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Neovim
%s/vim/emacs/g %s/lua/elisp/g Still, looks like fun… https://neovim.io/
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US FTC (temporarily) declines to approve “Age Estimation” as a proxy for parental consent; @GetYoti “disappointed”
Various peers are reporting, even crowing about this as a “take the win”-kind of victory, but I am not going to celebrate yet: reading between the lines, the FTC has basically kicked the ball of approving AI-based “Age Estimation” technologies for use in the USA into the long grass, awaiting a likely positive report from…
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Visit Sunny San Serriffe!
This is awesome: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/week-2-1-charting-nonsense-land
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Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Easter Egg in Numberblocks
Watching series four of Numberblocks with the toddler this morning, and in the finale song I finally spotted how they represented 42: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, with towel and tea
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Kinahan Cartel: Wanted Narco Boss Exposes Whereabouts by Posting Google Reviews | bellingcat
If you’re going to change your identity and go underground, stop posting restaurant reviews on Google. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/30/kinahan-cartel-wanted-narco-boss-exposes-whereabouts-by-posting-google-reviews/
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Essential Sunday Reading: danah boyd (@zephoria) and @candice_odgers rebut @JonHaidt’s “Anxious Generation”
Thought: if we are “losing our kids to smartphones” perhaps we as parents should first go looking for them, and then lead the way? In the same vein as my yesterday’s post, the redoubtable danah boyd comments on Jon Haidt’s new book: It is deeply frustrating to watch Haidt cherrypick and twist research that I…
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The Coddling of the Boomer Parental Guilt-Complex
I’m simply gobsmacked that an author who is popularly known as one of the lead critics of safetyism and the risks inherent in figuratively wrapping one’s children in cotton wool to protect them for the world, should now whirl in-place and start demanding bans and blocks to stop kids talking to one another — finding…
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How to spot academic papers which have been massaged or substantially rewritten by ChatGPT
1: expansion of author vocabulary 2: academic citation style Details: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeaAyDNE/
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Prof Ross Anderson, RIP
This is not something I was expecting or ever imagining I would write; I’ve just heard. This is a tremendous loss for us all. Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Our dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, died…