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US Troll site Kiwi Farms receives Ofcom demand for Online Safety Act “Risk Assessment”, rejects it on 1A/Jurisdiction grounds, demands MLAT
Remember September 2020 when “good” people pressured Cloudflare into removing troll harassment site KiwiFarms (KF) from their services, thereby improving the internet? It didn’t work, was never going to work, and all it achieved was teaching KF to build resilient architecture. Now… …now Ofcom stomps in with its big boots on, demanding that KF perform
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild [US Social Security COBOL] Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse | WIRED
I suppose they could get Grok to write a COBOL to Rust converter to do it for them? What could possibly go wrong? :popcorn: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
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‘Have You Ever Watched A Daniel Tiger Show?’ | guy from the Heritage Foundation would not have funded ‘Mr Rogers’ due to ‘lack of demand’
“What does ‘Ugga-Mugga’ mean to you?” Via:
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30,000 years from now, the species into which humanity evolves will receive curious, highly personalised messages from space, detailing money erroneously transferred into Jovian bank accounts…
The Gaia spacecraft holds a deep emotional significance for those who worked on it. As part of its decommissioning, the names of around 1500 team members who contributed to its mission were used to overwrite some of the back-up software stored in Gaia’s onboard memory. Personal farewell messages were also written into the spacecraft’s memory,
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“A drinking game based on mentions of ‘stakeholders’ or throwaway references to the need to ‘consult civil society’ would prove fatal” by @chalmermagne
My longstanding prejudice that most (all?) British “internet institutes” comprise civil society grifters seeking political influence, social control or business opportunity without technical innovation aimed towards abundance, is somewhat more refinedly put in: How not to build an AI Institute – by Alex Chalmers https://www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to-build-an-ai-institute Via:
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Who was the JG that Waltz thought he was adding to the Houthi Signal chat? I think it’s obvious…
There have been people wildly speculating which “JG” was intended to be added to the “signalgate” chat group. I think it’s obvious: JD Vance, fat-fingered. Think: we are already in the realms of adding the wrong person to the group, likely at speed, so why not just presume an alphabetically sorted typo being selected in
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Ex-UK cyber chief says asking Apple to break encryption was ‘naive’ | New Scientist
At the end of the day, he says, governments must accept that uncrackable encryption is here to stay. “That ship has sailed,” says Martin. “I think, ultimately, governments are gonna have to come to terms with this. And I suspect in the long term that trying to compel the global titans of the [US] West
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What is messaging app Signal and how secure is it? | BBC News
Nice little explainer from the BBC regarding end to end encryption and the benefits thereof: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kjd091019o
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mrs.frazzled on TikTok perfectly captures the vibe of the Signal affair
Watch this. No notes.
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Nice little video on Threads (elsewhere?) by Goldberg & Psaki regarding the Signal brouhaha
“we all like to think that we are really good at digital hygiene but most of us are not good at digital hygiene” https://www.threads.net/@brittainforsenate/post/DHmoEwySxGq
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