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Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble|The Register
Fingers crossed. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/
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“Wow. Pornhub shut down in Texas. Redtube also. I’m thinking Texas lawmakers will reverse course real quick lol” | Reddit
SO MUCH DISCUSSION OF VPNS https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/1benr92/wow_pornhub_shut_down_in_texas_redtube_also_im/
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Julia Angwin: “Americans don’t agree on much, but they do support privacy laws & not banning TikTok. So what is Congress doing? The opposite … we need a privacy law & how banning TikTok doesn’t make us safer”
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/opinion/tiktok-ban-house-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck0.gyWD.oLux785_Jk5O&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb Via: https://bsky.app/profile/juliaangwin.com/post/3knnpcwz3n22a
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In Britain we have a term for when pundits perform a rapid U-turn in their political stance regards (e.g.) regulation of social media
“Reverse Ferret“ It looks like organisations that have spent the last few years vilifying social media, might suddenly need to defend it.
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Thought for the Day
Will the EU & UK decide to try banning TikTok, and if so on what justification? It’s not like we have American civil society’s “lack of a privacy law” to fall back upon as a non-xenophobic excuse for national security sanction?
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I finally updated my Prusa MINI+ to use the latest firmware and “input shaping”
The results are that it’s running a test print considerably faster, so much so that I am going to have to bring-forwards the upgrade to the printer plinth, to get a really heavy concrete slab for it to sit upon. The vibration is considerable at this speed.
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How We Bypassed Safari 17’s Advanced Audio Fingerprinting Protection
I know that fingerprinting is a thing… but I also sometimes wonder how many of these practical disparagements of privacy tech actually represent a mechanism that would ever be deployed at-scale for fear of what would happen if/when they get found out. That said: the legislators and activists are so swayed by these articles and…
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The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken
Another fine review from Simon Willison: Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top of every key benchmark, but more importantly the clear winner in terms of “vibes”. Almost everyone investing serious time exploring LLMs agreed that it was the most capable default model for the majority of tasks—and had been…
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They say that the essence of comedy is recognition; the thing about @damienslash’s “Select All” ep2 is that I’m sure that I’ve met some of these people
Also: it’s the first time I’ve seen the trust & safety community properly mocked in mainstream comedy. Worth a listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p7fh
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I love independent media but when @BylineTimesPod starts with someone saying how Marx (150+/-10 years ago) explained how capitalism is “not sustainable in the long term…”
…that’s when I know I’m in for a painful listening experience. Still, it’s worth airing if only to hear the other side, to hear whether there’s more than merely a faith-based critique (“…ancient book worshipping huge beard in the sky”) of the structural inequities in modern living.
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Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints | WIRED
At some point the battle against deep fakes is going to run into wholly-fabricated fake content which is neither copyrightable nor copyrighted… at which point DMCA will surely cease to be a useful tool unless augmented by “image rights” for individuals. But that cure might be worse than the disease; I’m not convinced that copyright-style…