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CACM Is Now Open Access | Communications of the ACM
I rather wish that this had happened a few decades ago, when it would have been much more transformative than today https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/
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Would Terry Pratchett be in favour of, or against, artificial intelligence and its impact on writing?
I think he would be in favour of the technology but cautious about the nature of (and how we describe) its output: https://mastodon.social/@alecmuffett/112035424118762158
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Cyberpunk Librarian: “Okay, I found this on Reddit and I had to share it”
Nice, touching computer history story, with a happy ending. https://hackers.town/@CyberpunkLibrarian/112046696080448828
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TikTok users bombard House offices over bill that could ban the app – Live Updates | POLITICO
At the time of writing the Republican house staffers are saying that “the [TikTok] campaign is backfiring”, entrenching anti-platform sentiment amongst representatives. I wonder how much public sentiment is required before they apply the adjective “backfiring” to the draft legislation? https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/07/congress/tiktok-users-revolt-00145633
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FlipperZero vs: NSO’s Pegasus vs: Gamma FinFisher vs: Export Controls & the Wassenaar Arrangement: the difference is intent
I have spent far more than a decade – although the last decade has doubtless been the most interesting – explaining to peers in Digital Rights Civil Society that “it’s a bad idea to attempt to regulate the shape of technology, because of the principle of dual-use.” I’ve laid open bets – and I’ve never…
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Caleb Smith on X: “Tik Tok is writing a real-time case study on what NOT to do for crisis communications.”
It’s interesting to watch people of the political establishment like this: …failing to grok the generation of people they are attempting to disenfranchise as described here: I wonder who is going to win?
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Jaguar Land Rover locks-out 3rd-party charging applications from controlling what times a car is to be charged; Octopus (other?) customers are fuming
People using Octopus Energy “Intelligent EV Charging” are furiously sharing an email this morning in Facebook and Bulletin-Board communities: Starting tomorrow morning, your electric vehicle won’t be compatible to smart charge with Intelligent Octopus Go. You’ll have to schedule your own charging from now on, and in early May, we’ll need to move you to…
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“…who could well be infringing the rights of others” – it’s telling that some of the minds behind the OSA consider people first & foremost to be potential criminals
If someone is calling for human rights of the general populace to be undermined on the basis that “some of them might be doing something bad” — there is a very toxic precedent being followed. At that point you’re less helping victims, more enabling oppression. And then you dress it in an “…and companies” anti-corporate…
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“How can i access Lancs Pdsoft?” | …history: the Lancaster University Public-Domain Software Archive
This USENET posting from 1991 is a blast from the past: mention of the huge and deeply useful University of Lancaster archive of public-domain software, one of the most important — at least, in UK academia — resources of tools and software, from the serious to the silly. In the web/post-web age it’s hard to…
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“The plans, put forward by the government’s adviser on political violence, John Woodcock…”
Does he tell them how to do it? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/03/ministers-consider-ban-mps-engaging-pro-palestine-climate-protesters