Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Sleep is probably my favorite thing to try and fail at almost every night

- If you care about the facts of the case, let's consider that **the robot was not actually stolen** and yet they were seemingly charged with "grand larceny," a felony. The robot drove away, of its own volition

Now that we've seen seen the legal mechanism used by police to compel a food delivery robot company to give them footage, we can now have a conversation about whether we as a society want ubiquitous, subpoenable cameras on wheels driving around our sidewalks at all times.

- The concerning thing here is the mechanism of what happened. The robots are recording, the footage is saved, the cops have realized they have the legal authority to request it, have indeed requested it using a subpoena, and have used it to secure a conviction

- The company has no publicly stated policy about how the footage should be used, how long it will be stored, when they will and will not share it

Obligated periodic reminder
that I am currently Looking for Work! ✨

Remotely from Canada 🇨🇦
(ideally, but flexible)

At a great organization 💚

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#Privacy #Security #Tech #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Python

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I had to do it...

The Russian Revolution, for example, began with strikes and became violent when the czar deployed the army against the striking workers. If there is violence intrinsic to efforts by the exploited to free themselves, it would seem that such violence is intrinsic to the oppressors, not the oppressed.

Let’s consider another example: American chattel slavery, which was obscenely violent. Millions of Africans died in the process of enslavement, and slave owners used daily murder, torture, rape, and mutilation to maintain their system of exploitation.

During the history of chattel slavery in the US, maybe some 100,000 slaves escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Few, if any of them, freed themselves via violence. In fact, the slave revolt that caused the most casualties among slave owners was Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831. Somewhere between 55 and 65 whites were killed.

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For anyone who is considering it for their own org, I shifted my org to a four day workweek several months ago, just as others globally are starting to (including, civil servants in Scotland!)

100% endorse. We are getting the same amount of work done because we are less bored, stressed and tired. We all take off Fridays. Everyone’s pay remained the same.

Some people use the time for a paid second gig. Others to volunteer or like me, to read a book with a cat snuggled near by.

#4dayworkweek

Hey, does anyone have any software development work that needs doing? I have some free months that need filling with contracts!

I know a number of languages including but certainly not limited to Python, Java, C, JavaScript, Vala, Haskell, Lua, Julia, GLSL, & more.

I have experience with standards & standards-setting, geospatial data, metadata, linked-data, opensource, static websites, GTK apps, & I'm developing a browser engine.

Also: I enjoy speaking!

#FediHire

I wish I didn't auto delete my toots sometimes, as I predicted this about 6 months ago...

People are injecting malware responses into Microsoft's AI, so now when you ask it questions it is serving people malware downloads. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware/

we've had some successful strikes yes, but what about a lot more successful strikes?

... and if you're in tech, here's a brilliant book about how You Deserve A Tech Union: https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

We know libraries are under threat from the culture wars, but few have noticed that private equity is preying for libraries and publishers, too—and using employee ownership to justify it.

This is a super important story—reported by someone I love:)

https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/could-kkrs-ownership-of-overdrive-raise-questions-about-simon-schuster-purchase

The food delivery robots that are zipping across Los Angeles are also providing camera footage they capture to the LAPD. https://www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery-robots-are-feeding-camera-footage-to-the-lapd-internal-emails-show/

#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData

Don't remember where I found this but I think about it a lot.

A question for non-profit people - are comprehensive fiscal sponsorships (where the fiscally sponsored group doesn't actually have an entity) really that common? I admit this is new to me but secondary sources suggest that this format is more common than ones where the smaller group has their own entity.

Edited: Thank you folks - definitely my experience has involved over-lawyered orgs! Not a shocking outcome. :)

so this is apparently a thing