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Republican Politics and the @OpenTechFund: how populist Trumpian ideology nearly killed internet freedoms in supposed pursuit of “advancing” them
There’s this fantastic article from NPR — which I whole-heartedly recommend — detailing the rise of Michael Pack as the Trump-partisan head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media. If you would like some further background to the issues there is this piece from Vice in June 2020 which explores the issues which the NPR
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Why it will take at least another “generation” – 20..30 years – for online communication to fix itself, if we stop chasing legislative mirages and get started now.
Yesterday I posted this article about how the #SaveAnonymity hashtag has apparently won us temporary respite from proposals to “fix online abuse by requiring registration”. There’s more to it than that, of course, but that blogpost is over there. 🙂 As usual I forwarded the article to both Twitter & Facebook, and a friend (who
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As a friend described it: A Wikipedia entry from the year circa 2080; #scifi short, well worth reading in full…
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031. Though it was not the first successful snapshot
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We mustn’t let it go unremarked that #SaveAnonymity appears to have successfully hushed the #TrackATroll & #HarveysLaw efforts from @KatiePrice – for the moment. Here’s what we also learned re: #AgeVerification #AgeAssurance & #VoCO
The silence is … notable. Not deafening, not shocking, there are still a handful of amped-up people on Twitter asking what has happened regarding Katie Price’s “Harvey’s Law” . Recap Katie proposes that that British people should sign up for social media accounts using strong identity credentials like driving licenses, passports, or (presumably) bank documents,
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I have a lot of sympathy for @ByDonkeys, but in the light of their current campaign I have to ask: what WOULD have happened in Northern Ireland if we had closed the borders due to Covid?
“Nothing good”, is my only answer so far. Campaign video here:
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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the “.su” domain died not long after; if Ireland reunifies then perhaps “.uk” will go the same way, leading to the restoration of “.gb”?
There actually is a “.gb” domain, I know because I used to know some people working at the Defence Research Agency which was prettymuch the only site on the entire thing. Perhaps this is all part of the plan: for the government to garner a “Brexit Dividend” by forcing everyone to re-register under “.gb”, which
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Z85m: a proposal for padding odd-sized inputs for the Z85 (Ascii85 / Base85) encoding system, with good space-efficiency
Possibly the most space-efficient ASCII- or text-based encodings are the Base85 or Ascii85 series of formats, as described on the Wikipedia page: Ascii85, also called Base85, is a form of binary-to-text encoding developed by Paul E. Rutter for the btoa utility. By using five ASCII characters to represent four bytes of binary data (making the
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Today I am 3D printing my first #OpenSCAD design for a Coffee Redistributor
It’s been a learning exercise in OpenSCAD, and I’m not sure how it will perform, but once it’s tested and refined a bit, I’ll be publishing everything. The printer is currently doing the base, I have it set up to print and it’ll take about 5 hours. Update The distributor printed nicely – ColorFabb natural
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Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in the name of research [Update] – Neowin
> You, and your group, have publicly admitted to sending known-buggy patches to see how the kernel community would react to them, and published a paper based on that work. Now you submit a new series of obviously-incorrect patches again, so what am I supposed to think of such a thing? https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-bans-university-of-minnesota-for-sending-buggy-patches-in-the-name-of-research/
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TwitterSearch #endToEndEncryption
Navigating Twitter in times of hot debate is always tricky; here’s a hyperlink to a pre-fabricated twitter search to help you find out about end-to-end encryption: CLICK HERE FOR SEARCH The search terms are as follows (I will update the search term above, and code below, if any more terms become relevant).