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Twitter Community Notes: How the Algorithms work | and therefore how to game them
Once again, it is worth reminding ourselves that the “left vs right divide” was not in any way hardcoded into the algorithm; it was discovered emergently by the calculation. This suggests that if you apply this algorithm in other cultural contexts, it could automatically detect what their primary political divides are, and bridge across those too. https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html
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Reminder from August 2023: the UK Ministry of Defence see positive value in VPNs
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Carey Lening: On Data Breaches & Privacy Harms | just because you can “out” someone’s past doesn’t mean that you should
If I post something online as “Privacat” and substantially the same thing as “Carey Lening” and people make a connection there, to me this is fair game. There is a degree of choice and consensuality here. But it seems different to do this by exposing individuals who were victims of a data breach. And yes,…
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Stuff to Read: FROM HOT NEWS TO LINK TAX: THE DANGERS OF A QUASI-PROPERTY RIGHT IN INFORMATION
Note that the justification offered is moral, rooted in a particular concept of what is fair. It is not a proposition that translates well in the offline world. For instance, it would be strange to suggest that brick-and-mortar retailers have a moral obligation to pay manufacturers not only for their product but also for the…
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This is our default recipe at the moment: Wholemeal Rye and White 50-50 Bread Machine Loaf
It needs to be done as a Large (not XL) loaf in the Panasonic, and we need to use the rapid bake, darker crust option. https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/bread-machine-wholemeal-rye-loaf
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If you, like me, are trying to restrict a Ubuntu Raspberry Pi filesystem expansion upon first boot…
…this may be of use to you: It’s init=/usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh in /boot/cmdline.txt that expands the partition size before /etc/init.d/resize2fs_once runs. If init=/usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh is removed, /etc/init.d/resize2fs_once still runs /usr/sbin/resize2fs which finds there’s nothing to do and immediately exits without anything being changed. /etc/init.d/resize2fs then removes itself and it’s end-of-story. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=313003
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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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Something to watch later: Prof Victoria Baines on “Meet the Cybercriminals”
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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/