Notices by silverwizard (silverwizard@friendica.obscuritus.ca), page 59

♲ @devxvda@twitter.com: I had an open ticket in with @8fit about their accounts being compromised, and I did get a reply, but when I exercised my rights under GDPR (Art 14, 15, and 22), the support agent closed the ticket without explanation or reply

♲ @SilvrdSpin@twitter.com: the problems of ubi are that it might not be enough to cover all the individual payments it replaces, leaving recipients unable to meet basic expenses (like with universal credit in the uk), and that it needs to be combined with rent control

♲ @dvl@mastodon.social: @jpmens @juzam You're being too kind and protecting the guilty (myself).

It started with the following (me being @mwlucas

Me: “pam_exec is scary, avoid it. Especially with shell scripts.”

Dan: “How about I use pam_exec to call a shell script, but add a call to curl(1)?”

Excuse me. I’ll be in the corner, sobbing piteously for the future of humanity.

see dan.langille.org/2018/04/15/us… for the origin story.

♲ @DavidCCoon@twitter.com: Last year I tried to table a motion to debate a right to repair law, but neither Tories nor Liberals would second it. The Higgs government is planning on so few sitting weeks (6), there will be no time,but Ontario MPP has tabled a bill.| CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/technology/wha…

♲ @AmandaMarcotte@twitter.com: In other words, roughly 1 out of 1,000 people who work for Facebook, Amazon, or Google donated in the span of 7 years to Warren.

Gosh, that really is killer evidence that Big Tech is secretly buying her off. Wow, so cool.

♲ @JohnnyVonRotten@twitter.com: I just typed "history | grep history" into my terminal.

♲ @SarahTaber_bww@twitter.com: The tech industry's figured out that software is pretty much tapped out. If they want to keep growing, they have to take over other sectors.

This is what they say when they mean "software will eat the world." It sounds nicer than "*we* will eat the world."

♲ @rogue_corq@twitter.com: Alphabet snoop: If you're OK with Google-spawned Chronicle, hold on, hold on, dipping into your intranet traffic,... go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…

♲ @realJ_Mitchell@twitter.com: Ten years ago I realized I did not enjoy confiscating student devices...a thread.
#OntEd

♲ @i0n1c@twitter.com: Wonderful. We need more and more antitrust complaints against Apple

♲ @TwoLemonades@twitter.com: I have NO WORDS for how amazing this is.