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Something to Watch (or Listen To) @jonronson introduces his new Podcast “Things Fell Apart” on #BBCR4today #r4today (Nov 8th)
A friend pointed me at the Today Programme (start at 2h24m19s) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0011cg5 …wherein Jon Ronson spends several minutes arguing that more people, with more distinct voices and life experiences, should spend more time talking to and with each other, and to more diverse audiences, without the threats of (e.g.) “deplatforming” … and then somehow swings
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If you’re looking for a list of things to be angry or worried about, regarding “Internet Security” vs State attempts to inveigle their way into owning it, @JoeBeOne has you covered…
Unrolled (click through above for links) Out today: Internet Impact Briefs – A New Way To Assess How Policies May Affect The Internet (and How You Can Create One) @ndunleavy @carlgahnberg @internetsociety In addition to a guide on how to conduct an Internet impact assessment ( https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2021/how-to-conduct-an-internet-impact-brief/ ), we are publishing five impact briefs today…
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RSA Conference 2012 — Cyber War: You’re Doing it Wrong! — Marcus Ranum
Old but still relevant…
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How to perform Multiselect on an Android device using OpenMTP to access the filesystem
OpenMTP is great, but it’s not entirely intuitive. The biggest issue is finding out how to do multiselect of items without clicking lots of selection boxes. Fortunately the answer is hiding in plain sight on the Github page. If this post has helped you, please leave a comment below because it took me ages to
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Elections Bill Clause 37: Requirement to include information with electronic material # this is faintly worrying, but…
I beg to move amendment 87, in clause 37, page 46, leave out lines 24 to 26 This amendment removes the ability for promoters of electronic material to avoid placing an imprint on the material itself if it is not “reasonably practicable” to do so. Source: Clause 37 – Requirement to include information with electronic material: 26 Oct 2021:
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So I am using Google podcasts and for the first time encountered a podcast which somehow disabled the “fast forward” and “skip back” buttons
So I’ve unsubscribed from that one… and will possibly looking for a new podcast app.
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“Now is my service production quality?”
I’ve worked for companies where I have seen the mindset described in this video. They are not fun companies to work for, and the people who thrive in them are not fun people to work with. The good companies to work for are the ones where there is an eye on SRE but there’s an
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“I think it’s because us tech reporters live in a bubble” — I love this exchange, and I feel that @WilliamTurton is correct; cc: @daveyalba
I feel that this a fascinating little exchange: We have Davey Alba at NYT asking why engagement on the Facebook Papers is light; and William at Bloomberg chimes in with an observation that I consider a deep and obvious truth, but which Davey finds perhaps disheartening. Narrator: Perhaps you could explain your thinking in a
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‘She often speaks without thinking’: Nadine Dorries, our new minister for culture wars | Nadine Dorries | The Guardian
Oh, really? Changing her mind has been a feature of Dorries’s political career. She argued and voted against gay marriage, for example, dismissing it as a policy pursued “by the metro elite gay activists”. She has since said that her opposition to the gay marriage bill was her “biggest regret”. She once claimed that a
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Blood, rage & history: The world’s first terrorists # This is an interesting article, but it also leaves me wondering what the invention of SSRIs & other treatments have done to politics?
Back when Anarchism was the big bad scary thing: He was captured at the scene of the bombing. He said he had one regret: that he didn’t kill more “bourgeois”. If only he had a bomb big enough, he boasted, he would have blown up the whole of Paris. Only from the rubble could
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Hard Examples: why it’s a really bad idea to strongly enforce against “Single User Multiple Accounts” (#SUMA or #FINSTA) on Instagram, Facebook & other Social Media, via #yungkendee; cc: @FrancesHaugen
Regular readers will know that from 2013-16 I was a software engineer for Security Infrastructure at Facebook, working as part of the (then) Protect & Care team which also included the (then) Site Integrity team. This was an “at the coalface” role of user protection, safety, integrity and security, and I benefitted greatly from being