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julie

@julie@merida.hair

A she/they weirdo parent who may be a forest princess and/or woodland elf. #Cybersecurity professional, theme park fan, beginner archer, #Pathfinder nerd, #HamRadio operator (KE8URJ). My middle name is Merida and I've made it everyone's problem and my entire personality.

Formerly @robotfactory

For some reason I run the characters.cafe roleplaying instance- @ortwyn

Because my job makes me say it: I don't speak on behalf of my employer

#DMR 3191220

User pic: Princess Merida blowing her hair out of her face
Profile banner: "Can you believe this is OHIO?" from a 2000s Cedar Point ad

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hacks4pancakes , to Random stuff
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I’m on in an hour

julie ,

@hacks4pancakes I can't believe they let you land your dirigible on the roof!

malwaretech , to Random stuff
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    julie ,

    @malwaretech I notice you say "least amount of felonies" not "no felonies." How many felonies is too many?

    nonfedimemes , to Random stuff
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    julie ,

    @nonfedimemes

    I mean, this is a group of people who suggest using "wordbook" instead of "dictionary..."

    A table showing example "Anglish" words to use instead of English words. Ability becomes Skill Native becomes Inborn Brilliant becomes Bright Decide becomes Choose Computer becomes Recokner Famous becomes Nameknown Dictionary becomes Wordbook Vocabulary becomes Wordstock Ubiquitous becomes Everywhere Fascinating becomes Bewitching
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    • julie , to Random stuff

    OverDrive, who make ebook lending software Libby, are supporting and profiteering from Israel's genocide in Palestine.

    The Israeli digital library "provide(s) relief for displaced Israelis."

    OverDrive is all too happy to sell (or even donate) books to Israeli libraries in illegal settlements in Gaza.

    https://icl.org.il/%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%93%D7%99%D7%92%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA-eng

    Screenshot of the full page for the Israeli Digital Library

    robinhood , to Random stuff
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    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BirJMnMcfBs

    julie ,

    @robinhood That was the gayest thing I've seen today and I use the Fediverse.

    hacks4pancakes , to Random stuff
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    I just realized at like 3am that the existence of the prefix “tera” indicates the unit of measure “terameter” and “teraliter”, and I am pleased and a little horrified to report this is actually true. I’m deeply invested in finding out what one measures in teraliters.

    julie ,

    @hacks4pancakes According to The Google, the volume of the world's oceans is 1,332,000,000 Teraliters.

    jerry , to Random stuff
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    Pretty awesome to see another significant security organization, @owasp, have a presence on the fediverse

    julie ,

    @jerry the account that posted this is definitely a bot

    julie , to Cybersecurity

    The thing about the Change Healthcare ransomware situation that I don't think anyone has adequately reported on is the literally immeasurable impact this is having upstream of pharmacies at doctor offices and hospitals across the US.

    Pharmacies are resorting to requiring paper scripts. Locally here in the Portland area two of my family's doctor offices have said that they can't send controlled substance scripts electronically at all.

    The overhead this is causing for doctor offices is likely not being adequately tracked and we'll never know the countless hours of paperwork across tens of thousands of offices related to this attack.

    I'm sure emergency rooms and urgent care clinics are heavily impacted as well.

    It doesn't seem to be any single EMR/EHR provider, either. Our family's providers use both AthenaHealth and Epic.

    The quality of patient care is absolutely suffering on a scale we will never fully understand.

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/cyber-security-outage-change-healthcare-continues-sixth-straight-day-2024-02-26/

    julie , to Privacy

    🥳 HUGE privacy-positive news from Signal!

    Usernames! You no longer have to share your phone number to connect with people.

    Phone number no longer visible by default!

    Control who can find you by phone number!

    https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

    Finding people by phone number was something that advocates for survivors of domestic violence have called out as a problem pretty much since the beginning. When I volunteered for SafeEscape.org (an awesome org, btw) we explicitly cautioned people about the risks of using Signal because it would tell all their contacts also using Signal that they joined. That's no good if you're trying to establish secure communications around an abuser.

    This is definitely a GREAT news day for privacy-focused communications.

    julie , to Random stuff

    Remember how my previous employer denied my WFH request so that I could flee the state of Ohio to take care of my trans kid while still working for a company I loved?

    I just heard they did it to someone else today.

