Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

So the OnlineSafetyBill is now law; but what will the activists and politicians behind it attempt next to do?

2023/10/27
Stuff To Read: Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals | interesting take from @mmasnick suggesting that Google has caved (?) to age-estimation / child-protection interests in order to shore-up monopoly interest, rather than from fear

2023/10/26
Simon Willison on X: “@AlecMuffett @AnthropicAI Well that worked!” | it turns out that the simplest way to bypass security of a AI sometimes is just to lie to them

2023/10/26
Think Kiwi Farms Is Legally Unassailable? Copyright Law Might Disagree | Greer v. Moon, Technology & Marketing Law Blog | Eric Goldman

2023/10/26
Automattic (“the WordPress people”) believe that the problem with Instant Messaging is that there’s not a single app to bring them all together. Clearly he’s never read XKCD 927

2023/10/26
Stuff To Read: Curbing Government Internet Surveillance by Riana Pfefferkorn & Callum Voge – Project Syndicate

2023/10/26
Thought for the Day

2023/10/26
In Case You Missed It: more good news from Europe: the #fairshare proposal (viz: ending #NetNeutrality in EU and permitting ISPs to extort money for preferential treatment of traffic) is apparently dead, for the moment at least

2023/10/26
Google plans to test proxy scheme to hide IP addresses • The Register | Those who do not adopt Tor are doomed to reinvent it

2023/10/26
So I go away for a family get-together for a couple of days and I come back to find that #ChatControl is possibly dead? HT: @ellajakubowska1 @echo_pbreyer

2023/10/26
Stuff To Read: OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t – IEEE Spectrum

2023/10/26
Why artist David Shrigley has pulped 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code – BBC News

2023/10/26