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@jik@federate.social · 4d ago

#TheOnion going hard at #SamAltman.
It's hard to pick, but I think this is my favorite line:
"Why did you decide to devote your life to AI?
I just saw so much suffering in the world that needed to be automated."
#OpenAI #funny #humor
https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-sam-altman/

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 14, 2026

Activist: "Should we put our phones in airplane mode when we're doing activist stuff?"
Me: [responds with two pages of text about threat modeling, risk assessment, levels of protection, current and future threats]
I don't think most people realize how hard it is to give people simple, straightforward cybersecurity guidance.
There's a huge risk in erring on the side of caution: people finding your recommendations burdensome and doing _nothing_ as a result.
#infosec
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@jik@federate.social · Mar 12, 2026

Really important reading about the war in Iran from @vermontgmg.bsky.social .
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-surprised-to-find-he-s-at-war-in-iran
#politics #Iran

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 07, 2026

I needed a new toilet supply hose. I wanted one with metal fittings on both ends (@jik@federate.social). I couldn't find it locally so I needed to order online. I found it on HomeDepot.com, but I don't shop there when I can avoid it because Fuck ICE, so I searched for that item at other merchants and found it on #eBay for slightly more than Home Depot. I ordered it there… and they placed an order on HomeDepot.com with my name and address as the recipient. 😠
#scam #AquilineTracking (1/4)

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 07, 2026

@paraplegic_racehorse@freeradical.zone I am not sure why you are using a confrontational and corrective tone. Nothing you said contradicts anything I said, and I never said anything about how hard or easy it is to "decouple one's identity from a credit card number."

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 07, 2026

Someone make this make sense…
Yesterday when we were at the car dealer,¹ before we submitted our auto loan application², I unfroze our credit reports at TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax so the loan application would go through.³
I have email confirming that my report was unfrozen at TransUnion, so I must have successfully logged into their website.
Today, when I went to put the freezes back, I wasn't able to log into the TransUnion website with the credentials in 1Password.
#infosec (1/5)

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 07, 2026

I really am grateful to #ZocDoc for sending my wife and me email letting us know that they've updated their privacy policy, because this prompted me to say to myself, "Wait a minute, the only provider of ours that used ZocDoc no longer does, so there's probably no longer any reason for us to have our data on this platform and we should tell them to delete it," followed by logging into the site for my wife and me and doing exactly that.
#privacy
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@jik@federate.social · Mar 03, 2026

It's hard to exaggerate how much of a catastrophe this war is going to be for the Trump administration. I'm sure there are people in the Pentagon and the intelligence community who understand, and I'm equally sure they're all keeping their heads down and their mouths shut because they don't want to lose their jobs.

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 03, 2026

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 03, 2026

RE: @rysiek@mstdn.social

#TechIsShitDispatch

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 02, 2026

Last week the auto shop said it would take $3k to fix our 2009 Ford, so we decided it's time to throw in the towel and move on to our next used car.
They said it would still be driveable for a while, but alas, today one of the killer potholes on the route home from our son's school caused the muffler to break off from the exhaust pipe.
Our search for a replacement just became a much higher priority, and in the meantime life's going to be a bit complicated.
*sigh*

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 02, 2026

*sigh*
I had to decline to participate in a clinical study today, because if I participate then non-anonymized data about me collected by the study will be shared with the CDC.
There's no way in hell I am going to give the current U.S. federal government access to any of my health information that I don't have to.

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 02, 2026

Posting scandalous photos without indicating their provenance even when asked earns a block from me, and should from you as well.
A deepfake that confirms your priors is still a deepfake. It does more harm than good even if the situation depicted has "truthiness".
The bad guys circulate fakes so that _real_ evidence, when it becomes public, will also be dismissed as fake.
Stop sharing unverified stuff or following people who do.
#misinformation #disinformation #propaganda #deepfakes

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 02, 2026

#TechIsShitDispatch
My motorcycle loan was from #GreenwoodCreditUnion. I wanted to pay it off via ACH transfer.
Most banks can do transfers in one business day. But Greenwood? Nope! They don't support Zelle or FedNow, and their ACH transfers take at least three days to go through. It appears they don't handle their own transfers; they go through Western Union. Bizarre!
#GreenwoodCU #banking (1/4)

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 01, 2026

I wrote a new #Thunderbird extension today: "Per Folder Preferences", which allows you to cause TB global preferences to change dynamically based on which folder you're currently viewing.
I use it to cause messages to be marked as read when I view them in some folders but not others (like, when I'm helping my uncle manage his email).
Available here:
https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/per-folder-preferences/
https://github.com/jikamens/TBPerFolderPreferences
Share and enjoy!
#FOSS @thunderbird@mastodon.online

