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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/
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Shipping end-to-end encryption to billions | RWC 2024 | YouTube
Jon Millican at Real World Crypto 2024, describing end-to-end encryption for Facebook messenger:
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Rutland’s Memorial Statue of Queen Elizabeth II | The Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland
More statues need Corgis: https://rutlandlordlieutenant.org/our-statue-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/