Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that adults shouldn’t have to share their personal information to access pornography online” | wow…

2024/02/23
The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation – R Street Institute

2024/02/22
Nice thing that a friend told me last night…

2024/02/21
Impressive scenes outside the Assange trial yesterday

2024/02/21
“…we need evidence from you that the harm [Apple killing WebApps is] choosing to inflict on EU businesses & consumers is real & significant”

2024/02/21
A turf war between people who want to ban social media for teenagers vs: those who want it regulated to the point of Orwellian surveillance — there can be only one!

2024/02/20
How to solve all AI-oversight issues at a stroke: Nationalised Foundation Models and free GPU access in Public Libraries; cc: @vestager

2024/02/19
*This* is how you should teach children how to be — and to make *others* — safer, online

2024/02/19
Content Moderation and Data Protection | ICO releases a short PDF, which is a bit of a Curate’s Egg on moderation issues

2024/02/19
There’s the thing about AI and “computers can’t be held accountable so must never make decisions”, but then we demand cars be fitted with cameras to not drift over white lines and this happens

2024/02/18
Civil Society: “Woe! Save us, regulators, for evil Capitalism has anticompetitively killed all innovation!” Free Software Community: “Hi! Here’s a new Browser engine, built from scratch!”

2024/02/18
The Berkeley Software Distribution | … rich and detailed history of the back story of BSD Unix

2024/02/18