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skze
skze

hackers, in fiction: trying to take control of other people’s devices and steal their data

hackers, in reality: trying to take control over their own devices and prevent others from getting their own data

18 May at 3:30 | Open on toot.cat
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MissMythreyi

@skye Lol i was collecting these hackers in fiction vs reality snippets for a writing research and boy oh boy is this gonna be a great addition!!

yesterday at 10:31 | Open on mastodon.world
mirabilos

@skye this is a really good summary

yesterday at 18:21 | Open on toot.mirbsd.org
Alexander Trivia Dragonson

@skye is there not also a generational gap here, or

yesterday at 18:24 | Open on wandering.shop
skze

Since this is unfortunately not common knowledge yet, let’s spread some information. Here is the guide for what to do when someone is having a tonic-clonic seizure, as described by Epilepsy Action:

• Protect them from injury (remove harmful objects from nearby)
• Cushion their head
• Look for an epilepsy identity card or identity jewellery – it may give you information about their seizures and what to do
• Time how long the seizure lasts
• Once the jerking has stopped, help their breathing by gently placing them in the recovery position (see below)
• Stay with them until they are fully recovered
• Be calm and reassuring

Call for an ambulance if any of these things apply:

• You know it is their first seizure
• The seizure lasts for more than five minutes
• They have one tonic-clonic seizure after another without regaining consciousness between seizures
• They are seriously injured during the seizure
• They have trouble breathing after the seizure has stopped

Since this is unfortunately not common knowledge yet, let’s spread some information. Here is the guide for what to do when someone is having a tonic-clonic seizure, as described by Epilepsy Action:

• Protect them from injury (remove harmful objects from nearby)
• Cushion their head
• Look for an epilepsy identity card or identity jewellery – it may give you information about their seizures and what to do
• Time how long the seizure lasts
• Once the jerking has stopped, help their breathing by gently...

12 May at 4:08 | Open on toot.cat
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mybarkingdogs

@skye Will also add this depressing point: if you are in the US and have to call 911 (don't, unless they are unconscious or injured to a degree they need immediate life support) *emphasize* that they are unconscious and/or immobile, and that it is a medical emergency.

If you just call 911, are "someone's flailing all around" there's a good (bad) chance the first responder will be an armed (and barely medically trained if medically trained at all) cop

12 May at 4:20 | Open on freeradical.zone
Kevin Karhan

@skye precisely...

Also:

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Do not try to put things in their mouth whatsoever!


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Communicate with them, even if they seem unconcious and/or not reacting to you. Update them on the situation by calmly talking to them.


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Check their vitals. If unconcious but breathing, rotate them sideways. Make shure mouth and nose are not interrupted and that if they were to vomit (very unlikely!), it can flow out unhindered.


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offer some still, non-carbonated water if they regain conciousness. Only offer something eat if they can sit upright and explicitly demand it themselves (a seizure burns a lot of calories, some may get hypoglykemia due to that so it's advised to communicate anything affecting blood sugar first!)


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To deal with spectators, assign them tasks (i.e. on to call ambulance and/or direct EMS personnel to the site, stand around back towards the person having a seizure to deter spectrators and tell people wanting to film and gawk to fuck off.


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Only restrict someone's movement if they'd hurt themselves otherwise (i.e. head banging against sth.) and only passively by cushioing them.


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Brief EMS / Paramedics on the situation when they arrive so they can quickly take over. This should also be done so that the person in question - even unconcious - is potentially able to withness the situation and thus may be less frightened in the situation knowing they're being taken care of.

Yours faithfully,
a fmr. Firefighter

@skye precisely...

Also:

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Do not try to put things in their mouth whatsoever!


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Communicate with them, even if they seem unconcious and/or not reacting to you. Update them on the situation by calmly talking to them.


12 May at 7:23 | Open on infosec.space
F4GRX Sébastien

@skye thank you, this is important info.

12 May at 8:28 | Open on chaos.social
skze
skze

how to decide on a programming language, a small guide

javascript: this is supposed to run in a browser

php: this is supposed to run on a webserver

python: you just want to get shit done

c: you like to feel pain

java: you are doing this for money

bash: sheesh, we get it, you really like linux, please shut up

perl: no

rust: you are trans

c++: you don’t even care anymore

pascal: you stopped caring in 1985

excel: i don’t know what you are trying to accomplish but you should stop

19 Sep 2023 at 14:26 | Open on toot.cat
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Maddie (NEW! FUNKY MODE!) :verifiedtrans:
@skye guess i'm going with cobol
20 Sep 2023 at 8:49 | Open on 0w0.is
F4GRX Sébastien

@skye rust: you want to do C but you only know jquery and you want to blame crashes on the language.

C: you want to actually know what the computer is doing with its time.

20 Sep 2023 at 9:12 | Open on chaos.social
skze

do your backups, people!

you never know what kind of stuff you may rediscover by staring at the filenames rushing by

i just found a directory of files long believed lost. past me did not delete them, as it turns out. past me stuck them in a hidden directory. i am crying a little

doing backups is good!

12 Sep 2023 at 3:17 | Open on toot.cat
Irenes (many)
Zach M

@skye
What do you like as a setup for doing your backups?

12 Sep 2023 at 5:00 | Open on hachyderm.io
Ben Lubar (any pronouns)

@skye oh thanks for reminding me that I left my backup running in a terminal and didn't check on it

(it finished successfully)

12 Sep 2023 at 5:34 | Open on mastodon.lubar.me
skze

#feditips

a lot of time you will hear things like “there’s no algorithm here” and “you are your own algorithm”. these are fundamentally unhelpful, as they explain the technological background but not the practical differences, so let’s break this down.

what does a social media #algorithm do? mainly 3 things.

*1. it prevents you from ending up with an empty home timeline when you first sign up. meanwhile, mastodon and many other fedi tools just put you on an empty screen.

*2. when you have run out of new posts in your curated timeline, an algorithm adds additional content. now, how does it do that?

*3. it observes the kinds of posts you interact with, what accounts you follow, who they interact with, etc. to calculate your interests, with some nasty side effects such as amplifying controversy.

so when people say “you are your own algorithm”, they mean that step 3 is what you need to do in order to achieve 1 and 2.

find out what kinds of posts you like and follow those people and hashtags. seek out groups (yes, we have groups!) and follow them, too.

scan local and federated timelines for good stuff. browse other servers’ local timelines.

check out the people getting boosted and linked into your feed and see if they are worth following, because clearly your friends like them! click on random strangers commenting in a thread. you can be sure they aren’t nazis.

instead of training an algorithm to recognise your interests, and training YOURSELF to adapt your behaviour for controlling the algorithm, you need to manually populate your timeline. the trade-off is you are free to interact in any way you like. no unaccountable machine will interpret your criticism as recommendation. no data siphon is analysing your posts for hints on what to try to sell you.

it’s nice, but it does take more initial effort.

#feditips

a lot of time you will hear things like “there’s no algorithm here” and “you are your own algorithm”. these are fundamentally unhelpful, as they explain the technological background but not the practical differences, so let’s break this down.

what does a social media #algorithm do? mainly 3 things.

2 Jul 2023 at 5:13 | Open on toot.cat
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Morgan

@skye yeahh most algorithms do their best to hide me and then there's Tumblr which will go "you and X person you've never interacted with share a marginalized group! So obviously you'll love how they're bigoted against another one!"
And YouTube which will go "well you're clearly interested in a lot of different creative pursuits so I'm done even trying to find things specific to your interests, here's some random white guy talking about topics you've never watched videos about"

2 Jul 2023 at 7:13 | Open on disabled.social
CEASEFIRE NOW 🇧🇫

@skye the other part of this missing algorithm is the display order, ie that feeds are all chronological, not optimized at all for most interaction or anything. If anything it was what took the most time to get used to for me

2 Jul 2023 at 7:29 | Open on social.ornella.xyz
Kurt

@skye WRONG! The fediverse and all mastodon clients are driven by algorithms. The difference to surveillance capitalism: our algorithms are easy and open source and not optimized for advertising.

2 Jul 2023 at 7:42 | Open on chaos.social
skze

request

stop behaviour: telling random people you’ve never interacted with before to caption their images

replace with behaviour: replying to their post with an image description

advantages: not hostile towards people legitimately unable to caption; sufficiently annoying for the others but impossible to criticise; provides immediate value to people struggling to make sense of the picture; provides an example for what a caption should look like for those who are new to the feature

26 May 2023 at 21:14 | Open on toot.cat
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Pauline
Katzentratschen

@skye Several blind folks on Tw*tter explained it's rather impossible for them to find image descriptions hidden in replies. It may work if OP replies to their own tweet, and thus creating a thread. But it doesn't work well with random replies from other people.

27 May 2023 at 5:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Karyl :godot: :procreate:
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