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The Canary Resuscitator | Science and Industry Museum
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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Anti-Non-Consensual-Intimate-Imagery campaign being leveraged (presumably by trolls & abusers?) to mislead victims into sharing abusive imagery
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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“Dunking” & “Revenge Porn” vs: the Open Web
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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Death, Lonely Death | Crooked Timber | Voyager Spacecraft
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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There are many reasons I use ChatGPT but the primary remains: to answer a question without wading through pages of noise & similar YouTube videos
I am probably guilty of overstraining the yoghurt but I would never have thought about the fat content
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As Predicted: Scammers Are Now Scanning Faces To Defeat Biometric Security Measures | Techdirt
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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PasswordsCon Las Vegas 2014
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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This, Too, Shall Pass: Reflections on Secure Computing
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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Nevada sues to deny kids access to Messenger encryption | The Register
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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EFF Statement on Nevada’s Attack on End-to-End Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in…
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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Motherboard on Twitter: “goodnight and good luck”
An apt reference: