Damus

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David Bremner profile picture
Look, I know the tech industry is pretty dire, and probably needs to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, but can we not canonize Steve Jobs? The "good old days" were probably bullshit anyway, but to the degree that the tech world had cool stuff it wasn't made by CEOs.
abadidea · 4w
the infosec people at my work are rioting because the Distant Corporate Overlord sent an email that scores 10/10 on the phishing scale (“We want to give you a present to thank you for all your hard ...
David Bremner profile picture
@nprofile1q... One of my petty pleasures is marking all of the emails from our infosec contractor as phishing attempts. They start with things like "You have been assigned" and I'm like, I don't work for you, red flag, red flag! Also they have a history of "fake phishing" people in order to chide them, so they are literally known bad actors. Welp, that's gonna be my story when they finally track down my boss and complain that I've been ignoring them for 6 years.
Elena ``of Valhalla'' · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqpdvy00xwyk4mcshlj9p76jfrfjesa2u7urxrjlyd9tenffrlfkasne0wjx you've found out this through purely theoretical deductive reasoning, right? … right?
David Bremner profile picture
That's twice in two days I've gone to buy an ebook but then noticed it was only available with #DRM and noped out. I guess authors don't have that much leverage (look at academics!), but consider asking your publisher to sell DRM free ebooks. Otherwise I might find a way to support the author, but the publisher isn't getting a cut.