Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Fun Stuff To Read: “How to Be a Better Reactionary: Time and Knowledge in Technology Regulation”

2023/12/22
As we approach Christmas one thing which gives me the greatest hope for mankind is that the war & empire-building that killed millions and marred European history of the past 500 years, is now reduced to witty sparring on social networks

2023/12/22
By far, my most popular Reddit post ever…

2023/12/22
Criminals will start wearing extra prosthetic fingers to make surveillance footage look like it’s AI generated and thus inadmissible as evidence

2023/12/22
pun of the day

2023/12/22
Jordan Taylor on X: “How do you create the sharpest thing in the world? And why would you do it? In this thread we take a voyage into true sharpness… https://t.co/Io2qsQt17t” / X

2023/12/22
“But we do forget that most people are good. By letting the narrative only ever reflect the presence of abusive actors, we enable people who want to pervert social media to their own political control.”

2023/12/22
I know this article a bit old, but I remain amazed that one of the big talking-points in favour of the EU’s DMA was that it would solve the “ivory tower” aspects of platforms such as iMessage being (e.g.) inaccessible to everyone on Android

2023/12/22
Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data | …one more proof that encryption can and should be used to minimise or disable un-necessary platform access to data

2023/12/22
After a while you have to wonder whether it’s worth complaining about MPs who attack online privacy and encryption from behind newspaper paywalls, or if it’s not just giving them more oxygen

2023/12/22
“Could there be an internet where Tesco, Amazon, Netflix, BBC, airlines, banking etc work well but there are major changes elsewhere?” | child-safety activists ask for a read-only internet

2023/12/22
“Write the Laws for the World in Which We Live—Not the One We Imagine”

2023/12/22