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Two Years After Privacy Risks of Client-Side Scanning Paper Was Published, It’s Time for Governments to Move On
Oh, I wish. It would be nice to have a holiday for the first time in 30 years. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/two-years-after-privacy-risks-paper-published/
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Marco @polotek@social.polotek.net shares a glorious epiphany regarding trust, safety, platforms in general, & Mastodon in specific
So much this thread; my links/emph; quote: After continuing to noodle on it, I had an epiphany earlier today. You’re not gonna like it. I realized that maybe I have been misunderstanding the actual conversation about social norms. Maybe the reason people wanna have the moral argument is because they’re hoping that will convince other…
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Nice little explainer thread from David Thiel on the Bluesky Mastodon Bridge Brouhaha
I frequently disagree with David but I think he is bang on regarding this: https://hachyderm.io/@det/111929697516586533
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Reading this and remembering the (subset of) people who told me that it was irresponsible to release a password cracker to USENET in 1991 because it might be used by bad people to do bad things
…so they said I should vet who could use it. Yeah, nah. It’s not the job of software engineers to maintain the delusions of random people. Quote: Whenever you create a new technology – especially in the social space – the first question you have to ask yourself is WW4D: what would 4chan do? And…
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“Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered” | Mastodon users throwing a huge fit that their content may be copied to Bluesky by bridging software
Click through & skim the comments. Back on USENET we lived & loved expansion to Fido & other networks, as it increased community … but now this is a “techbro” perspective which ignores “consent”. #popcorn https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835
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Worcestershire: New Road ‘situation worsening’ as water levels rise, says Ashley Giles | Wicket Keeper bitten by Giant Eel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68265906
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I signed up for Nextdoor for fun, it’s full of “this country is going to the dogs” DailyMail/Sun-readers… and then I realised…
“This is what happens without algorithmic curation.” …or, more accurately: “…when your algorithm is neutral/geographic and not just a social bubble” — which makes me wonder if Mastodon & Bluesky should require/oblige similar localism so that people are forced to learn about the diversity of opinion in the place where they live.
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A chatbot that imitates the dead. Is it a good idea? | FT
I swear we have gotten to the point where people are implementing ideas from “Black Mirror” because they realise somebody will do a newspaper column on them: https://www.ft.com/content/fc099a19-edde-44b7-97d7-e58ca43131f2
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“Once the commander in chief says “I will not come to an ally’s aid if attacked,” why would anyone fear NATO, regardless of what obligations still exist on paper? “
Free link to article in The Atlantic by Anne Applebaum:
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Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
Remember: (a) it’s never the vulnerabilities of extant systems (b) it’s never the prevalence of criminals https://gizmodo.com/canada-moves-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-over-car-hacking-f-1851242790
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Two thoughts on the Future of AI Regulation, Part 2: The Regulation of Public Power
We are less than 25 years past a time where games consoles were being classified as supercomputers and subjected to export controls, just in case they were purchased in bulk by China, Russia, Iran, or any other country lacking robust McDonalds revenues, and then repurposed towards modelling nuclear bomb simulations, searching for nerve agents, or…