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Basic Modelling in MiniZinc
I’m pretty sure that this will be useful for something but I’m not sure what… MiniZinc is a free and open-source constraint modeling language. You can use MiniZinc to model constraint satisfaction and optimization problems in a high-level, solver-independent way, taking advantage of a large library of pre-defined constraints. https://www.minizinc.org/doc-2.7.6/en/index.html
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TFW you set up an RSS feed in 2004, and it’s still going 19 years later…
I vaguely remember creating this so I could follow my “new” standalone blog (running “bloxsom”, if I remember correctly) when converting from my old Livejournal account; it seemed sensible to set up a route for traffic to flow backwards to LJ for people who were staying there.
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Project Pink Cadillac
One of the funnest projects of the past few weeks: rescuing this fine vehicle from being trashed and refurbing the steering column so that it’s usable. Todo: a few hours of 3D-printing to replace door locks and petrol caps.
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Schools Are Normalizing Intrusive Surveillance
Also true in the UK: https://reason.com/2023/10/06/schools-are-normalizing-intrusive-surveillance/
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THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: how the experiences of #Twitter and #ThreadsApp show us how the #OnlineSafetyBill could be a windfall for fully-end-to-end-encrypted Facebook @Messenger
Potential Futures… Here’s a potential future timeline which just struck me: NB: I don’t count Telegram as trustworthy, nor Element as scalable, iMessage only does Apple, and the plethora of existing European/other E2EE messengers are beyond the political pale; and to create an all-British Replacement Patriotic Messenger will be a massive Government IT-project clusterfuck. But…
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End-to-End Encryption and Client-Side Scanning: Notes for @CameronWilson of Crikey magazine; relevant also to #OnlineSafetyBill
Cam Wilson messaged me asking for some commentary on regulation proposals in Australia; this text is what I sent; 2+ articles have been written since, but they are all paywalled I worked on internet security & privacy for over 30 years, and now I’ve chucked work to raise a family, so with a 2yo daughter…
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A short note for Civil Society on the inadvisability of Government regulation & restriction of #LLM and #AI — #OpenSource #FreeSpeech #CodeIsSpeech
So there’s an interesting Reddit post which leads to an article on VentureBeat and a letter from a Senator to Mark Zuckerberg, all attached below. There’s a fairly straightforward point which needs to be made:
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End to End Encryption: Political Timing is Everything / HT: @radioproducer
I am in a brief period between nappy changes for the toddler, so I will have to make this really concise because that situation could change at any moment so I’ll try a bullet-point-list format: So where are we now? As far as I am aware the Messenger Encryption features are all being enabled and…
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NEW: “LockAndCode” Podcast on #AgeVerification by @Malwarebytes, featuring @AlecMuffett: “Identity crisis: How an anti-porn crusade could jam the Internet”
I was delighted to be invited back to the LockAndCode podcast to speak about American lawmakers discovering “Age Verification,” comparing it to similar experiences in the UK: There are some links in the podcast show notes, but I’ll attach below the extended set of links which I originally built to help David & the team,…
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A question for everyone who is saying that #AI must be regulated (a) soon, and (b) by the Government rather than self-regulation; #BigAI
There are a bunch of people who are opining off-of the attached tweet; critical opinions generally can be characterised along the lines of: the tech industry cannot police itself / look at the history of social media / facebook was bad, this will be worse / the internet is bad / imagine if airlines ran…