Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@qoto.org
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
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Happy to announce that my next book, tentatively titled "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" will be published by Oxford University Press!
Read more about it, and my process of writing the book, here on #FOSSacademic
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/08/17/OxfordUP.html
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@cyberlyra We do ourselves a disservice if we essentialize “efficiency” as capitalist. Capitalism doesn’t deserve purview over efficiency, which pre-existed it and has all kinds of non- or de-capitalist potential. Suffering people need efficient solutions! People in love need efficient means of reuniting! Efficiency is a virtue that capital doesn’t get to own.
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Tesla failed to fix limitations in its Autopilot system following a Florida crash that killed a driver in 2016, company engineers said in a family’s lawsuit over a very similar 2019 fatal crash.
The company did not make any changes to its driver-assistance technology to account for crossing traffic in the nearly three years between two high-profile accidents that killed Tesla drivers whose cars slammed into the side of trucks.
Life or death bugs punted for 3 years.
@PavelASamsonov me, meeee :)
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GSA is currently doing a study to investigate racial bias in facial recognition technology, particularly for automated identity proofing. PLEASE share this as widely as possible so that they can get a wide range of feedback, not just from white folks. Thanks!
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They're not indicating him in the middle of a campaign.
He's campaigning in the middle of a crime spree.
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@carnage4life Just closing the loop on this: If you worked hard for $2k, that same work of yours probably made $100k for someone else.
One thing that stands out in the latest #trumpindictment is just how powerful it is for people to assume the big boss man knows what he’s talking about. Dude straight made up stuff like “1,043 people voted who had illegally used a PO Box address.” Just cuz it sounded good! And ppl are still like, ya, we shd probably do what he says & I’m sure he’s gonna pay us. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/15/trump-co-conspirators-never-got-paid-by-trump-team.html
@cbecker Off the top of my head: #innovation n. a technical concept implemented in order to gain competitive advantage over others
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a computer can never be poked in both eyes three stooges style. therefore a computer should never make a management decision
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@GeePawHill Willing to bet lots of ppl with lots of US prison system experience are wishing that experience on our 45th president and his 18 co-conspirators today.
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On left:
Former President Trump intimidates a witness in Georgia case.
On right:
Georgia law stating that to release a person on bail, the judge will have to find the defendant "poses no significant risk of intimidating witnesses."
Note: That is a presumption against release.
You’re telling me you can make debt collectors f off forever by demanding to see form 27b-stroke-6?
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Judge Chutkan is going to single handily prove me wrong about the speediness of the Trump trial and it is *glorious.*
I’m about one hearing away from saying “Oh, you sending Judge Chutkan? Sheeet, Negro, that’s all you had to say.”
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NEW RESEARCH: most popular Chinese keyboard app (450 million monthly users!) transmits every key typed to @tencentglobal.
My @citizenlab colleagues found vulnerable encryption means the uploaded keystrokes could *also* be intercepted by 3rd parties. 1/
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/
Reasonably happy almost all the time, somehow. Extremely lucky father & husband; 20+ year software veteran / exec now studying the software industry as Ph.D @York University Science and Technology Studies. Blog at https://sakhavi.wordpress.com
Joined Oct 2022
