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FlipperZero vs: NSO’s Pegasus vs: Gamma FinFisher vs: Export Controls & the Wassenaar Arrangement: the difference is intent
I have spent far more than a decade – although the last decade has doubtless been the most interesting – explaining to peers in Digital Rights Civil Society that “it’s a bad idea to attempt to regulate the shape of technology, because of the principle of dual-use.” I’ve laid open bets – and I’ve never…
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Caleb Smith on X: “Tik Tok is writing a real-time case study on what NOT to do for crisis communications.”
It’s interesting to watch people of the political establishment like this: …failing to grok the generation of people they are attempting to disenfranchise as described here: I wonder who is going to win?
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Jaguar Land Rover locks-out 3rd-party charging applications from controlling what times a car is to be charged; Octopus (other?) customers are fuming
People using Octopus Energy “Intelligent EV Charging” are furiously sharing an email this morning in Facebook and Bulletin-Board communities: Starting tomorrow morning, your electric vehicle won’t be compatible to smart charge with Intelligent Octopus Go. You’ll have to schedule your own charging from now on, and in early May, we’ll need to move you to…
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“…who could well be infringing the rights of others” – it’s telling that some of the minds behind the OSA consider people first & foremost to be potential criminals
If someone is calling for human rights of the general populace to be undermined on the basis that “some of them might be doing something bad” — there is a very toxic precedent being followed. At that point you’re less helping victims, more enabling oppression. And then you dress it in an “…and companies” anti-corporate…
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“How can i access Lancs Pdsoft?” | …history: the Lancaster University Public-Domain Software Archive
This USENET posting from 1991 is a blast from the past: mention of the huge and deeply useful University of Lancaster archive of public-domain software, one of the most important — at least, in UK academia — resources of tools and software, from the serious to the silly. In the web/post-web age it’s hard to…
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“The plans, put forward by the government’s adviser on political violence, John Woodcock…”
Does he tell them how to do it? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/03/ministers-consider-ban-mps-engaging-pro-palestine-climate-protesters
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Working for MI6 ‘more exciting than James Bond film’, says spy | BBC News
Similarly: there is a popular Aston Martin dealership in Cheltenham; so let’s remember Ian Fleming’s own portrait of Bond: “James Bond is a blunt instrument wielded by a Government Department. He is quiet, hard, ruthless, sardonic, fatalistic. […] He likes gambling, golf, and fast motor cars.” Nonetheless, the security services themselves see matters more romantically:…
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New rules for online services: what you need to know | WORLD’S MOST OBVIOUS QUESTIONNAIRE, EVAR
This is so obvious to anyone who’s followed the debate that I feel Ofcom must be trolling the British public to stir up “sentiment”; the canned answer for a typical blog is attached below. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/information-for-industry/guide-for-services
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I can’t decide if Google Gemini is merely “woke” or whether it is simultaneously also an abstemious puritan killjoy; compare & contrast with ChatGPT
I swear, the trust and safety communities are going to hobble AI development to the point of uselessness:
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“Russia apparently intercepted and released a 30-minute Webex conference call between German military officials who discussed the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine”
Gosh, if only there was a technology which could help mitigate this kind of risk: https://twitter.com/electrospaces/status/1763933446257213676
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Epomaker Reveals The New DynaTab 75X Keyboard With Dot-Matrix Display | …BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TYPE IN A PASSWORD??!?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marksparrow/2024/02/21/epomaker-reveals-the-new-dynatab-75x-keyboard-with-dot-matrix-display/
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Is anyone else I know using post.news?
I can’t decide if I like it. Nor: whether the name is meant to be a joke. https://post.news/@/alecmuffett