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@jik@federate.social · Mar 01, 2026

A thousand years from now, digital archeologists and sociologists will still be trying to figure out why Firefly was cancelled after one season but The Orville got to make three.
Oh, the injustice.
#sf #tv

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 24, 2026

In this recent episode of The Indicator, a bunch of fucking Nazi collaborators explain why they want an ICE detention center in their community. It's for the jobs with good benefits, y'all.
They are not indifferent to the suffering of detainees, of course (not), but, and I quote, "if it's not here, it's somewhere else."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5718368/why-this-rural-town-wants-an-ice-facility
#politics #USPol #fascism
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@jik@federate.social · Feb 16, 2026

@404mediaco@mastodon.social just reminded me that my subscription will renew in a week and I was delighted to hear it.
This will be my third year as a paying subscriber. It has been money extremely well spent.
Since their inception, 404 Media has produced an astounding amount of ground-breaking reporting which has made a real positive difference for real people in the real world.
They've had more of an impact than media outlets orders of magnitude larger.
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@jik@federate.social · Feb 16, 2026

We're visiting my mother-in-law in a Cleveland, Ohio suburb, and she keeps telling us that it's not safe for us to drive downtown.
She and at least some of her friends are seemingly convinced that anybody who goes downtown is risking being gunned down in the street.
This is absurd. There were 166 homicides last year in Cuyahoga County (not just downtown, not just gun homicides). This is a statistical blip. It's ridiculous to be afraid. (1/5)

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 15, 2026

We stayed at a Red Roof Inn last night (trying to avoid Hilton because fuck ICE).
First room they put us in, the linens were sitting in a pile on a chair, i.e., the beds weren't made.
My wife was like, "It's fine, this is just how some motels are."
I was like, "I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. I've never in my life stayed at a hotel or motel where I was expected to make the beds."
I called the front desk and asked, they said "woops", apologized, and moved us to another room.

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 15, 2026

*sigh* On a family road trip to visit relatives, stopped at a motel last night on the way, forgot my pillow that I brought from home in the motel when we left this morning. 😞
Guess we'll have to go back the same way and pick it up on the way home, but in the meantime sleeping at the relatives' house is going to be difficult since they have crappy pillows (which is why I was bringing mine).
Tried to call the motel just now to ask them to hold into it, and no one answered the phone. *sigh again*

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 15, 2026

Look, I like Bernie Sanders, but the fact that he has decent politics doesn't give him a free pass for continuing to spam my uncle despite the fact that I've unusbscribed him at least three times while cleaning up the overwhelming spam in his inbox. 😠
#BernieSanders #spam

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 15, 2026

RE: @georgetakei@universeodon.com

I agree with everything in this post, but I just want to say how hilarious I find it that the candidate's social media person still thinks it's necessary to put the period in front of the tag, when that hasn't been necessary for many years.
I wonder if the original technical reason why it was needed has been lost to the mists of time, and people keep doing it as a stylistic thing without any understanding of why.

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 14, 2026

Remember the months-long saga when my #healthInsurance falsely decided that three of my kids had other primary insurance and stopped paying their claims?
Apparently our dental insurance decided to get in on the action. They just rejected my son's dental checkup claim for the same (wrong) reason: it has to go first to a (made-up) primary insurer. 😡🤬
How long will it take to fix this time?
First step: ask HR to confirm in writing that our health insurance does not cover dental checkups.

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 01, 2026

I've been here since the 2022 Great Twitter Exodus, and I've apparently never posted an #introduction, so… I'm a #GenX techie who's lived in #Boston since the late 80's. My 15 minutes of fame were being fired by #DOGE from #USDS early in 2025 and sounding the alarm in every media outlet that'd listen since nobody else was doing it. I'm not a fan of limelight, so I stopped when others took up the baton. My politics are aggressively progressive and antifascist, and I post about them a lot. (1/2)

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@jik@federate.social · Jan 28, 2026

Message that plays while I'm on hold: "For more information, visit bankofamerica dot com backslash security." @scream@bots.robots.rodeo

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@jik@federate.social · Jan 25, 2026

White folks in the U.S.: I encourage you to sit with the fact that this feeling you're feeling, that you could be gunned down by a cop for no reason without them facing any repercussions, is a feeling that every Black person living in the U.S. for the past 400 years has justifiably felt for their entire lives.
Resolve now that if we make it through with democracy intact, you will actively work toward a world where everyone can be free of that fear.
Don't forget.
#BlackLivesMatter

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@jik@federate.social · Jan 12, 2026

