Heather Burns
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Gigging/giggling UK tech policy wonk for hire + MSc student @lawstrath + author, Understanding Privacy. Personal tweets. IANAL. 💬 on Signal, dafties.
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Joined August 2015
ICYMI, no I am not part of a grandiose open source conspiracy which someone apparently hallucinated in a k-hole.
I've now blogged about what it was like to lose yet another day of my life to the stochastic harassment of a project I left five years ago.
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Yes, that was me. This was so long ago I'm laughing at it. But I'm bemused to see the rest of the world just learning what some of us have been dealing with for over six years.
thenational.scot
AN internet privacy expert has said she was called a “paedo” during a UK Government meeting after raising concerns about the Online Safety Act…
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Apropos of certain unwanted visitors, I've had a very satisfying rant about what it's like to be a woman travelling alone for work here in Scotland, a nation whose economy is built entirely around getting American golf arseholes pished on premium booze.
linkedin.com
Rant incoming. ✈️ 🏴 Like most people, when I get to an airport, I want peace and quiet. And like all women travelling alone for work, I need to be hypervigilant about my personal safety...
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/ flight attendant and shouted "this man caused me to spill my drink all over me!", when nobody had either touched him or done a damn thing to him, and the simple fact was he was soaked in his own mess of his own making. There are people like that everywhere.
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On a 90 minute flight this week, a guy across from me opened up a full bottle of wine and got right to it. The pax in front of him got up, then sat back down. The guy (v drunk) then shouted "you made me spill this all over me!" and tried to kick off. He then called the /.
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The "worst day at work" award goes to X's director of European gov't affairs, who not only performed disastrously in a Parliamentary hearing on the abuse and threats sent to MPs on this site, but then had to be told by MPs that her boss had just quit.
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@LewisSilkin By the way @LewisSilkin, if you want to reflect upon taking a wad of cash from an *actual rapist* to provide bespoke reputation management services for him and his enabler-wife, and perhaps apologise to everyone you harassed and threatened on their juicy retainer, maybe do that?.
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Delighted that sleazy law firms like @LewisSilkin will no longer be able to make bank off actual rapists by using workplace NDAs to threaten the women those men sexually assaulted (with the adoring wife's approval). CC: every woman in Manchester. 🍾 .
bbc.co.uk
The government plans to change the law to void confidentiality agreements that silence staff.
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Here I am in El Reg, causing good trouble. (Imagine that.).
theregister.com
: Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer
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History has its eyes on you.
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Someone messaged me "hopefully he'll leave you alone now that he has a new target", and yay? I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
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*shakes head for the millionth time at Americans who think they can just rock up to the Rue de la Loi and get their way by saying ‘howdy’ a lot*.
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And rightly so. WP dot org’s legal status and corporate-appointed leadership mean that WP’s participation in OWA effectively renders it an astroturfing front, meaning private corporate lobbying cosplaying as independent advocacy. Believe me, Brussels is *very* twitchy about that.
Talking about the Open Web Alliance, @photomatt says “…we want to support in whichever way we can”. However, the OWA site says @WordPress’ membership is paused: . #WCEU
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Ancient proverb; live your life in a way so that the people you’ve failed to lead do not have to depersonalise you into the phrase “single point of failure”.
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What a contrast in language and authority between the authentic leadership shown in this post, which is centred in the community and the task ahead, and the vapid therapy-speak of the two A8C WP executive directors, which has always been centred in their unelected power.
This was my talk tonight. TL;DR WordPress was not built by just one person. WordPress belongs to all of us.
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This is genuinely one of the most joyous days of the last few years of my life, and I’m not just saying that because I am currently on my feet directly in front of Kylie Minogue.
Bombshell news out of the @altctrlorg event alongside #WCEU: FAIR (Federated and Independent Repositories) introduces a #wordpress package manager in an aim to fully decentralize & futureproof WP by insulating the ecosystem from the anti-competitive whims of @photomatt .Backed by.
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*Boop*.
The Empire being stripped of competent people in their ranks (Dedra, Partagaz, Galen Erso, among others) and left only with bootlickers & sycophants in the end. Totalitarianism doesn't even allow initiatives. They just want dimwits who follow orders. That's THE POINT in #Andor
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Really good privacy job on offer, though sadly requiring a bum in a seat in central London
privacyinternational.org
Full time and permanent from London office.Salary: £40,500 full time.
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