Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I have resumed blogging. Here is the first for over a year.

https://paul.bone.id.au/blog/2024/02/13/poisoning-firefox-memory/

Hold me accountable to write more stuff.

I've spent the last several days trying to get a local mastodon build running on my laptop. I've gotten pretty far, but I have yet to see an actual UI in my browser.

So far, I've been trying out various attempts to run it in docker. That *should* be easier than trying to get the various components set up myself. But for some reason it's not. Getting mastodon configured properly is pretty complex. Getting everything right "out of the box" feels pretty error prone.

Did you know of any Granovetter diagram jokes? I need to find someone who knows one.

#CapabilityBasedSecurityHumor

Does anyone remember that mug that said "metadata kills" that was popular on here a while ago?

@Kensan @jnfrd @spoltier @kaoudis could possibly choose a language often used for medieval writing like brahmic scripts to be "write-only" lol

Surveillance Fédéral: the saga continues. Es ist viel sagend bei welchen Punkten die zuständigen Stellen sagen sie sind nicht zuständig und auf andere verweisen. Bravo @adfichter fürs dran bleiben. Diese Thematik verdient grössere Aufmerksamkeit!
https://chaos.social/@adfichter/112477506342997487

@jnfrd @spoltier @kaoudis @hipsterelectron What about Perl? It becomes unintelligible when you put enough of it in one place…

❗️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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