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BBC News: The real people pretending to be ‘Boris bots’ on Facebook # a fine primer on “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”
…and all that needs to happen is that these sheep follow someone with a malicious intent While bots do exist, the BBC has spoken to real people, both for and against Brexit, who have posted such comments. They’re doing it because they think it’s funny – and to try to trick the other side. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50218615
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“BBC News: From #SeaShanty #TikTok to a record deal” – with this, the @WhatsApp policy goof, the rise of @Twitch, @Discord, @SignalApp, @Telegram, & @Reddit moving markets, we should stop calling @Facebook a “monopoly”
Someone very clever will surely remind me that “under US law you don’t have to lack competition to be a monopoly, you have to exhibit monopolistic power” – true, but also even if it were exhibited the “mere possession of monopoly power does not violate section 2 [of the Sherman Act]” – which says this.
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It’s Friday, and apparently there is a bug in #Libgcrypt; I suspect this means that #Infosec Twitter will spend all day pointlessly pouring scorn upon #PGP & #GnuPG & #GPG. Does anyone have any happy news?
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q1/000455.html A severe bug was reported yesterday evening against Libgcrypt 1.9.0 which we released last week. A new version to fix this as weel as a couple of build problems will be released today. In the meantime please stop using 1.9.0. It seems that Fedora 34 and Gentoo are already using 1.9.0 .
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#DinnerForBreakfast: a lockdown-inspired foodie way to bootstrap the day
We are rapidly approaching a year of lockdown work and travel restrictions, the result of which – for many, not all – includes “living at home” and “living with your family” to extents that I imagine has not been typical for years. One of the challenges of this shift has been one of retaining some
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I’m torn; I understand where @rop_g’s sentiment comes from, but I can’t practically agree regarding @signalapp
Basically: if Signal want to get to the first HundredMillion users, then they have to have mass-appeal – which means: Emojis, Stickers, Videos, and maybe Stories/Fleets/Reels. Back in the days of USENET we fought the same battles, practically invented (?) emoticons and embraced “readers” (not “browsers”) which gave us programmatic “.sig” files – because we
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Macrohard Onfire
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKlhN2IAXgW/?igshid=yyah8n9xt3ep
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This morning I will mostly be making cheesecake
https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/nigella-lawsons-basque-burnt-cheesecake
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How to become a Super #Privacy Activist (Unrolled)
How to become a Super #Privacy Activist, pt 1: Find a small coding issue that you can be very angry about; pick on an imperfect user-experience bug or missed opportunity & frame it as intentionally being in breach of a vague aspect of some critical legislation. Launch a crusade. How to become a Super #Privacy
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Important thread from Alexis Ohanian; the market institutions which used to assume imperfect knowledge and individual action, are facing new challenges from free and open, ad-hoc or decentralised communities
This echoes the same problem as – a few years ago – the London Metropolitan Police attempting to identify “ringleaders” of “Critical Mass” rides; when you’re dealing with emergent phenomena of the internet (e.g. Memes) then they don’t really exist. Prediction: we are going to see a lot more of this in the next few
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[Person] designed and built a water tank quick-access funnel to make it way easier to fill the [espresso machine] reservoir
This is awesome and beautiful. I don’t need it, but it’s still awesome and beautiful.