Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Do you remember the days when newspapers wanted a cut of the revenue of people who linked to them? Good times… good times…

2024/11/13
Meanwhile, back in the UK, I look forward to Jeremy Clarkson being named home secretary… oh wait, the Tories lost?

2024/11/13
Now the dust has settled I would like to strongly condemn @jason_koebler & @josephfcox (& by extension @404mediaco) for misrepresenting the new iPhone “reboot” feature as an Anti-Law-Enforcement measure

2024/11/13
Lovely thread on X from some Indian hackers using a microwave as a Faraday cage & spoofing Californian Wi-Fi networks in order to unlock AirPod hearing-aid functionality for Grandma…

2024/11/13
ICYMI: (3 months ago) UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says minister [@peterkyle of @SciTechGovUK]

2024/11/12
ICYMI: Encrypted messaging app developer moves out of Australia after police visit employee’s home

2024/11/12
Two online safety questions I beg @DCMS @IWFhotline @LordsCommsCom @Ofcom @SciTechGovUK @onlinesafetycom @peterkyle @CPhilipOfficial respond to…

2024/11/12
The lesson of phenylephrine is that it takes a minimum of 20 years to rescind ineffective regulator-imposed technologies that are introduced in response to moral panic; now consider Age Verification…

2024/11/10
“As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references […] although they are completely irrelevant to the present work”

2024/11/10
what’s an authoritarian?

2024/11/08
“As an academic I can prove that people are mindless sheep & even a single Instagram post is enough to throw society into chaos; thus it is incumbent upon us to rescind anonymity & impose age verification + a duty of care to protect people from ever reading things which might upset them…”

2024/11/08
It doesn’t always work out but when I can pour a double ristretto straight into an espresso cup from a naked portafilter, I know my puck prep is solid

2024/11/08