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"content": "Could it be the Boomer factor? When the legislature and judiciary don't understand the internet or technology (being charitable here). <a href=\"https://www.bitchute.com/video/8SZK3VCPThs/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bitchute.com/video/8SZK3VCPThs/</a>",
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"content": "Could it be the Boomer factor? When the legislature and judiciary don't understand the internet or technology (being charitable here). https://www.bitchute.com/video/8SZK3VCPThs/",
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"content": "The New York Times journo-activists are getting their panties in a twist over end-to-end encrypted apps . At first glance you may wonder if they are in fact proponents of the NSA dragnet, but they do conclude that encrypted messaging is a \"net good\". However, they appear very worried about Telegram (domiciled in the UK, operating out of UAE) as a vector for 'misinformation' (quotations because in our current postmodern hyperreality, one man's truth could be another's propaganda or vise versa and discerning global truth is probably impossible at this point).<br /><br /><br /><br />Now, in the cryptographic battle for the security of your ephemeral keys, Signal protocol reigns king (check out DefCon 25 on why MProto is inferior), though no monarch is completely invulnerable to treachery (e.g. CVE-2020-5753 now patched). In Telegram, end-to-end encryption is also optional, and it has a much longer list of potential attacks and exploits.<br /><br /><br /><br />Moxie Marlinspike (co-creator of the Signal protocol and co-founder of the Signal Foundation HQ in California), manages to assuage the fears by reassuring the writers that Signal does not utilize any AI to 'curate' users' feeds (there are no feeds in Signal). The app also currently has a limit on the number of users in a group chat (up to 1000) and limits message forwards to 5.<br /><br /><br /><br />However, Telegram founders are not as willing to entertain New York Times' paranoid musings, so naturally they attract the ire of disapproval (they don't get back to them). This, and perhaps their unfavorable location makes them complicit in the potential spread of extremism (whatever flavor it happens to be), even though Telegram group chats don't support end-to-end encryption. A fact the writers rejoice at, for in their minds it gives US authorities card blanche to contact trace.<br /><br /><br /><br />In this whole discussion however it is worth pointing out an interesting overlooked fact, an implied demand that a non US company enforce current societal US standards of 'misinformation'. along with an assumed international expansion of US federal jurisdiction could be interpreted as nothing more but a subtler form of US imperialism. It wouldn't be the first time that FBI would be chasing or seizing property globally while foreign authorities welcome them with open arms, just look up the never ending saga of lawsuits of Kim Dot Com in New Zealand.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://archive.is/ecU0D\" target=\"_blank\">https://archive.is/ecU0D</a>",
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"content": "The New York Times journo-activists are getting their panties in a twist over end-to-end encrypted apps . At first glance you may wonder if they are in fact proponents of the NSA dragnet, but they do conclude that encrypted messaging is a \"net good\". However, they appear very worried about Telegram (domiciled in the UK, operating out of UAE) as a vector for 'misinformation' (quotations because in our current postmodern hyperreality, one man's truth could be another's propaganda or vise versa and discerning global truth is probably impossible at this point).\n\n\n\nNow, in the cryptographic battle for the security of your ephemeral keys, Signal protocol reigns king (check out DefCon 25 on why MProto is inferior), though no monarch is completely invulnerable to treachery (e.g. CVE-2020-5753 now patched). In Telegram, end-to-end encryption is also optional, and it has a much longer list of potential attacks and exploits.\n\n\n\nMoxie Marlinspike (co-creator of the Signal protocol and co-founder of the Signal Foundation HQ in California), manages to assuage the fears by reassuring the writers that Signal does not utilize any AI to 'curate' users' feeds (there are no feeds in Signal). The app also currently has a limit on the number of users in a group chat (up to 1000) and limits message forwards to 5.\n\n\n\nHowever, Telegram founders are not as willing to entertain New York Times' paranoid musings, so naturally they attract the ire of disapproval (they don't get back to them). This, and perhaps their unfavorable location makes them complicit in the potential spread of extremism (whatever flavor it happens to be), even though Telegram group chats don't support end-to-end encryption. A fact the writers rejoice at, for in their minds it gives US authorities card blanche to contact trace.\n\n\n\nIn this whole discussion however it is worth pointing out an interesting overlooked fact, an implied demand that a non US company enforce current societal US standards of 'misinformation'. along with an assumed international expansion of US federal jurisdiction could be interpreted as nothing more but a subtler form of US imperialism. It wouldn't be the first time that FBI would be chasing or seizing property globally while foreign authorities welcome them with open arms, just look up the never ending saga of lawsuits of Kim Dot Com in New Zealand.\n\nhttps://archive.is/ecU0D",
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"content": "Double ratchet or nothin'",
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"content": "Double ratchet or nothin'",
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"content": "Having way too much fun with this after all the theorems and lemmas. Empirical math ftw. Calculating elliptic curve points by hand is a bit of a pain in the butt, I'm looking at you quadratic residues. <a href=\"https://graui.de/code/elliptic2/\" target=\"_blank\">https://graui.de/code/elliptic2/</a><br /><br />",
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"published": "2021-02-08T18:43:20+00:00",
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"content": "Having way too much fun with this after all the theorems and lemmas. Empirical math ftw. Calculating elliptic curve points by hand is a bit of a pain in the butt, I'm looking at you quadratic residues. https://graui.de/code/elliptic2/\n\n",
