Bill Budington

@eff Threat Lab Senior Staff Technologist. Rust enthusiast. Anarchisting without adverbs. My posts are my own. 🏴

Interests include , , , , and general nerddom.

Bill Budington boosted:
Electronic Frontier Foundationeff
2026-02-06

If you're planning on recording federal agents, turn biometrics off on your phone and opt for long passwords instead, EFF’s @legind told The Fulcrum. thefulcrum.us/civic-engagement

Bill Budington boosted:
Electronic Frontier Foundationeff
2026-02-06

“It's part of this whole rush to just throw everything into the data-driven machine-learning nexus, and then hoping something more good will come out of it, your private information be damned,” EFF’s @legind told CNET. cnet.com/home/internet/starlin

Bill Budington boosted:
Electronic Frontier Foundationeff
2024-12-03

A big data breach could supercharge election-year scams. If you want to contribute to a campaign, "look up the campaign’s official website and donate through that instead of clicking the link in their SMS inbox,” EFF’s @legind told @Vox. vox.com/technology/367986/free

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-10-08

Remember when what’s his name took over Twitter and remade it into American History X

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-08-14

@Parke @eff @KCRA3@norcal.social I don’t at all disagree. Crazy thing is, credit scores are way better than digital virtual credit scores assigned through tracking because virtual credit isn’t subject to the FCRA in the same way. Hat off to Cathy O’Neil for documenting this in Weapons of Math Destruction.

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-26

oops wrong window

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-26

onlyflippers.com

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-26

Forgot to delete that old tweet where you searched for dolphin porn? We wouldn’t.

For most things, rule 34 has got you covered. For everything else, there’s Semiphemeral.

@micahflee

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-19

@Natanox @micahflee @billseitz I don’t notice any delay but I’m not gaming with it.

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-19

@calicoday @Natanox @micahflee @billseitz yes, I use it with a ThinkPoint TrackPad II wireless USB keyboard and I could totally lie on my back with the headset on. One drawback is the focus is a little weird and requires minor adjustments if you’re darting eyes from one corner of the screen to the other a lot.

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-17

@billseitz @micahflee It is a much larger display and reduces neck strain since you’re not looking down the entire time

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-17

@Natanox @micahflee @billseitz so it’s actually my unit. I love it. Not the most comfortable on the nose but very crisp large HDMI display. Great for plane rides watching movies, pretty good replacement for a full sized monitor. I travel with it all the time. Definitely reduces distractions.

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-17

@rek2 er Matrix I mean

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-17

@rek2 tried to DM you on Matrix the other day but it says you left the chat 😿

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-17

@billseitz @micahflee it’s a GOOVIS Pro AMOLED Display

Bill Budingtonlegind
2024-07-17

Palm pay
Pompay
Pompeii

When the firewalls fell!

Split image. Top: Amazon One device at a market, allowing one to pay with their palm. Bottom: Alien from Star Trek: The Next Generation “Darmok”
Bill Budington boosted:
2024-06-04

Why do you need petabytes of data and billions of GPUs for a model to occasionally produce the wrong answer?

Your executives are able to produce wrong answers much faster and more consistently

Bill Budington boosted:
Qasim Rashid, Esq.QasimRashid
2024-05-30

So to recap—Israel:
•Illegally spied on ICC for 9 years
•Threatened ICC prosecutor Khan
•Killed a story by Haaretz on the illegal spying by having Mossad threaten the Haaretz journalist with torture
•Bans journalists in Gaza and has killed 100+ journalists

BEHOLD: "The only democracy in the Middle East"

Bill Budingtonlegind
2023-12-29

@wizard @kris @evacide yep, WireGuard on the hub and your device works most reliably in my experience.

Bill Budingtonlegind
2023-06-24

Seems Napoleonic,
How very ironic,
When half a million French men freezed
In that same Russia Wagner seized

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