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The disjoint described by @shashj in this Tweet, nicely encapsulates a lesson for Civil Society regarding technology:
I’ve given up counting the number of times that people look at SOME TECHNOLOGY and loudly declare: WELL, THAT’S OBVIOUSLY MEANT FOR [EVIL PURPOSE] !!! …when it’s entirely the opposite. Unpopular opinion: the only way to make significant impact in privacy engineering is to work with, alongside, and even in large corporations, to align their…
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Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with [@SignalApp] president Meredith Whittaker
There are a lot of people out there who equate writing good, secure, privacy-enhancing software, with promotion of “self-evidently problematic” anti-statist libertarian agendas which they rail against — presumably because they’re worried that society (i.e. they) will lose something from reducing the potential for surveilling the populace*. Therefore: we need more stuff like this: https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-whittaker-imessage-whatsapp-china [*] I…
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Does anyone know how to construct (or, where to find documentation) intent URLs to call out to the @WordPress app on a device?
I would like to have a HTML page trigger the opening of my locally-installed WordPress app for this blog, landing on the blog composition page…
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Lovely way to start a year, getting an award for my work in open source. Thank you @openuk_uk and congratulations to everyone else!
Happy New Year and Congratulations to everyone included in the 2023 OpenUK New Year's Honours List #openukhonourslist23 of the top 100 Influencers in #opensource assessed by @Onalytica See the full list at: https://t.co/XuCMe4cEHJ pic.twitter.com/i1MrmXBTcR — OpenUK (@openuk_uk) January 1, 2023
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The Guardian has been polling #StayAtHomeDad-s about their career choices; I have no idea if this will ever go anywhere but it gave me a chance to talk about the #OnlineSafetyBill
The Guardian seem mildly obsessed with this topic, but a few weeks ago they posted a request for stories about being a StayAtHomeDad (having previously done so in 2017) — and I responded as attached. Of course I have no idea if they will use it, but it strikes me as worth sharing. Tell us…
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I seem to have misplaced my copy of Godel, Escher, Bach; have I loaned it to someone?
The cover looks like this:
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Hacky workaround while I decide what to do about #Mastodon: Python script takes various Mastodon URIs, converts them to RSS URLs, and subscribes to them
All that I had to do on top of that is add the script as a system “Service” (in the menus, via Automator) and now I can subscribe to Mastodon as RSS from any application. Once I am happy with it, I’ll publish it somewhere.
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Asking #ChatGPT: Please cite a few things which are legal online but illegal offline. #OnlineSafetyBill
This is an issue which has peppered debate on the Online Safety Bill, for example: The noble Baroness is right: what is illegal offline should be illegal online, and it is very clear that the social media companies should remove that content. Where there is harmful but legal content, they need to have very clear…
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Asking #ChatGPT: Please write a 600 word essay on the decline of politeness in society that will result from younger generations not saying “please” or “thank you” to generative AI bots, causing those phrases to drop out of fashion in daily use.
Response from ChatGPT The decline of politeness in society is a growing concern, particularly as younger generations increasingly interact with generative AI bots. These bots are designed to make our lives easier and more efficient, but as they become more advanced and widespread, there is a danger that certain social norms and customs will begin…
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Asking #ChatGPT: Could you please write 500 words in the style of a Daily Telegraph op-ed about whether the #OnlineSafetyBill will meet its objectives?
The following response was generated by ChatGPT… As the Online Safety Bill makes its way through Parliament, many are questioning whether it will be able to achieve its stated objectives. On the surface, the bill appears to be a well-intentioned effort to protect children from harmful content online. But upon closer examination, it becomes clear…
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EU Post-Pegasus Report, drawing on EDRi paper (?) calls for regulation of vulnerability disclosure
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this (in the current report draft) is a very, very bad idea. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PEGA-PR-738492_EN.pdf > Sophie in ‘t VeldVulnerabilities 151. Without vulnerabilities in software, it would be impossible to install and deploy spyware. Therefore, in order to regulate the use of spyware, the discovery, sharing and exploitation of…