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In 2008, when Senator Conroy was trying to fuck over the Internet, Geordie wanted to show the absurdity of the “Refused Classification” category.
It was already illegal to publish RC material in Australia, but hardly anyone knew what what it meant. So he illustrated it. Literally.
One of the criteria for RC is “publications which are intended to instruct in the commission of a crime against the Commonwealth.” Obviously intended by wowsers to censor information about how to cook meth or whatever, but people who wrote the rules weren’t very precise and they cast an absolutist net.
In his various travels, Geordie had discovered that it’s a Commonwealth crime to graze livestock on the Parliament House lawns in Canberra.
So he commissioned an artist to draw a cartoon which provided step by step instructions to teach the reader how to transport a herd of giraffe to the ACT, tether them on the roof of APH, and induce them to eat.
He published the giraffe cartoon on one of his blogs and publicly dared ACMA to issue a takedown notice, which they declined to do, proving that ACMA was arbitrarily and selectively enforcing a very clear cut online content regulation, perhaps making them poor custodians of the power to determine whether the Christian lobby could successfully ban abortion information.
He LOVED finding weird loopholes like this. We’d spend ages on the phone cackling about how to exploit the most absurdly obscure regs to humiliate the regulator. Top shelf.
I make my own fidget toys. My favourite is this MASSIVE NUT you can spin on your fingers.
If you want one, the files are on thingiverse: https://thingiverse.com/thing:6143237
A massive nut that spins on your finger.You will need:1 x M36 nut (e.g. this one)1 x 6804 ball bearing. I highly recommend using a fully ceramic bearing for maximum spinning times (e.g. this one or this one)2 x of these things printed.Thingiverse
can i present a concept to yall that had invaded my head recently
open source music.
so like, as someone who is a musician, i listen to tons of music as well, and i often find sounds or samples or techniques that i like in certain artists' songs and want to replicate in my musical style
but there's no information on how they did it or what DAWs/instruments they used
so like, hear me out. what if we kept some sort of "how i produced this track" type of log for everyone to see
Fox in the city, fox in the city tonight~ 🎵
✂️ @lupesuits
📷 @ShadowRK9 & me
#FursuitFriday #furry #fursuit #LupeSuits #FoxFursuit #FurryFox #AustralianFurry #FursuitPhoto #FursuitPhotography #Aurawra
Blogs are still a thing, and blogs have always been a thing. They didn't go anywhere. My technical blog is thriving.
People come back to old posts constantly.
Something I posted 10 months ago is still my top performing post. Social media posts are ephemeral & if something happens to your content - it's gone.
Host your own blog, control your content. My social media posts may max out at 500-1000 views but my page views have a consistent baseline of 30k/a month. And I haven't posted in a bit.
I don't think anyone in history has ever calmed down when told "calm down."
Yet, for some reason, this is still the first thing everyone says.
I find people confusing.
(To clarify: nothing's happening to me - I'm just people watching XD)
Analysis of water samples gathered by citizen scientists reveal a "worrying" find, an expert says.Richard Daniel (BBC News)
"You get more conservative when you get older" only really worked for the generations that got RICHER as they got older.
The real truth was always just "You get more selfish the more money you have".
#conservative #conservatives #conservatism #economics #economy #politics
In all our public spaces you shouldn't have to go more than a few blocks to
Which side are you on in the war?
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Economics #Capitalism
Not only is this design cool, it refreshingly lacks any "anti-homeless" shit
https://fribygda.no/@amici/112881120433479810
Attached: 1 image #libraries #books #designFribygda - anarkistisk bygd ute på allheimen!
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ANom
Saturday at 13:00 in LVCC - L3 - W322-W327 (Warstories Track)
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Jos e R Cox Investigative Journalist Co-Founder ot HOY Media
In 2018, a secure communications app called Anom started to gain popularity among organized criminals. Soon, top tier drug traffickers were using it all over the world. Because they thought their messages were secure, smugglers and hitmen coordinated high stakes crimes across the platform. But Anom had a secret: it was secretly run by the FBI. For years Joseph Cox has investigated the inside story of Anom, speaking to people who coded the app, those who sold it, criminals who chatted across it, and the FBI agents who surreptitiously managed it. This new talk, building on details from his recent book DARK WIRE, will include never-before-published technical details on how the Anom network functioned, how the backdoor itself worked, and how Anom grew to such a size that the FBI started to lose control of its own creation.
It will also reflect on how police have entered a new phase of compromising entire encrypted phone networks, with little to no debate from the public, and provide critical insight on what really happens when authorities introduce a backdoor into a telecommunications product.
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INnside the FBIl's Secret Encrypted Phonmne Company ] ]
ANom
Saturday at 13:00 in LVCC - L3 - W322-W327 (Warstories Track)
EEEN TS
Jos e R Cox Investigative Journalist Co-Founder ot HOY Media
In 2018, a secure communications app called Anom started to gain popularity among organized criminals. Soon, top tier drug traffickers were using it all over the world. Because they thought their messages were secure, smugglers and hitmen coordinated high stakes crimes across the platform. But Anom had a secret: it was secretly run by the FBI. For years Joseph Cox has investigated the inside story of Anom, speaking to people who coded the app, those who sold it, criminals who chatted across it, and the FBI agents who surreptitiously managed it. This new talk, building on details from his recent book DARK WIRE, will include never-before-published technical details on how the Anom network functioned, how the backdoor itself worked, and how Anom grew to such a size that the FBI started to lose control of its own creation.
It will also reflect on how police have entered a new phase of compromising entire encrypted phone networks, with little to no debate from the public, and provide critical insight on what really happens when authorities introduce a backdoor into a telecommunications product.
DARK WIRE: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever, June 4th, 2024: link")
Peruse the fantastic lineup of speakers presenting DEF CON 32 Talksdefcon.org
Content warning: uspol, furries, kink, Elon Musk, the world is a joke
Cloudflare making headlines again, probably not the way it would prefer. From @dangoodin at Ars: A familiar debate is once again surrounding Cloudflare, the content delivery network that provides a free service that protects websites from being take…Infosec Exchange
Results of LA’s 3-year basic income experiment were “transformative”. It gave people “time and space” to improve their lives by “landing better jobs, leaving unsafe living conditions and escaping abusive relationships”. https://www.latimes.Mastodon
“Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai
> When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions
Like I've been saying, we don't need the term "slop". Consumers have decided that "AI" in its entirety is bullshit. And, honestly, they’re right.
Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
Today is #EarthOvershootDay – the day we've exhausted all the natural resources that the Earth can produce for 2024.
We would need 1.7 Earths to sustain our current rate of consumption.
This is why our #EUGreenDeal aims to give more back to nature than we take away from it.
@ret oh wow, didn’t realise it applied retroactively, but here you go if it works, will add to the 28p profit I’ve made from charging my car today 😜
Full disclaimer given kink context, it will show me the name on the account (and nothing more) when you use it. That does not go anywhere beyond my eyeballs, if I even notice it with how forgetful I am, but transparency is everything.
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