@jrothwell's enterprise acct. Mobile & tech ethics. Senior engineer @zuhlke_UK, public speaker. Opinions my own. Not a politics-free zone. Also @joro@tech.lgbt
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Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
I have a guest staying with me who works at Twitter. He’s just bought a house in London. He’s in the spare room frantically trying to call the legal team with his colleagues. Told not to go in to the office today and had access suspended. #TwitterLayoffs
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
So @DCMS have a live youtube stream showing where the lying-in-state queue ends
If you're to believe the What3Words address, you should currently join the queue somewhere near Bradford
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
A talk about Basketball and Security at @IOSDEVUK? “Both are about defence and offence”, says @mvpohhhdrey #iOSDevUK – at Aberystwyth, Wales
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
This is a point often forgotten: free tiers aren’t just necessary for teenagers without credit cards, they’re necessary for teams in organisations with very daunting procurement processes.
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Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
blockchain people not realizing git is already decentralized is funny but also incredibly sad and an indictment of their entire movement. they don't know anything about decentralization unless it's attached to a bitcoin fork they can try to profit off of
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
they should delete the entire week before & after the visit - no, this isn't snark
strava has had "privacy zones" to hide home/work locations for years; for YEARS people have shown how easy it is to determine where someone was based on the trajectory to/from sensitive locations
New: @Google says it will delete location data showing users visited an abortion clinic.
blog.google/technology/safet…
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
“Tesla vehicles running its Autopilot software have been involved in 273 reported crashes over roughly the past year, according to regulators, far more than previously known.” washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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The top ten publishers which reportedly account for 69% of engagements on climate denial content included Russian government-owned RT and far-right outlet Breitbart.
pressgazette.co.uk/facebook-…
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
Smart contract technology is wildly immature, fails to learn from thousands of years of experience with contracts going wrong, and most people using it are in miles over their heads xitter.cf/arstechnica/status/148…
A "smart contract" bug led to a blockchain startup losing $31 million in digital coin to hackers.
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Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
if you put red boxes and arrows around the words “monitor thread” and “application will enter foreground handler” in your “proof” of malware, you either have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about or you’re maliciously trying to scare people xitter.cf/dangoodin001/status/14…
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
people commonly misunderstand what AI can and cannot do. we can use AI to find interesting patterns in data, but only if underlaying structure exists. AI fundamentally cannot answer questions that can’t be cast in terms of predefined representations.
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Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
Citizen outrage because crypto miners, lured by cheap electricity, used so much energy during the winter that everyone’s home heating and lighting bills saw a massive increase.
Plattsburgh, New York.
2018.
cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/24/bitc…
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
Some statistics to start the year:
During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina.
Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
Quote tweeting to add: if your Xcode auto-updated, re-download it from developer.apple.com > Downloads > Release > More. Then replace the one in your applications folder with the new one.
ALT If you’re using Swift packages either standalone or as dependencies in an Xcode project or workspace, the Mac App Store version of Xcode fails during package resolution with the error “Internal error: missingPackageDescriptionModule.” (86435800) Workaround: Download Xcode 13.2 directly from the Apple Developer website.
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
All the web3 hype right now is"we can staple together used scratch-off lotto tickets to create limitless free housing, and by making casino chips edible, we can feed the world!" It's like a vape cloud with a gambling problem became sentient and learned to make YouTube videos.
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
Special characters and unicode symbols can be a nightmare for screen reader users.
Holly (@lifeofablindgrl) is back to discuss how they impact screen reader #accessibility in our latest blog post ⬇️
bighack.org/accessibility-sc…
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
New from the Facebook leaks, by @BrandyZadrozny:
Facebook staffers created a Trump-loving, Fox News-watching fake identity.
The account went wherever the algorithm told it to go.
It went full-on QAnon in two days.
Facebook told nobody about this.
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/f…
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
it looks like Twitch has been hacked in a massive breach. A 125GB file reportedly includes Twitch source code, details on creator $$$ payouts, and even a Steam competitor. Full details here: theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712…
Jonathan Rothwell (he/him) (Not In Service) retweeted
Your regular reminder that if your org has a "mandatory password change after n days" policy, something like 90% of your org probably has a password of the form "weakpasswordM" where M is the number of n-day periods the staff member in question has worked there.