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Our neighbours recently had scaffolding put up: workers evicted pigeons from nesting overnight under the solar panels, and wire mesh was installed to prevent them getting underneath again
It’s now a week later and the pigeons are forlornly perching in the rain on the panel edging, huddled together like surly teenagers at a wet bus stop in the 1980s. I would take a photo but it would be weird.
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I am very much feeling this National Trust sign #toddlerlife
https://www.threads.net/@nationaltrust/post/CyiyTcUMwyY/
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A thought provocation for people who want to regulate artificial intelligence software & training data
Who taught you how to do arithmetic? Who first showed you the Mona Lisa? Do you feel you should pay them a licence for the rest of your life?
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Five Eyes Warn Deep Tech Start-Ups Against Nation-State Threats – Infosecurity Magazine
I read this and I honestly wonder whether it isn’t actually at least 50% a front for getting all of the really interesting technology vetted – and possibly classified – by security services: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/five-eyes-deep-tech-startups/ If you don’t believe that that is actually a thing, checkout this thread by Matt Green: So this season’s plot of…
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Boy with water pistol confronted by armed police – BBC News
Apparently the police were upset that the boy’s mother appeared to be aggressive when she confronted them. Like that is meant to be surprise when your kid has just been rammed off of his bicycle by a police vehicle. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67148208
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Signal app President Meredith Whittaker on messaging privacy
It’s so refreshing to have somebody representing the positive benefits of privacy and good security architecture who is actually listened to rather than just dismissed as a hairy libertarian geek. https://restofworld.org/2023/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-messaing-privacy/
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Raspberry Pi Detects License Plates with AI
I think this is fabulously geeky. I also think that various privacy and anti-AI activists are going to have a conniption fit at the potential for homebrew ANPR solutions and concomitant data protection panic when they realise what will happen with people embracing technology like this at home in uncontrolled environments. As ever: the battle…
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This is a quick test of a new card feature for this blog…
Hopefully the resulting cards will be full of interesting content and slightly more noticeable than just a link with a bit of text.
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What could possibly go wrong: New York May Require a Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer
https://gizmodo.com/new-york-bill-criminal-background-check-buy-3d-printer-1850930407
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Easy Answer: American direct messages are measured in imperial units.
https://reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/s/jcvjpY5Qtn
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All these infosec professionals suddenly “Signal bug? What Signal bug?”
No wonder IT people tend to identify with cats. Specifically: cats which just fell off a table.
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As a software developer, this resonates…
What happens when I embed a post from threads? https://www.threads.net/@lucas_a_meyer/post/CyZyCvXL-Rf/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== By age 40 a developer should have: