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mnot

@mnot@techpolicy.social

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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How interesting - Alibaba seems to be doing a scan of the Internet for DoH servers.

https://viz.greynoise.io/query?gnql=tags%3A%22DNS%20Over%20HTTPS%20Scanner%22

mnot, to random
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The Onion really planned this one out.

https://www.theonion.com/americans-react-to-the-death-of-henry-kissinger-1851063004/slides/25

mnot, to random
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Another blog entry.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/11/27/esafety-industry-standards

huitema, to random
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For a couple of years now, I have been working with Alain Durand at ICANN to collect statistics in DNS usage, patterns, etc. Data is updated monthly. Latest addition is a table of the concentration of DNS name servers, measured by looking at where the IP addresses of the servers are hosted. The big "winner" is of course Cloudflare, but there is also a significant correlation between being hosted by AWS or served by Akamai and have the DNS on the same network.
https://ithi.research.icann.org/graph-m9.html

mnot,
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@huitema so, what does this mean? Is it bad, and if so, why - considering that people can move dns hosts easily (because it is reasonably interoperable) and the dns system is resilient to failures? I’m concerned about concentration and centralization, but in markets where there are multiple providers, low barriers to switching and efficiencies of scale, it’s hard for me to be as concerned as much as I am about other ones that don’t have these features.

mnot, to random
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Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.

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

mnot, to random
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A few thoughts about the role of technical standards in Internet regulation.

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

mattblaze, to random
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Several threads in my mentions suggesting or implying that my posting about photography means I must be autistic.

There's nothing wrong with or derogatory about autism, but using it as a casual label for people who are interested in things you aren't is both incredibly lazy and offensive in equal measure to autistics and everyone else.

Having knowledge and interests isn't a diagnosable condition. If you want to insult me, do better.

mnot,
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@mattblaze wtaf?

simon, to random
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New release of llm-gpt4all - it's now really easy to run models like mistral-7b-instruct-v0 on your own machine:

pip install llm
llm install llm-gpt4all
llm -m mistral-7b-instruct-v0 "ten facts about pelicans"

https://github.com/simonw/llm-gpt4all/releases/tag/0.2

mnot,
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@simon whispers you should be recommending pipx...

mnot,
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@simon I thought it came with python bow, but maybe that’s just the package I use.

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

matthiasott, to random
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Wow. That’s a shitty move.

“Say you search for ‘children’s clothing.’ Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for ‘NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,’ making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company.”

Ka-ching!

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

mnot,
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@matthiasott @andydavies that sounds like deceptive conduct - a classic consumer harm.

mnot, to random
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This is extremely concerning, both in that google needs to be publicly held to account, and in that it sets a worrying standard for similar trials.

https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/how-to-hide-a-2-trillion-antitrust

simon, to random
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Prompted GPT-4 Code Interpreter with this:

x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\xA4\x88\x0C\xABx\x99^\xC0C\xE2\x1EK\x1F\xBEB@

I think this is geospatial binary data, but I don't know the format. Try a bunch of things and figure it out

It correctly guessed it was a WKB point and decoded it for me using "from shapely import wkb"

https://chat.openai.com/share/76c98d7d-541f-4b31-a9ba-94628e2b39e8

mnot,
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@simon holy shit

pluralistic, to privacy
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How To Think About : In and fights, is a clumsy tool at best

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-think-about-scraping-2db6f69a7e3d?sk=4a1d687171de1a3f3751433bffbb5a96

mnot,
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@pluralistic is that available somewhere that doesn’t require login? Also, speaking of scraping, have you been following what @badlogic has been doing? Lots of interesting possibilities there.

mnot,
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@pluralistic @badlogic hmm didn’t work for me.

mnot,
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@pluralistic works, thanks!

mnot,
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@pluralistic … and now I can see you’re way ahead of me :)

mnot,
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@pluralistic now I’m wondering if the friend link was mangled by browser mitigations for in-link tracking.

mnot, to random
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Anybody up for doing this in .au?

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071438911128817

evan, to fediverse
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Going home on the plane.

I had a great . In two days, we moved along three important topics: extensions, testing and data portability. We started two new task forces and started the draft of a new CG report.

The world is moving forward, and I'm excited to see where we go.

Thanks to everyone who was there. It means a lot!

mnot,
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@evan wait, you were at TPAC?

mnot,
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@evan damn. That was the busy part of the week for me unfortunately.

mnot, to random
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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,
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"And before anyone says “it’s just ads” … data brokerage services and the micro-targeting capabilities they support have been used by bad actors to perpetrate harms from harassing women seeking abortions, to doxing individuals, to electoral interference and disinformation campaigns. Data brokering practices harm consumers, both in terms of the risk posed by data breaches, and the harms which arise from the hyper-personalisation of content consumed in the digital environment."

mnot,
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"SMRTR’s Privacy Policy claims that they don’t collect sensitive information like health information. But given the broad definition of ‘health information’ in the Privacy Act (it includes opinions about a health service provided to an individual), and the inferences such as ‘Cardiologist visitors’ upon which SMRTR trades, I find that hard to believe."

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