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I implore that people, @IanDunt included, would not say “Trump’s admirers are wrong to pretend that free speech has no *limits*” and instead say “…wrong to pretend that free speech has no *consequences*”
This, from politics.co.uk: and also: I agree that Twitter (et al) should have had the integrity to dump Trump a long time ago, rather than waiting until he was/is weak and “down”, but I also find it entirely understandable that they would hesitate to block a mid-term sitting American president and suffer the consequences of
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Bizarre: this LinkedIn post re: a solar-and-wind-powered traffic sensor, and the people violently mansplaining physics at each other because of it:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ajjames_wind-energy-innovation-in-turkey-ugcPost-6752091933197246464-KRHC
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Watch a debate on Online Anonymity in Westminster Hall this afternoon at 1430h London time, led by @DamianHinds. Will be interesting to see whether MPs understand that real anonymity includes “from them”. HT @WebDevLaw
…not to mention that if you “ban” anonymity on the platform end, then you have to (a) enforce that ban for all software written by anyone, globally, and (b) enforce the lack of anonymity for prettymuch every single web-fetch, a feat which would make the “Would You Like Cookies!”-popups seem user-friendly. Better, instead, to apply
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Wow, Github
Companies policing employee {political, religious} belief worries me deeply, but okay, this is just an individual question and it’s on a personal Twitter account… …and suddenly, like, it’s not possible to convey the irony of what happens elsewhere in the same company: I’m just hoping that it’s bad reportage all-round.
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EU Temporarily Permits Data Transfers To The UK Pending A Decision On Adequacy # expect what… #Schrems3? #Schrems4? #MadMaxFuryDataTransfers?
https://www.mondaq.com/uk/privacy-protection/1024482/eu-temporarily-permits-data-transfers-to-the-uk-pending-a-decision-on-adequacy
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Important thread by @cyberlegal:
Art 19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” Here are ten things that it doesn’t say: 1. Everyone has the
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I’m a neophyte to 3D CAD; it’s fun to learn, but @Autodesk #Fusion360 @adskFusion360 feels so hostile to technical learner-hobbyists now that I’ve started learning @OpenSCAD instead /cc @autodesk_uki
I don’t want to come across as negative – Fusion 360 is clearly a tool for professionals and it’s the sort of tool to which I might aspire to drive with skill; but I am a “deep nerd” and a control freak technically inclined so the junior TinkerCAD documentation comes across as lacking focus to
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As a former colleague put it, “what an oddly specific number!” – #Parler was not designed by anybody in the expectation of growth
For non-programmers: the biggest number which you can easily represent in a legacy 32-bit binary signed number, is approximately 2.1 billion. That may sound like a lot but it isn’t really – a few million users each doing a few thousand things will overflow it.
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Nerds in their field of interest are particularly dangerous to argue with:
A journalist asked me about my claim on @BBCr4today today that there have been 65 revisions to the lockdown laws and said "you don't have any kind of tabulation or something to prove it" and I said "… as it happens…" like a lawyer nerd's ultimate dream https://t.co/5Z1p3gVjbX — Adam Wagner (@AdamWagner1) January 12, 2021