Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

4) When times get tough, secure by design is the first thing to be pared back. This is probably related to it being seen as a nice to have, and not an essential performance requirement. To get it right, it has to mature at the same speed as, and intimately related with, the design. But when the project goes on a diet, engineering will still progress and security has to catch up later, after many opportunities are lost.

5) In the absence of an effective regulator, investors and 'visionaries' will always prioritise features and time to market over security. Socialise risk. Privatise profit.

I've spent the last 9 years of my life developing, promoting and using secure by design in my engineering field, and I've learnt a few lessons:

1) Techbros *hate* SbyD. They see it as a blocker and they don't want to engage with it at all.

2) Safety engineers don't trust security, and don't want security within 1,000 miles of safety systems, even when its purpose is to assure the integrity and availability of those systems.

3) Programme managers and project engineers never budget enough resources for it. It's either an add-on, or a nice to have, but rarely embedded.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/27/ai-safety-pact-us-uk

Traditional icon of Monty @truckthepolarbear! The big dumb doggo~

distributing software as flareware (license condition: evolve an eevee to flareon)

It's been a while since I did these and I still get requests for them so.. IKEA sheets are back! They're £20 and make a great gift or a fun thing for your profile! Examples here https://imgur.com/a/sa1yGhn
Comment or DM me for a slot!
Boosts very much welcomed!❤️

Got this Ikea-style ref sheet from @moon :3 Check 'em out if you want one for yourself :)

#furryart #snep

Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man

MAN

Like this in actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race

Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating