Your handy pushback of the day:"Let's not log that/stop logging that. Handling extra data is expensive and we're dedicating our resources to our new AI initiatives."Extra double handy for logged data that may be... somewhat interesting to fascist-inclined individuals and organizations.

@wordshaper yep, same. It's inescapable, but one delaying tactic I've used is trying not work where I know I'm gonna have bad problems.which has not worked in my favor on moving to an area where the primary tech employers are defense contractors

The University of Michigan is working to preserve federal (and other) social science data, which is a thing that's potentially of interest at the moment.https://www.datalumos.org/datalumos/You can, if you're inclined (and I am) toss them money. As a bonus they're a 501(c)3 which means many US employers will match or partial match the donation *and* that it's tax deductible if you're inclined to enjoy a bit of irony.

Wonder if this is partly in response to the current WordPress nonsense.https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/113821309073691812

TIL today -- a lot of electricity and water meters (probably gas too) just... broadcast their readings unencrypted to anyone who might have a radio receiver tuned to the right frequency.Hopefully they're read-only but I dunno. (On the upside I am now tempted to get a receiver and set it up to monitor the data but the fact that I *can* really isn't the greatest)