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“Mercury Shrugged” — how can end-to-end #encrypted messenger platforms threatening to “take their ball home” be “…a threat to ‘the nation state?’” #OnlineSafetyBill #MercuryShrugged @SignalApp @WhatsApp
[EDIT: Updated July 2023] The secure messenger platforms are promising to leave the UK. This will impact everyone, bad and good, politicians included. Over the past two weeks we have seen both Signal, and now WhatsApp [and now Apple] threaten to withdraw their service from the UK because (and let’s be precise about this) the…
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Thought for the Day
Just off a phone call with someone who proposed that the modern-day problem with “free speech” as espoused by the likes of JS Mill et al — that speech, even odious speech, should be aired so that falsehood can be shot down and so that truth can be found — the problem apparently is that…
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So I forgot that I am literally the person who in 2007 requested that Twitter add a “Reply” button
Back in the old days (2007) it was necessary to manually type-out: @whomever YOU ARE WRONG AND I HATE YOU! …in order to reply to a Tweet; replies were denoted by @ being the first character of a tweet. This also presages putting a dot — as in .@whomever — at the start of a…
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The Execution of Mark Zuckerberg …
…or, possibly, of Nick Clegg Back in 2009 a TV drama was broadcast called The Execution of Gary Glitter: The Execution of Gary Glitter is a ninety-minute television drama, produced by Juniper Communications Limited and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK, which follows an imaginary trial and execution by hanging of former glam rock…
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Gotta love #Clangers subtitles
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Things from an 80s childhood which were actually awful…
This is very very true: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFESBcMj/
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Anyone who wants to understand how crowdsourcing works, simply needs to do a Google search for “{doing,pulling} a Trump”, which became suddenly popular yesterday.
Tons of people suddenly having exactly the same idea on how to describe the situation in Brazil. https://twitter.com/search?q=%22doing%20a%20trump%22%20OR%20%22pulling%20a%20trump%22&src=typed_query&f=live
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New: Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 – astrophotographers start your engines, there is a lensless version, too.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-camera-module-v3
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breakingthe3ma.app — oh dear #threema
https://breakingthe3ma.app/ I’m still wondering why the domain name doesn’t quite match, though.
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Impractical demands for WhatsApp to provide message content to the Brazilian government, in 3… 2…
WhatsApp is amazingly popular in Brazil, and the government there have a history of trying to strong arm it into providing them with intelligence data… https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-government-caribbean-0c03c098a5e2a09ac534412c30ae8355
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In theory I am now also @alecm@alecmuffett.com
Beware: work in progress.