Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

(1/3) News about what I've been working on for the last ~3 years to improve cellular security @ Android!

Android now newly supports notifications if your phone connects to a network without encryption, or if your IMSI/IMEI/SUCI are disclosed in the clear (can help detect IMSI-catcher attacks).

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/05/io-2024-whats-new-in-android-security.html

Can anybody point me to a good deep dive on the mastodon database schema? Preferably with explanations where necessary? Yes I know how to go look at the mastodon docs and code. I’m doing that. I’m also looking for more of a guide to wrap my head around things.

🧵 I wrote ab the “is Signal secure?” manufactroversy on X. The Guardian wanted an explainer on why Elon & Jack were “concerned” about Signal. The answer, though, has nothing to do w/Signal’s product. It was part of an extended fight over whether woke NPR should be defunded & the CEO fired. Why? Because the CEO of NPR is on the board of Signal; by the Transitive Property of Bad People, Signal is thus compromised.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal

A public service announcement with an expiration date: if you've loved my writing and science, I have a book proposal+sample chapter out on submission right now. The pitch is "The Psychology of Software Teams": a general audience, warmly human, accessible book for teams, leaders, and curious minds, filled to the brim with practitioner stories AND the new empirical social science of technology innovation. 🙌❤️

Let me know if you know editors who might be interested in this uniquely cool project.

@mcc @mike @jernej__s this is how my brain works. I once used the "throw" keyword in a language that didn't support it because when it got to the invalid keyword it crashed, just like i wanted. computers are about creativity, not following the man's rules

The list of accepted talks for the first-ever Choreographic Programming workshop is up! https://pldi24.sigplan.org/home/cp-2024#event-overview

Very excited to see this community growing.

See you in Copenhagen in June! 🇩🇰

once again i find myself writing ruby at pycon

Sharing depthful open access materials that loads of people asked for based on our empirical research into pressing topics that impact so many developers 🥰 /on the same day literally struggling to find funds to even go to a conference, struggling to find a journal to publish our social science, struggling to get reviewers to not reject established social science methods because they're "not computer science" 🥲. Lord I love this work but the slog is so brutal and unnecessary

THE CODE REVIEW ANXIETY WORKBOOK IS OUT

https://developer-success-lab.gitbook.io/code-review-anxiety-workbook-1

This workbook takes the code review anxiety intervention that we designed and tested in our empirical research (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4) & distills it into a self-paced workbook for you. It's designed for you to read & work through as many times as you wish and provides you with the tools you need to mitigate & manage your anxiety about giving or receiving code reviews.

@seresearchers #SoftwareEngineeering #developers #code

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Enormous news! the Python Software Foundation now has a 5 year commitment with Fastly to deliver @pypi, us.pycon.org, and much more. We appreciate you and your continued investment in the #python community, Fastly! #PyConUS

When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

The curl of #iris petals and the colour contrast is so delightful to me #bloomscrolling

The difference between “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration” is the difference between the eternal torments of sisyphus, tantalus and prometheus.

Anyone in Germany or Austria (on the route between UK and Slovenia) up for hosting me + maybe other live coders for an gig/workshop around 27th July or 4th August? Looking for a stop-off on the way to https://pif.camp/ by train

check this out

thanks to VS Code, YoWASP Toolchain Extension, and WebUSB, you can now program FPGAs with nothing but your cellphone o:3

spear phishing is how you feed when all you have is a data lake