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his caricatures are kind of iconic among a very specific subset of newspaper readers, he’s had some bangers, might try to compile a few

to be david rowe’d…. either one of the nation’s highest honours, or one of the nation‘s strongest condemnations, sometimes both

how have I only just realised, I thought it was the Pokémon latios

“you get what you pay for” is extremely true when it comes to the bad orange website

A really good reason: not knowing where someone currently resides is a huge risk when it comes to legal redress if they nick the hire car or whatever. I love how the magic word 'digital' makes idiot ministers think chaotic humans will suddenly transform into compliant automata because of an app

fair to call that a demolition of NSW police’s interpretation of their own powers? absolutely egregious behaviour by the officers that interacted with the plaintiff.

To poast about how the Council hasn't fixed a pothole, you will need 3 forms for ID.

i tend to make everything about australian internet policy but this has the same logical foundation as the social media children verification by definition being a social media everyone verification

would it not be the case that citizens of the republic would have to be *required* to have Brit Cards? otherwise without a hard border everyone and his dog is from cork

anti-smalltalk discourse is crazy, lift chats are the single best chats you’ll have all day, 30 seconds, one chance, no consequences, 10/10, have more lift chats

i’ve made this point before about other people but do we think musk was *that* musk in 2021? from what i can tell harris is basically making an argument for not kicking hitler out of art school

everyone is dunking on her for this but I don’t get it. this reads to me as an indictment of musk, clearly an easily flattered moron, rather than an example of ”dems never learn”

the first thing alexander graham bell did after making the first telephone was flatly refuse to make a second, as he decided the first one was only for his convenience

this is your single most correct opinion and i applaud you expressing it in the face of overwhelming standard american refusal to be normal

absolutely fair, children should not be exposed to the horrors of GPL vs BSD flamewars

because the DoJ refused to seriously pursue the breakup of Microsoft in September 2001, that’s why

5 American feet or 5 Canadian feet?

it’s the best office appliance except for the laminator

someone not me should write a long and detailed piece on this paradox and how it genuinely seems to be the defining characteristic of this american administration

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

the biggest changes in tech in the past five years that doesn't seem to have sunk into the general consciousness is that "social media" is barely about connecting with friends/family/people you know any more. it's just a firehose of personalised content

unfortunately the republic died with the only candidate we had for a the popularly-elected option: president shane warne

this latest round of illegal shit from the administration unfortunately clouds whether their silence is evidence of a) hypocrisy or b) genuine fear that they’re next. the latter is very bad!

thats right, wait, are we still talking about palestine action

Carr's views as of October 2024:

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

I have long advocated that for every (s.45) redaction in a document, we redact a day on the FOI officers timesheet, seems fair

An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app. Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

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