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"content": "<a href=\"https://reason.com/2021/02/06/its-official-linguistic-intent-no-longer-matters-at-the-new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\">https://reason.com/2021/02/06/its-official-linguistic-intent-no-longer-matters-at-the-new-york-times</a> Zero surprise.",
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"content": "https://reason.com/2021/02/06/its-official-linguistic-intent-no-longer-matters-at-the-new-york-times Zero surprise.",
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"content": "<a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/IanCrossland\" target=\"_blank\">@IanCrossland</a> So I heard you like graphene :D<br /><br />Thermal motion fluctuations of graphene atoms can be used to induce a low frequency electric current. Potential use, limitless clean power for low voltage small electronic devices and sensors. <a href=\"https://www.resonancescience.org/blog/Graphene-Proves-That-Brownian-Motion-Can-Be-A-Source-of-Energy\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.resonancescience.org/blog/Graphene-Proves-That-Brownian-Motion-Can-Be-A-Source-of-Energy</a>",
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"content": "@IanCrossland So I heard you like graphene :D\n\nThermal motion fluctuations of graphene atoms can be used to induce a low frequency electric current. Potential use, limitless clean power for low voltage small electronic devices and sensors. https://www.resonancescience.org/blog/Graphene-Proves-That-Brownian-Motion-Can-Be-A-Source-of-Energy",
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"content": "A longing for a relationally non existent point in space and time. <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnacdOIoTBQ\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnacdOIoTBQ</a>",
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"content": "A longing for a relationally non existent point in space and time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnacdOIoTBQ",
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"content": "<a href=\"https://www.spreaker.com/user/tomluongo/episode-66-robert-barnes-and-why-levitat\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.spreaker.com/user/tomluongo/episode-66-robert-barnes-and-why-levitat</a><br /><br />Good discussion of tech t&c and law, sec 230 etc.",
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"content": "https://www.spreaker.com/user/tomluongo/episode-66-robert-barnes-and-why-levitat\n\nGood discussion of tech t&c and law, sec 230 etc.",
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"content": "Adhesion Contract:<br />Every online T&C ever, extending to banking and mobile/cell phone carriers (in the western world a practical necessity even for the unemployed and poor in order to even get access to social safety net systems). Take it or leave it non-negotiable contracts where power disproportionately skews to one side. <br /><br />Enforceability in the US jurisdiction relies upon a judgement of what the weaker party would reasonable expect. There is a legal argument to be made that all big social media adhesion contracts with their users are unreasonable, which would make them null and void, and the censorship no longer enforceable. <a href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adhesion-contract.asp\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adhesion-contract.asp</a>",
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"content": "Adhesion Contract:\nEvery online T&C ever, extending to banking and mobile/cell phone carriers (in the western world a practical necessity even for the unemployed and poor in order to even get access to social safety net systems). Take it or leave it non-negotiable contracts where power disproportionately skews to one side. \n\nEnforceability in the US jurisdiction relies upon a judgement of what the weaker party would reasonable expect. There is a legal argument to be made that all big social media adhesion contracts with their users are unreasonable, which would make them null and void, and the censorship no longer enforceable. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adhesion-contract.asp",
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"content": "Trying to remember Galois fields, all I'm retrieving is the duel.",
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"content": "Australia's impressive prohibited weapon list includes personal body armor, nunchaku, slingshots and laser pointers, among flamethrowers, missile launchers, and all kinds of guns and knives. <br />Violent crime still exists.",
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"content": "Australia's impressive prohibited weapon list includes personal body armor, nunchaku, slingshots and laser pointers, among flamethrowers, missile launchers, and all kinds of guns and knives. \nViolent crime still exists.",
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"content": "On the profile page you can view your content by type including video, image and blog, is there a way to 'track/search/view' comments you made on other posts or posts you liked? <br />Short of creating a custom hashtag to include in the comments I can't think of a way to find them again, and so far my test hasn't worked with global search though maybe it takes time to index new hashtags.",
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"content": "On the profile page you can view your content by type including video, image and blog, is there a way to 'track/search/view' comments you made on other posts or posts you liked? \nShort of creating a custom hashtag to include in the comments I can't think of a way to find them again, and so far my test hasn't worked with global search though maybe it takes time to index new hashtags.",
