Fuck allies, get co-conspirators
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Patricia Aas
@Patricia@social.vivaldi.net
mastodon 4.7.3+vivaldimodProgrammer, Co-Founder of @turtlesec@mastodon.social (ex-Opera browser, ex-Cisco, ex-Vivaldi browser 
), infosec, parent, bi 🏳️🌈, speaker, CoC required, NB, she/they @OsloCpp
👉 Old twitter handle overtaken by crypto scammers 👈
Fuck allies, get co-conspirators
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Joined November 15, 2022
🎙️🦋Bluesky bridge account:
I guess I should do an #introduction.
I’m a Norwegian C++ programmer specializing in application security in C++. I co-founded a small consultancy/training company called @turtlesec@mastodon.social. We are programmers with a side interest in different aspects of security.
I wrote my master’s thesis on the Norwegian electoral system, so I tend to have opinions on election security.
I have tried to improve diversity and inclusion in the C++ community with varying degrees of success.
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This mentality is something I often see in quite junior people who seem to emulate what they think is “cool”. That is a terrible start as a dev because your learning is severely inhibited and you’re often an absolute party pooper for folks trying to make great stuff. And so you might end up pushing away the people that could really help you become great.
And if you don’t snap out of it… 😬
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@AlanHicksLondon I read the translation (which seemed good) and tbh I think his optimism is misplaced, the European center left seems to be pandering to the right and the center seems intent on austerity which will lead to people struggling even more, this dynamic is perfect for fascist populism. On the other side of the equation the US has proven that money not only talks, but can buy countries. And the rich are not only motivated, but now see that putting their money towards oligarchy is good for them.
The European left is weak and indecisive, and has very little initiative to do anything, they’re mostly intent on yelling at others.
So unless there is a new groundswell… I’m afraid we’re at the beginning of a fucking terrible decade.
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@lachlan thank you for asking! Like the beginning of Australia or the beginning of awesome 😄
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@turtlesec@mastodon.social Yeah, Past Patricia had parked them since Musk took over, but deleted them when Trump disrespected Zelensky in the Oval Office iirc.
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@julian@social.synesthesia.co.uk yeah, I believe the disengagement mechanism in burnout is the mind defending itself. And in my experience, the sooner you address signs of burnout the faster is the recovery and the fewer long term effects.
Now I have chronic migraines, but before I had stress induced migraines and I used to joke that migraines were the way my body could tell me: “Hey! You! You don’t realize it, but you’re not ok, go figure out why you’re sad”
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@cy my perspective is that this is my craft and my livelihood, irregardless of employer, this is the thing I know how to do and the thing I am going to earn my living from the rest of my life. Being good at it is for me, to secure my own life, not for an employer.
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@olafurw@mastodon.social @turtlesec@mastodon.social we’ll miss you! But we’re super happy for your future journey 💜
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@turtlesec @Drmowinckels it won’t turn up green here but I have basically done the hard version of that 😂 my website patricia.no is my GitHub pages site and it is verified here 😄
https://github.com/patricia-gallardo/patricia-gallardo.github.io/blob/dc372c8d3062c9f260b7272c74aef271a0b4a699/_includes/head.html#L52
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@turtlesec @corneil correctness is more important than efficiency, and having polling locations close to where people live is central for a democratic process.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz @kirtai@tech.lgbt protecting the user is in my view caring, and not disengagement. I don’t think that it is possible to care for an organization, we care about people. If your organization is hurting the people you care about, then preventing that harm is the work imo.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz @kirtai@tech.lgbt and the CIA handbook is surprisingly useful in its advice on how to innocuously sabotage work that shouldn’t be done.
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@corneil @turtlesec it wasn’t on election security unfortunately. It was on evaluating EML (Election Markup Language) for the Norwegian electoral system, back in 2005. So I wrote a distributed system based on the Norwegian laws and regulations, and used EML for data transfer. But it meant studying the laws and regulations so I became above average interested in the topic.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz @kirtai@tech.lgbt sometimes the CIA creates and publishes something useful:
“Simple Sabotage Field Manual”
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf