Eric Mann @ericmann@tekton.network
- Keybase
- eamann
- PayPal
- https://paypal.me/eam
- Web
- https://ttmm.io
- PGP
- 0x63F15A9B715376CA
- Keybase
- https://keybase.io/eamann
Admin
Tekton
Joined Aug 2018
Pinned toot
First came Patreon ... then I added GitHub Sponsors. Neither has _really_ done that much for me.
Instead I set up my own donation page on my own site: https://ttmm.io/donations/support-my-work/
If you benefit from or enjoy my work, please consider a small monthly contribution.
Tonight's dinner: mushroom zucchini chicken atop a bed of toasted quinoa.
I write PHP. I manage security for a living. I have a not-yet-fully-launched business.
My goal for 2021 is to pivot.
Taking inquiries now for security-focused PHP code audits. Ping me if you're interested.
Ooh look, Mastodon v3.3.0. Nice to meet you! :-)
Happy before-the-weekend-server-maintenance-day!
Getting really weird followers and notes on here lately. It's almost as if a bunch of folks were kicked out of some other microblog/social network and have been looking for a place to route their toxicity.
So glad I'm in control of moderation and can just globally block them ...
Eric Mann
boosted
Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/
(submitted by gbrown_)
Eric Mann
boosted
I think Mastodon is missing a "hide this toot" feature.
Sometimes I encounter a toot that annoys me, by people I usually enjoy reading. A simple way to hide this single toot would be great. Otherwise I have to open the filters menu, decide what word to filter and when it's a image-only toot, then I have to mute the entire user or similar.
Eric Mann
boosted
server mods/admins: looks like pieville dot net needs a domain block - check their public timeline if you want but be aware it is racist as hell and has gross/disturbing/graphic images without CW.
My wife and I fell in the surf yesterday while walking on the beach. Stupid sneaker wave.
That said, both my Garmin and my Pixel 5 are waterproof. So outside of the need to change my clothes I was fine.
Her Motorola? Not so much. Ordered a replacement. ETA 3 weeks.
Currently working on re-charging an old backup to swap her SIM over for the mean time.
Ah new years. Your annual reminder that Mailman-based lists store your passwords in plaintext as they email it back to you in the clear right at midnight ...
Eric Mann
boosted
Dear web developers and admins,
please stop embedding Google's hideous #ReCaptcha into your websites. Its algorithm is faulty, forcing regular users to click dozens or even hundreds of fire hydrants, bicycles, or traffic lights each day. It puts a 'suspicious activity' flag on users who won't obey to Google's business model - such as people who don't sign into Chrome, use anonymity VPNs, or use browser extensions to suppress common tracking mechanisms. Enough is enough. Stop it.
I enjoy the new Macgyver series. Except for when they make stupid obvious mistakes like talking about jamming an "RDIF" signal when they clearly meant RFID.
And it was in a voiceover. Easy to re-record. Ugh.
Whoa. The juxtaposition between Mando and Maxwell Lord ... Pedro Pascal is absolutely amazing.
One thing I've learned from this pandemic...
... is that my family eats a lot of bread. Like a lot.
It's one thing when you buy it from the store. Or as part of meals at restaurants. But when you make it at home instead you realize just how much you consume.
I've made anywhere from 1 to 3 loaves each week since March :-/
Thank goodness I got a bread machine last Christmas!
This year: a home brewing kit. :-D
One of my favorite Christmas traditions: homemade cinnamon rolls :-)
Now to refrigerate overnight so they rise.
Looking at my Garmin stats for the year you can see gym use high in Jan, waning in Feb, and all but gone in March. Since then I added walking and have gradually picked running back up (despite it being only 29F this morning).
Time to get back into shape.
Who else has #Garmin gear so I can connect with folks for friendly challenges?
Eric Mann
boosted
cw: WMD/ genocide
@cadadr There is of course some work in the field, though it's not given the emphasis it deserves. Several commentators have noted that CompSci, unlike physics, has not yet had its Hiroshima moment (Ex-Googler and G+ architect Yonatan Zunger, trained in physics, among them).
That notion itself may be flawed: consequences of computer-based moral failure rarely arrive as blinding insights of unignorable magnitude airdropped with precision and creating both tens of thousands of martyrs and witnesses.
The same conflict which birthed Little Boy also snuffed the souls of 6 million Jews (and others) with less haste, but punch-card precision, tabulated and enumerated by IBM as per contract operating in and for Nazi Germany, recording data with serial numbers, some of which still remain tatooed on the arms of survivors.
And yet computer science is almost wholly unaware of its Holocaust past.
1/
#ethics #CompSci #hiroshima #holocaust #wwii #genocide #ibm #IbmAndTheHolocaust #WMD #NuclearWeapons
One of my favorite things is getting an email notification that my account and personal data was stolen from a vendor as part of a breach.
A vendor with whom I have never set up an account ...
I use custom email addresses when I sign up for services. So glad that I do.
Started through some worksheets on how to set up a will and a trust for my family. Not a big deal (but a lot of work), though it required registration to save my work.
They sold my info to "My Funeral Quote.." OK ... kind of related? But still.
They in turn sold my info to ... "Customized Letters from Santa."
Huh?
- Keybase
- eamann
- PayPal
- https://paypal.me/eam
- Web
- https://ttmm.io
- PGP
- 0x63F15A9B715376CA
- Keybase
- https://keybase.io/eamann
Admin
Tekton
Joined Aug 2018
