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Porn panic imperils privacy online, with Alec Muffett (re-air): Lock and Code S05E08 | @Malwarebytes
TFW you get in the car and your own voice starts coming out of the automatic podcast app… https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcast/2024/04/porn-panic-imperils-privacy-online-with-alec-muffett-re-air-lock-and-code-s05e08
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This is what happens when you are a small factory which produces industrial food-grade glycine… and then you go viral on TikTok
How it started: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGemsXpS8/ How it’s going: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGemsbdtf/ WTF: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGemsgXpy/
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Every so often a Meta/Facebook “Classifier” burps and blocks some website and people scream CENSORSHIP — but it’s much more complex than that
This is a topic that I keep having to re-explain every few years, so here’s previous attempt in a slightly different context, re: the story of how a “OH MY GOD IT’S CENSORSHIP” classifier-burp that blocked Tor led directly to Facebook’s “joining the dark web” … and indirectly to Facebook’s adding end-to-end encryption to Messenger:…
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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics | abortretry.fail
I’m quite enjoying delving through this history blog, for example this piece on SGI: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics
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Belgium’s latest move doesn’t solve critical issues with CSAR | EDRi
tl;dr — ChatControl continues to be very bad, even in the most recent drafts https://edri.org/our-work/rearranging-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic-belgiums-latest-move-doesnt-solve-critical-issues-with-eu-csa-regulation/
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Original Irish vs: Original Nigerian Guinness
Both came out of the fridge at 3C but we feel that both deserve to be served a little warmer than that – the flavours and ease of drinking changed – smoothed out – after standing around for a while. The Dublin-brewed Guinness was lighter, easier to drink, with a sweet nose. Very “traditional”, better…
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“The ad model is coming to AI” | …it’s much worse than this, …
…just wait until you start getting answers with product placement embedded in them. https://www.platformer.news/perplexity-ai-ads-privacy-risks/
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Mansplaining, Gatekeeping, Neophobia… there ought to be a better word for nerds reflexively shit-testing other people on the basis of professional prejudice
I posted a question to Reddit seeking advice on “How best to connect my Dishwasher to the hot water supply” and (as expected) the first three responses were people saying (paraphrase) “that’s crazy, why would you want to do that?” Answer: because the manufacturer says it’s a good idea, and the math checks out. I…
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Do you remember before so many people understood Trust & Safety, back when you could get a major newspaper “FACEBOOK IS BLOCKING ME!” outrage-karma boost from a single tweet?
“Good times, good times…” https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored
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How To Use NotebookLM As A Research Tool | by Steven Johnson | Feb, 2024 | stevenberlinjohnson
This sounds like fun, but it is …so I shall just soldier on with Emacs and Pandoc. https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/how-to-use-notebooklm-as-a-research-tool-6ad5c3a227cc
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“There Is No General First Amendment Right to Distribute Machine-Learning Model Weights” | Lawfare | Poppycock…
Prediction: ML model weights to be printed on t-shirts by 2026 https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/there-is-no-general-first-amendment-right-to-distribute-machine-learning-model-weights