RE: @newsguyusa@flipboard.social

Here's what I've been saying to USians for about a year now:
- Get most of your money out of stocks.
- Diversify into foreign currencies, gold, and silver.
- Move money out of the country if you can.
(Disclaimer: I am not licensed to give financial advice. This advice is worth what you paid for it. Anything you do based on what I say is your decision and your risk. Etc.)
#USPol #politics #personalFinance #finance
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@jik@federate.social · Jan 09, 2026

I'm hiring an Information Security Generalist at 4DMedical. Ref: https://4dmedical.bamboohr.com/careers/115 "Generalist" means we're a small #infosec team so everyone on the team wears lots of hats. 4DMedical is headquartered in Australia, but this is a U.S. remote position. U.S. citizenship is required. 4D is small, about 145 people. We're doing great work that helps real people every day, and 4D truly cares about its staff.

Please boost. Help people in the fedi get hired! #GetFediHired #jobPosting

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@jik@federate.social · Jan 02, 2026

You may have heard that the maintainer of med-mastodon.com, a large, prominent Mastodon server, recently decided to shut down the server without warning, leaving his users with no access to their data. This could happen to you at any time. If you care about this, you should be backing up your data regularly. Here's a post I just wrote about how to do that, and about what you can do with your backed-up data. #FediTips https://blog.kamens.us/2026/01/02/the-why-and-how-of-backing-up-your-mastodon-data/

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@jik@federate.social · Dec 31, 2025

It's here! Just in time for our friends to enjoy it at our #NewYearsEve party tonight. #TheOnion

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@jik@federate.social · Dec 28, 2025

@bebadefabo@mastodon.social TLDR click the "Public, anyone can post" above the text box when posting and change it to "Quiet public". It may be called "Unlisted" in your Mastodon client. More details: https://fedi.tips/who-can-see-my-posts-in-mastodon-how-do-i-send-dms-in-mastodon/ or https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#unlisted

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@jik@federate.social · Dec 09, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop >"Being a tie-breaker" implies being chosen for being good at paying attention to interminable arguments, largely oral/written. Or maybe it implies being good at cutting through people's bullshit and figuring out what actually matters? 🤷 I think your argument begs the question.

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@cstross@wandering.shop I don't see the connection between "a CEO's primary job is to be a tie-breaker" and "LLMs are effectively optimized for bamboozling CEOs into mistaking them for intelligent activity." How does A imply or lead to B here?

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@jik@federate.social · Dec 07, 2025

My wife's taking me out to a movie in the theater tonight, something we do very rarely nowadays because of #COVID. What should we see?
(Background info: we've already seen and loved the first Wicked movie (+ I've seen it on stage 2x on Broadway and once touring) and seen and liked both previous Knives Out movies.)
#movies #Wicked #KnivesOut

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@otfrom@functional.cafe @jik@federate.social It's not sarcastic. I gather ICE is running recruiting ads that rely on blowing Nazi dogwhistles at deafening volume.

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@jik@federate.social · Nov 16, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @otfrom@functional.cafe Perhaps I am being naive, but I don't think the people at the level to be making decisions about whether to give clergy access to the facility are just in it for the cruelty and free to ignore the political ramifications of their actions. I think it's their job to consider the political ramifications, and I think they've concluded it will hurt the administration worse to keep the clergy out than to let them in.

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he/his Director of Information Security at 4DMedical. I work primarily in # infosec , # IT , and # SaaS infrastructure. ex # USDS (fired by # DOGE ) Dad, old-school hacker, Righteous Indignation Man. Opinions are my own. Follow my blog at @ jikblog . # COVID # CovidIsNotOver # USPol # MAPol # BosPoli # Boston # MA # politics # linux # FOSS # OpenSource # ConsumerActivism # privacy # programmer # hacker # fedi22 # resist https:// justmytoots.com/@jik@federate. social

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@jik@federate.social · Nov 16, 2025

Remember: the only reason that makes sense why #ICE would deny clergy access to the #Broadview detention facility to minister to the detainees is because they believe the substantial bad press and messaging damage from publicly denying clergy access is less bad than the damage that would result from the clergy seeing inside the facility and telling people what they saw. #politics #USPol #Chicago

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@jik@federate.social · Feb 19, 2024

If anyone knows of any concrete evidence that Google's Invisible reCAPTCHA adversely impacts people with disabilities more than others, I'd be grateful if you could share it with me.
I searched but could not find any; on the contrary, I found at least one study showing that Invisible reCAPTCHA is equally usable for disabled and non-disabled people.
To be clear, I'm not looking for theoreticals, I'm looking for concrete evidence one way or the other.
Thanks.
#accessibility

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