open sourceress. research director and cwtch hacker @openpriv (she/her⚧)
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(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
video games are kind of like if every 5 years you had to buy new glasses to look at the latest paintings in a museum. and then every 8 years they delete the paintings because they stopped making the old glasses. sometimes they repaint the paintings but the vibes are all off now
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
omg someone actually rebuilt the C++ standard with "behavior is undefined" replaced with "i *will* cry"
it's beautiful 😿
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
Discreet Log is back!
Today @errorinn talks about how we are using Flutter Cucumber, Gherkin scripts, in addition to custom steps and hooks, to significantly expand the scope and depth of automated UI testing in @cwtch_im.
openprivacy.ca/discreet-log/…
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
Hi All! As a heads up the latest @cwtch_im nightly build now features the clickable hyperlinks experiment!
Windows: build.openprivacy.ca/files/f…
Linux: build.openprivacy.ca/files/f…
Mac: build.openprivacy.ca/files/f…
Ready for testing prior to 1.5 release next month.
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
Big news.
Google and the entire tracking industry relies on IAB Europe’s consent system, which will now be found to be illegal.
#TCF #GDPR
@ICCLtweet @panoptykon @bitsoffreedom @Jausl00s @PiDewitte
iccl.ie/news/online-consent-…
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
Forza Horizon 5's sign language interpreters are a huge step for gaming: bit.ly/31q2Vve
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
everyone's trying to "hide the notch"
so I made a Mac app called "Split Screen" to do just that:
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
It appears that private keys for generating EU Covid Certificates have leaked #infosec #covid19 cc @briankrebs github.com/ehn-dcc-developme…
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
But that’s a normal expectation! We don’t expect private companies to actively moderate email threads or group SMS texts or private conversations. And I hope we don’t start expecting that! I don’t want to live in that society! 3/
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
So when we say “moderation of E2EE conversations is hard” we’re basically saying “moderation is hard if we’re talking about small(ish) closed groups where not one single participant hits the ‘report abuse’ button.” 2/
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
Half a million workers in South Korea just staged a general strike🤯
Solidarity✊✊🏾
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
The cherry on top: every Windows machine now has two Linux systems. The year of Linux on the desktop is not only here, it came in duplicate.
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
the brands love you til they don't!!
for the nib | thenib.com/author/mattie-lub…
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
so those cute videos of the dancing robots being manufactured PR was one hundred percent correct, yeah? because here's one of those 'cute' robots with a fucking sniper rifle on it
please don't fall for the cute robot PR videos, they are literal military propaganda
(e)Rinn Atwater retweeted
School gets a bad rap but it’s actually really impressive - juvenile human brains are constantly learning from any available context and the fact that school manages to halt this process is an engineering feat on par with stopping a lava flow
