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Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

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Opinion | Divorce, Canadian Style

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The only LAN party I ever went to wasn't for gaming; we were rendering visual effects!

An unsexy fix to Canada’s growing red tape problem This country’s approach to regulation has not kept up, especially in the fast-paced age of digital technologies

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An image of two tweets on my Twitter timeline. The top one is from The Onion, whose headline reads, "White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting of Cross." The tweet right under it, from Canadian newspaper National Post: "Canadian permanent residents may need to reveal 5 years of social media history to enter U.S."

I was really torn about RTing the one on the top. lolsob

Did you know the city decided to erect signs in the middle of the small sidewalk along 16th avenue on both ends over Nose creek saying "crosswalk closed"? Pain in the ass to move the bike past instead of sitting in the cold waiting for the train to cross down below. Thanks City... #yycbike

DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of Boeing 737s for deportations The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Congress.

Okay, internets, you know what to do:

Name this airline!

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Damn

Was at car dealership today. Noticed something funny. The normal cars had door poppers and overwhelming screens. The $120,000 car had physical door handles and tons of buttons.

May be obvious but I speculated years ago this would happen. Electronics cheaper than craftsmanship, because it is.

YouTube video by PrivacyLawyer - David Fraser Online reviews and privacy claims: Lessons from RateMDs v Bluler (BCCA)

Can doctors claim a privacy violation because RateMDs creates profiles and ranks them without consent? The BC Court of Appeal says no. Civil #privacy claims require information that’s really “private”. New on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/AqmvwTs0qAA

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Some asshole keeps phoning me and leaving silent messages on my voicemail — not even some heavy breathing!

Congratulations! As a donor to your cause, this was worth every cent!

I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!

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ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.

Eat a dick.

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Maybe the ump from last night will christen it, “The Strikeroom.”

When ICE comes to Philly it’s going to be brutal

A screenshot of a tweet containing a photo of a plaque from OpenAI honouring McKinsey & Company for passing 100 billion tokens.

“Passing 100 billion tokens” makes it sound like they came out of somebody’s urethra.

Drew Struzan’s movie posters captured the essence of Hollywood magic The artist, who has died at 78, made posters for dozens of movie touchstones, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.

Drew Struzan, the artist behind some of the most recognizable movie posters in cinema history — including for the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Back to the Future franchises — has died at 78.

It will soon come ashore looking for the manager.

Damn

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.”

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David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

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The Horrifying Assassination of Charlie Kirk The shooting of the conservative activist is the latest act of political violence in the United States.

"A society that resorts to violence to solve its problems starts to surrender its claim on being a society."

Gift link.

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Code Rush, a 2000 Documentary About Netscape/Mozilla Whoa, I have not watched this documentary in a loooong time — very interesting to watch in the future this company helped to create, for good and very, very bad. Code Rush is a documentary following the lives of a gro

Code Rush, a 2000 Documentary About Netscape/Mozilla. “It covers Netscape’s last year as an independent company, from their announcement of the Mozilla open source project until their acquisition by AOL.” [kottke.org]