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Australian safety-types trying to work out how to force platforms to implement their will when lacking (not collecting) nationality or other information about their users
I have written about this previously in essays about Surveillance Compliance and law enforcement access; exactly the same issues arise regarding forcing platforms to know their customers in order to implement parochial censorship or surveillance, whilst simultaneously demanding that platforms collect less information about their users. Previously: https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/perspective-lawful-access-to-end-to-end-encrypted-communication-90e1955d5b8d
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A European Internet for European People!
I’m still faintly horrified to see parochial internet fragmentation being lauded as ever desirable by social activists. Just don’t mention that that is similar to what China wants. “…but that’s not comparable, we are the good guys!” No, no you’re not. https://chaos.social/@kik1/112336953148786845
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Here’s a fun idea: TikTok implements ActivityPub for US-based client IP addresses
It would cause regulatory headsplosion.
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Open Sourcing DOS 4 | Scott Hanselman’s Blog
“Today, in partnership with IBM and in the spirit of open innovation, we’re releasing the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license. There’s a somewhat complex and fascinating history behind the 4.0 versions of DOS, as Microsoft partnered with IBM for portions of the code but also created a branch of DOS called
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Failure to use Encryption to protect data privacy is NOT an “encryption loophole” …
…it’s an architectural choice, driven by expediency, that rapidly becomes entrenched as it conveniently serves political & business interest. Disagree? Explain to me why so much of DNS is still in cleartext, and why so many encrypted replacement protocols fail to solve the privacy & integrity issues? MIT Technology Review: Almost every Chinese keyboard app
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Somewhere in the world someone is using an LLM to read, arrange, and produce rough-cut songs direct from out-of-copyright sheet music
It would be interesting to compare them against the directly generated “new” tracks, for the “benefit” of a human hand somewhere in the composition process. Inspired by: https://www.tiktok.com/@sixstringsurfer/video/7360784121980800298?_t=8lpzFJYPKEq&_r=1
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ByteDance Shrugged
This is good! We appear to have finally arrived at the “oldsters try to ban teenage fun” part of the movie. Reuters: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in [the] US if legal options fail, sources say. https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-us-if-legal-options-fail-sources-say-2024-04-25/
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Perhaps the upside of age verification will be the exclusion of the 70+ demographic from politics?
This is satire, part of a series, and it is exceptionally well done:
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“Bluey accounted for 29% of all TV views on Disney+ in the fourth quarter of 2023”
No surprises here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-03/is-bluey-ending-disney-s-worried-biggest-kids-show-ever-is-at-risk Archived at: https://archive.ph/2024.04.13-215025/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-03/is-bluey-ending-disney-s-worried-biggest-kids-show-ever-is-at-risk
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth
There is so much negativity in the world of tech at the moment that it is refreshing to hark back to a few moments of optimism and positivity: https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/