Tech geek, coder, tinkerer, gamer, erratically irritated by privacy & security issues. No gods, no masters. @endareth@disobey.net

Joined June 2009
I want to drive home how impossible "Sudden Unintended Acceleration" is in a Tesla, why any issue with the autopilot/FSD system can't do this, and a few other myths and technical aspects of this whole thing in a thread.🧵 (Which ended up longer than expected.)
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I just posted my first ever Mastodon post, with a photo from yesterday of @drmuig at the Good Omens recording session in Kingston. Here's a Mastodon invitation if you need one: mastodon.social/invite/kP5BR…
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I’ll say this much for the Elon takeover: he certainly has come through with delivering an ad-free experience for Twitter.
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I'm noticing a trend.
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just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole website which will happen...the day before a national election.
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Chevron paid $30 in income tax on $9,163,203,498 in revenue. A pub feed for wrecking the planet. They had enough spare change to donate $38,750 to Labor and $28,750 to the Liberals. We need to fix this broken system.
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British citizen and #Egypt's most famous political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah will cease drinking water from Monday - meaning he could well die during #COP27 COP is entirely built on a fatal illusion: that life in Egypt is normal. This will shatter it #FreeAlaa @FreedomForAlaa
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The rumours are true. Netflix is thrilled that so many of you have been watching Sandman, and the thing we were all hoping would happen... has indeed happened...
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Endareth retweeted
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_31 Oct 2022
Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board and made himself the “sole director” of the company independent.co.uk/tech/elon-…
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Looks like #Mastodon is trending on Twitter as more and more people are announcing their new profiles. Welcome to the better social media that does not belong to a single company and cannot be sold, welcome to the fediverse!
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ME TOO (Nerd caveat: I still use RSS and it's still a powerful news gathering and creative discovery tool, though I personally pin the death of online media literacy on the ending of Google Reader.)
Replying to @SarahJamieLewis
At this point I'd be quite happy if we would all agree to start blogging again and rss feeds became useful once more. Still have my fingers crossed for that outcome.
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Hey all! @tomorrowmvmt is organising a community rally to get the Flemington Flood Wall torn down. Should we help support this from our climate organising and resistance fund?
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If you’re wondering why there was no Spotify iOS update in the last month, here’s why. timetoplayfair.com/audiobook…
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For our friends down under, the @CyberGovAU has released a new MFA guide to help protect against cyber attacks. Check it out ✨ cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-c…
The Stable Diffusion Discord has a channel devoted to spectacular failures and it’s full of gems
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Let’s get one thing straight right from the start: I do not trust them. At all. That I am required to hand it over in order to gain access to services they offer does not, in any way, imply trust. I am coerced into handing data over.
You trust them with some of your most private information, and now companies that put your data at risk, or are hacked by cybercriminals, could face a minimum 50 million dollar fine | @KeziaDawn #medibank
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Someone sent me AI art of Salmon in the river but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH 💀💀💀
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Endareth retweeted
Debauched abusive crapitalism is why Flemington race course has a flood wall - it means the ‘spring carnival’ is protected while we all pay the price of #climatechange
What a memorable violin performance by Paralympian ITO Manami in Tokyo! It epitomised this year’s #AJBCC conference theme: 'Going beyond the disruption - designing a new future'. 🇯🇵 and 🇦🇺 aspire to thrive in adversity.
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A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit walked into a clinic to donate blood. The doctor says to the rabbit: "What's your blood type?" "I'm probably a Type O", the rabbit replied with great sadness.
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