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yaelwrites | 10 years ago | on: ProtonMail's encrypted email is now available to all

1. It's too bad that Switzerland has a mutual legal assistance treaty relationship with the United States which requires it to hand over any information legally available to their local authorities to the requesting government.

yaelwrites | 11 years ago | on: GPG and Me

I use Thunderbird with Enigmail, but for some reason it wants to load up thousands of archived emails and crashes my computer. It is annoying as fuck.

While I really enjoy reading and sending encrypted emails, and think it's far better than sending sensitive data in the clear, I am surprised to learn that there are people who use PGP and don't hate it or have issues with it.

yaelwrites | 11 years ago | on: Startup School acceptances are out

I got accepted in NYC, had to turn it down because I'd already decided to go to a conference (ironically also in NYC) since I'd assumed I'd be rejected, emailed my cancellation and was told this wouldn't DQ me for SF, and then got rejected. We should have a meetup for all of the rejects, lol.

yaelwrites | 12 years ago | on: Founder Ethics

I'm so psyched to see this. It's incredibly heartening to see YC set a great example because of their visibility and the amount of respect we all have for them in the tech/startup community. As someone who's unsuccessfully worked on getting codes implemented, I think this is absolutely huge and predict others will do the right thing and follow suit.

I agree that this is pretty vague. I don't think the more nitty gritty details (how to make an incident report, who's responsible for handling it, etc.) have to be posted publicly, but hopefully the actual policy is being worked on behind the scenes.

yaelwrites | 12 years ago | on: It's Different for Girls

I just have to say how nice it is to read a discussion about this topic that's productive and supportive. I guess the new H/N algorithm that I whined about is actually working. :)

yaelwrites | 12 years ago | on: Stop Freelancing

I like this. It's all about positioning. I'm technically a freelance writer/editor, but I've found that when I call myself a "content strategist," I can command much higher wages doing the exact same work (since I have to do social, deep analytics, etc. as a writer anyway).

yaelwrites | 13 years ago | on: Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out

Asa woman who hangs out at tech events, I've had people make all manners of offensive jokes around me. And a really great way to handle it is to talk to them about it. Or ignore it. Or talk about it loudly in front of them with my friends. Putting someone on public blast for something overheard, and then writing a douchey post about how you're creating safe space for future generations... is just pathetic. Be a !@#$ adult about it.
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