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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:
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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…