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mnot, 7 months ago to random

Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

mnot, 15 days ago to random

Yes, please.

https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/28/calling-time-on-dnssec/

mnot, 1 month ago to random

And this is their earnings call.

"I think the central risk to Palantir, America and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan religion,"

mnot, 2 months ago to random

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

mnot, 10 months ago to random

Coming back to the US for the first time in a while, it’s hard not to see everything through the lens of @pluralistic ‘s enshittification - hotel fees, restaurant tips, the criminal justice system, governance in general. Maybe I’m just jet lagged.

mnot, 1 month ago to random

Law enforcement is asking - yet again - for access to encrypted communications. This post tries to succinctly summarise why that's a bad idea.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power

mnot, 1 year ago to random

mnot, 9 months ago to random

@simon so.. how long before llm supports Code Llama Python? :)

mnot, 4 months ago to random

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

mnot, 8 months ago to random

Wow - a must read.

"It takes until page 25 of the document to find it, but the IAB does admit that “Data enrichment where net new insight or intelligence is appended directly to an underlying raw dataset … (may) violate the privacy and data governance principles of the … Data Contributors”. The IAB counsels companies to “consult with their legal counsel about specific steps they should undertake to ensure compliance”.

https://www.salingerprivacy.com.au/2023/09/06/data-brokers-blog/

mnot, 9 months ago to random

Pretty sure this is evidence of someone using a LLM to write bugzilla comments with links that seem plausible to improve their seo. We are on the darkest timeline…

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348706#c5

mnot, 7 months ago to random

I've proposed a standard for grouping cached responses together, so you can do things like invalidate them together.

Various caches already do this (including many CDNs), but it's all over the map.

If you're a HTTP person and this sounds like a good idea to you, please support the call for adoption:
https://www.w3.org/mid/AF939A2D-A7BC-4950-8A03-3567F58403C9@apple.com

mnot, 9 months ago to random

@simon on an m1 mac, I'm getting

> time llm -m l2c 'Tell me a joke about a llama'

real 22m54.829s
user 3m18.015s
sys 10m28.134s

is that expected?

mnot, 7 months ago to random

A few thoughts about the role of technical standards in Internet regulation.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/11/01/regulators

mnot, 4 months ago to random

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

mnot, 7 months ago to random

Fuck you and your neo-conservative, effective altruism cultist, technological utopian, simplistic, badly written manifesto.

mnot, 5 months ago to random

Ah.. salted coconut foam… takes notes

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

mnot, 18 days ago to random

It’s common for voluntary technical standards developing organisations (SDOs such as the IETF and W3C) to make decisions by consensus, rather than (for example) voting. This post explores why we use consensus, what it is, how it works in Internet standards and when its use can become problematic.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/05/24/consensus

mnot, 2 months ago to random

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

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

mnot, 3 months ago to random

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

mnot, 2 months ago to random

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.

mnot, 9 months ago to random

South Africa goes peak 'we will regulate the living daylights out of big tech.'

https://www.compcom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Media-Statement-Final-digital-markets-report-released-31-July-2023.pdf

mnot, 27 days ago to random

I have changed my desktop resolution and it is messing with my mind

mnot, 25 days ago to random

Well put.

“Rinehart seems to want to use her money for cultural influence. Namatjira uses his talent to the same end.

She wants to control her public image, and will deploy people financially dependent on her to that end. His art is a subversion of that control.

Rinehart’s attempts at censorship have only elevated Namatjira and brought his work to a new audience.”

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/art-and-design/by-resisting-exposure-gina-rinehart-painted-a-portrait-of-the-streisand-effect-20240517-p5jegg.html

mnot, 25 days ago to random

The thing is, if you asked ANYONE outside Australia ‘who is Gina Rinehart’ last week, you would have got a blank stare. This portrait is now how she will be known and remembered.