sometimes i use macvim so i can move quickly to that program in particular and do other stuff in the terminal, since i use it for general distraction free writing
technically macvim is not vi, but i guess both are considered outdated in an age where if you tell your iphone not to sync to the cloud it erases days on notes on nazis.
(the whole point of privacy was autonomy, not shoving things up to an unencrypted cloud to get a bullshit warrant served on it and tim cook has forgotten what the world was like when storage was scarce)
Are we gonna do the thing where anyone who says Putin can't do whatever he wants is "in the CIA" and thus suspect and force autistic teens to look up publicly available vessel navigation data with a glorified set of links over a Youtube that is a Bellingcat cert?
This is a war, it's time to let military intelligence talk to whichever reporter they picked up at the start of their tour in a bar to feed the good leads and maybe wait a day or two for things that can wait.
>I realize the rust evangelism strike force is a thing
With rust there's no buffer overflows, how will folks buy supercars to crash in the desert after escaping "flyover country"
(In all seriousness, people were obsessed with it at Mozilla but also just kept hazing me I was "just" a UX researcher -- do you know of a good primer who knows the basics of languages like Python, bash, and QBASIC but struggles with compiled languages like C/C++?)
python is probably a bad choice due to the white space absolutism.
compiled languages may be not fun since you have more delays than the sighted.
what did old school phreaks use when learning to program? (i was late the the game in the late 90s, and people always assumed i was older except when it was a context they'd pay me fairly for my intellect -- then it's nothing but precarious, low paying nonprofits or piecemeal consulting designed to keep me in their orbit)
there is a library for the blind in 412, but they also block tor so i have to hope what pops up in duckduckgo is accurate:
>Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
>412-687-2440
>Toll Free Phone Number: 1-800-242-0586
if they give you shit say that it's greg and you're using your one phone call, they'll help you if you don't start asking a bunch of kinsey crap, if they don't suffer a narcicistic meltdown from having to do more than show someone the braile forms for welfare.
(i have to be careful not to hammer resources intended for the visually handicapped when using tor -- my no javascript lifestyle means i often seek out things designed for a screen reader, and i've seen them get overwhelmed in ways i haven't seen since the 2000s)
in general, interpreted languages are easier to keep a mental model of, because they have been iterated on to the point you can write out code that looks like psudocode, it's why i like python
the hackers who trained me were big into perl, which has a lot of issues but the whole there's over 9000 ways to do things -- there's a big library of existing perl code, and since there's more than one way to do things and those people fucking love one liners you'll spend less time dealing with "whitespace" which, as a blind person, i'm gonna guess is a very hard thing to grok, harder than public key encryption, recursion, or the idea that we don't need john taylor gatto to tell us what hellen keller got up to.
>Your post reads like someone who is interested in politics on the side, and has done a lot of reading on US issues, but hasn't really worked in the field. Is that accurate?
I worked for a major K Street NGO. I was removed for refusing to weaken web standards.
I took a pause from all assistance to civil society during Trump, to make folks think and reflect about the consequences of their decisions.
(As I like to joke at open mic: your post Columbine models are broken, I don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the Solar Winds blow, and it is my inaction that will be the death of you.)
>Only the wealthy can participate in politics or public debate?
Pretty much, I've seen how you're retaliated against. I spent down on a Bellingcat cert, but that's useless -- doesn't matter what I find in public view, folks don't listen.
>If I was grading this; I'd give you a "D" and tell you to try again, with focus this time.
Thanks for that feedback,
>You want a job in politics, is that it?
Consulting.
(Or a delete button tbh -- keep regretting my posts on the internet.)
nope. i opted myself out of the wayback machine and have obliterated my online precedence as much as possible.
for those of us who began forming memories as the berlin wall fell, it's been quite a ride -- it seemed, for this brief moment that we'd all kind of live in arcologies with solar powered desalination or something and instead... [tabs over to Al Jazeera] yikes!! russia are JERKs.
strive to be the ghost in the machine if you want to be a hacker.
