Beautiful spring day in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The hummingbirds have been very active lately.

One historical tidbit: Figma in the browser was possible because of WebGL, which came from work done at Mozilla in 2006 by my friend and absolute great human Vlad Vukicevic (not on twitter anymore). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL He saw ages before anyone else did what was possible.

RT @LuluGNavarro: A free link to my uplifting conversation with travel guru Rick Steves nytimes.com/2024/12/14/magaz…

Opening the door and seeing this was a nice start to the day #rainbow

Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use. When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.

"Humanity has been stripped from the digital world: deliberately, maliciously."

It's the last day of my tour and I'm exhausted and I wanna go home, but I'm still not gonna phone this thing in! So get your couch-sitting asses down here! Tonight at @CooperageProj Honesdale, PA. showtime 7:30 🎟️ at the door!

Supreme Court on trans people: Broad injunctions are bad and the law can only be blocked for two individual trans kids rather than the whole state. Supreme court on blocking student loan reform and right wing priorities: Broad injunctions are great! Apply them nationwide!

I’d like it not to be true, but serious national security folks keep warning that the US is a few years away from possible cyber conflict with China. If that’s true, we shouldn’t be destroying the US research labs that work in this area.

Periodic reminder: Chromium-based browsers still are very vulnerable to abuse of the FullScreen and Keyboard Lock APIs. Educate friends & family to HOLD the Escape key down to escape such attacks. (Firefox, doesn't have the KeyboardLock API). textslashplain.com/2023/09/1…

Thanks CFPB! A family member just got their check and is very happy you got this guy (after I reassured them it wasn't another scam).

I've said it once and I will say it again: My husband is a doctor. I'm a lawyer. The fact that together we cannot figure out our health insurance coverage and documents really says something about American healthcare.

The most dangerous grift in ophthalmology right now is “glasses are harmful.” People that claim diet, exercise, and a 10 part instructional webinar can help you live spectacle free! No. Stop it. It’s not a big deal for most adults. They will lose some money before realizing that no amount of exercise and bull testicle consumption will fix their presbyopia. But those same adults have kids. If young kids don’t get the glasses they need, their brains won’t develop normal vision. I’m talking permanent vision loss. I have seen it happen. It’s awful and entirely preventable.

The difference in the amount of “we’re toast, it’s over, we’re done for” tweets I’m seeing on the “for you” feed compared to the people I’m actually following is ummm…stark. It’s almost…it’s almost as if,..the jackass who owns this platform…wants us to feel a certain way…

YOU CAN PROBABLY DO IT or How To Muster Courage Using the Dumbness of Others brittlestar.substack.com/p/y…

Why Good Security Fails: The Asymmetry of InfoSec Investment. You invest to create good security. Then there's no incidents. Then people ask why are we spending all this money on security when we don't have any issues. Resources atrophy, but worse, the drop off in effectiveness is disproportionally negative to the rate of resource drain. Things can go from good to bad to “boom” pretty quickly. So, actively work to counteract this: 1. Organizational health monitoring. 2. Zero based budgeting. 3. Deliver and communicate incremental benefits. 4. Build a base of support. 5. Make scarcity visible. philvenables.com/post/why-go…

On the final, I ask students how many classes they attended, & what might make them come more. One student said 0 classes, bc syllabus says “I encourage you to wear a mask. The pandemic is not over” this “rubbed [them] the wrong way” so they never came, to intro epidemiology

When you hear anyone in the news say "during the pandemic" or "post-pandemic", this is what they are talking about:

I did not ask my archive utility to execute arbitrary programs embedded in the archive metadata.