This is the year of me not working with assholes any longer. I don’t care about the tech or if it’s open source if the people behind it are not half-decent.

Identifying and Addressing Usability Vulnerabilities Security can fail even when code is correct. Drawing on work with SecureDrop, Qubes OS, and Mailvelope, this talk defines “usability vulnerabilities,” design flaws that cause unsafe behavior, and show...

If you are in Berlin and want to chat about Security and UX next week, find me at FOSS Backstage, where my colleague Anxhela and I will give a talk:

26.foss-backstage.de/session/iden...

huge thanks @gerwitz.com for tagging me & yes i totally agree re. more designers (and other non-code contributors) are needed in FOSS. I've been a core maintainer over at opensourcedesign.net/along with other lovely folks for 7+ years @jancborchardt.net @elio.bsky.social hachyderm.io/@simulo@hci....

On the back of NIN's "Year Zero" album we put a warning label (quoted below) about subversive material from the US Bureau of Morality, and if you called the phone number it played this message: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SB8... - gotta say I don't love how how plausible this now sounds!

Stage photo of Nine Inch nails band members Trent, Atticus and Alessandro

Saw Nine Inch Nails live in Cologne, I was so close to the stage!

When did the fried voice for men become a thing among american men? Why did I forget my headphones today?!

Help me, I am becoming German.

Damn, didn‘t know you are a Nightwish fan too!

OSM can gladly reach out to me at ura.design if they would like some pro bono support, but I‘d rather use my efforts with projects which welcome brand and UX improvements, rather than those resistant to it.

However I have no interest in engaging in discussions mostly led by technical core contributors who have been gatekeeping OSS projects for years and fail to see that they =/ users.

Thanks for thinking of that. I am not a fan of a design by committee and allowing the wide public to vote on what they think should be and what so not. I totally agree with your point and I‘d love to redesign the logo (with a better approach than 9 years ago)

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Switched our team at Ura Design to a 4 day work week 2 months ago and love it. It feels like productivity is still at least the same and we get to enjoy fridays with our loved ones and take care of our own lives while work can wait one more business day.

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

OpenAI has just booted Sam Altman as CEO and removed him from the Board of Directors and they are not being shy about their reasons.

openai.com/blog/openai-...

I am not rooting for OpenAI as I used to, but excited that its new interim CEO is Albanian: Mira Murati.

I dropped off the radar here for a bit. What happened here?

Long Covid brings in quite a lot of digestive issues so I would say it's on the rise.

Yahoo News describes Bluesky as a decentralized platform powered by blockchain.

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My favourite Twitter moment was when I got connected to an actor from Better Call Saul (the prequel to Breaking Bad). He played Kai, one of the construction workers who built Fring's underground lab. We still follow each other.

I believed i was Italian and had a different name and birthday until I was 10 years old.

Where are all the butts you keep speaking of? Asking for a friend.

The way to build a resilient forum for public conversation that lasts for the long-term is to build it on an open protocol, like the web itself. Services like websites can be built on top, but each can be run differently, and if users can easily move it keeps services accountable to users.

I must say that I love how alt images descriptions are much more used here on Bluesky than on Twitter.

On Twitter, I saw more alt tags being used for AI image prompts than actual accessible image descriptions.

@ washingtonpost dot com you read that right

Hear me out… call the QTs skee-balls

chatGPT is excellent at polishing and proofreading, but if you give it too much freedom it will flatten your prose into a banal beige pancake of platitudes

I do too, I just eat the wrong things lol. You probably remember how little veggies I was used eating.

IKR!? How do people eat well and have a work-life balance? And I love cooking, but it's too much.

Most reasonable advice i.e physical activity I got!

People over 30: How do you handle the transition from your 20s to 30? Never cared about eating well and sports and I think I am learning my lesson.