Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Remember, Kids: just because Bluesky is suddenly and massively popular whilst X is dying on the vine does *not* mean that all those people screaming that “network effects prevent people moving between social networks, we must regulate!” — were wrong…

2024/11/27
This sounds so much like the online safety mafia

2024/11/27
TFW someone’s randomness pretty strongly suggests that they’re a bot, but their grammar is so poor that it’s not worth attempting a prompt-injection experiment because they surely can’t be an LLM…

2024/11/26
So if you’re a historian researching the 17th century Italian use of weasel testicles as contraceptives (yes, really) you may be flagged by your Google searches

2024/11/26
Regulators. They are attracted by success and limelight. They feed on headlines. They will hunt for you.

2024/11/25
Parents: how many of you have gotten to the point of memorising Bluey series and episode numbers?

2024/11/25
If you can remember back when AI deep fakes were supposed to be a terrible thing, this may change your mind…

2024/11/22
In Case You Missed It: CNN on the Internet Archive being used to protect government climate sites | … “scraping” is dual-use, can also be good

2024/11/21
UK Digital Minister @peterkyle threatens companies which do not submit to government surveillance and censorship demands

2024/11/20
FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released | FreeCAD News

2024/11/20
“Here, the firewall is not merely a tool—it is an actor within a neoliberal technocratic order, enforcing compliance with a constructed vision of ‘secure communication’ while erasing alternate possibilities for networked interaction” — Michel Foucault, Network Architect

2024/11/19
If I was the NSA in 2013, still smarting from a Snowden-induced loss of capability, I’d go long on hiring smart nerds to do research whilst building a credible yet overblown threat narrative for extant cryptosystems…

2024/11/19