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"content": "\"Digital Media Scholar\", noun: one who cannot code, do the necessary math or build any useful technology but will pontificate normatives at nauseum. <br /><br />The following relates to a very clickbaity titled article from such an individual, <a href=\"https://archive.is/M3ayt\" target=\"_blank\">https://archive.is/M3ayt</a><br /><br />Let me preface that I dislike having to defend Google and their A/B testing practices, and an option to specifically opt into such tests perhaps even with monetary incentives would increase user agency and be a net good. However, the article uses hyperbolic rhetoric equating A/B testing, a tech standard practice when implementing new features or changing existing logic as it pertains to user experience, with the weight of actual medical experiments (pointing here to the loaded language used), not to mention the politicised opinion of what outlets are considered disinformation based on their political leanings. <br /><br /><br />Full transparency that reveals what specific feature of an algorithm or interface is being tested may actually taint user response, without even getting into the whole their platform/code base their right arguments. Granted some research at tech companies spills into social psychology and so requiring consent when performing these types of trials is a valid concern, such tests still need to be conducted in a way that minimises bias, and a complete \"open-label\" approach often does not accomplish this. The proposed government encroachment into the tech industry is also concerning in itself which would have its own perverted consequences.<br /><br />Additionally, let's not forget that any marketing agency or PR firm has been engaging in similar social experimentation and actual intentional audience manipulation, not to mention the dubious ethics of data brokers. To single out A/B tests is a way to ride the wave of the currently hip and politicised big tech hate while conflating nuanced issues.<br /><br />Furthermore, the author, based on included links, appears a proponent of the Australian government proposed legislation to force tech platforms to pay for the privilege of users posting links to specific news media sites and driving those site's traffic. The downunder version of EU's Article 11. It is perfectly legitimate to be vehemently opposed to the mass user data collection of the likes of Google or Facebook which often goes beyond the scope of use of their products, but the hyperlink issue is actually a different beast. The nuance here lies in one's understanding of what the world wide web is (a set of interconnected hyperlink documents), and how it functions, as well as how this will impact any smaller current and future players in the platform space. <br /><br />Lastly, as the mighty digital media scholar of this article seems oblivious, social media site users have the power if they so choose to deprive news media sites of traffic and ad revenue completely, they can use an archive link to the URL instead, or in the most bare bones way, use a pastebin-like site text only copy-paste method when sharing links in the event that direct links are banned by platforms. There are ways to circumvent the dying industry that is failing to evolve in the new technological realm (not the mention the public loss of trust in their output), the fact it requires a federal law to prob it up says it all.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=australia\" title=\"#australia\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#australia</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=google\" title=\"#google\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#google</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=australiavsgoogle\" title=\"#australiavsgoogle\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#australiavsgoogle</a>",
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"content": "\"Digital Media Scholar\", noun: one who cannot code, do the necessary math or build any useful technology but will pontificate normatives at nauseum. \n\nThe following relates to a very clickbaity titled article from such an individual, https://archive.is/M3ayt\n\nLet me preface that I dislike having to defend Google and their A/B testing practices, and an option to specifically opt into such tests perhaps even with monetary incentives would increase user agency and be a net good. However, the article uses hyperbolic rhetoric equating A/B testing, a tech standard practice when implementing new features or changing existing logic as it pertains to user experience, with the weight of actual medical experiments (pointing here to the loaded language used), not to mention the politicised opinion of what outlets are considered disinformation based on their political leanings. \n\n\nFull transparency that reveals what specific feature of an algorithm or interface is being tested may actually taint user response, without even getting into the whole their platform/code base their right arguments. Granted some research at tech companies spills into social psychology and so requiring consent when performing these types of trials is a valid concern, such tests still need to be conducted in a way that minimises bias, and a complete \"open-label\" approach often does not accomplish this. The proposed government encroachment into the tech industry is also concerning in itself which would have its own perverted consequences.\n\nAdditionally, let's not forget that any marketing agency or PR firm has been engaging in similar social experimentation and actual intentional audience manipulation, not to mention the dubious ethics of data brokers. To single out A/B tests is a way to ride the wave of the currently hip and politicised big tech hate while conflating nuanced issues.\n\nFurthermore, the author, based on included links, appears a proponent of the Australian government proposed legislation to force tech platforms to pay for the privilege of users posting links to specific news media sites and driving those site's traffic. The downunder version of EU's Article 11. It is perfectly legitimate to be vehemently opposed to the mass user data collection of the likes of Google or Facebook which often goes beyond the scope of use of their products, but the hyperlink issue is actually a different beast. The nuance here lies in one's understanding of what the world wide web is (a set of interconnected hyperlink documents), and how it functions, as well as how this will impact any smaller current and future players in the platform space. \n\nLastly, as the mighty digital media scholar of this article seems oblivious, social media site users have the power if they so choose to deprive news media sites of traffic and ad revenue completely, they can use an archive link to the URL instead, or in the most bare bones way, use a pastebin-like site text only copy-paste method when sharing links in the event that direct links are banned by platforms. There are ways to circumvent the dying industry that is failing to evolve in the new technological realm (not the mention the public loss of trust in their output), the fact it requires a federal law to prob it up says it all.\n\n#australia #google #australiavsgoogle",
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