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  • The Canary Resuscitator | Science and Industry Museum

    2024/03/01 09:09:52 GMT

    It’s Friday, and you need some happy. Here is a canary resuscitator. You’re welcome! https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscitator/

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    canaries happiness history
  • Anti-Non-Consensual-Intimate-Imagery campaign being leveraged (presumably by trolls & abusers?) to mislead victims into sharing abusive imagery

    2024/02/29 10:24:36 GMT

    Due to the previous blogpost I had reason to visit StopNCII.org and was greeted with this orange banner… and my first thought was “perhaps now they see the problem, and how history repeats itself?” see also:

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    ncii who could possibly have expected this
  • “Dunking” & “Revenge Porn” vs: the Open Web

    2024/02/29 10:14:11 GMT

    Word of the week on les platforms appears to be “dunking” or “dunk”; this appears to be a confused synonym for “quote-tweeting”, where one quote-tweets a second party without adding value other than to mock them. This is apparently meant to be a surreptitious act, where the second-party does not see that you quoted them…

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    censorship dunking free speech interception ncii open web
  • Death, Lonely Death | Crooked Timber | Voyager Spacecraft

    2024/02/29 09:50:52 GMT

    Raised on the optimism of the Apollo moon missions, the Voyager program has been a part of my life’s interest ever since I was in school; for something which has brought so much knowledge and light, this is a downbeat proto-eulogy. It’s not an unfair perspective… but we should celebrate achievement and having outlasted expectation.

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    astronomy voyager voyager1 voyager2
  • There are many reasons I use ChatGPT but the primary remains: to answer a question without wading through pages of noise & similar YouTube videos

    2024/02/28 21:29:20 GMT

    I am probably guilty of overstraining the yoghurt but I would never have thought about the fat content

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    ai foodie
  • As Predicted: Scammers Are Now Scanning Faces To Defeat Biometric Security Measures | Techdirt

    2024/02/28 17:13:36 GMT

    Cool cool, nothing could possibly go wrong in now requiring more and more people to normalize the idea of scanning your face to access a website. Nothing at all. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/as-predicted-scammers-are-now-scanning-faces-to-defeat-biometric-security-measures/

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    age assurance age estimation age verification biometrics
  • PasswordsCon Las Vegas 2014

    2024/02/28 13:32:43 GMT

    Bunch of interesting talks from 10 years ago; maybe I should watch them to see what’s changed? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdIqs92nsIzRFk0OCN_uQiOkgtPiNk2mv

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    password security
  • This, Too, Shall Pass: Reflections on Secure Computing

    2024/02/27 09:05:04 GMT

    My friend Daniel posted something perky, positive, and constructive, and so I had to reply with my sentiment: A good report by the @WhiteHouse (ONCD) on the path to secure and measurable software … With memory safe languages being pushed to the front of the queue. Oh, how I wish, my sweet summer children, but

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    history security worse is better
  • Nevada sues to deny kids access to Messenger encryption | The Register

    2024/02/26 22:53:30 GMT

    We continue to stare at our shoes and wait for a result… https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/nevada_meta_encryption/

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    encryption nevada
  • EFF Statement on Nevada’s Attack on End-to-End Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in…

    2024/02/26 20:01:16 GMT

    Yet in the name of protecting children, Nevada seems to be arguing that merely offering encryption on a social media platform that Meta knows has been used by criminals is itself illegal. This cannot be the law; in practice it would let the state prohibit all platforms from offering encryption, and such a ruling would

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    eff encryption nevada
  • Nevada Is In Court This Morning Looking To Get A Temporary Restraining Order Blocking Meta From Using End-To-End Encryption | Techdirt | …update including Meta’s response

    2024/02/26 19:17:06 GMT

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    encryption nevada
  • Motherboard on Twitter: “goodnight and good luck”

    2024/02/26 19:07:30 GMT

    An apt reference:

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    ed murrow motherboard vice
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