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For the first time in history, the “extra hour in bed” thing worked
I have strong and well-formed opinions re: Daylight Savings Time, but I have to admit that the thing about an extra hour in bed in the autumn* is generally fallacious. Except today. The toddler woke at around 2am and bimbled into the main bedroom, demanded “Where’s Mummy?” twice, collapsed on the duvet, and stayed there
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THE SPEECH POLICE DISMISSETH US | the minds behind the free-speech-preserving online safety bill seek to police (reprehensible or not) what academics say in public on social media
It’s really interesting to see the repression starting to sediment:
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“responsible capability sharing” | UK civil society creates buzzwords for the new oppression
There’s a curious blindness in some parts of civil society where they float new buzzwords to express something that they don’t like — in this case: people are writing apps and there could be bad side-effects — and of course they do this to express how they can add value because as Rachel puts it:
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Jeni Tennison speaks wise regulatory heresy… but still somehow comes out trying to control the uncontrollable
This starts out well but turns into an appeal for “industry” to form do-gooding (e.g. AI) safety institutes, as-if the problem with software is that there are industries with capabilities. Of course such exist – for the moment – but when in 25 years every individual will be carrying enough compute capability to essay thousands
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research!rsc: Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler | someone finally published Ken Thompson’s actual compiler back door source code
Immediately after watching the video on YouTube in September 2023, I emailed Ken and asked him for the code. Despite my being six months late, he said I was the first person to ask and mailed back an attachment called nih.a, a cryptic name for a cryptic program. (Ken tells me it does in fact stand
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Don’t let your car read road signs
Something like this happened to me in Scotland a few years ago: a rental car which read a roadsign for a 20MPH limit and missed the end of restriction sign, which meant I could not accelerate until I stopped and Googled how to switch it off. All good until on the 60 mph A40 approach
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We Get The Internet We Ask For: YouTube censoring academic side-channel attack videos, which of course are obviously different from “hacking” videos that are against the TOU
Time for the security research community to set up on Rumble and TruthSocial where this won’t be an issue. Google has removed a video posted by academic researchers demonstrating how a newly discovered side channel in Apple’s A- and M-series CPUs can be used to steal a password. https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/111309007610312951
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Yoel Roth is teaching a university course on online trust and safety
It’s an interesting reading list, and given the huge amount of assigned reading I understand but am amazed by the quantity of Chapters 2 & 3 Only instruction. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kkkUVnGrUrm__9tIm7UDl0YRKRL9KYKIzRb6ETT3rtI/edit?usp=drivesdk via: https://bsky.app/profile/yoyoel.com/post/3kcqwfqogtz2i