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The Doctor

@ drwho @beehaw.org

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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

  • Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

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  • Surprising nobody.

  • [Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine

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  • Figures he'd crib the name Anduril.

  • [Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine

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  • Bullies love other bullies.

  • Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X

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  • I guess it's back to hacked voice confs?

  • Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X

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  • On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons

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  • I ask from a position of ignorance, because I simply don't know: Has anyone actually done this? Has it worked?

  • On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons

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  • I don't know. I don't have an opinion on it.

  • On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons

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  • I get that, but it won't help. That was one of the motivations behind the AGPL, and it hasn't really worked for all the reasons I gave. Work for enough companies and you see it over and over again.

  • What are some privacy focused forms of entertainment?

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  • I read books. I tinker.

  • Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns

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  • Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns

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  • De facto, if not in absolute.

    There's a dirty secret of telecom I found out working for a telco some years back: CALEA compliance is used more by unknown third parties more than actual law enforcement. When we'd get a subpoena for a CALEA wiretap, as often as not we'd just patch our logger into a pre-existing wiretap as configure a switch to enable one on a particular trunk, cable, and pair.

  • Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns

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  • Suck it, Europol.

  • The U.S. President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did.

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  • We had a betting pool at work that this would happen.

  • On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons

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  • They'll use it anyway.

    It sounds flippant, but it's the truth. They'll use it internally. They'll expose it to the outside but delete all of the license information. They'll use it but stick a crappy React front-end in front of the rest (whether or not that counts as "using AGPL licensed software in violation of the license" is a matter for lawyers to figure out). Or they'll just use it because they have way more money than the AGPL-licensed project and drag it out in court for however long it takes.

  • Question: If windows is required, what distro do you recommend?

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  • That's what we do at $dayjob, also.

  • AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings

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  • Don't bet the farm on it.

  • AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings

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  • I won that bet.

  • Advice on improving my privacy

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  • Which usually leads to their being shut down.

    It's nice to see an org choose a side, but then we lose that org and we're back to square one.

  • They lied to you about car surveillance

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  • I did not know that. Thanks.