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mnot

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Co-chair IETF HTTP Working Group, W3C Board of Directors, standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG and Internet Architecture Board. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards.

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One of the most contentious issues in AI is content owners' control over use of their material in the datasets that are used to feed LLMs. This article looks at one commonly mentioned solution - robots.txt - and how it measures up.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/21/ai-control

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Welcome to our new Fedi-experiment: a Lemmy (Fedi-Reddit) community to share academic/policy articles on tech policy! Web: https://lemmy.ml/c/mae Fedi: @mae

I've recently joined @robin @mnot and @chadkoh in a small discussion group where we’ve done that privately. But why not make it a broader resource! You can browse the links without an account. If you sign up, you can up/down-vote articles and leave comments as well!

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@1br0wn @mae @robin @chadkoh WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIOO

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@LukaszOlejnik @1br0wn @mae @robin @chadkoh want to contribute?

mnot,
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@LukaszOlejnik as a mod

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LinkedIn just changed their .favicon to include a miniature, static 'red dot' indicator. just after Safari started showing the icons on the favourites bar.

Way to go, dark patterns.

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RFC 9421 specified HTTP Signatures -- try it out online here: https://httpsig.org

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I would pay good money for a search engine that lets me click on a button to never show a particular site to me in search results again. @duckduckgo ?

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Mapping services' use of your wifi is opt-out, not opt-in. Is that equitable?

https://location.services.mozilla.com/optout

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Every time I read about section 702, I can’t help but think about what it means for non-US people. The most popular Internet services are all US-based, and there is plenty of evidence that countries use collection by others as a loophole.

One can only assume that the US is handing out access to its favoured partners like candy.

All of this puts the hype about TikTok into perspective; they’re so concerned because that’s exactly what they’re doing to others.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/safe-act-two-steps-forward-one-step-back

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The Coprophagic AI crisis; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/14/14/inhuman-centipede

1/

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@pluralistic with great luck, botshit will kill both “AI” And search engines - two birds, one stone. That will force us to build more authentic, decentralized tools and networks.

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More thoughts on the intersection of interoperability standards and legal regulation. With bonus IETF lore.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/03/13/voluntary

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Pretty bad behaviour from a network vendor.

https://poshsecurity.com/blog/ubiquiti-unifi-this-fallback-ip-cannot-be-assigned-since-its-reserved-for-resolving-connectivity-issues

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A handy guide for those coming to the @ietf meeting next week.

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This is repulsive. People like this need to be held to account, desperately. Watch the clip (and the bit before it too).

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/28/palantir_boss_fii_speech/

mnot, to melbourne
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It’s bittersweet and breathtaking that Taylor Swift is singing the songs she wrote in lockdown to a crowd of 96,000 people this weekend, in the city that had the longest, hardest lockdowns in the world.

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God I love Mastodon

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ActivityPub is a POST-happy protocol, so it doesn't get a lot of benefit from using HTTP. Could it be better?

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/delivery-reliability-and-scaling/3841/2

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Just published: Oblivious HTTP. Congrats to caw and MT! https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9458.html

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I had a good full working day today, but by far the most productive and long-lasting task I’ve done today is move emails from 2020 to mid 2023 into their own archive folders so my work inbox now has only the ~20 emails from the last ~quarter that I actually wanna deal with. That’s down from ~2000 excluding any transactional mails or other in-progress stuff that I have archived on the fly. Took 2 minutes tops and feeling a lot better now. 🔥

mnot,
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@janl that’s how I work on an ongoing basis - once you get into the habit it’s easy.

Fwiw the things that most help me:

  • a sieve script to automatically file all list traffic
  • an “archive” folder of things I’ve dealt with but might need to refer to
  • an “outstanding” folder of tickets, bookings, orders, etc - anything that needs monitoring but not action by me
  • ruthlessly deleting anything that I don’t need
mnot, to internet
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I was unsure if releasing an RFC less than a week before xmas would backfire, but so far almost 25k people* have read the blog entry, so...

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/12/19/standards-and-centralization

  • well, "people" according to an algorithm...
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Ah.. salted coconut foam… takes notes

https://punchdrink.com/recipes/room-for-improvements-espresso-martini/

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RFC 9518 is finally done!

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/12/19/standards-and-centralization

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This great news out of Australia (via @owa) makes worldwide browser choice more likely. Every jurisdiction that rejects Apple and Google's underhanded browser nonsense bring us a step closer to ending App Store rent extraction and proprietary lock-in.

As @pluralistic says:

"An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a crime to defend yourself against corporate predation"

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/new-digital-competition-laws-for-australia/

mnot,
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@slightlyoff @owa @pluralistic there is a long road between “in-principle agreement” and action. See eg the reform of privacy law in Australian, which has been agreed to in principle by two successive governments.

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@ntnsndr the HTML copies of your articles on your Web site require a password -- is that intentional?

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