Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th | The Verge | …BUT WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE REGULATORS?

2026/03/18
There is an entire genre of tricking AI customer service bots into doing work; but few are pointing out the obvious…

2026/03/13
Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax apps showing customers other users’ transactions | BBC News

2026/03/12
A New Jerusalem

2026/03/09
I have a 2018-era MacMini with 64Gb of RAM + negligible GPU, running a 35 billion parameter model and I’m getting 4 tokens per second out of it; tell me again how we aren’t going to be running AIs locally at home?

2026/03/07
Ofcom’s [attempted] browbeating of Canada-based online depression forum into compliance with Online Safety Act “Age Verification”

2026/03/06
“JUST A LINK CAN LEAVE A TRACE” | UK Counter-Terrorism Police are feeding teenagers with horrific, emotional anti-social-media fearmongering that may end in multiple *tragedy*

2026/03/06
Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Source

2026/03/04
TikTok incapable of delivering both user privacy *and* user safety, retains capability to surveil user communications

2026/03/04
“Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today”

2026/03/03
Social Media Bans are like the “Peanut Allergy” Bans of the 1990s/2000s: they will unnecessarily create a generation who cannot cope with the digital environment

2026/03/02
“The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all”| Taylor Lorenz | …Age Verification is Digital ID via the back door

2026/03/02