Ben Tasker

Ben Tasker

@bentasker.co.uk

General Geek - I'm pretty good at fixing things and very good at working out how to break them. Basically, my cores are trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. Blog at https://www.bentasker.co.uk

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Robin Ince
@robinince.bsky.social

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

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Zoe Gardner
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social

Replying to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

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Zoe Gardner
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social

Replying to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social

2. Countries that have ID cards - like the whole of Europe - still have the same irregular migration problem (you may have heard!!!) & in fact the UK has the lowest share of its economy estimated as irregular economy in Europe so if it fixes the issue WHY DIDNT IT FIX IT THERE?

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Zoe Gardner
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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Janelle Shane
@janelleshane.com

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine@daviddlevine.com

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

theregister.comLLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Yes, yes, this is a serious person testifying before Congress that Canada is less open to free speech than North Korea. Tell me again that Bari Weiss's publication (for whom this person works) is a trustworthy publication on speech issues.

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social

The Free Press lady - Rupa Subramanya - opens with the claim that Germany, France, and Canada have less free speech than North Korea. Bold thinking! She's reading an opening statement I don't see posted anywhere. I think she complained ab some European countries penalizing people over swastikas?

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Heather Burns
@heatherburnstech.bsky.social

I am (unsurprisingly) fairly burnt out on the OSA, having attended my first meeting on it in June 2019, so I'm only dealing with it for paid clients. But I take no pleasure in seeing those six years of warnings now turning into "I told you so"s.

Ben Tasker@bentasker.co.uk

New Blog: Performing an Online Safety Act Assessment For mastodon.bentasker.co.uk https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html?utm_source=rss

bentasker.co.ukPerforming an Online Safety Act Assessment For mastodon.bentasker.co.ukI've been having a bit of a paperworky Sunday, sitting down and catching up with some of the admin on my list. It's never a