On the one hand, it may have some advantages (eg around account portability) but on the other, the experience is so clearly meant to stay the same no matter what server you use, that you have to wonder what the point of moving would be.
Different experiences, moderation or prioritisation of content ought to be part of social media competition.
Data from UK anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent being shared with ports and airports
Powers to stop people on borders will be abused on the basis of bogus #prevent referrals – and also in education settings
“We hope this information will help the thousands of affected people to exercise their data protection rights and get their data removed from the myriad of government databases where it is held.” says @mssophiaakram
As #Meta announce #e2ee messaging on FB, an Apple engineer explains why encryption matters to cloud based services including #Facebook: basically, they inherently “favor attackers”:
“when it comes to security, centralized data repositories disproportionately favor attackers. The one-time breach of a company or service lets criminals steal the personal data for many—or all—of its users at once”
On the topic of copyright, now that #1984 is in the #publicdomain (mostly, outside of the USA) ther have been some interesting reuses of the novel. Here are two I’ve noticed, the latest one turning the junk Da Vinci Code into 1984:
I bloody hate this cartoon that's doing the rounds (I think it's by the incredibly talented Len in Private Eye). Here's what I want the caption to say: OK, one more time: Get here at least 30 minutes early because the queue barely moves and you'll inevitably be stuck behind someone trying to pay for […]
@Edent I think a lot of the mistrust around this is that station staff will also be cut. There are clearly people and situations where help even with ticket machines is desirable or necessary, and there are many more situations where station staff are important for people. If we had government that treated cost saving responsibly, as opposed to slash and burn, I think we might have a different discussion.
To avoid confusion, the #meta#llama#llm fails open source within a 5 second read of the licence, for instance:
v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the
Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or
derivative works thereof).
Blimey #radio4today really missing the point on this #meta release of their #llm — it isn’t #OpenSource — use is restricted — rather it looks like a way for Meta to reduce their costs by getting others to check their model, while giving less back to society than they should in return
Amazing levels of crapness from UK govt regarding the #onlinesafetybill and #encryption - more chocolate fireguards against potentiall abuse of powers in the works
@riggbeck I don’t really care whether she is a Starmerist or a Scientologist, it is a very poor argument she is making, one that the @guardian should be embarrassed to publish.