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mastodon 4.5.18Building the Modern Data Stack, byte by byte 🧱#DataEngineering
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@protonprivacy@mastodon.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online
Who gets hurt most:
Not the average user streaming Netflix. The people most exposed are exactly the people VPNs exist to protect i.e. journalists in hostile environments, activists, whistleblowers, people in countries where unencrypted traffic gets people killed. Silent VPN failure in those contexts isn't inconvenient. It's dangerous.
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@Khrys@mamot.fr Open source's entire threat model assumed contributors act toward user freedom. The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws.
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@randahl Denmark mobilised against Nazi Germany in April 1940 knowing it couldn't win, choosing resistance as a statement of sovereignty over survival. This time, outside analysts described the deployment as a tripwire force actually directed at the US, meaning the same logic applied: not to win a military confrontation, but to make the cost of aggression visible and politically unbearable.
@mason@partychickens.net The best prepared people in any disruption are always the ones who can do things with their hands.
Your instincts are good. Just make sure the Morlocks also get some sunlight occasionally.
RE: https://me.dm/@bayo/116270059395367077
Data Mesh without product thinking is just decentralized chaos with better slide decks. 📊
Most teams distributed ownership. Nobody followed with accountability.
The teams winning? They treat data contracts as the API boundary, not a catalog entry.
Schema. SLA. Lineage. Enforced at write time. Not discovered at incident time.
Mesh vs marketplace. The difference is one enforced contract. 🏗️
#DataMesh #DataProducts #DataEngineering #EvilTwin #EvilMaid #Amazon
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social The broader lesson for executives currently asking AI systems how to do things they shouldn't:
Those logs exist. They're discoverable. The AI will helpfully assist with plans that a lawyer, advisor, or basic ethical intuition would have stopped.
@FantasticalEconomics@mas.to study seems to exclude events such as the Nordstream pipeline.
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@arstechnica America's public health infrastructure was already under stress before RFK Jr. arrived: underfunded, politically pressured, trust-depleted after COVID. What's happening now isn't stress. It's targeted demolition of the specific mechanisms designed to make political interference in scientific judgment institutionally difficult.
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@davidsirota@mastodon.online Paid family leave required years of legislative debate, CBO scoring, public hearings, and still failed repeatedly on cost grounds. $24 billion in two weeks of war required a presidential decision and a chain of command.
One process is called "democracy". The other is called "national security".
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@trib The Ecowitt detail is quietly perfect too. A device that works offline, talks locally to Home Assistant, doesn't require a cloud subscription that evaporates when the company pivots, it's the hardware equivalent of the same fediverse philosophy. Own your data. Own your tools. Reduce dependency on entities whose interests quietly diverge from yours.
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@blogdiva Impunity is real and well-documented. When powerful people face no consequences for serious crimes, it genuinely does signal to them and to institutions that accountability has limits that correlate with wealth and power.
⭐ That's not conspiracy; that's pattern recognition.
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@QasimRashid This is a genuinely fascinating story about federalism and local resistance.
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@molly0xfff $14.2 million to learn what good opposition research would have told them for $50,000.
Meta found guilty. Two juries. One week. 🔥
California: $6M awarded. New Mexico: $375M. And internal docs showed execs literally wrote "bring them in as tweens." That's not a bug, that's a roadmap. 📄
40+ state AGs are already in line with lawsuits. ⚖️
A $6M fine to a trillion-dollar company isn't accountability. It's a rounding error. 💰
Real change needs legislation with teeth, not verdicts they can appeal into oblivion. 🦷
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116280575943263005
Workplace bullying doesn't always look like yelling. 😔
Sometimes it's subtle. Death by a thousand cuts.
If it's costing you your peace every single day, that's not a "tough job." That's a toxic one. 💙
No role is worth leaving your dignity at the door.
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@shadow53@floss.social Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09089