⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Generate your own "pixel galaxy"

https://galaxy.derpy.lol

The BBC has been using and contributing to open source projects for as long as we've had a website, and you can explore all the projects that we've open sourced down below. Including more than a few from @BBCRD... https://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/

App rejected because its app preview video included device frames and... Real hands 🤨

(March 12th 2022, via https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1502769909104738304)

This talk about some of the things Project Fugu enables is *outstanding*:

https://noti.st/nielsleenheer/zP0qdm/slides

by @html5test

Today is Stanislav Petrov Day. It's a day when I take some time to reflect on the importance of questioning technology. Because that is what Stanislav Petrov did when he averted nuclear war on September 26 in 1983.

"We can't wait anymore."
"7 minutes until the first warhead is in the observation zone."
"We won't have time to retaliate. You have to make a decision!"
"You see it?"
"Could be."
"No. That's not heat from a missile."
"Damn!"
"Let's keep looking."
"THE COMPUTER CAN'T BE WRONG!"
"I don't understand it."
"Damn it! They have to confirm this damn attack."
"All thirty levels of security levels confirms the attack!"
"Infrared devices verify heat from all five launched missiles!"
"What are we going to do?"

Stanislav Petrov: "Nothing. I don't trust the computer. We'll wait."

This dialogue is from a re-enactment in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World.

Last year I wrote about three learnings I take away from his story.

1. Embrace multiple perspectives.
Petrov was educated as an engineer rather than a military man. He knew the unpredictability of machine output.

2. Look for multiple confirmation points.
To confirm our beliefs we should expect many different variables to line up and tell us the same story. If one or more variables are saying something different, we need to pursue those anomalies to understand why. If the idea of a faulty system lines up with all other variables, that makes it more likely.

3. Reward exposure of faulty systems.
If we keep praising our tools for their excellence and efficiency it's hard to later accept their defects. When shortcomings are found, this needs to be communicated just as clearly and widely as successes.  Maintaining an illusion of perfect, neutral and flawless systems will keep people from questioning the systems when the systems need to be questioned.

https://axbom.com/lessons-from-stanislav-petrov/

Absolutely incredible investigation by Balkan Insight into the money trail from politicians, tech companies, and Ashton Kutcher behind the EU's push to break E2EE for everyone.

I am thoroughly unshocked by the fact that "Europol officials floated the idea of using the proposed EU Centre to scan for more than just CSAM, telling the Commission, “There are other crime areas that would benefit from detection” such as terrorism and drug trafficking.

Good heavens. Oh, my. Who could ever have known this would be a potential outcome. We've all been saying for decades: you cannot break end to end encryption for only one purpose and expect that exploit usage to be limited to that one purpose.

If this EU legislation passes in October, it will finally heat up the Cold Crypto Wars that have been ongoing since the San Bernardino terrorist iPhone case.

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

Day 579 of my 3 day war. In response to Ukraine getting ATACMS I will “escalate” by withdrawing heavy equipment out of their range.

I remain a master strategist.

Hey there! 👋

It’s time for an #introduction.

I’m here to repost silly rejections made by Apple’s App Review team. Send a message or use the #RejectedByAppReview hashtag to let me know when your app got rejected.

See you around! ✌️

The BBC creates news stories in more than 40 languages. So earlier this year we built a prototype to help keep track of them. https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/mat/

“No worries, let me check the server room real quick”

For people working on actual *privacy-preserving* technologies like *sandboxing* apps from one another and your data, it’s pretty infuriating that Google is steaming ahead with the extreme misnomer “Privacy Sandbox”.

It’s a system that *tracks everything you do* on your device or browser—the opposite of privacy—then *gives it to any app or site* that asks—the opposite of a sandbox.

It’s telling that it’s mostly adtech companies who are on board.

https://privacysandbox.com/#ecosystem

@pretensesoup @VampiresAndRobots For one dizzy, lucrative year in the early 1990s I made nearly £5000 from short fiction! It helped, a little. These days I can't afford to write short stories, I have to focus on bankable novels (and I'm solidly established with 30+ books in print). Not sure I'll ever be able to retire, either.

Here in Manchester, U.K., we're waiting for the inevitable. PM Rishi Sunak is going to announce the scrapping of the HS2 rail link from London to Manchester. Then, without any sense of irony, he's going to get in his helicopter and make the journey from London to Manchester for Conservative Party conference. Of course he is.

#UKPolitics

Boris Johnson slams Rishi Sunak as 'HS2 leg to Manchester to be scrapped'

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/boris-johnson-slams-rishi-sunak-27772498#ICID=Android_MENNewsApp_AppShare

Wuppertal: The imaginatively titled LEGO Brücke 2.0

UK Home Office's recent attack on e2e encryption moves into the realm of baseless propaganda, diverging significantly from much of the rest of UK gov & from established expert consensus, complete w media salvo

Let's review, it's important to recognize what they're doing...1/