Amir Sarabadani @ladsgroup@mastodon.technology
Software engineer at Wikimedia Deutschland
Wise words from a friend:
> mailman2 seems to have been a giant proof-of-concept, an early attempt to show that Python was a real language and could be used to develop Serious business tools. Clearly it had the opposite effect.
#Mailman3 for #Wikimedia is ready for testing, see the announcement from @ladsgroup and myself: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-March/094382.html
Hopefully a step forward in making Wikimedia mailing lists more accessible.
Oracle is basically a law firm with some software engineers working in it
There are no proper words to describe how much I hate exim4 and mail in general.
Should I start posting screenshots of posts in other social media here or is it too soon?
Krinkle has nerd snipped me. Again.
Every time the US has a change of administration, EFF staffers - lawyers, policy analysts, activists - create a "transition memo": a series of one-page briefings on the tech policy issues the new admin should take up. The Biden memo is *great*.
https://www.eff.org/wp/eff-transition-memo-incoming-biden-administration
It opens with a section on surveillance, with three subsections:
I. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
II. Facial Recognition Technology
III. Border Search and Immigration Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/wp/eff-transition-memo-incoming-biden-administration#_Toc57064015
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I'm a global interface editor in Wikipedia now and boy Wikipedians LOVE copying javascript.
How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state
https://labs.detectify.com/2021/01/15/how-i-hijacked-the-top-level-domain-of-a-sovereign-state/
He registered an expired domain used by the .cd ccTLD. Great report.
Software engineer at Wikimedia Deutschland
