversation goes

@sng
I mean, you can just wear the clothes and pointedly not ask the questions
@jack_daniel @hacks4pancakes

@stormsweeper
Yeah, there are lots of options. I think "field tested" or maybe better "field proven" comes as close to the specific nuance without suggesting anyone on the ops team got shot in the process.
@gallego

@gallego
Field tested is better

@isaackuo
I think with r&d time and volume to get the quirks out, tricopters might win — slightly more complex, but less battery (and thus more payload) for the same weight and perf envelope. I don't see much going further afield than that winning soon, though.
@graydon @wonka @dr2chase @cstross

@isaackuo
See up thread — an absolute minimum hardware cost terminal guidance package that e.g. might not even be able to handle a bounding box in a gps-denied environment, because good inertials are expensive and video terrain guidance is expensive at the resolution needed.
@graydon @wonka @dr2chase @cstross

@quinn
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