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Carey Lening: On Data Breaches & Privacy Harms | just because you can “out” someone’s past doesn’t mean that you should
If I post something online as “Privacat” and substantially the same thing as “Carey Lening” and people make a connection there, to me this is fair game. There is a degree of choice and consensuality here. But it seems different to do this by exposing individuals who were victims of a data breach. And yes,
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Stuff to Read: FROM HOT NEWS TO LINK TAX: THE DANGERS OF A QUASI-PROPERTY RIGHT IN INFORMATION
Note that the justification offered is moral, rooted in a particular concept of what is fair. It is not a proposition that translates well in the offline world. For instance, it would be strange to suggest that brick-and-mortar retailers have a moral obligation to pay manufacturers not only for their product but also for the
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This is our default recipe at the moment: Wholemeal Rye and White 50-50 Bread Machine Loaf
It needs to be done as a Large (not XL) loaf in the Panasonic, and we need to use the rapid bake, darker crust option. https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/bread-machine-wholemeal-rye-loaf
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If you, like me, are trying to restrict a Ubuntu Raspberry Pi filesystem expansion upon first boot…
…this may be of use to you: It’s init=/usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh in /boot/cmdline.txt that expands the partition size before /etc/init.d/resize2fs_once runs. If init=/usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh is removed, /etc/init.d/resize2fs_once still runs /usr/sbin/resize2fs which finds there’s nothing to do and immediately exits without anything being changed. /etc/init.d/resize2fs then removes itself and it’s end-of-story. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=313003
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Basic Modelling in MiniZinc
I’m pretty sure that this will be useful for something but I’m not sure what… MiniZinc is a free and open-source constraint modeling language. You can use MiniZinc to model constraint satisfaction and optimization problems in a high-level, solver-independent way, taking advantage of a large library of pre-defined constraints. https://www.minizinc.org/doc-2.7.6/en/index.html
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TFW you set up an RSS feed in 2004, and it’s still going 19 years later…
I vaguely remember creating this so I could follow my “new” standalone blog (running “bloxsom”, if I remember correctly) when converting from my old Livejournal account; it seemed sensible to set up a route for traffic to flow backwards to LJ for people who were staying there.
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Project Pink Cadillac
One of the funnest projects of the past few weeks: rescuing this fine vehicle from being trashed and refurbing the steering column so that it’s usable. Todo: a few hours of 3D-printing to replace door locks and petrol caps.
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Schools Are Normalizing Intrusive Surveillance
Also true in the UK: https://reason.com/2023/10/06/schools-are-normalizing-intrusive-surveillance/
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THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: how the experiences of #Twitter and #ThreadsApp show us how the #OnlineSafetyBill could be a windfall for fully-end-to-end-encrypted Facebook @Messenger
Potential Futures… Here’s a potential future timeline which just struck me: NB: I don’t count Telegram as trustworthy, nor Element as scalable, iMessage only does Apple, and the plethora of existing European/other E2EE messengers are beyond the political pale; and to create an all-British Replacement Patriotic Messenger will be a massive Government IT-project clusterfuck. But