Last tweet for a while. You can find me on mastodon at paco@infosec.exchange.

It’s the good one.

It is infuriating that public agencies like State and County use private services like Xitter and Facebook to diseminate information to the public. I must agree to the Ts&Cs of those bad, private firms to do unrelated business with my gov't.

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I tried to tell my #infosec people about https://infosec,exchange/ but Twitter has declared such sites as “potentially harmful” (to their revenue model). Extraordinary.

Those of you joining the exodus to mastodon, find me at paco@mastodon.org.uk

This is why I won’t buy a Tesla. I am picky about who I do business with. They are a bad company.

You don’t know these kids and they don’t know you. But you have a chance to be memorable. On halloween, give out the good shit. Full size candy bars, stuff that they’ll really enjoy. If you can afford to, give a bit of unalloyed joy.

A #chatbot is just a menu system that is massively harder to use and orders of magnitude more expensive and complicated to build and operate. It doesn’t give end users different or better outcomes. It just makes the end user spend more time and effort to get the same outcomes.

Had a small argument with my 13-year-old that boiled down to “my house, my rules”. I said to him “someday, when you have your own house, you can set your thermometers to display Celsius”.

As an end user, I get exactly 1 mechanism for sorting #slack channels that I completely control: sections. All other sorting mechanisms (alphabetical, recent, priority) are out of my control. End users need additional direct control: tags, user-set "priority", team-based. 5/END

I have a number of #slack channels where the people and stuff in that channel are IMPORTANT. They are high priority, but they are not frequent. I can't think of another system with a field called "priority" where the user can neither see nor set the priority value. 4/n

I'm on twitter a lot. Is it "important"? In "priority" sort, Twitter would shoot straight to #1 on my phone. But my banking apps (which I probably use 2-3 times a week) are more 'important'. Likewise my #Slack channels. 3/n

The word "priority" implies importance and Slack has decided that if you go somewhere frequently, that somewhere is "important" and thus "priority" sort puts frequently-visited things at the top. But this is NOT what "priority" means. 2/n

Mini-rant on organising #slack channels. Within a section, there's only 3 ways to sort. "Recent activity", "alphabetically", and "priority". The "priority" sort is a really stupid name for what it is. It is "frequency" as opopsed to "recentness". 1/n

OMG. Here’s a nice long list of Apple features and tech I will never use, will uninstall if I find it, and disable if I can. This is profoundly stupid and terrible. I cannot nope away from this fast enough.

PSA FROM YOUR FRIENDLY PUBLIC DEFENDER: DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR CHILDREN’S DNA TO A DATABASE! For that matter, this applies to everyone: DO NOT EVER VOLUNTARILY GIVE A DNA SAMPLE.

A Prime Minister may fall today. Soak up the history, guys. Days like today only come around every couple of months