You've got a few that are pro privacy in the "pro individualism to the extreme degree" lumped in there with some good ones, just so you know. I've been in this space a long time.
And now, I must hand off this nym to the new owner.
They need to defund the FBI and split it in two, the counter intel people have run roughshod over the original mission.
I once (after making my whole thing for over fifteen years that I won't speak to the FBI because they beat my townsfolk and local journalists during the G20) walked into an FBI field office, handed them a stack of what are called CCR numbers, and described a series of serious issues with my local police department. The woman's eyes went wide and she promised to open a civil rights investigation, then they ghosted me like I was a bad tinder date (which, to be fair... I can be, but we're at work now dear, so do your job or don't DARE interfere with mine.)
They need to focus on believing victims and utilizing existing sources of investigation before they "express concern", especially considering some of their agents who obstructed on this issue literally ran up on Congress.
Conversely, I've seen folks the FBI claims they need these extraordinary measures for wander around conferences like Defcon, HOPE, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium with their laptop unlocked like the venue was a hipster coffee shop.
(Not gonna name the guy, but he used to tweet a lot about opsec for someone who gets pilled up and runs around the venue loudly saying the N word with his laptop FULLY unlocked.)
Anyways... they need to rely more on human methods and less on computer intrusion, like the FBI agent who gave me my card back when I was an angry young man posting Facebook zero days on my blogspot.
(Apparently it creates a bit of an international incident if you find a way to spoof your location on Facebook, get angry they declined to interview your for a summer internship, and spoof your location as with the protesters when you're not retaking discrete math over the summer, and apparently in 2009 the best the FBI had was a guy who knew what IRC was and would basically just... do undercover stuff but on the computer? Guy couldn't even get the powerpoint to work when he came to speak at CMU, which I have, to be clear... never, ever attended. I just show up in Newell Simon occasionally to grab a refreshing grass jelly drink, ask lewd questions to the roboceptionist, and look at whatever posters folks decided to put in public view.)
Anyways, I'm not clear why we are listening to an agency staffed by criminals who misunderstand on purpose anytime their job involves anything other than messing up on purpose, but I'm speaking from the perspective of a lower middle class Appalachian thrust into these crypto wars by forces beyond my control :-)
Thanks for this resource! I remember back before the "Summer of Snowden" enrolling in a PhD because if you were pro privacy (and thus anti invasive ad tracking ala GOOG, FB et al), there were very few roles.
(Even today, many a "privacy" role seems to be "help my bitcoin company avoid the Treasury Department)
I could have sworn this meta level concept was discussed ages ago in one of those Klutz press science tween science books they’d sell at places like Natural Wonders in the 2000s.
(It’s still cool research just jogged my memory- iirc they had Mark Hamill telling you the benefits of closing the lid on the toilet before flushing.)
I’ve met those people. They act like running cross someone who’s never held a clearance in their life on Tinder is the same as being an extortion victim.
(If I wanted a sob story about how it’s hard to be a mom I’d install the Lifetime application… I’m on Tinder to smoke trees and get laid, and that should have been abundantly obvious from the copy in my profile, which I’ve since edited to be more… explicit.)
>Apple is positioning itself to become a major player in the advertising space and - with a dwindling economy and an increased pressure to sustained growth from shareholders - that's going to continuously encroach on our privacy guarantees for monetization purposes.
Or they could sell us a rugged iPhone with a removable battery and SD card slot to extend storage but keep the proprietary OS to keep the music/movie ppl happy plus keep out malware not sent via FISA warrant, but if they did that Tim Cook might jump off the top of the donut apparently, so they keep going the way you describe.
sometimes i use macvim so i can move quickly to that program in particular and do other stuff in the terminal, since i use it for general distraction free writing
technically macvim is not vi, but i guess both are considered outdated in an age where if you tell your iphone not to sync to the cloud it erases days on notes on nazis.
(the whole point of privacy was autonomy, not shoving things up to an unencrypted cloud to get a bullshit warrant served on it and tim cook has forgotten what the world was like when storage was scarce)