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Something must be in the water, because I just got ANOTHER flare up of people asking me about Faraday bags to prevent phone tracking.

Short answer: A Faraday bag probably doesn’t solve your problem; they require great care to use effectively. and your phone can be tracked as soon as you remove it.

But if you DO need one, you want one that actually works. Here’s a short writeup I did a while back on the theory and practice of testing them:

https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

TL;DR: Science is fun.

—@mattblaze

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Vriska's Delivery Service (@vriska@lizards.live) (Lizards Live!)
Elon Musk should be the first human with a neurolink. If he doesn't want one, then they're just as obviously brain fryingly dangerous and irresponsible and stupid as anyone with common sense can tell you. If he does, we get to watch him succumb to the near 100% mortality rate after tortuous symptoms he subjected the test monkeys to. Money where your mouth is.
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Any meaningful UX testing in 2023 needs to account for ad blockers and password managers.

If your site or app doesn’t work with popular ad blockers, or it refuses to allow logins pasted in from password managers, it’s broken.

Yes, some executive type will want to argue about this because they think ad blocking will go away or they misunderstood some now outdated infosec guidance. They’re wrong. Users use ad blockers and password managers and if your stuff doesn’t work with them, it’s broken.

—@tommorris

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Just saw a blog post about someone just… feeding tons and tons of personal information into a GPT4 model for personal assistant purposes and I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter how many times we shout the dangers of not caring about privacy from all the roof tops in the world. People just don’t care. What’s the point. Gah this is so damn demotivating. OpenAI even tells you that they’ll totally use that data and you shouldn’t give it to them. You have to click next like 5 times before you get to the point of being able to do that very thing. And people still do. This is why we’re losing. It’s actually insane.

—@talon

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Congrats to Bob Zeidman, who just won $5 million from Mike #PillowGuy Lindell by proving that Lindell had nothing but fake data to back his claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/26/my-pillow-mike-lindell-investigation-00097903

Zeidman voted for #Trump twice. But he did a good thing and made this good point:

“If more people sought truth, even when that truth is contrary to their beliefs — such as when a #Republican like me destroys a Republican myth — then I think we really can save #democracy in America.”

—@petersuber

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The cashier/barista at the café where I sat and worked yesterday was a trans woman.

I didn’t feel any Satanic vibe in the café or smell sulfur. I heard no nearby children declared their intention to become trans, nor to my eyes did any suddenly engage in “sexualized” behavior.

I guess I need to develop my radar for the presence of evil.

—@jjgass