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“So when is the earliest that UK users could now benefit from options to verify their identity?” | …clearly that’s what’s lacking in the UK: social media sites must vet us
…because a blue tick will solve everything. Is Ofcom about to delay action on fake and anonymous accounts until 2027? https://www.cleanuptheinternet.org.uk/post/is-ofcom-about-to-delay-action-on-fake-and-anonymous-accounts-until-2027
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Sometimes I imagine that there is an alien race watching and discussing us, and they’re saying “…these humans aren’t *really* intelligent, it’s all just pattern matching and stochastic parroting”
“…they haven’t even invented the glasnorp.” Unfortunately a lot of the themes were already explored in “They’re made out of Meat“
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Proof of the universality of the “safety activist crusades to undo demonstrable technical benefit to all because of fringe issue…” trope
…when the issues are better addressed through user education and both technology and user interface refinement. It’s not just end to end encryption that suffers: Inside the War Against Headlight Brightness | The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents
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EU GPSR: General Product Safety Regulations
Protectionism through Safetyism. I’m betting that this is what the guy thought when he suggested Bluesky were somehow legally obliged to provide a European POC:
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“So, in response, many NSA employees were like, ‘No, fuck off, I’ll play Pokémon Go all over base’” | …and yet Australia expects to successfully ban teenagers from social media?
This glorious quote is in the attached; if the NSA cannot enforce fearmongering-based operational security discipline over actual employees, what hope do Governments have of coercing (rather than educating) teenagers? U.S. Intelligence Feared Pokémon Go Was a Chinese Plot https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/29/pokemongo-cia-nsa-intelligence-spying/
Fediverse reactions
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Electric Dreams | Tate Modern | …I’m here and waiting for the inevitable backlash about “algorithms cannot create art”
Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/electric-dreams
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History of “ping -a” (audible ping) on FreeBSD and MacOS, by @brucewmurphy on Threads
I have used it for precisely the purpose described; short thread: […] And then I could go around the lab, under the desks, wiggling bits of that awful bloody thinnet and waiting to hear the beeping stop and start. Saved a bunch of time. 2/ https://www.threads.net/@brucewmurphy/post/DC4JGz1Tsvl
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Runa Sandvik: “Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Digital Security” | Global Investigative Journalism Network
Quote: This chapter presents numerous tips and tools to help you secure accounts, computers and phones, communications, and personal information. In addition to specific tools and settings, we have also included case studies on the importance of considering digital security when planning your work. There is a lot of information here, so we recommend that
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Remember, Kids: just because Bluesky is suddenly and massively popular whilst X is dying on the vine does *not* mean that all those people screaming that “network effects prevent people moving between social networks, we must regulate!” — were wrong…
Goodness, no; just because Signal regularly swallows huge chunks of userbase from WhatsApp and Telegram, and just because BlueSky[1] and TikTok[2] are eating huge chunks of Twitter and YouTube/Instagram respectively, does not mean that European regulators should give up attempts to eviscerate all the large social networks for the public good. https://firehose3d.theo.io
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This sounds so much like the online safety mafia
The European Commission will soon find that its DMA is built upon a no-win trap: forcing changes that hurt consumers to help middleman companies only to find that those middlemen will never, ever be happy.