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Caffeine Bombe Coffee: The National Museum of Computing | The National Museum of Computing
Cute: https://www.tnmoc.org/tnmocshop/caffeine-bombe-coffee-1
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Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students | …I wonder if @getyoti are watching the public reaction to this?
Several “age verification” / “age assurance” providers use facial recognition & assessment tech (including AI) to guess how old you are; they claim that this is not “processing personal data” because they promise the data is never linked to an individual. It appears that the general public don’t believe nor care about that nuance, at
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Ottawa to create regulator to hold online platforms accountable for harmful content: sources | CBC News
Oh, Canada. Here we go again. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-harms-legislation-new-regulator-1.7125289
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** PLEASE NAME IT “BOTTOM” ** — New Uranian moon discovered by @carnegiescience @CarnegiePlanets awaits name of a character from a Shakespearian play
Speaking as a qualified astronomer this is a less-that-once-in-a-blue moon opportunity to one-up the incessant “Uranus” jokes we’ve always had to live with, and to my mind there is only one possible candidate-name. Scott: do us proud. Swing the IAU, do whatever you have to. “The three newly discovered moons are the faintest ever found
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I truly, truly abhor that there is big-name software out there, the behaviour of which is bolstering the positions of the right-wing, the anti-woke, and other reactionary brigades
For instance, the attached; there was a book by Philip K Dick which a guy who had to argue with his doors and refrigerators about micropayments and the propriety of allowing itself to be opened by him. This is not a future we should pursue…
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Fact-Checker @PolitiFact derides KOSA age-verification concerns as “False” because “there are other ways [beyond demanding ID] to assess users’ ages, such as self-reporting & face scanning tools, some of which are already in use”
Speaking as a Trust and Safety and Security person, I find KOSA (and the Online Safety Act in the UK) to be terrifying instruments: adults (including those whom our children will grow to become) lose privacy, anonymity and agency over their digital footprints, in the name of protecting children – when children can also be
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“The Gruffalo” as Western anti-collectivist libertarian propaganda
The correct, even obligatory place in society for an individual is inside a larger animal’s stomach: Quote: Donaldson has said that the story of The Gruffalo was inspired by a Chinese folk tale known as “The Fox that Borrows the Terror of a Tiger” (????).The folk tale is about a hungry tiger who tries to
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Horrific gossip here re: manipulating toxic Engineering culture at Dropbox to force people to quit; also this reeks of Git-culture because under Mercurial with Stacked Diffs the “too large to land” thing is not an issue
Don’t use Git if you care about your colleagues. Perhaps we could get Trade Unions to endorse Stacked Diffs* instead? Source, engineerscodex at threads via wongmjane; perhaps this is a extension of Conways Law where tools used by an organisation will express their innate architectural characteristics in the organisation’s culture? [*] reference:
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Secure online communication, once suppressed by the US Government to combat World Communism, Terrorism, & Drugs, now contested by No-Win-No-Fee Lawyers in Nevada
This Contingent Fee Contract For Legal Services (the “Contract”) contains the terms under which the State of Nevada, on behalf of the People of the State of Nevada, through its Office of the Nevada Attorney General and its Bureau of Consumer Protection (collectively the “Attorney General”), agrees to retain the law firms of Nachawati Law
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Nevada AG Asks Court to Ban Meta from Providing End-to-End Encryption to Minors
Pfefferkorn says that if the court grants the restraining order and injunction it would actually make minors less secure than other users of Messenger. “It’s bizarre for the state to be saying that the AG wants to ensure that only children in Nevada receive less privacy and security protection than any other user of Messenger.”
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BREAKING: US State of Nevada attempting to BAN End-to-End Encryption for Teenagers, Kids (and: implicitly MANDATE age-verification) due to ostensible dangers to children that somehow vanish on 18th birthday
This is beyond crazy: the State of Nevada has engaged a bunch of lawyers on a no-win-no-fee basis to go sue all the major teenage platforms on a variety of grounds, each tuned to the platform concerned, most of which are variations on a theme of “kids can talk to each other.” BUT OF COURSE,