@neil Most likely (almost) everyone using Internet has been exposed in some of the many data breaches.

https://haveibeenpwned.com lists 15,109,169,472 accounts from 911 websites & data leaks. That is a lot, and there likely are millions more than that.

@neil Looks like 32% (currently) of the people responding to this poll are unaware that their personal data have been exposed in a data breach. 😉
(There are two kinds of people on the Internet. People whose data has been exposed in a breach, and people who don't know their data has been exposed in a breach.)

@neil *tries to count the number of times they got something in the mail about a data breach*

Am American.

@neil it's why I had a free year of Experian.

@neil Probably, but the worst was when it was the credit reporting agencies.

@neil is there a single person online whose hasn't?

@neil Easy. Ask @haveibeenpwned

@neil should be, do you know that your personal data has been exposed in a company's data breach?

@neil Mine has been exposed a negative number of times, but that might be because I kept a count in a signed integer and it's overflowed.

@neil You seem to have placed this as a "yes/no" question; I was thinking more of a slider how many, or a set of options going at least into multiple dozens, to capture the fidelity of companies losing your data scot-free.

@neil can i select both maybe?

@neil my medical data is floating around on the dark web somewhere weeee. 🙃

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/cancer-screening-hack-far-bigger-than-thought-agency-says/

@neil I'm pretty sure every US citizen has had their data exposed if they're over the age of 20-something. The credit leaks in the 2010s were so bad that it exposed about 1/3rd of the citizen's data and we never heard directly about which people in particular were impacted. Most adults were advised to freeze their credit and to only thaw when planning to make a big purchase (which is generally good advice in the states anyway.)

@neil I remember getting letters from both the MOD (Armed Forces recruitment data breach / laptop left on a train) and the Student Loans Company, both in early-2010s, about potentially having had my personal data breached.

That's right... I was doing it before GDPR came along and everyone else started thinking it was cool and doing it too.

@neil Yes and several time because security of these company are at very low level or workers are not prepared to fight attacks...

@Vive_Levant

@neil "Regularly"

@neil someone logged into my Discord and spammed crypto ads to every server I was a member of, ironically when I was in the middle of getting rid of old passwords and migrating to KeePassXC. I just forgot Discord.

@neil and also by the french unemployement public service 🤡

@neil

I see what you did there.

@neil Where do I pick "functional only"?

@neil @lisamelton Does the US government count as a company? If so, every US citizen is a yes just in the last year.

And like others have said, it’s likely that just about anyone with any online or credit exposure should be a yes before that and worldwide.

@neil I miss the option "yes but I don't know it yet".

@neil none, that I was made aware of (or got aware from data abuse). However, browsing standard tracker-poisend websites is kind of such a breach, even if legalized by most jurisdictions...

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ah yes, the microsoft consent model of data breaches

@neil and in goverment databases

@neil shamely i have been exposed twice this year for what i know,
- french administration of unemployment let go datas of 10 millions people including personnel adresses, phone contact, etc.
- telecom leader Bouygues Telecom had to admit that they have let a leak in personal datas of their customers.

@neil I take « company » and raise you « my government » with a side of « on more than one occasion »

@neil I got like $4 in a class action settlement, though. So it's all fine now?

@neil Yeah, many, many times, especially gaming related companies!

@neil EXCELLENT poll answer options. 👏🏼👏🏼

(Yes, I work in data protection.)

@neil why not a “multiple times” option??

@neil ah damn it i should've voted "yes" but years of dealing with "yes or remind me later" type shit from tech companies has trained me to just automatically hit the later button on sight

@neil lol

@neil I believe the answer should be basically 99% yes. Since a lot of people don't even know about the data breach.

But trust me, your data has been breached already.

@neil I honestly don't know, but I assume that yes.

@neil hasn’t everyone’s now?

Wonder if my dogs has

@neil By a former employer, 6 years after I left. So much for GDPR eh?

@neil Elegant use of the poll structure!

@sam You've only just learned that? 🤣 I learnt that a while ago.

@sam

Hahahahaha oh my god

@sam I can only imagine the lived experience behind a post like this. RIP.

@neil I will stick this one to my monitor

@neil ZZ

@neil But violet is NOT blue. They don't have the same sRGB value!

@neil Escape! Escape! Escape! :-D

@neil And yet one should definitely say
as a proper preamble
if you use the w blindly, do so and pray
because that is a serious gamble.

@neil I thought the 1st Rule of quitting vim was....

@neil Now do EMACS :D

@neil :x for exit

@neil it’s also the emoji for sea lion blep.

Alt...

A sea lion sticking its tongue out

@neil
Roses are red
Voilets are blue
...
Genoa CFC is red and blue
❤️💙⚽️

@neil :q! to throw away your changes.

@neil :x

@neil i prefer :wqa

like... keeping that one bullet for yourself...

@neil

It almost makes my cry 😘

@neil this might very well be my favourite poem now 😅

@neil

#meme #dev #vim

Alt...

Spotify Playlist: Songs About Vim Playlist art: Green + grey Vim logo What Am I Doing Here - Dido How Did I Get Here - ODESZA Can't Get Out - Jem Macatuno Asdfjkl; - Jaeden Camstra Shut It Down - Party Favor, Dillon Francis Push the Button - Amy Lee Hold That Sucker Down - Sound Of Legend Rebooting - UNB I'm Free - The Soup Dragons, Junior Reid Never Again - Nickelback Cat - C418

@Tattooed_Mummy (Well, “news and other reporting” rather than “news *papers*”, but sure.)

@Tattooed_Mummy
None of the above. With 30+ parties contesting the election I can't read all of them. If their leaders say interesting things, I try to read the manifestos of their parties to make a short list, and try to follow news of them and pick the most attractive among those. When their leaders make idiotic statements, I don't bother to read their manifestos.

@Tattooed_Mummy my behaviour doesn't really fit your scheme - I read bits of a few manifestos!

But I actually voted tactically and against my usual party in an effort to reduce what was clearly going to be a Labour landslide! (I felt dirty doing so.)

@GossiTheDog Stop trying to peek behind the curtain, Kevin, and just accept what big companies say at face value!

@GossiTheDog Manglement 102: never let a good crisis go to waste, you ALWAYS call for government support. And clamor that taxes are too high at the same time.

@GossiTheDog Because, even if JLR cover the costs for their suppliers, it's in the suppliers interests to lay off staff and keep the money? The money is needed to repay creditors who are calling in loans? Because those suppliers in turn have thier suppliers to pay? If JLR stop paying, or go bust, the suppliers need enough reserves to survive and restart later so laying off staff now might make sense.

@GossiTheDog I always wanted to join the Thalmor and was so sad i couldn't

@GossiTheDog translated for non Skyrimmer?

@sam I just started to reread that as well and for the same reasons 😅

@sam @alicemcalicepants

@sam

That was a good series.

@sam @PapyrusBrigade Brilliant series, would love more.

@benlockwood I've been going floppy for years!

@dyke_du_jour @robb No one respects generalists anymore and it shows.

@dyke_du_jour
You sound like someone many charitable organizations would love, covering all tech stuff they might need at the cost of a single hire.

Good luck!

@dyke_du_jour this came across my feed https://mastodon.social/@jessie/115128423386304674 https://www.dev.ngo/join/django-developer-2025/ Jess often posts such openings.

@dyke_du_jour just seen this in my feed: https://toot.cafe/@lrlna/115150941403042799

@dyke_du_jour You may not be a specialist (I'm not) or see yourself as one but*sell* yourself as one.

Once your foot is in the door you can then show off your other skills. Worked for me.

Good luck!