Marty McGuire

Posts Tagged abuse

2021
Thu Apr 8
🔖 Bookmarked Personas Non Grata: why, and how, to design for harm reduction – Simply Secure https://simplysecure.org/blog/personas-non-grata-an-introduction-to-harm-reduction-for-designers

“Building a fireproof structure is a whole lot more efficient (and humanitarian) than building something highly flammable and hiring some folks to stand around with buckets of water.”

Mon Mar 8
🔖 Bookmarked Apple can brick your computer if you miss a payment to Goldman Sachs on the Apple Card https://world.hey.com/dhh/apple-can-brick-your-computer-if-you-miss-a-payment-to-goldman-sachs-on-the-apple-card-87ef1755

“Apple is acting as a debt collector on behalf of another company, and telling you that until you sort out your payments with them, you’re going to be shut out of your digital life.”

2020
Tue Oct 27
🔖 Bookmarked Music industry forces widely used journalist tool offline https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/

“For now, the code remains available to download through youtube-dl’s own site, but the disruption of its development hub and the RIAA saber-rattling jeopardizes both the future of the software and the myriad journalistic workflows that depend on it.”