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Discovering that your Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning up your location data | lovely bit of reverse engineering
I may try to obtain one of these devices for a home lighting project. https://doubleagent.net/2023/05/21/a-car-battery-monitor-tracking-your-location.html
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Stuff to Read: Students’ New Surveillance State | University of Virginia School of Law
https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/202309/students-new-surveillance-state
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Wikimedia DNS | in case you missed it, the Wikimedia foundation are now offering secure DNS
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DNS
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Stuff to Read: Mistranslation of Newton’s First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years – Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mistranslation-of-newtons-first-law-discovered-after-nearly-300-years1/
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Stuff to Read: LLM now provides tools for working with embeddings
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
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Stuff to Read: Distance Metrics in Vector Search | Weaviate – vector database
https://weaviate.io/blog/distance-metrics-in-vector-search
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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