#DevinTownsend’s The Moth now has a release date: May 29. Album is up for pre-order. Secured myself the vinyl. One single is up on streaming platforms today as well.

🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/mps-give-ministers-powers-to-restrict-entire-internet/

#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116208501129052185

So many legal and policy experts blindly trust PhotoDNA as a useful tool to act on illegal content. It’s good to see technical experts deep dive into this!

When @Gargron goes on a business trip.

Tux has a new friend!

(#Plushie acquired a couple weeks ago from the @Mastodon store; finally got around to taking a pic)

#plushtodon

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.

In unserem CLTiergarten dürfen wir in diesem Jahr ein paar Neuankömmlinge begrüßen.
Ein paar Plüsch-Mastodons haben sich auf den Weg zu den #CLT2026 gemacht und warten hier auf ein neues Zuhause. Also wenn ihr schnell seid....

#plushtodon #linux #tux #chemnitz #ChemnitzerLinuxTage #CLTzoo #CLTiergarten
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