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Graham Smith @cyberleagle “celebrates” the first birthday of the Online Safety Act with a 6 Year retrospective timeline of blog posts correctly predicting the extant clusterf*ck
If you are not following Graham already you should find some way to do so; in the meantime go read this thread:
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“…what’s so ‘magical’ about a perfect geometric form, with wings made of mirrors, flying in the dark silence outside of the world, singing a song made of light?”
For science optimists this is a lovely little thread on Bluesky which deserves reading on a Friday morning: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3l7cikbvmrs2q
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Regulators around the world are racing to regulate Big AI; meanwhile @Raspberry_PI have released a £65 Neural Network AI Accelerator
I’ve said it, and various things like it, before: trickle-down economics may not work, but trickle-down technology absolutely DOES work because ideas are hard to kill, and Moore’s Law is still a background drumbeat to our lives. Actus-Reus-based “AI Regulation” – of the tech rather than the intent – is not just shooting at the
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Ofcom to consult on legally obliging client side scanning spyware to be added to end-to-end encrypted secure messengers
Via Graham Smith: https://x.com/Cyberleagle/status/1848811285925830818
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Response to the @AllTechIsHuman report into End-to-End Encryption: the original questionnaire, with responses & critique by Alec Muffett (1/n ?)
In May 2024, I was approached by Anne Collier for All Tech Is Human to contribute to a new “report” into end-to-end encryption. That report (after considerable administrative churn) has now been published at https://alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-human-blog/balancing-privacy-and-child-safety-in-encrypted-environments as announced on LinkedIn. My take is that is ATIH could have done a lot worse at representation; there are
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A is for Boat, P is for Balloon, K is for Football — and so is B…
…and W is for Jelly, wobbly or otherwise. I’m assured by my beloved — who has the measure of such things — that this is the worst introduction to Phonics she has ever seen:
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Life as a Stay-At-Home-Dad
tl;dr — it’s good, but it’s busy. Last night before bed I hung up four loads of clean laundry to dry, about half of it into the laundry cubicle with the dehumidifier running – a space which I revamped and fitted out with shelving and cupboard space a few weeks ago, and the rest of
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Testing a new feature: “Blogposts” 🙂
For the past few years (decades?) this blog has existed primarily to support macroblogging, putting all my content into one place where it can be better-managed and better-presented than if the content were natively reposted to each-and-every social media platform. It’s doing a pretty good job of that, but I also want to write stuff
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Gay man rejected for asylum [from Bangladesh] told he is ‘not truly gay’ by judge | Metro News
Wow. https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/20/gay-man-rejected-asylum-told-not-truly-gay-judge-21803417/
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GENERIC TEMPLATES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS TO REDUCE RISK AND IMPACT OF END TO END ENCRYPTION IN MESSENGER SERVICES
I’ll be blunt: I have seen dozens, possibly scores, of civil society and human rights organisations who were late to the bandwagon for the techlash, now publishing various manifestos to reduce <whatever they consider to be badness> as might be enabled or amplified by <billions of people having the freedom to talk to one another
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“If you let Google have your data, why not the NHS?” | …or, indeed, the Police? The security services? Glib, dehumanising foolishness from @phillipinman …
I have literally watched Sir David Omand (ex-GCHQ) stand on stage and make the argument that “Amazon and Google have all of this information about you, why can’t the government have it too?”; I was not expecting to see the same from the Observer, all framed in techlash “own the billionaire-tards” terms. Answer: because they
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Justice decides to block four pornographic sites accessible to minors | Libération
Typiquement français, via Google Translate: In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Court of Appeal considered that “the best interests of the child” are a “primary consideration” that justifies infringing on “other rights such as freedom of expression.” “Prioritizing the protection of the privacy of adult consumers” is “incompatible with the right of minors