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rival-elf.bsky.social
phone radio security, weird fashion, art, mathematical cryptography :: past @eff.org :: she/her :: posts my own :: https://yomna.net
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despite everything tumblr remains undefeated as a platform full of the funniest people online fyi

found the best sticker (by @ashleyloob.bsky.social)

NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

seeing this nail polish shade named "encryption key" made me realize the colors i associate with encryption keys are very different -- more blues/greens/greys. curious about other folks' colour associations if you'd like to share

Bryce 2 (1996)

Walnut Creek is using cell phone data to track visitors who are in the city for more than 2 hours via a company called “Arrivalist” archive.is/vQd9j

on academic tools that became global infrastructure & research projects that became industry giants

learned a painful lesson today, when making a balsamic reduction do not lean over the pan and breathe in the fumes

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

cannot believe someone saw this classic internet meme and decided to make it a reality

wish there was a "save" button for posts on here, like there is on twitter/mastodon. probably the last major feature I've been missing

I collect vintage Linux-related stuff, and while looking through ebay recently I found this LP by an artist named Unix (2002) that's actually pretty good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bdD...

TIL about this classic Unix poster

reminder that @eff.org makes some of the best swag

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no sorry I'm writing Subjective-C. I'm just passing a message to the object, the object can interpret it however it wants.

finally fixed my website: yomna.net ^_^ and my email works again~~

*॰¨̮ Simple tutorial: How to draw bell pepper ( ᴖ ·̫ ᴖ )🫑⋆。˚

Opting out of biometrics in the TSA line has gotten so chill, also the face scan is literally slower than the manual documents check. I always time them when I'm in various lines at the airport. Also opting out at SFO got a lot easier because I got my senator involved a few years back! 🧵1/3

being the first to emoji react is a form of emotional labor

from the fragrance subreddit

Sad to see there's no English translation of "Goldbach Conjecture", the biography of Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun. The best I've been able to find is this math history entry on him: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/...

(Canadian politics post) literally cannot find any information about the Kitchener NDP candidate Heather Zaleski??

#ThrowbackThursday

This @insidehighered.com website is tracking visa revocations of students across the US, >600 at >100 colleges as of today, April 10. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Infinite library 📚📖

In 1988, two men sit in a room. One of them is cryptographer and computer scientist Bob Morris, father of Robert Morris – who had just released the first Internet worm. "A line had been crossed and the world we inhabited had changed." (John McCumber, Assessing&Managing Security Risk in IT Systems)

Looked at 23andMe's data on requests from Law Enforcement, and apparently since 2015 they've only received 11 requests and complied with 0. Am I reading this correctly? I'm surprised by how low the # of requests is. www.23andme.com/transparency...

Former AT&T technician Mark Klein has passed away. In 2006 he revealed a cable tapping facility in Room 641A in the AT&T building in San Francisco and erroneously assumed that it was for domestic mass surveillance (1/2) www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...