Jonathan Kamens / is on Nostr

SMB CISO, Dad, old-school hacker, Righteous Indignation Man. Opinions are my own. You can follow my blog from the Fediverse via @jikblog. #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver. he/his

Last Notes

2024-09-11 14:33:32

I went to the intake appointment for a #clinicalTrial this morning. The research coordinator had me fill out several forms and surveys on his computer. Alas, the browser had form autofill enabled, so I was able to see the answers provided in text fields by previous study participants, which is, y'know, kind of a #HIPAA violation.
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2024-09-10 14:19:25

#today I'm reminded what a privilege it is that my wife and I have enough disposable income that we can afford to have someone clean our house for us every two weeks. It gives my joy when the house is clean, but I sure don't have any joy trying to find the time to clean it myself with everything else I'm on the hook for in my life.

2024-05-16 09:34:58

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@npub1h4n…fruy https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/send-later-3/

2024-05-14 16:28:46

I received two emails late last night from a user of my #Thunderbird extension.
The first read, in total, "WHY AM I GETTING HUNDREDS OF NOTICES!!!!"
The second, a bit later, read (again, this is the entire message), "JEZUS FUCKINNG CHRIST THE MESSAGES"
#smdh #TechSupport
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2024-03-14 03:02:07

Oh, nothing much, just the queer governor of #Massachusetts quietly doing the right thing (on this and many other issues) while much of the country goes insane.
#politics #USPol #MApoli
https://whdh.com/news/healey-pardoning-all-convictions-for-simple-marijuana-possession/

2024-03-11 14:39:29

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And, of course, two days after a performance is cancelled due to a #COVID outbreak at the school, the school sends out email this morning announcing that they're following the new #CDC guidance and people who are contagious with COVID can come to school. 😡#CovidIsNotOver
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2023-08-21 22:12:44

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@npub1gzc…fsz3 @npub100c…gkwp I'm curious to hear what Mozilla is doing to prevent the All Hands from being a super-spreader event.

2023-08-20 13:49:03

Honestly, how can any public health professional say with a straight face, "Sure, the COVID vaccine only lasts for six months, but most people aren't vaccinating, so not only are we not going to recommend getting vaccinated twice per year, we're not going to even allow it for the people who want to."
Since when is one person's healthcare supposed to be dependent on whether other people are willing to take care of themselves?
#COVID

2023-08-18 12:03:55

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@npub150l…r96e well you certainly seem cheerful about that

2023-08-18 10:07:11

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Yup, the contradiction will be resolved via the world's population being reduced by billions via a magnitude of suffering and cataclysm never before seen by humanity.

2023-08-15 21:35:21

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@npub1507…e4gg It has not gotten nearly bad enough yet for Trump to flee. Ref: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spycatcher/202007/when-the-narcissist-fails

2023-08-13 17:51:02

Let's assume 30k people attended #BlackHat and #DefCon.
If 1% of them catch #COVID, that's 300 people.
If 10% of them end up with #LongCovid, that's 30 people.
All the numbers are probably actually higher.
Is disabling 30+ people an acceptable price to pay for a bunch of security wonks to get to socialize in person for a week?
I don't think so. Do you? Explain your answer.
#CovidIsNotOver

2023-08-09 19:08:27

This was the street in front of my house yesterday. The water was at least a foot and a half deep. The two storm drains in front of the house—the only two on the block, and both ends of the street are graded for water to flow to them—weren't clogged but simply couldn't keep up. The street floods at least a couple times a year, but this was the worst one in years. #flooding #Boston #Brighton @npub1mxz…hhv9
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2023-08-06 17:47:49

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@npub10xg…h39u We have four daughters and a son. He's our youngest. His Hebrew name is Reuven (ראובן), which literally means, "Look, a son!" Sometimes it's the right thing to do.

2023-07-06 11:29:08

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@npub1qzc…yetl Not hundreds, not thousands, not even millions. By the time we're done dealing with the damage we've caused to our planet, it will have killed billions of people. Billions.
There are still ways to avoid that, but I think we've pretty much proven that as a society we're incapable of doing the right thing until much too late, eh?
Our only hope at this point is supremely powerful benevolent aliens showing up and forcing us to do the right thing.
#ClimateChange #collapse