-
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
-
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.
-
TFW someone’s randomness pretty strongly suggests that they’re a bot, but their grammar is so poor that it’s not worth attempting a prompt-injection experiment because they surely can’t be an LLM…
Case in point, unless LLMs nowadays are using bad grammar to filter out less-likely victims a-la phishing exercises from Nigerian princes …
-
So if you’re a historian researching the 17th century Italian use of weasel testicles as contraceptives (yes, really) you may be flagged by your Google searches
This is one of the occasions where you can see what the regulations were intending, but it differs from what they achieve:
-
Regulators. They are attracted by success and limelight. They feed on headlines. They will hunt for you.
Opinions vary, but one regulator believes that… “All platforms in the EU… have to have a dedicated page on their website where it says how many users they have in the EU and where they are legally established,” said commission spokesman Thomas Regnier. “This is not the case… as of today. This is not followed.”……
-
Parents: how many of you have gotten to the point of memorising Bluey series and episode numbers?
DD: “I want Blue Mountains.” Me: thinks: <Series 1, Episode 20-something> Yep, iPlayer s1e21
-
In Case You Missed It: CNN on the Internet Archive being used to protect government climate sites | … “scraping” is dual-use, can also be good
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdYQPtsu/
Fediverse reactions
-
UK Digital Minister @peterkyle threatens companies which do not submit to government surveillance and censorship demands
Or at least, this is how I am reading “privilege”: …any company afforded the privilege of access to the UK’s vibrant technology and skills ecosystem must also accept their responsibility to keep people safe on their platforms and foster a safer online world https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-statement-of-strategic-priorities-for-online-safety/draft-statement-of-strategic-priorities-for-online-safety
-
FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released | FreeCAD News
Something new to try! https://blog.freecad.org/2024/11/19/freecad-version-1-0-released/
-
“Here, the firewall is not merely a tool—it is an actor within a neoliberal technocratic order, enforcing compliance with a constructed vision of ‘secure communication’ while erasing alternate possibilities for networked interaction” — Michel Foucault, Network Architect
I got ChatGPT to role-play what Michel Foucault would say if tasked to present a threat model for an internet-connected enterprise firewall. There is a legit reason for this, I swear. Also: Perhaps I could get a job teaching CS at the LSE? Slide 1: Title – “Introduction to the Firewall” Bullet Points: Speaker Notes:“The…
-
If I was the NSA in 2013, still smarting from a Snowden-induced loss of capability, I’d go long on hiring smart nerds to do research whilst building a credible yet overblown threat narrative for extant cryptosystems…
…with the intention of getting the world to rapidly, even panickedly migrate from burned backdoors towards new, largely untested-in-battle algorithms that we’d be in a far better position to game than anyone else. Meanwhile, elsewhere in news: NIST to deprecate Elliptic Curve by 2035: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.pdf “Me? Trust NIST? Oh for some things, certainly…”