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Etappensieg: Belgien scheitert mit Abstimmung zur Chatkontrolle | Chat Control is NOT dead, but will be back next month
> Instead, the item was postponed indefinitely. The Committee of Permanent Representatives meets every week, but Belgium cannot present a proposal that can gain a majority in the short term. In July, the Council Presidency will pass from Belgium to Hungary. Hungary has announced in its work program that it will push ahead with negotiations…
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OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company | The Verge
I don’t believe this will ship in the stated form; just as the people who make the most money during a gold rush are those selling shovels and mining equipment, successful AI safety startups will bolt into other technologies. > As OpenAI pushes forward with partnerships with Apple and Microsoft, we likely won’t see SSI…
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Unpopular Hypothesis / Opinion of the Day
I’m beginning to wonder whether part of the reason there has been such recent successful advancement of illiberal policy such as Chat Control & Age Verification, has been due to the exodus of many of the information security community from Twitter to Mastodon because they felt it more important to stage a protest, to establish…
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Am listening to the audiobook of “Politics on the Edge” by @RoryStewartUK; 4 chapters in and I’m uncannily reminded of James Herriot’s “All Creatures Great & Small” meets “The Thick Of It”
I am having the most fun listening while using ChatGPT in real time to re-identify all of the “anonymous” MPs via the breadcrumbs that Rory coyly drops. “Oh, him, what, really?” I wonder if such muckraking memoirs will have to evolve to address the existence of LLMs. Also: I wonder if he’ll publish his hiking…
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Arundhati Roy: Will Booker Prize-winner face jail for 14-year-old remark? | BBC News | …this is also the trajectory for the European Union
If you can surveil, you will surveil. How much contested land is there in the EU? Catalonia? Euskadi? Flanders? > The Modi government has been accused of using the law to silence critics, including activists, journalists and civil society members. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggyz13m2po
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‘Encryption is deeply threatening to power’: Meredith Whittaker of messaging app Signal | Chat and messaging apps | The Guardian
Important read especially if you are European and have not yet complained to your representative about ChatControl https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/18/encryption-is-deeply-threatening-to-power-meredith-whittaker-of-messaging-app-signal
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Fun Twitter search of the day: parsejson credits
Guess what ChatGPT bots emit when they run out of credit: https://x.com/search?q=parsejson%20credits&src=typed_query&f=top
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systemd-tmpfiles, deleting /home
Quote> TIL (thankfully second hand) that running “systemd-tmpfiles –purge” will delete /home in systemd 256 [1]. Apparently if you think linux is mainly for running cloud services, this seems reasonable to you. Or something. Fun thread at: https://mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/112615591101488528
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Does anyone else feel suddenly disenfranchised from podcasts?
The first three months of this year I was really enjoying podcasts, but recently it all seems to have gotten boring. I don’t feel it’s necessarily the wall to wall election coverage, because even the non-political podcasts seem to have “sameness” quality about them for the past ~7..8 weeks? Possibly it’s because that which is…
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I’m beginning to wonder whether all of these people who complain about “dunking” or QT-without-tagging on Twitter simply don’t Kiboze themselves?
I mean: THERE IS A WHOLE SEARCH FUNCTION THERE AND ARE YOU REALLY TELLING US THAT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT? So many people misspell my name so often that I’ve set up a full-on search which I just run sporadically, I find the results, and it’s fine. Is that supposed to be…
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Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code | Ars Technica
“many eyes makes all bugs shallow” is a crapshoot https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/retired-engineer-discovers-55-year-old-bug-in-lunar-lander-computer-game-code/