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Sometimes I wonder whether this push for “AI summaries of everything” is simply a consequence of the failure of “chat” to provide effective “search”
I’ve worked at companies where (first) Skype and (then) Slack were the principal means of keeping employees in touch with each other. In between, I worked at Facebook where *literally* Facebook was used to keep employees collaborating. This latter, worked. The others were shit. Among several key differences, the primary one was “most communication was
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The Telegraph’s sob story about a family having to cut down on their five holidays to pay school fees turned out to be fake
Remember, everyone, mainstream news is a trustworthy source of information, unlike social media: https://www.thepoke.com/2025/05/27/telegraph-sob-story-about-family-having-to-cut-holidays-to-pay-school-fees-fake/
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If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start
Remember: there is no bad or good here, and there is no intentionality. To assume there should have been a different outcome would be presumptuous. There just “is”. Not everybody understands this. https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
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Muffett’s 7th Law: you aren’t allowed to complain about Palantir if you’ve used the Internet Archive or said “…the Internet never forgets”
I might also add “read Bellingcat or enjoyed ‘Jose Monkey‘”. I get it, “billionaire outrage” is huge, but the excesses of the Trump government are squarely a political issue. Screaming THIEL TECHBROS BIG DATA SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM ignores the fictional or real human or paper databases which have forever served government purposes for good
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DNS4EU is surveilled
In case there was any doubt: This was not exactly the pitch, but then like all “we must have a national instance of <distributed thing> because sovereignty”-projects, the goal is innately self-defeating because what if your citizen doesn’t want your offering? Supported by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), the European Union’s DNS4EU secure-infrastructure
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Former UK internet minister bemoans that illiberal & poorly conceived approach to online safety and security is not being “built upon”
Won’t somebody please think of the children? Quote: This is not about censorship or anti-tech scaremongering – this is about children. Real children – perhaps someone you know, or worse, your own – facing serious harm every single day. We protect them in the real world with seatbelts, safeguarding laws and age limits; yet online,
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance | WIRED
This article has been refreshed by Wired. No idea why. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/
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Poundland sold for £1 with shops set to close | BBC News
The ultimate act of nominative determinism: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c36594lr29ko
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I’m watching all of these broadly self-congratulatory RCS announcements in the light of the Apple TCN Case, desperately waiting for the zeitgeist to swing over to “…what do you mean my national carrier can disable E2EE for *me* ?”
It’s one of those frequent civil society moments where you are simply waiting for the “Let’s stick it to the American Capitalists!” -community to shut up & calm down long enough for other (infosec, safety, privacy) voices to be heard.
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WhatsApp joins legal action against UK demand for Apple ‘back door’
WhatsApp has not received a TCN itself, a spokesperson said. WhatsApp has previously threatened to withdraw its service from the UK if any attempt was made to undermine its encryption. Caroline Wilson Palow, legal director at Privacy International, said WhatsApp’s intervention “demonstrates the breadth of impact of these orders, which could potentially undermine services used
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Government using national security as ‘smokescreen’ in Apple encryption row | Computer Weekly
Senior Conservative MP David Davis told Computer Weekly there was “no credible case” for the government to refuse to tell Parliament how many notices it issues each year to telecoms and internet companies. “The government is being dishonest in its use of ‘national security’ as a smokescreen to avoid telling the public how often it
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WhatsApp backs Apple in its legal row with the UK over user data | BBC News
WhatsApp has told the BBC it is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy. The messaging app’s boss, Will Cathcart, said the case “could set a dangerous precedent” by “emboldening other nations” to seek to break encryption, which is how tech firms keep their users’
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