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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"metric strategy" = we do shitty study on 20 white men with y disease and say xx is good "measurement strategy" = we do better designed representative measures of xx + variance "evidence strategy" = we're doing ^, plus patient insight & clinicians' experiences over time, getting xx, rr, aa...

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Last week I had the pleasure talking to @dennisf.bsky.social about empirically backed security decisions (around scanning) and why it matters. Take a peek as to why the data don't lie 😎

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

New year, same old "people getting my name wrong via email" Today's candidate: "Hello Marian"

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The security industry is moving FAST, and is leaving behind (actively harming) users. So often we're deploying these defenses that we find out empirically, after the fact, don't. WORK. Security has its own slew of technical problems, yes, AND I think we have a lot to learn from social science here

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to imagine whether "security research" venues tend to ever value or make room for behavioral science and social science 🙃 so these chasms grow

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Better late than never...I'm at shmoocon! If you're around let's hang 🎉

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The number of times I am randomly selected for additional inspection is not a random number of times

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Listen, on a Friday afternoon at 3 PM, the best variable name I can come up with is "size_bucket". That's all I got left in me. Will I be fixing this Monday? Absolutely. Do I care right now? Absolutely not.

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Mike West @mikewe.st · 15/11/2024

Daniel Stenberg's notes from this week's HTTP Workshop are a nice way of catching up on smart folks' thoughts about the present and future of your favorite transport protocol: Day 1: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11... Day 2: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11... Day 3: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11...

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The 2024 HTTP Workshop

Day one. For the sixth time, this informal group of HTTP implementers and related "interested parties" unite in a room over a couple of days doing a HTTP Workshop. Nine years since that first event in...

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Finally migrated here from the bad app! A bit about me: I research internet measurement and the intersection of security, and love what I do. Let's try to quantifiably make the Internet a safer place, with empathy for the users! Separate from all that, I also love birds (AMA)

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Ariana Mirian @arianamirian.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

"we need some metrif of ground truty "--> exhibit #15232 of why we proofread our own text

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