Johnny Ryall's Stylist

I lead #cybersecurity, risk, and #privacy teams. I'm interested in law and politics, though I'd really like to be less interested in those things.  I love reading, making, traveling, and I run a small but mighty makerspace in Lisboa, Portugal called the Shaolin Foundry Collective.  

Baton Rouge -> Atlanta -> Lisboa

pixelfed: eviljarred in exile (npub1r9s…uvmw)
bluesky: @eviljarred.dirtysouf.net
medium: https://willhackfor.beer
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2026-10-27 07:50:15 UTC

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Also to anyone in the know are there any boundaries we should be aware of when documenting protests online in Portugal? I would think sticking to facts, photographic evidence (excluding faces) with permission, and merely documenting schedules of planned activities would be within the boundaries of the law but in 2026 one never knows what the state will consider “terrorism.”

2026-10-27 07:46:25 UTC

The treatment of peaceful protesters at the hands of police here in Portugal is unconscionable. I’ve seen photos of people with their skulls cracked open. They used dogs - DOGS - to break up protests and they’ve blocked off streets so there’s no way to leave. Find a protest today and show up - especially if you are an immigrant with means. It is the absolute bare minimum we can do to help remedy a situation that we have contributed to, intentionally or not.
I’m also working with some friends to launch an English language-translated news site covering the activities and the disproportionate violence at the hands of police. More to follow. For now, I’ve published a guide on digital SecOps when attending protests sourced from organizations like the EFF and @npub1hq9…ld2r. Please send me a message if you’d like it and share widely. Any corrections/additions from legal (or security) professionals in Portugal would be welcome.
Signal: eviljarredinexile.83
Stay safe “na rua.” ✊

2026-10-15 13:30:27 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117444255395066119
Here’s the thing: America blew this by refusing to regulate these companies, allowing them to run rampant with users’ data, and through using them as back doors to surveil and control other nations. If we had any willpower to regulate their behavior - and that of our own government - this wouldn’t be controversial at all and Europeans would happily use US tech platforms.
#note1vad…tsh6

2026-09-26 20:31:30 UTC

AI companies urging the industry to “slow down” are full of shit. If you’ve ever worked at a startup or large tech firm, you know it’s bullshit. These companies are literally incapable of “slowing down.” They exist to make money as rapidly as possible, grow by double digits year over year, and capture more of our time and attention. This is them trying to create a cartel, and protect themselves likely because they know they’re all plateauing and there’s not much they can do beyond what they already do. And that would be fine, in the same way lots of software has been fine for several decades now. I didn’t need my web browser to do much more than it did already in 2006. I didn’t need my search engine to do more than it did in 2001.
But that’s never stopped a product manager or a CEO or a PE financier. They won’t slow down and any claims to this effect are lies.

2026-09-10 18:04:16 UTC

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117248037943074488
100%. This is negligence. This is "we're sorry! the computer did it!" It's complete bullshit, and the companies and the individuals who ran these exercises are culpable and - if we had any semblance of a competent government that was not completely captured by industry - should be prosecuted.

2026-09-06 01:25:37 UTC

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😂

2026-07-19 08:46:54 UTC

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you may have just correctly predicted his next grift for shuffling money around from spacex to the boring company 😁

2026-07-05 19:30:05 UTC

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I moved my family to Portugal in 2022. It’s the hardest thing we’ve ever done. But there’s not a day that goes by that we aren’t confident it was the right move. And we love our life here even though it’s challenging (Dutch is almost certainly more difficult than Portuguese especially if you know Spanish but it’s the hardest of all the Latin languages and as someone who never spoke a second language and who came here at 40 it’s not easy mode).
That said immigrants have strained the Portuguese system. We’re not the only reason prices have gone up and people can’t afford to live - but we’re part of it. And I struggle with that reality internally every day.
I run two businesses - one US based and one Portuguese based. Feel free to DM me on signal if you have questions.

2026-02-13 08:15:37 UTC

I continue to be blown away by all the features and functionality of recent @npub1rk6…hv4q releases. Document creation an editing is worlds better, Collectives are super handy and work exactly as you'd expect them to, and talk has built in video conferencing that just works. Honestly surprised at how functional and convenient and nice everything is. It's come a long way since its early days. Honestly, if I can run stable personal projects on this for a few more months I might switch business productivity over.
The only issue I had was that I had to switch to beta builds for the AIO containers because they wouldn't deploy for some reason. Maybe a bug in the version I started with a few months back.

2025-04-25 07:49:18 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zhDk6GjoH8
Still can't locate who shared this on my timeline but it's a great, short documentary on life in Portugal before the revolution. No English subtitles but I managed to catch a good deal of it, and even if you just look at the footage it's not hard to figure things out. Worth a watch.
Bom 25 de Abril!

2025-04-14 17:17:25 UTC

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it’s just a rage fantasy. Sometimes I’m just angry and lashing out. Not, you know, crafting international policy and statecraft.

2025-04-14 16:46:49 UTC

I think U.S. military intervention is part of what’s led us to this crazy climate but man what I wouldn’t give to watch the U.S. army absolutely wreck this mother fucker’s entire country and bring every deported person back. I am seething, and all I want is for these thugs to feel fear and pain.
If this stands there will be no end to it. They won’t - and don’t intend to - stop at immigrants. Fuck these people. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114337228965869164