Jack Allnutt @jack@allnutt.net
Software Engineer 👨💻
Europhile 🇪🇺
Lib Dem 🔶
Living in Manchester 🐝.
Joined Aug 2018
Jack Allnutt
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Data science? More like data seance.
"Ooooh tensorfloooOOooOOow! TellL Mme! Is this image a tRAAaaaaaAaaffic siiiiiign??"
Jack Allnutt
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i downloaded all 10.000 of those ugly lazy lions nfts and turned them into a mosaic of a person right-clicking
Jack Allnutt
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it's kind of disheartening how every time someone makes incredible advances in what we can do with mobile sensors the story is just about how it's used to invade our privacy for ad money...
Jack Allnutt
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I made this post about four years ago initially I guess. But the lesson then stands today.
What I'm not advocating for is that we should accept all content as being public, but rather that giving the illusion that certain things are protected and private when they are not or *cannot be* actually puts users in a state of unsafety.
Architect for more secure systems, be clear about what you can't prevent. Some things are unpreventable, but the scope of them as risks can be reduced.
Jack Allnutt
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I got zero responses last time I hit up the Fediverse offering paid creative work, but I'm not giving up!
Some #Owncast features being worked on require iconography. And while we could use an icon library or something like Fiverr it'd be nice to work with an illustrator on the Fediverse who focuses on icons to have something that is custom.
This is paid work, so please boost and tell your friends.
Feel free to message me on the fediverse or email me: gabek@real-ity.com
Jack Allnutt
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politics, facebook
*Facial recognition is used to wrongly arrest at least three Black people*
Facebook: Just needs tweaked a little
*Facial recognition is used to put Uyghurs in concentration camps*
Facebook: We can't be responsible for what people do with it
*Facial recognition is used to track down and convict J6 insurrectionists*
Facebook: WE'RE DELETING ALL THE DATA
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/02/facebook-ends-facial-recognition/
BBC, transphobia, complaint response
Apologies, I forgot to add alt-text to the image.
It is a screenshot of page 15 of the linked PDF. The tl;dr is this:
If you are unhappy with the BBC's response, you can appeal the decision with a maximum of 1,000 words and not bringing up new points.
You have to complain by post within 20 days.
BBC, transphobia, complaint response
If you are unsatisfied with the BBC's response to your complaint about *that* transphobic article, you can appeal the decision.
https://bbc.co.uk/contact/sites/default/files/2020-06/BBC_Complaints_Framework.pdf page 15
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A small victory: An hour after we sent a cease & desist letter to #Gab's legal team on Oct 21 regarding their failure to publish up-to-date source code in compliance with Mastodon's AGPLv3 license, they have uploaded a new version.
That is not all that we demanded in the letter, but it is nevertheless a victory in upholding the AGPLv3 license of our project, and a signal to those who doubt that we are willing to show teeth to those who ignore it.
More context: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/
@neil "public realm" and "public land" aren't the same thing, I don't see why an online "public space" has to be treated as though it was "publicly owned".
watch out
@cwebber Oh no!
What am I supposed to do with my robe and wizard hat now?!
Jack Allnutt
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#mastoadmin tip for ya'll. when you're doing a #fediblock of mobile.tmediatech.io. just block tmediatech.io as mastodon will also block all of it's subdomains.
blocked:
truthsocial.com
tmediatech.io
Jack Allnutt
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Cloud-to-butt Chrome plugin used in an Amazon job Posting. Web Archive link for posterity:
@cubicgarden Signal is heavily centralised and even though it's FOSS they are *strongly* against allowing any sort of decentralisation or federation.
It's light years better than WhatsApp, but still...
I think there could be good reasons why it wouldn't be an "undue delay", knowing how poor some IT systems are.
For instance, if they were migrating to a new system, freezing databases would prevent a technical breach (loss of data) and having off-system records of changes could be a risk from a data management perspective.
At the very least the ICO would buy it without question 😛
@mwlucas Does flashing with 3rd-party firmware count, or do you want a solution that works out-of-the-box?
Because OpenWRT would seem to do what you want, I've run that on (mostly) Netgear hardware and it's worked like a charm.
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building the future is not a purely technical project, I don't even think it's a primarily technical project. it's a project of community and people, which is to say is inherently political. I think that word is a turn off to many programmers in the West who (due to Cold War era education I guess?) are effectively politically illiterate. and when you insist on being "apolitical" then all you can do is bolster the status quo. this is not how you make progress.
I need a new server (with more than 2GB of RAM, mainly because Mastodon gobbles it up) but I don't want to do the migration 😭
Software Engineer 👨💻
Europhile 🇪🇺
Lib Dem 🔶
Living in Manchester 🐝.
Joined Aug 2018
