Fighting Harassment with Open Source Tools

Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>

No cameras. No social media.

sysinstall is easy

social stuff is hard

too many feelings make words difficult.

GamerGate has nothing to do with ethics in gaming journalism.

that’s a nice career you have.

sure would be a shame if something happened to it.

(weev)

Adam Baldwin is not a Baldwin brother, which might

be why he’s such a dick.

cultural marxism?

I worked on old sysinstall, hello?

cultural marxism?????

http://wondermark.com/1k62/

(weev)

the only thing kevin mitnick is famous for is

getting caught.

hacker news supporting a post about sexism in tech is the

eighth sign of the apocalypse.

probably the best tequila story ever

sorry, KFC.

auto-followback is a stupid marketing move anyways.

and your chicken kind of sucks.

Good Game AutoBlocker

http://github.com/freebsdgirl/ggautoblocker

making perl more relevant than it’s

been in years

current subscriber count: 5000+

got an award for being awesome.

still not in the TIME 100, fml.

lolsuits

https://xkcd.com/1357/

(sorry)

I’ve saved hundreds of comments just like those

learning c is a lot less effort.

http://bit.ly/1Bd3XXK

police are not equipped to deal

with online harassment

8gb of redis means it’s time to find something

that is not redis.

no text analysis. just account metadata.

96.8% accuracy.

that code is not open source because i broke the

dev policy in a bad way.

shhhhhhh!

still waiting for my honorary degree in

troll hunting.

gosh, i sure will miss writing puppet manifests.

GamerGate is not known for having a strong grasp

of cause and effect.

Patreon: <36k/year DevOps: >36k/year

8chan: anonymous message board

http://blog.randi.io

tequila + perl = groundbreaking

gin + ruby = ?????? (let’s find out!)

Twitter, why are you not paying me for this?

84% of the data we manually verified as targeting women.

http://onlineabuseprevention.org

http://github.com/oapi

Carlton is the name of Hindsight, a Marvel comics superhero.

more data means a better understanding of the social issues creating these environments

alcohol + angry is probably the origin story of so many

open source projects

don’t be me.

ask me about OSCON :(

(but not when there’s a microphone present)

http://patreon.com/freebsdgirl

Everything is shit.

It doesn’t have to be.

resources/Q&A

• blog: http://blog.randi.io

• personal github: http://github.com/freebsdgirl

• OAPI: http://onlineabuseprevention.org

• OAPI github: http://github.com/oapi

• donations: http://patreon.com/freebsdgirl