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“My experience with Canonical’s interview process” | …this is an atrocious story
It reads like a distillation of every bad tech interview tale I have ever heard: https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html
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What the hell is “Bitcoin-Style Encryption”?
I suspect the answer is “the new snake oil“.
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TechCrunch UK & EU appears to be gone
Quoth Mike Butcher: The backstory: Recently, Regent LP, a US private equity firm, acquired TechCrunch and its staff in the US, from Yahoo. During this process, my colleagues in Europe and I were, unexpectedly, rendered redundant… Previously
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Thought for the Day: the anthropomorphic personification of death for soap bubbles is a 3-year-old child
From observation.
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Let’s all take a moment to consider that if — as demanded by Ofcom — encrypted messenger systems WERE actually monitoring conversations for words like: drone, bomb, explosive… all reports would currently be swamped
I don’t know about you but I have several WhatsApp and Signal chats which are currently burning with discussion of how war has changed and what battle risks are inherent in new technology. Should that all be censored in pursuit of keeping us safe from terrorists?
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I don’t have official confirmation, but I’m unilaterally declaring dibs on inspiration for this WhatsApp advertising campaign…
Compare and contrast this tweet of mine from 2021 – recounting a true event – which I’ve been reposting & citing everywhere ever since:
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BBC demonstrates smuggled North Korean phone and how it implements both censorship and accountability in the user interface…
…using mechanisms which are startlingly similar to recommended online safety approaches for deployment in the UK. Short video, worth a watch:
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“OpenAI, defender of user privacy” – not what you would typically expect to hear from civil society, but in this case it’s true…
All of those worthy “ZOMG Creator Copyright vs: AI” arguments are putting user privacy and agency at risk, and potentially set a bad precedent for the privacy of end-to-end encryption too, because the New York Times wants “discoverability” of all output: Earlier this month, Judge Wang entered a preliminary order requiring OpenAl to preserve and…
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Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome | The Register
JY made a lot of positive impact: …it inspired Young to launch Cryptome in 1996. His goal: publish documents about encryption and other matters that the government didn’t necessarily want people to know, so that people could make up their own minds https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/john_young_obituary/
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I think that one of the reasons that I’m not worried about AGI is that I’m still waiting for the end of the world to be caused by Quantum Computing
The apocalypse is a perennial favorite for pulp authors: https://ai-2027.com/
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By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall | Signal Windows app leverages DRM content protection hacks to hide messages from Windows Recall
According to Microsoft’s official developer documentation, setting the correct Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag on the application window will ensure that “content won’t show up in Recall or any other screenshot application.” So that’s exactly what Signal Desktop is now doing on Windows 11 by default. https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/
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Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives
I’m not making this up: