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This weekend has largely been carpet installation…
…Which has been a great success but now I have a stinking headache from the tack glue solvent.
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Digital Waco, Digital Jonestown?
For years the infosec community has languished under regular excitable and excited claims that we imminently face “Digital Pearl Harbor” — a surprise cyber-offensive that will decapitate either of: What’s far more likely in this era of burgeoning fragmentation and federation is that one or more online communities will ideologically isolate themselves — e.g. for…
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Threads and the Fediverse – A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web | Tim Chambers @timothyjchambers
From 2023: a good little essay on the myths of pre-emptive defederation as protection from big scary data-monsters: https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html
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2020: NSA’s Cybersecurity Perspective on Post-Quantum [Lattice] Cryptography Algorithms
This aged well… :popcorn: We agree with the NIST assessment, documented in NISTIR 8309: Status Report on the Second Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process, that these are among the most efficient post-quantum designs. Based on their history of analysis and implementation efforts, NSA CSD expects that a NIST-candidate lattice-based signature and a…
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Instagram DMs launch privacy-friendly nude detection, education, and metadata-based reporting
Breaking News from Instagram: this is how to approach teen safety and work towards reducing non-consensual intimate image abuse “at source” whilst also using an architecture which also can work under end-to-end encryption: smarter client software and “nudging” the user towards considering the risks, whilst also sharing and aggregating actionable metadata surrounding reports: New Tools…
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Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana | Gastro Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-origins-map
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If you work around Content Moderation or AI Safety and for once you want (for once) to hear something funny, try this episode of this podcast
Dial F for Football: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-uerbg-1e23ecc6 It’s like RadioActive meets The Day Today meets BBC Radio 5 Live Sport
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“it’s just 262GB” : r/LocalLLaMA
Certain kinds of nerd this morning look like this:
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“Seeds of the Internet” and “Knowledge as Infrastructure” – Magnet URLs, AI, & the increasing, terrifying irrelevance of political borders
One thing which keeps me increasingly hopeful about AI technologies is my hazy but reasonable understanding of data compression. All those who dabble in cryptography at some point realise that it’s (literally, in the case of monoalphabetic substitution) a matter of trading one symbolic representation — or: encoding — of information for another. Sometimes those…
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Microsoft going big in Japan on AI Infrastructure
Elsewhere: “In Japan, copyright infringement will not be enforced on companies that use copyrighted materials to train generative AI models.” https://insights.manageengine.com/artificial-intelligence/the-us-should-look-at-japans-unique-approach-to-generative-ai-copyright-law/ And: “Unlike the UK and the EU, which allow the ingestion of copyrighted works only for non-commercial purposes, Japan allows it also for commercial use, purposes other than production and apparently including the ingestion…
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#Fedipact – The [mastodon] instances blocking Zuckerberg’s Threads.net
It seems odd for progressive parts of the Fediverse to be celebrating inventing their own digital iron curtains: https://fedipact.veganism.social/ It (and the colour scheme) makes me wonder: are they keeping “bad” people & content out, or keeping their own users in? Not everybody thinks it’s a good idea nor desirable or accurate: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/1b2ddc6c-7e4e-417b-97d0-6eee8109b1ac