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by Alec Muffett

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    • A “Duck Test” for End-to-End Secure Messaging
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  • New: @marietjeschaake’s FT adulation of EU #precrime proposals to decide #ArtificialIntelligence legality on the basis of its education

    2023/01/09 13:49:58 GMT

    No, really… For generative AI (…) the question is whether that label does justice to risks of bias in the underlying data sets that large AI models are trained on. Also, while we are here: the marketing and lobbying narratives of tech companies are not matched by the level of societal value they create —

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  • New: Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 – astrophotographers start your engines, there is a lensless version, too.

    2023/01/09 08:15:36 GMT

    https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-camera-module-v3

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  • breakingthe3ma.app — oh dear #threema

    2023/01/09 08:11:58 GMT

    https://breakingthe3ma.app/ I’m still wondering why the domain name doesn’t quite match, though.

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  • Impractical demands for WhatsApp to provide message content to the Brazilian government, in 3… 2…

    2023/01/09 00:29:58 GMT

    WhatsApp is amazingly popular in Brazil, and the government there have a history of trying to strong arm it into providing them with intelligence data… https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-government-caribbean-0c03c098a5e2a09ac534412c30ae8355

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  • In theory I am now also @alecm@alecmuffett.com

    2023/01/09 00:15:16 GMT

    Beware: work in progress.

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  • The disjoint described by @shashj in this Tweet, nicely encapsulates a lesson for Civil Society regarding technology:

    The disjoint described by @shashj in this Tweet, nicely encapsulates a lesson for Civil Society regarding technology:

    2023/01/08 23:42:25 GMT

    I’ve given up counting the number of times that people look at SOME TECHNOLOGY and loudly declare: WELL, THAT’S OBVIOUSLY MEANT FOR [EVIL PURPOSE] !!! …when it’s entirely the opposite. Unpopular opinion: the only way to make significant impact in privacy engineering is to work with, alongside, and even in large corporations, to align their

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  • Honestly, I have to wonder what the hell #Friendica on social.gibiris.org thinks that is it doing…

    2023/01/08 23:32:51 GMT

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  • Why Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with [@SignalApp] president Meredith Whittaker

    2023/01/08 22:16:37 GMT

    There are a lot of people out there who equate writing good, secure, privacy-enhancing software, with promotion of “self-evidently problematic” anti-statist libertarian agendas which they rail against — presumably because they’re worried that society (i.e. they) will lose something from reducing the potential for surveilling the populace*. Therefore: we need more stuff like this: https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messaging-sms-meredith-whittaker-imessage-whatsapp-china [*] I

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  • Does anyone know how to construct (or, where to find documentation) intent URLs to call out to the @WordPress app on a device?

    2023/01/01 09:58:18 GMT

    I would like to have a HTML page trigger the opening of my locally-installed WordPress app for this blog, landing on the blog composition page…

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  • Lovely way to start a year, getting an award for my work in open source. Thank you @openuk_uk and congratulations to everyone else!

    2023/01/01 08:19:49 GMT

    Happy New Year and Congratulations to everyone included in the 2023 OpenUK New Year's Honours List #openukhonourslist23 of the top 100 Influencers in #opensource assessed by @Onalytica See the full list at: https://t.co/XuCMe4cEHJ pic.twitter.com/i1MrmXBTcR — OpenUK (@openuk_uk) January 1, 2023

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  • The Guardian has been polling #StayAtHomeDad-s about their career choices; I have no idea if this will ever go anywhere but it gave me a chance to talk about the #OnlineSafetyBill

    2022/12/29 00:51:37 GMT

    The Guardian seem mildly obsessed with this topic, but a few weeks ago they posted a request for stories about being a StayAtHomeDad (having previously done so in 2017) — and I responded as attached. Of course I have no idea if they will use it, but it strikes me as worth sharing. Tell us

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  • I seem to have misplaced my copy of Godel, Escher, Bach; have I loaned it to someone?

    2022/12/29 00:28:15 GMT

    The cover looks like this:

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