Oliver Hunt

I make computers secure.

Privacy is a fundamental human right.

He/Him

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ohunt_at_mastodon.social@mostr.pub

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2024-09-18 19:46:58

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@npub1p9k…865w wishing they'd get rid of the bump and just give them more space for batteries

2024-09-09 22:59:46

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@npub17nm…dm57 why/how?

2024-08-29 20:05:31

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@npub1src…fms4 I did play with the COBOL back end so I could user my masters to do a haskell->Cobol compilation :D

2024-08-28 20:58:23

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@npub1src…fms4 and then I spent a bunch of time doing terrible things to compile Haskell to it :D (And because of the era, was trying to use CodeDOM, if you remember that horror, to do so)

2024-08-28 20:22:50

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@npub1src…fms4 oh what are your thoughts on the whole "MS donates mono to wine" thing?

2024-08-28 06:38:05

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@npub1src…fms4 because adding value typed generic parameters would require also specifying the IL semantics in addition to just the language level behavior?

2024-07-20 06:32:31

JFC, folk on twitter blaming CrowdStrike outage on DEI. Literally no information beyond "a common error in C++ and recognized failure mode of handling untrusted data in the kernel", moreover a failure mode that has occurred repeatedly over the years, but only now does it change from "unavoidable problem in software" to "probably DEI"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/817/412/018/515/578/original/23071cd4352cfcf2.png

2024-06-07 20:00:05

walgreens is a garbage company, have been on hold - with frequent disconnects - for more than an hour trying to find out why they aren't filling a prescription they refuse to allow me to transfer

2024-05-13 22:01:46

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@npub1su4…a0dw SuCh A gEnIuS

2024-03-20 18:18:34

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@npub1gv7…upz3 me but with CVEs

2024-03-20 18:18:10

@npub1src…fms4 what happened with gnome? I used to think it was a given that it would win/dominate Linux desktop but it really seems like people are favoring kde now?

2024-02-13 18:06:32

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@npub1src…fms4 sure Biden isn’t perfect, but the ability to do anything is severely hamstrung by the Supreme Court put in place by all those people who went “Hillary isn’t a real liberal” and voted for trump by not voting or by voting for stein. The result of those self centered shitheads is abortion is illegal, discrimination against LGBT is legal, voter suppression is legal, gerrymandering is legal, etc
All of which means you don’t get to not vote democrat because they’re not doing enough.

2024-02-01 19:18:38

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@npub1alm…57vz the lack of meaningful paid sick leave and the prevalence of retaliation for low income workers if they do use what minimal sick leave they’re ostensibly provided mean that for many people their is no choice about going to work while sick. Yes it’s unacceptable, but the fault is not theirs in those cases.

2023-12-29 23:56:45

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@npub1hxf…g8qu I still don't see how someone in the EU can plausibly contribute to OSS projects following this. Plenty of people have things like Patreon or GitHub sponsors, which seems like it might mean their work is now "commercial", plenty of devs know that their work ends up in commercial products (RedHat, Proton, Chrome, etc). Plenty of commercial companies produce OSS and make money from support contracts, etc *for that software*.
Does every developer now need their own lawyer?

2023-12-06 05:08:54

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@npub1src…fms4 politician version being "we are confused and have convictions"?

2023-11-28 22:05:22

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@npub1src…fms4 @npub1upu…jxa7 ^

2023-11-18 20:16:25

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@npub1src…fms4 behold the stupid: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966781/nothing-chats-imessage-unencrypted-sunbird-plaintext

2023-11-18 20:12:23

Wait, so nothing didn't reverse the protocol or anything, they literally had you do a remote sign in on a Mac mini? That gave them full access to your _entire_ apple account, iCloud docs, photos, etc?
So they dropped any pretense of encryption, drastically invaded your privacy, and put a giant fucking target on their back for "this way to fully compromised apple accounts".
Just wow.

2023-11-03 00:07:57

SBF having consequences is purely a product of him having rich victims. As with Holmes and Theranos, the only reason this trial happened is because SBF's made the mistake of causing harm to the rich and famous - look at all the other crypto fraudsters, the ones that have had *any* consequences had VC or similar funding, as long as you aren't defrauding someone with a congressperson on speed dial you're fine.

2023-08-19 23:24:08

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@npub1aa6…htws @npub1src…fms4 We just bought a new fridge, which didn't even advertise "smart"ness, and while I was going through its little temperature/config control it had a wifi option, that was on by default. "yay"

2023-07-29 04:11:49

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@npub1eee…e209 yay they finally helped you get full use of your fans!

2023-05-28 04:11:37

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@npub1094…2wum but remember, if the browser window is too narrow there is no search field, nor any sign of one existing anywhere. My experience finding people I knew the exact details of was miserable until I found out about the hidden search field

2023-05-19 19:42:29

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@npub1eee…e209 @npub1cps…7jwn @npub1lz8…87f5 see I'm from NZ and so just had to spend the last 15+ years learning to tone down the swearing that is otherwise every other word I would say :D

2023-04-22 01:32:06

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#[0] a known nazi was allowed access to privileged material and forwarded it to other nazis. #[1]

2023-04-16 05:06:36

Sigh. I'm so tired of abortion access being purely in terms of "what about rape victims". A person shouldn't need to be raped to have the ability to make choices about their own body
Similarly a person shouldn't have to be in a "or they will die" position before they get to make choices about their body
Someone shouldn't lose the right to make choices about their body once they become "old enough to have a baby"
Fuck anyone who thinks they get to make choices about anyone else's body for them

2023-04-03 20:05:03

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#[0] something I've wondered about here, is whether there's anything that can be done about lawyers writing these letters. If they're so overtly false/bogus surely there's grounds to censure/disbar those lawyers who do so, as it otherwise seems like they've got no reason to not behave like this?

2023-04-01 02:28:38

As a friendly reminder, every time you here someone talking about "Soros backed X", they are just saying "THE JEWS DID IT", and don't let them act like they aren't.
Call them out. Report them to HR.

2023-04-01 02:13:47

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#[0] so that's just straight up theft, right?

2023-03-28 22:15:03

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#[0] gasp! :-/