smite [message]

and increasingly ominous and threatening black clouds would gather, then smaller lightnings, and then a giant thunderbolt from the heavens accompanied by an enormous booming voice with your message.

I assured the person I was showing that it would be possible to simply omit the message, and there would be command-line options to make it take less time, once I looked up the man page.

"Phone number verification is turned on by default. We verify the phone number and add them to all Google Accounts that are signed in on the device. This applies to both current and future accounts and phone numbers. "

I.e., if you write erotica, have an Only Fans, do sex work, etc., and you have logged into your alt email addresses on your phone, Google will now make your personal phone number "findable" for anyone who has that email address.

This will potentially adversely affect a lot of (vulnerable and/or marginalized) people.

Everyone has been opted into this by default (because who has heard of consent or security in tech circles grrr).

To opt out:

1. On your phone, go to Settings, then next to your account name at the very top, go to "Google Services and Preferences".

2. Under “Privacy & security,” select Phone number verification.

3. Select whether to verify your phone number.

If you don't want your different identities linked and findable, make this change asap.

I hope that tech and especially infosec people and privacy advocates raise hell about this. (No one listens to the rest of us.)

*I don't work in tech, but I haven't seen tech people talk about this yet (from my limited Fedi vantage point).

Stay safe and keep your people safe.

Read more in the Google support pages.

https://support.google.com/android/answer/7521240

You're welcome to boost or share this post, but if you see tech professionasl discuss it, I'd much rather you quote them, and if you discuss this outside of Fedi, please do *not* give me credit. I don't need reply guys coming at me, I just want to flag people on what might be a problem. Thanks for your understanding.

#Infosec #Cybersecurity #Google #Pixel #Gmail

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Attachment: a doggo? fox? in a t-shirt has X/Y/Z axes coming out of its head, "Huh?" through its snout, "Yaw" through an axis that penetrates just below both ears, and "Naw" through the very top of the head]]> https://timeloop.cafe/@wohali/117522425592866659 Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:18:22 UTC https://timeloop.cafe/@wohali/117522425592866659 The viral thing about using AI to praise your daughter is an interesting expression of this culture war moment to me, which is like... I'm accustomed to interpreting stuff like that or Anthropic's doomerism as cynical, but I think the ruling class just lives this way now?? It's like the royal court knocked down the ostentatious palace gates and urged us inside to look on their works and despair, but there's garbage everywhere and they're all either in a k-hole or enthralledly watching TV static

I'm a software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a history of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I prefer to work remotely but I am open to an in-office job in the Philadelphia area or especially in Philadelphia itself. I've often worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. Several of my favorite projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it. My preferred time zone is America/New_York, but I'm flexible.

Some of the many, many technologies I've used are: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

I am a U.S. citizen.

My résumé is at https://
plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

mjd@pobox.com

Thanks!

#OpenToWork #remoteWork #softwareEngineering #Python #backend #hiring
#fediHire
#getFediHired

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Attachment: ]]> https://weird.autos/@Basmitharts/117276738191162889 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:33:00 UTC https://weird.autos/@Basmitharts/117276738191162889 NYC Dept of Buildings has an online Building Information Service. It's down (in the sense that it returns an error whenever you search). If you call 311, they'll tell you that they got a memo that it was going to have some downtime for maintenance starting yesterday (Sunday), and they have no idea when it'll be back up. This is... not the best practice for maintenance. Hope Mamdani's Pit Crew can fix it, because yow.

Attachment: ]]> https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/117260498740064768 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:22:04 UTC https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/117260498740064768 Buses were fucked today due to the West Indian Day parade, so we took a car service. The driver's name was "Boubacar", which I assume means that he is forbidden from driving a cybertruck...

The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.

https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492

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#GoodNews #Politics

BTW, if you are the person who recommended Professor Mmaa's Lecture to me, please speak up; it was such a long time ago that I forgot!

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@shivers/117154982621618849

“‘The second I ignored everyone’s advice, I felt great,’ she said.”