Paul Crowley @ciphergoth@schelling.pt

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

I know, it’s just a “Someone Is Wrong On The Internet” piece, but that NYTimes piece about Why Signal Is Bad And Privacy Is Bad needs to be refuted in a compact explainer, so here’s mine: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK

Without plain text #search #Mastodon will be a place I visit now and then.

Without that level of #indexing it requires too much work on an individual level to add #hashtags to get #content to #surface.

I guess that would require a centralised #service that connects to an ever increasing web of #server nodes? Unless there's another #decentralised way to do it?

Anyways, if you see this, please #boost it if you agree, so we can see if the feeling is mutual across the

https://youtu.be/o5zMYj4H34A food heavy video about UK USA festive differences (made by my @CrafterofManyKinds featuring me, @ciphergoth and my sibling Bee plus her husband Nick and dog Buttercup). I do a good rant about the East coast/West coast new year discrepancy 😅🎉
#nye #immigrant #uk #usa

Every year at Christmas now I think about Christmas 8 years ago when I nearly died with my wife, child and in-laws.

I share this every year over on the Bird Site and will share it here now.

It was Christmas Eve. 9 year old was just 1. We were staying at my in-laws who had an acreage just outside Red Deer at the time. We went to bed a bit late but the night was good. 1 year old wasn’t up too much.

My least favourite sharp edge of Mastodon is the fact that when you view someone else's post you only see replies to it that are known to your server - so there's actually a good chance there will be replies that are completely invisible to you, especially if you run your own instance

I'd love it if tapping a post kicked off a request back to the original server that fetched the current reply count and provided a "view all replies" button if there were replies not yet visible to me

So far in #artadventcalendar I've done rocks but for the last few days I'll be sharing makeup and costuming looks from 2023. This is day 22

LED gems for #torturegarden #lasvegas

https://www.instagram.com/LordOfMxrule/

#genderqueerdrag #makeup #costume

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

Get ready for glitter, gingerbread and ghosts! https://youtu.be/nCM3qJN1hLw the holiday video is out 🥳 Watch me and my girlfriend @CrafterofManyKinds create a spooky gingerbread village 🎅💀❄️🥳✨🎉

#xmas2022 #craft #craftvideo

Still no apology, but Anker’s Eufy breaks its silence on security cam security

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/20/23519772/anker-eufy-security-camera-statement-december-19-2022

https://www.slowboring.com/p/secret-congress-delivers-more-good

The Android Team has open sourced our internal Rust Training! It's a four day course covering the full spectrum of Rust, from basic syntax to advanced topics like generics and error handling. It also includes Android-specific content on the last day such as:
- Building Android components in Rust.
- AIDL servers and clients.
- Interoperability with C, C++, and Java.

https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/

This claim is false.

Law enforcement has the ability to get stored communications from companies like Twitter under 18 USC 2703(d). This is a famous "d-order" that has to be signed by a judge.

Companies can demand reimbursement under 2706. You can argue that 2703 should have a higher standard, but if the government can get to user data should it be free or should the companies ask for a nominal cost?

This is absolutely nothing to do with content moderation.

This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

You may have noticed an increasing number of errors on #DisabledSocial over the past few days. As we've continued to grow, the strains on server resources have continued to also grow.

One of the biggest contributors to this is disk space. More users means a lot more server disk space used.

We've implemented a fix tonight that we've been testing which should permanently alleviate this. You may notice some broken images over the next few hours, but they will resolve. More details below.

One of my students, after acing a question on her Intro to Proof final, ended the proof with “Slay” instead of QED. Just incredible.

WOPR 1:12 scale scratch build model

What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?

I recently had my iPhone stolen while on a business trip in London and, through the wonders of Find My, have been able to track its journey in the past few weeks. I found it to be a fascinating insight to what appears to be a rather sophisticated phone theft operation and thought I'd share!