CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@alice When called upon to do his job and moderate his server, he gets very salty about it and will complain publicly. I don't remember if I have him muted or blocked but, yeah, he's not pleasant to deal with.

I got this meme from bsky but I don't have a source on it. Also it's possible this actually happened in an episode of Bob's Burgers but I'm in like season 2 or something. Also, if you forgot to get your honey something for Valentine's Day, they might appreciate a brick.

#ScribesAndMakers 11: Aside from the official birthday song and the ubiquitous Beatles song, is there a song about birthdays you like?

I double checked and It's My Party is definitely a birthday song and I do like it. Although I'm also particularly fond of this cover of the same song.

#ScribesAndMakers 10: What is the most out of character creative thing you enjoy? That thing that never matches the assumptions about you.

I don't know. I'm pretty open about most forms of creativity I engage with. When it comes to the smut, I generally don't tell people I know IRL that I'm writing smut. Just that some of the things I write are things I'm not going to tell them about.

Hey #discord . Why the hell would we give you our ID when you've already exposed the ID of the folks who have already given you their ID?

"We're now using a different vendor who haven't yet leaked everyone's IDs and we keep your data for the smallest possible period of time!"

Every organization will have a data breach eventually. The question is when affected users will find out and what data you had in the first place.

The fact that your new vendor has not yet had a known breach doesn't mean that they're safe. It doesn't even mean they haven't had a breach yet! It just means any breaches are, as yet, unknown.

A fundamental principle of PII is that you should not gather data unless you have a sufficient justification for doing so that cannot be handled without having that data.

Your justification is nonexistent for you ever having this information. Therefore ever having it is not justifiable. If our legal systems allowed the full consequences of that inappropriate data collection to fall on your shoulders where it belongs, no insurance company would ever agree to insure you while you are gathering this data. No matter how little a period of time you purport to have it.

#RiskManagement #PII #PI2 #Technology

#ScribesAndMakers 9: Is one really the loneliest number?

Nah, but it is one hell of a Harry Nilsson song.

#ScribesAndMakers 8: How do you define a book? Do audio books and graphic novels fit your definition?

Thanks to the goofball way that ebook stores work, I presently define a book as something I can sell on an ebook store. Plus some things I can't. Which basically means a story that's 4K or longer can be a book regardless of its format. I'm not sure what the minimum length is for a graphic novel or children's picture book.

To be clear, the part of this that I resent is the part where a 4-5K story is a 'book' rather than a short story. Which it definitely is when I'm publishing it as a 'short' book. (I also resent the fact that pricing policies on #Amazon and #Draft2Digital mean I more or less have to price a short at $2.99 USD.)

Kind of off in the weeds here at this point. Getting more to a point, I'm generally not accepting of gatekeeping definitions. I will happily define book as broadly as possible. I would just like to be able to to call a short story a short story.

#ScribesAndMakers 5: You now have the same occupation as the main character of your current WIP (or book you are reading/last read) What job are you doing?

Office worker. Largely inferred by the fact that she's able to take a tropical vacation once a year.

#ScribesAndMakers 4: Our next featured creator is a comic artist. Tell us about a comic strip or web comic you enjoy.

Keeping in theme with the sorts of stories I talk about here, one of my favorite webcomics is Curvy (link is to the first episode). Of Curvy, TV Trops says:

Anaïs Phalèse is an Ordinary High-School Student, who plays softball and worries about passing her Physics class. One day she meets Fauna Lokjom, Despoina (Princess) of Candy World. Anaïs helps Fauna flee from the bad guys who are chasing her. They flee from reality to reality. They are chased by the minions of Prince Boglox of Stupid World, and by Fervid Wexler, a Federal Agent who believes that Anaïs and Fauna are terrorists.

At least in the beginning, it's Adults Only mainly for art and themes. It's a lot of fun. The original run ended in 2019 but apparently there have been updates since then.

#ScribesAndMakers 2: Do you have any annual traditions not tied to holidays?

Not ones that aren't tied to any holidays, no. Although, one of the holy days I celebrate isn't on any calendar I've ever seen and another one I celebrate more for my ancestor's appreciation of the day than for any tie to the particular saint whose day it is.

#ScribesAndMakers 1: What's one creative thing you'd like to get done this month?

For these pens, two more shorts and maybe finishing up one of my backlog stories.