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kerfuffle

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online

Musician, storywriter, gamer, software developer and social science enthusiast. Into #java, #kotlin, #metal, #agile, #DDD, #horror, #lovecraft, #quantumtechnology, #softwarearchitecture, #mensa, #dnd, #pathfinder, #overwatch and #starcraft

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tilton, to random
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verge, to random
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How Netflix turned from chasing HBO to signing a deal with WWE https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/27/24165556/netflix-hbo-content-programming-ted-sarandos-interview

GossiTheDog, to random
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If Google starts responding to searches by telling people to install Linux, I will know they trained their AI from Mastodon.

VeryBadLlama, to random
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[doing a Google search in 2012] having instant and reliable access to relevant websites is fine, but I’d really prefer to have all my questions answered by a deranged version of Microsoft Clippy that tells me to eat glue

nrc_nl, to random Dutch
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Meerdere verdiepingen ingestort van parkeergarage St. Antonius ziekenhuis in Nieuwegein https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/05/26/meerdere-verdiepingen-ingestort-van-parkeergarage-st-antonius-ziekenhuis-in-nieuwegeinan-parkeergarage-a4200029?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20240526

verge, to random
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Ventje turns VW’s ID Buzz into a very charming camper https://www.theverge.com/24158082/id-buzz-ventje-camper-review-price-specs

oskardudycz, to random
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In the 2nd edition of Papers We Love (and 20th webinar!), we tackled the famous article Mel Conway’s article where he introduced his law.

You probably already know the quote:

"Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

We’ve read the whole paper to check how up-to-date it is nowadays.

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GossiTheDog, to random
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"Nobody uses Mastodon"

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molly0xfff, to random
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“Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue”
“If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?

thank you to these new independent media companies like @404mediaco and Defector for giving us the headlines we deserve

designthinkingcomic, to random
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We've all worked at this company, right?

aral, to DuckDuckGo
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“Choice.”

Qwant search for foo at 09:18: Qwant is temporarily unavailable.
Ecosia search for foo @ 09:17: There was a problem loading search results for “foo”
Two astronauts staring at Earth from space. Front astronaut: “you mean it’s all just Bing?” Rear astronaut, aiming gun at front astronaut: “Always has been.”

baldur, to random
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We really don’t make enough of the fact that you don’t need JS to make a nice website. Just HTML and CSS

And, whatever most programmers say about them, HTML and CSS are absolutely much more accessible to learn than JS ever has been or will be

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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GossiTheDog,
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So the code underpinning Copilot+ Recall includes a whole bunch of Azure AI backend code, which has ended up in the Windows OS. It also has a ton of API hooks for user activity monitoring.

Apps themselves can also search and make themselves more searchable.

It opens a lot of attack surface.

The semantic search element is fun.

They really went all in with this and it will have profound negative implications for the safety of people who use Microsoft Windows.

GossiTheDog,
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If you want to know where tech companies are with AI safety, know Microsoft Recall won’t record screenshots of DRM’d movies..

..but will record screenshots of your financial records and WhatsApp messages, as corporate interests were prioritised over user safety.

And it’s enabled by default.

stux, to random
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Gaming in your 30s

Makes me feel super super old Sketch from unknown (please comment if you know author)

delta, to random
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While we do have criticisms of its centralized architecture and other choices we highly regard Signal for ushering in a decade of popularizing end-to-end encryption. We particularly appreciate @Mer__edith doing excellent communication work there. It's disingenuous that tech-billionaires Musk/Dorsey fuel attacks on her and another female colleague, hinting at Telegram as a more secure messenger. Comparing security of Signal with Telegram simply results in "Type Error: incompatible arguments".

AstaMcCarthy, to privacy
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De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens zoekt personeel:
https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/werken-bij-de-ap
Weer alleen juristen en directeuren gevraagd, terwijl ze eindeloos veel effectiever zouder zijn met een paar programmeurs. Heel veel werk valt te automatiseren, zoals bijvoorbeeld @noybeu doet, met slechts een fractie van het budget tov de AP.

Dát is namelijk de reden dat je tegenwoordig op de meeste website met één klik alle cookies kunt afwijzen:
https://noyb.eu/en/project/cookie-banners

AP, wordt eens effectief, huur een nerd! 🤓💪

diana, to random
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@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

delta, to security
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WhatsApp introduces "ask meta ai" in the local chat search bar, and Slack auto-feeds messages to train their LLM robots https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/112455578857917485 ... Delta Chat is among the shrinking number of messaging applications that does not look at your data except to end-to-end encrypt it and send it over interoperable message transport servers chosen by yourselves and your contacts. ftw!

EUCommission, to random
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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger .

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

EUCommission,
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Hi @nick! Thank you for your questions! Our old instance was created, hosted and managed by @EDPS as part of a pilot project for a Mastodon server. As the pilot project was coming to an end, we decided to build on its success by setting a permanent instance, ensuring the continued and uninterrupted presence of our institution on Mastodon. The new instance is hosted and managed by the European Commission and has no expiry date.

protonprivacy, to random
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ICYMI, here are the April top articles on our blog ⬇️

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protonprivacy,
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💜 We joined forces with @standardnotes! In the coming months, we’ll ways to make this service easily accessible to our community: https://proton.me/blog/proton-standard-notes-join-forces

🎭 We now alert you if an online service you’re registered for has had a data breach: https://proton.me/blog/dark-web-monitoring

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protonprivacy,
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📸 Finally, we’ve analyzed privacy and security practices of several popular services, and you found one of most interesting: https://proton.me/blog/whatsapp-safe-private-photos

You can follow our blog here: https://proton.me/blog/ (we have an RSS feed, too).

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pbx, to random
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This is a great rapid-fire intro to . Too fast for good retention of course, but a great way to survey HTMX capabilities and style in 8 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT7SV-bAZyA

burger_jaap, to random
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When the German Statistical Office comes to debunk the myths of the proposed Dutch coalition government. Welkom in Europa, Jongen!

From: @destatis
https://social.bund.de/@destatis/112455399683751093

edwinm,
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@bmk @burger_jaap Een asielcrisis maak je vooral door er voor te zorgen dat je structureel minder ruimte hebt dan je eigenlijk nodig hebt. Dan gaan mensen vanzelf morrelen. Dat draaiboek is in volle gang, helaas.

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