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BBC: “The inside story of the government’s battle against the virus” # this is worth the time to read, portrait of a PM dynamically striving for inaction
BBC News – Covid: The inside story of the government’s battle against the virus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56361599
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I bought a new @Prusa3d MINI+ printer in January, after #Brexit; it arrived yesterday. This is what I’ve experienced so far… #prusa #prusa3d
I don’t have a great deal of time to write elegantly — I’m too busy playing with the printer — but if you will pardon the brevity I will just dump the facts & approximate prices: The Purchase I put in an order on January 31st 2021, for a MINI+ with both steel sheets +…
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Unpicking the “making children as safe as they are offline” fallacy – Internet, telecoms, and tech law decoded # this is an exceptional blogpost by @neil_neilzone, highly recommended
Internet-accessed services, in its view, should be made “safe for children” (whatever that might mean — see below) by default. So let’s take a quick offline trip to the playground, from the perspective of an unsupervised child running out of a nearby home, off to play on the toys on a lovely summer’s morning. https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/03/unpicking-the-as-safe-as-they-are-offline-fallacy
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Rare meteorite chunk traced by scientists to Gloucestershire driveway | Science | The Guardian # why do they never fall on my driveway?
Rare meteorite chunk traced by scientists to Gloucestershire driveway —‘Dream come true’ to locate first carbonaceous chondrite seen in UK, part of fireball that caused sonic boom https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/09/rare-meteorite-chunk-traced-by-scientists-to-gloucestershire-driveway
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“As a consequence of this directive’s quite broad definition of DNS, every organisation or individual running their own DNS will have to comply by registering their DNS service with ENISA, the EU agency for Cyber Security”
This applies not only to top level domain DNS, but also to universities, companies of all sizes and ICT-enthusiasts who run their own DNS service at home. We believe that this was not the intention of the directive which is mainly aimed at the DNS management of critical infrastructures rather than the myriads of “local”…
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I don’t know if you like either books or audiobooks, but I am listening to “The Gospel Of The Eels” on Audible, and am enjoying it thoroughly #eels
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/patrik-svensson/the-gospel-of-the-eels/9781529030716
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What do we mean by a “backdoor” in End-To-End Encrypted Messengers or Secure Messengers? #endToEndEncryption #e2ee
UPDATE: 2021-05-05 – this blogpost has been simplified, tightened up, and redrafted with the intention of submitting it as an Internet Draft. The new text is hosted on Github. I have been sitting on a half-finished essay about “backdoors in end to end encryption” for several months now, and it seems like the best way…
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What is Jesus for?
It’s worth the translation… https://twitter.com/latricherie/status/1363791114533232640?s=19
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“I was a tech worker at ByteDance, where I helped develop tools and platforms for content moderation. In other words, I had helped build the system that censored accounts like mine. I was helping to bury myself in China’s ever-expanding cyber grave”
Powerful Essay https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine Some Key Quotes I was on a central technology team that supports the Trust and Safety team, which sits within ByteDance’s core data department. The data department is mainly devoted to developing technologies for short-video platforms. As of early 2020, the technologies we created supported the entire company’s content moderation in and…
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Looks like there is some technomedievalist anti-abortion lobbying kicking-off in Iowa https://twitter.com/ACLUiowa/status/1362497722108895232
It’s not the technology, it’s the intent, and the intent is illiberal. …and, today…