Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
travel & infosec
@leafnoodle I personally carry a burner phone when traveling through international checkpoints. Here’s what I recommend: https://www.oukitelcentral.com/phone/oukitel-k10000-pro/
Load it up with just the services you intend to use when traveling, set short cache policies, wipe and expire access as needed.
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I especially like how I used “in case of trouble” in some old service notes, because the whole Bastion soundtrack is amazing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-jU9EFTMhbY
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TFW going through your own old documentation from 3-5 years ago, and your brain remembers exactly what media you were reading or listening to when writing the prose.
trauma (~...+?)
@Soreth If it’s any consolation, the “we talked it out and they listened/mutual understanding was reached” dream seems to be... not uncommon? I’ve had it for different people and different events.
It seems to be one of the ways that trauma heals.
@mawr ... at what run-length of "anananananana" does it become Batman?
Goldkin
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Question for Seattle/Portland area Folks (cw: alcohol) (plz boost!)
Hey frens!
Do you know of any local breweries that are union shops?
I keep running into examples of Breweries that treat their employees like shit because they can get away with it. Here's a job posting from Rogue as an example.
http://i.imgur.com/cfGFm5j.png
I want to find union brewers 'cause union brewed beer tastes like solidarity, and solidarity is easily one of the world's finest flavors. 
digital privacy, birdsite link
This is a really neat way to teach folks how privacy works in the digital age: https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1102970732890316801
tl;dr: using only Google, visit a public place and see just how many folks you can de-anonymize, as a lesson in how to protect oneself (and in this case, legal clients) from the same process.
Goldkin
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Today I found out the official Mario Paint strategy guide is free on archive.org, and worth a look if you want to see how they filled 120 pages with potential applications for a piece of SNES creative software for kids in 1993
https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Players_Guide_SNES_Mario_Paint_1993
Goldkin
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go to gendered bathrooms and replace the signs with two random things like, a fish and a sandal, and watch as people puzzle out which one is manlier
Someone is using Kass as their character model in this Wind Waker Randomizer race. The fact someone went through the effort of adding that to this older game has improved my mood significantly.
Goldkin
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Furry culture is using the heart emoji in your fursona's colors 🧡
Goldkin
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~|| Celtic and Norse Knotwork Commissions! ||~
- Prices assume standard levels of detail, I can get fancier with borders and repeating patterns
- Can do practically any type of character, not just animals or anthros!
- 10% off 7’‘x10’’+ sizes this month
- I can also go smaller, and even do con badges in this style! Logos, weird shapes or dimensions, you name it I can get you a price quote and more details.
- Email me at bluegoblins@outlook.com
#mastoart #commissions
thread: meta, working in evil industries, a strategic perspective (mention of cops, worker abuse, death)
@ghost_bird @SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party (The intersection I’m familiar with: leftist folks that migrated to tech culture in the 80s and 90s, only to watch their small communities get razed by media culture and marketing coalitions that gave rise to Facebook, et al.
I fit that description, and I know several other folks that do, too.
Pardon the brief thread hijack.)
thread: meta, working in evil industries, a strategic perspective (mention of cops, worker abuse, death)
@ghost_bird @SuzanEraslan@anticapitalist.party (From my looking glass inside infosec communities over the past 10 years, there are definitely cliques of practitioners that have no idea how their choices impact real people and protection rackets. However, there’s also sustained countercultures of activists that are tech-literate, and those might be folks worth talking to?)
infosec, in re, last boost
@deltaphor Not too jaded, no. Since once it hits server logs, archive.org, or someone else’s scraper, it can be retained indefinitely.
I wonder if it’s worth sharing some of the older stuff about how trust makes online interactions work, both positively and negatively? A lot of newer folks have come online since those were circulated.
infosec, in re, last boost
The calculus for posting stuff online hasn’t changed much since the 90s. If you don’t want to be on the record doing things that are illegal, for the love of all things good, do not post it to Masto.
Goldkin
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Infosec rambling as a result of 'meta'
“The fediverse” is not a place you have to enter and announce your presence to witness. It’s not a house, it’s not a party. It’s a data stream and most of it is public, and the bits that aren’t are reliant on actors outside of your control to keep private.
Cancelling someone who outed them self as working with the feds isn’t going to keep the feds out. A lot of you know this and to a lot of you it’s symbolic and ideals-based, but it needs to be stated explicitly for those who do not know.
Most of the fediverse is public, most of it is unredactable, most of it is undeniable. Our current security calculus means it’s trivial, once an instance admin (or the wayback machine) gets a hold of your post, to prove you posted it— forever. Even if you delete it.
The fediverse has the same infosec concerns as birdsite did, and more, and worse. It presents opportunities for a better social space, but in the end you need to either limit posts to things you don’t care who sees, or things you’ve done very in depth risk assessment on with deep knowledge the fediverse security and deniability calculus.
That’s a shortcoming of the fediverse and AP. It’s one specific actors are working on fixing, but it’s not there yet and won’t be for some time.
Keep your “stuff” deniable. Keep it off line. The fed taps do not have high visibility accounts like that guy. The fed taps probably do not have accounts.
Fediverse Fed Discourse [3/~]
@mawr I think it’s tolerable to assume if an instance shuts down with no notice, and its admins suddenly go completely dark, they’re complying with an NSL (or equivalent).
Something I wonder about: whether Masto’s data portability can allow folks to rapidly failover to a new instance.
Not sure if this has happened with any nodes yet, but that sort of fault tolerance is worth considering by admins.
Goldkin
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I hope that, whoever you are that takes the time to read this, you know deep within your heart that you deserve to be here.
Take a moment and remind yourself that you exist. That you should exist. That you belong in the world, with all its disappointments and its delights. That you deserve happiness. That you deserve to love yourself simply for the magic of being alive.
I know it's hard work every day to be good to yourself and others. I see how hard it is. I believe in you, and others do too.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
