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Reminder — from March — that a bunch of vandals in the USA want to split-brain the American people who use TikTok, to remove them from the Global community
This guy explains it rather well; “national security” & “privacy concerns” are all overinflated cover for “we failed to foster this kind of global community for ourselves, and we don’t adequately control it, so we must put an end to it”
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ARTICLE 29 DATA PROTECTION WORKING PARTY | Opinion 5/2009 on online social networking
Revisiting this mid-2009 PDF from the EU regarding “SNS” or “Social Networking Services”, is a delight of then-vs-now-isms, e.g.: “if you have too many Facebook Friends you may have to register as a data controller” Quote: Typically, access to data (profile data, postings, stories…) contributed by a user is limited to self-selected contacts. In some
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How (not) to deal with missing data: An economist’s take on a controversial study | Retraction Watch
Fun, educational followup to a previous posting: https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/21/how-not-to-deal-with-missing-data-an-economists-take-on-a-controversial-study/
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Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble|The Register
Fingers crossed. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/
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“Wow. Pornhub shut down in Texas. Redtube also. I’m thinking Texas lawmakers will reverse course real quick lol” | Reddit
SO MUCH DISCUSSION OF VPNS https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/1benr92/wow_pornhub_shut_down_in_texas_redtube_also_im/
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Julia Angwin: “Americans don’t agree on much, but they do support privacy laws & not banning TikTok. So what is Congress doing? The opposite … we need a privacy law & how banning TikTok doesn’t make us safer”
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/opinion/tiktok-ban-house-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck0.gyWD.oLux785_Jk5O&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb Via: https://bsky.app/profile/juliaangwin.com/post/3knnpcwz3n22a
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In Britain we have a term for when pundits perform a rapid U-turn in their political stance regards (e.g.) regulation of social media
“Reverse Ferret“ It looks like organisations that have spent the last few years vilifying social media, might suddenly need to defend it.
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Thought for the Day
Will the EU & UK decide to try banning TikTok, and if so on what justification? It’s not like we have American civil society’s “lack of a privacy law” to fall back upon as a non-xenophobic excuse for national security sanction?
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I finally updated my Prusa MINI+ to use the latest firmware and “input shaping”
The results are that it’s running a test print considerably faster, so much so that I am going to have to bring-forwards the upgrade to the printer plinth, to get a really heavy concrete slab for it to sit upon. The vibration is considerable at this speed.
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How We Bypassed Safari 17’s Advanced Audio Fingerprinting Protection
I know that fingerprinting is a thing… but I also sometimes wonder how many of these practical disparagements of privacy tech actually represent a mechanism that would ever be deployed at-scale for fear of what would happen if/when they get found out. That said: the legislators and activists are so swayed by these articles and