Aaron Hall

Auto-didact, dilettante, sysadmin. Subversive for the Counter-Enlightenment. Nothing is simple.

[Andy Ihnatko @Ihnatko]

@BosPublicRadio @ebakerwhite I wish Apple & Google would respond to this egregious abuse by declaring TikTok to be spyware. I wish they'd pull it from their app stores until TikTok convinces independent auditors that this kind of thing can't happen again. Deplatforming is the only repercussion they fear.

[Andy Ihnatko @Ihnatko]

@BosPublicRadio @ebakerwhite As I said this morning: Bytedance's required subservience to China's national intel laws is a worry, sure…but the simple fact that TikTok is a popular social media app makes the company a potential danger in and of itself.

[Andy Ihnatko @Ihnatko]

Very relevant to this morning's discussion of TikTok on @BosPublicRadio - Forbes' @ebakerwhite goes into great detail on how TikTok surveilled her and other journalists, as confirmed today by TikTok's parent company.

[Andy Ihnatko @Ihnatko]

Came across this line in a news article and it needs to be put on a tee shirt or embroidered on a throw pillow:

"When asked to clarify what the metaverse was, Meta did not respond."

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Telecommunications as a whole, which also encompasses The Internet, is in a constant state of failure and just in time fixes and functionally all modern communication would collapse if about 50 people, most of which are furries, decided to turn their pager off for a day.

[Aaron Hall @vitahallo]

@cpan_pevans @OvidPerl I write webapps too, and I bundle or perlbrew the current stable but “use 5.xx.x” for whatever the newest features I need are (last time I worked on one it was 5.22).

[Aaron Hall @vitahallo]

@cpan_pevans @OvidPerl Currently 5.10.1, soon 5.16.3 (system perl on RHEL 7). I’m a sysadmin and I write single-file Perl *scripts* and *tools* that need to work on the already-installed system perl.

[Bantshire University @BantshireUni]

Write a Christmas message from our Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier with particular focus on the unfortunate geese attacks on students with northern accents. #ChatGPT

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is why billionaire-owned media is a problem.

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

So here you have it. The government scuppered a deal with the train drivers

They wont want a deal with the nurses and other #NHS workers either.

They want to blame the NHS crisis on healthcare workers.

Not on 12 years of Tory mismanagement

[Jessica Burbank @JessicaLBurbank]

Well @elonmusk now owns this place so here’s a warm welcome to him and his fans

[Joshua Topolsky @joshuatopolsky]

Fucking great read https://t.co/QgZYYXZQbT

[Kelly Carlin-McCall @kelly_carlin]

Ouch.

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

A new lawsuit alleges that RealPage, which created a price-setting software for apartments, formed a cartel to artificially inflate rents alongside nine of the nation’s biggest property managers. (Via @ProPublica)
https://t.co/ZcEE1ceDsb

[Zach Gage @helvetica]

i miss the ipod scroll wheel

[Sarah Smarsh @Sarah_Smarsh]

Just a reminder that the private health insurance industry profits in amoral ways from all of your family's maladies.

So long as we don't have a healthcare system that is public at its core, I'm not sure we're a society that can fix much of anything.

[rangecard @rangecard]

@Popehat Let me make sure I'm clear. Removing confederate statues is a horrible thing because it's erasing history, but having books in a library is tantamount to government endorsement of whatever is in the book?

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

GOP leaders are worried that if the party wins back the House it will detonate the U.S. economy.

[Christopher Ingraham🦗 @_cingraham]

In a single afternoon on Twitter you get exposed to more deranged opinions than a medieval peasant would experience in his entire lifetime.