Diego Islas Ocampo @HyuchiaDiego@mastodon.social

"Wow you're so good at computers..."

Thanks I had a very traumatic childhood and it was the only outlet for surviving

Big Data is like teenage sex:

- Everyone talks about it.
- Nobody really knows how to do it.
- Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it.
- So everyone claims they're doing it.

#tech #programming

Dance like no one is watching.
Encrypt like everyone is.

I'm tired of #security opinions that revolve around the idea that we can't trust one particular party for some reason (usually rooted in a philosophical disagreement) and then just leave out the elephant(s) in the room who they implicitly trust.

You trust _everyone_ in the chain of custody for the code you use. You trust them to not be malicious and you trust that they're good at protecting the code they ship you. Vendors, volunteers, the whole lot.

You just gotta trust others--you can't go it alone.

if art was actually low in value programmers wouldn't need to keep begging artists for free work

you'd do it yourself if it was that easy, but you don't, because it isn't

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For a moment, when you drop your phone and it lands face down, the screen is both damaged and not damaged. It’s only when you pick it up to examine it that one of these become reality. Schrödingers Smartphone.
#comedy #jokes

School is making me install “Honorlock” on my computer for online tests. Here’s what it can do. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/94stao/school_is_making_me_install_honorlock_on_my/

It amazes me how invasive a lot of those proprietary "educational" resources are. This in particular

"(...) Our award-winning, patented technology detects and prevents searching for test answers online from any secondary device. The first solution with the ability to proctor beyond the webcam."

is so awful I have no words.

*naively runs an app's install script, proceeds to watch his #Linux boot images get rewritten for some reason*

hmmm shoulda prayed first