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Perspective on Encryption Backdoors and Future Safety
Proposals to add a back — or even front — door to end-to-end encryption, are a process of trading the safety of children of this instant against the privacy of the people of tomorrow. What world shall we build for the children of today to grow into? One with a surveillance-ready Internet and a society
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About that home-made Porridge
It’s pretty much like the guy said; tastes excellent, is a different experience, stands up well to augmentation. The only unclear area is how much water to soak it in, and how much additional to add (if any) during cooking. At the moment I am trying 3:1 by mass (i.e. 120g Oats, 360g Water) but
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#TrumpTapes #TrumpGate
listen to this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/audio-trump-berates-ga-secretary-of-state-urges-him-to-find-votes/2021/01/03/aba64f5f-8c3c-490f-af34-618ccea732d7_video.html
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Much as I do not like linking to the Daily Mail, this is Trump acting like Berlusconi, and calling it wrongly:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9108803/Trump-demands-rambling-call-GA-Secretary-State-way-overturn-Bidens-win-there.html
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“Suppressing ‘Hate Speech’ on Social Media Drives Users to New Platforms” – #Management vs: #Censorship, and why we must resist the censorious impulse
Management vs: Censorship Another posting from the pre-Christmas queue; I am not (and will likely never be) in favour of “deplatforming” speakers-as-persons-in-and-of-themselves; as a free-speech activist my take is firmly that legal restrictions upon speech should reflect both content (actus reus) and intent (mens rea) – and that lacking any criminal law-breaking which satisfies both,
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https://blog.torproject.org/in-memoriam-of-karsten-loesing It’s with deep sorrow that we share that our dear friend, colleague, and Tor core contributor Karsten Loesing passed away on the afternoon of Friday, December 18, 2020. No one is prepared for such an unimaginable loss. Our deepest sympathies go to Karsten’s family at this moment, his wife and his children. https://blog.torproject.org/in-memoriam-of-karsten-loesing I
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NBC News: Pornhub crackdown by credit card companies cuts off sex workers’ livelihoods / @oliviasolon @ubiquity75
In case you missed it on Twitter before Christmas: much as I don’t have a great deal of respect for Mindgeek as a company, they are a channel upon which a bunch of people rely for their income… and the US (and, in particular, stoked by several NYT columnists) are waging a enormous and harmfully
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Why national boundaries around content are a harmful, bad idea, number #1478 in a series… @foodnetwork @foodnetwork_uk
Yes, yes, copyrights and creators are important and all that, but this result is particularly pointless; a friend – based in the USA – posted the following recipe URL for doughnuts: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/yeast-doughnuts-recipe-1942740 …but when you access it from the UK the website excitably and annoyingly punches the URL through a series of redirects, and ends
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