    When you insist people come in to an office a few days a week because you want a "hybrid culture" not a "remote culture" and then tell them to just fuck off when all they want to do is get their kid somewhere safe that makes you an absolutely shitty person.

    I'm done hiding who it was.

    The company is , based in Cleveland. They make ebook lending software for your local library called . They say they care about their LGBTQIA+ employees and families but that is clearly a lie.

    Ohio lawmakers are turning my home state into absolute garbage and companies like this one are playing along.

    Tell your local library to

    [Edit, since this is doing numbers: The reason my request was denied a little over a year ago, despite me explaining in detail why, was because they "want a hybrid culture, not a remote culture." (a quote from a senior leader to my face)

    In both 2020 and 2021 while the whole company was working remotely I won two annual employee excellence awards for my work on their Security team, while the company had record growth.

    Meanwhile, one of my teammates moved out of state to be closer to family and continued to work remotely.]

    GossiTheDog , to Random stuff
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    I just watched this insane cringe trailer for somebody being added to a Russian DDoS group, so you have to, too.

    video/mp4

    julie ,

    @GossiTheDog I added some polish to this video.

    video/mp4

    julie ,

    @GossiTheDog Dangit.

    julie , to Random stuff

    Today's date is March 1381, 2020.

    julie , to Random stuff

    Listening to the old dudes on the Alaska Morning Net talk about their mysterious "flu" and suggesting they should get a refund on their flu shot and ... I just can't. It's COVID, guys.

    And their friend who's in the hospital for a low O2 saturation and they have no idea what's wrong with him... it's COVID, guys.

    pseudonymsupreme , to bookstodon group
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    Huh. It just occurred to me that not everyone reads all the time. Like, there’s a bunch of people without books they’re reading right now. That concept is so bizarre to me. I’ve always got several books going. Ebooks, audiobooks and physical copies of books. If you don’t read anymore, when and why did you stop? No judgement. I’m genuinely curious. @bookstodon

    julie ,

    @pseudonymsupreme @bookstodon Hi, Bookstodon group!

    I'm not much of a reader now at 40, but as a kid I was definitely that weirdo with a book all the time. I was one of those kids who would use any source of light available to read after bedtime. Pretty sure I read at least one of the Boxcar Children books by the light of my 90s LED alarm clock.

    Now, though, I just feel like I don't have the available brain cycles to do it. It's either that my brain is done by the end of my work day, I'm too tired, or I just run out of time in my day.

    I think I've been following the typical progression of a "90s Gifted Kid" with ADHD whose spirit was crushed in the late 90s/2000s by grownups who wanted me to fit in to whatever mold they cut for me. The cognitive load of masking all the damn time left nothing to spare for reading.

    I've become a reader again, off and on, in my adult life but like anything else I do, it never sticks for long.

    In other words, while ADHD drives many people to read VORACIOUSLY, it is probably what keeps me from reading, despite loving stories.

    jerry , to Random stuff
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    Hi all. I am going to take infosec.town and fedia.social offline for a bit to apply a patch for a just disclosed critical vulneraiblity.

    julie ,

    @jerry TIL you have a Firefish server! Wish I had known that before I built my own...

    nota , to Random stuff
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    I don't know how I missed this, but turns out that that TETRA, the widely used encrypted radio network, considers their encryption algorithm so secret they only put it in hardware or a secure enclave

    And turns out, a few months ago it was discovered what that was perhaps primarily hiding was the super secret key derivation function backdoor that drops the key length from 80 bits to 32 lol

    https://www.cryptomuseum.com/radio/tetra/burst.htm

    julie ,

    @nota Ooh, I wonder if this is the kind of thing @GossiTheDog would be interested in tracking. He's been talking a lot about infrastructure hacks lately and public service radio comms getting popped would be a nightmare for infra and responders.

    Likewise , to bookstodon group
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    In case anyone is wondering if there is any engagement on here— this is the list of every book recommended after I asked if you’d share one book you enjoyed this year. You can scroll underneath the post to see these, but I think seeing them all together shows the true awesomeness of the people on here.

    Thanks for being pretty darn great ❤️
    @bookstodon

    A continuation of the handwritten list of all the books recommended.

    julie ,

    @Likewise @bookstodon I have gotten two jobs because of DIRECT referrals from random people in the Fediverse. Engagement here is way more meaningful than I ever found on the birdplace.

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