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QUESTION: the Drone War in Ukraine suggests that fibre-optic tech is now dirt cheap; so where can I get some to run a 50m link around my garden?
They appear to be running a full video and control feed over (approximately) a piece of fishing monofilament, so I’m presuming the control tech is no longer a matter of $5,000 GBICs?
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IMPT: STREAMING TODAY at 1000 Eastern, 1500 UK, 1600 Paris: US Gov’t obliquely discusses *sanctioning* UK for attempting to backdoor Apple iCloud
Apparently the goal is to discuss the CLOUD Act as a means to spank the UK for trying to spy upon Americans. Given that this all was probably sanctioned by the NSA, if nothing else this is an amazing exercise in doublethink. Streaming link cited in attached link. The hearing, “Foreign Influence on American’s Data
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Pornhub, YouPorn owner suspends access to French users over age verification law
Quelle surprise: The parent company of adult content sites like Pornhub and Youporn is suspending access to French users on Wednesday as a protest against changes made by the France’s government to age verification requirements. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250603-pornhub-owner-pressures-france-over-age-verification-law
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“My experience with Canonical’s interview process” | …this is an atrocious story
It reads like a distillation of every bad tech interview tale I have ever heard: https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html
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What the hell is “Bitcoin-Style Encryption”?
I suspect the answer is “the new snake oil“.
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TechCrunch UK & EU appears to be gone
Quoth Mike Butcher: The backstory: Recently, Regent LP, a US private equity firm, acquired TechCrunch and its staff in the US, from Yahoo. During this process, my colleagues in Europe and I were, unexpectedly, rendered redundant… Previously
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Thought for the Day: the anthropomorphic personification of death for soap bubbles is a 3-year-old child
From observation.
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Let’s all take a moment to consider that if — as demanded by Ofcom — encrypted messenger systems WERE actually monitoring conversations for words like: drone, bomb, explosive… all reports would currently be swamped
I don’t know about you but I have several WhatsApp and Signal chats which are currently burning with discussion of how war has changed and what battle risks are inherent in new technology. Should that all be censored in pursuit of keeping us safe from terrorists?
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I don’t have official confirmation, but I’m unilaterally declaring dibs on inspiration for this WhatsApp advertising campaign…
Compare and contrast this tweet of mine from 2021 – recounting a true event – which I’ve been reposting & citing everywhere ever since:
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BBC demonstrates smuggled North Korean phone and how it implements both censorship and accountability in the user interface…
…using mechanisms which are startlingly similar to recommended online safety approaches for deployment in the UK. Short video, worth a watch:
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“OpenAI, defender of user privacy” – not what you would typically expect to hear from civil society, but in this case it’s true…
All of those worthy “ZOMG Creator Copyright vs: AI” arguments are putting user privacy and agency at risk, and potentially set a bad precedent for the privacy of end-to-end encryption too, because the New York Times wants “discoverability” of all output: Earlier this month, Judge Wang entered a preliminary order requiring OpenAl to preserve and
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Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome | The Register
JY made a lot of positive impact: …it inspired Young to launch Cryptome in 1996. His goal: publish documents about encryption and other matters that the government didn’t necessarily want people to know, so that people could make up their own minds https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/john_young_obituary/
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