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dsalo , 9 hours ago to Random stuff

Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

jessamyn , 1 day ago to Random stuff

If you participated in the discussion about Libby and maybe-targeted ads and privacy policies, you might like to read The Register's deep dive on what they could determine about what actually happened from @thomasclaburn

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/mystery_of_the_targeted_mobile_ads/

molly0xfff , 4 days ago to Random stuff

Ryan Salame (former CEO of the Bahamian portion of FTX) has submitted his sentencing memo. He's asked for no more than 18 months imprisonment for his charges.

He was charged with conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions and defraud the Federal Election Commission.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590939/gov.uscourts.nysd.590939.433.0_1.pdf

#FTX #crypto #cryptocurrencyf

platypus , 19 days ago to Random stuff

Ok #DuckDuckGo -- I am really curious about this one!

I searched for: david sedaris blood work

because I wanted to see if the piece was online anywhere. The result I got on both my phone's Firefox Focus and my work laptop's Firefox says "not many results contain test, search for david sedaris blood 'test'?"

but the word "test" is not anywhere in my query.

Searching for: lab blood work

does not get me this. Nor do other things I've tried.

jessamyn , 26 days ago to Random stuff

I got my petition to put my name on the ballot as a Justice of the Peace as an independent. This is a position I've held within the town since 2013. JPs can marry people and serve on the Board of Civil Authority (to run elections) and the Board of Abatement (for hearings on tax/water bills)

Usually the parties put forward candidates. I've always run as a Democrat because it was easier. Now I've decided to get all thirty signatures because I'm honestly not a Democrat and I think it will be okay.

cghlewis , 27 days ago to Random stuff

Wow! @dsalo from the University of Wisconsin-Madison just gave a talk to our POWER Data Management Hub on the topic of Data Security and it was phenomenal!

If you want to learn from Dorothea as well, you can see her slides here: https://osf.io/j6tdx

404mediaco , 1 month ago to Random stuff

One of the most influential (often in a bad way) AI research institutes is shutting down, blames Oxford: https://www.404media.co/institute-that-pioneered-ai-existential-risk-research-shuts-down/

longobord , 1 month ago to Privacy

Yesterday I started receiving targeted ads based on ebook borrows from my library (San Francisco Public Library). The content of those ads suggested that the targeters were aware of which books I chose to read.

#Privacy #library
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platypus , 2 months ago to Random stuff

Ok, WEIRD tech problem today.

We cannot get to anything on my (Reclaim Hosting) server while at home on either of our computers and our home internet.

But Down For Everyone or Just Me says they're up!

So I fired up Proton VPN et voila?!

... this is... frustrating?

mttaggart , 2 months ago to Random stuff

Good morning, nerds! The British Library just dropped its after-incident report on the ransomware attack that has disabled the Library for, uh, months?

Let's dig in.

dangoodin , 2 months ago to Random stuff

I'm surprised to find almost zero intel on the cause of yesterday's Meta meltdown. For better or worse -- mainly the latter -- Meta's monopoly power is awfully close to being critical infrastructure. How can it go down and 24 hours later we still have no idea why?

jessamyn , 3 months ago to Random stuff

Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – LibLearnX 2023

Some big news including I am stepping down from my Chapter Councilor position and ALA is no longer going to be offering virtual conference options.

https://www.librarian.net/stax/5470/vermont-chapter-councilor-report-liblearnx-2023/

jessamyn , 3 months ago to Random stuff

Hi social friends, I'm giving a talk next week about online communication, strategies, more big picture than specific nitty gritty. For libraries.

But I do want to include some stuff like "If you're not including alt text, you're not including everybody," focusing on being positive but not chirpy, interactive but not desperately grasping for engagement, being mindful of microaggressions and content warnings and decent apologies if needed. Good policies.

Other suggestions?

dsalo , 3 months ago to Random stuff

Just for fun, though:

Tell me your worst stories about research data security. Leave out anything identifying, of course.

Asking for a presentation I'm putting together (unpaid) which I will make public when it's done.

briankrebs , 3 months ago to Random stuff

Just had another breach notification/quote request go sideways in an icky way. I'm only mentioning it because this has happened to me more times than I care to remember, and it infuriates me every time.

Here's the scenario. I hear from a researcher who finds bad thing, data exposure, etc. If I can confirm the researcher's findings, I'll then seek comment from the organization in question. Mind you, this effort usually includes both written and oral communications clearly stating that I am a journalist, and that I am working on a story about the problem and its hopeful resolution.

The response in this scenario involves a reply from a senior executive -- often the CEO -- thanking me for the information, and in the same breath asking if I do any consulting work.

I can't pretend to know what's going on in the mind of the person who asks me this question in this situation, but as a journalist it always sounds and feels like a thinly veiled bribe offer.

To my mind, it's bit like getting pulled over for plowing through a red light, and then handing the cop a $100 bill along with your license.

I always try to respond charitably, by politely declining and explaining that's not really something I do. If I'm not totally insulted at that point, I may even suggest some competent experts. Because god knows anyone who responds this way needs all the help they can get.

scalzi , 3 months ago to Random stuff

Over on the the former Twitter, every week or so I would spotlight the new books and ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) that had shown up to the Scalzi Compound. I'm starting that up again here, so: See anything in this stack that is calling to your eyeballs?

(And yes, I know one ARC is in there twice!)

lzg , 3 months ago to Random stuff

I think some tech companies are large enough to have a product archeologist. someone who can date and catalog where features and artifacts came from, what was their purpose, what got discarded along the way, how did humans shape the product into its current form.

dsalo , 4 months ago to Random stuff

I just updated my "Ethics Smells" deck (renamed it too, to avoid Unfortunate and Unintended Implications). A few more smells, lots more examples.

https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/ethics-smells-when-it-looks-ethical-but-something-smells-off-dot-dot-dot

mattblaze , 4 months ago to Random stuff

Covering Olmstead (the first big Supreme Court wiretapping case, from the 1920's) in my surveillance course tomorrow, and getting ready to feel yet more old when I'll inevitably have to explain more and more basic details about the ancient technology of wireline telephones.

deevybee , 4 months ago to Random stuff

well. Frontiers is downsizing
https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2024/01/10/the-next-chapter-for-frontiers-to-the-open-access-tipping-point

zackwhittaker , 5 months ago to Random stuff

New: Millions of patient scans and health records are spilling online, thanks to a decades-old protocol bug.

Security researchers say doctor's offices, hospitals and medical facilities have unintentionally made the private data and medical histories of millions of patients accessible to the open internet.

More from @carlypage, reporting from Black Hat Europe in London: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/medical-scans-health-records-dicom-pacs-security/

dsalo , 5 months ago to Random stuff

this is a freakin' abomination but I admire the moxie

https://html-lang.org/

malwaretech , 5 months ago to Random stuff

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dsalo , 6 months ago to Random stuff

Soooooooooo if you were wondering whether UMich overreacted by shutting down its entire network a couple months ago...

... it didn't. The breach is real, real, REAL bad. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-michigan-employee-student-data-stolen-in-cyberattack/

I am having thinky-thoughts regarding 1) data warehouses and why they're dangerous af, and 2) network segmentation and how much of it UMich's network had.

dsalo , 8 months ago to Random stuff

We've got at least three people in the department out sick, most likely from last week's all-staff.

One of 'em was spitting distance (so to speak) from where I was sitting all day.

I'm thinking wearing one of my stylin' duckbill n95s that day may have saved my butt. Gonna try to keep the wins going.