Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

Color cycling piece from a few years back

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Google's enshittification memos; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/

#Pluralistic

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Discovered changes to #PHP's crypt() function that makes it impossible to reproduce hashes that used blowfish and a salt terminated by a $.

This method was (and still is) found in the blowfish example for crypt() on W3Schools.

Reproduced at: https://onlinephp.io/c/a7d05

"Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine."

I got to see the early demos of this and it is jaws-on-the-floor bonkers wizard magic. Entirely local - and good - translation with no cloud service and like six megabytes of disk space.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/

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/

Unity's oldest community announces dissolution

http://farewell.bostonunitygroup.com/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/http://farewell.bostonunitygroup.com/

Recent advances in computer science since 2010?

https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/53343/recent-advances-in-computer-science-since-2010

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/53343/recent-advances-in-computer-science-since-2010

#compsci

It’s so stupid. I love it.

The Signal Protocol used by 1+ billion people is getting a post-quantum makeover
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/signal-preps-its-encryption-engine-for-the-quantum-doomsday-inevitability/

This chatbot could’ve been a form

George RR Martin and John Grisham among group of authors suing OpenAI | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/20/authors-lawsuit-openai-george-rr-martin-john-grisham

Good for them!

#OpenAI #AI

This is still my favorite "two wolves" meme.

#StarTrek

The UK safety bill just passed. It is outrageous what governments are doing to control everything that happens on the internet.

It is very simple to understand. "Encryption protects everyone or no one." There is no such thing as a backdoor just for good guys.

Learn more here from the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users

#uk #safetybill #technology #privacy #security