Jon

jdp23@neuromatch.social

strategist, software engineer, entrepreneur, activist ... and I run the Nexus of Privacy newsletter (<a href="https://privacy.thenexus.today" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://privacy.thenexus.today</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy" class="u-url mention">@thenexusofprivacy</a>, @thenexusofprivacy.net on Bluesky, and <a href="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/thenexusofprivacy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/thenexusofprivacy</a>I've been on the fediv

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Post #4124942
RE: https://mstdn.social/@mattmay/116988858841146726 Very important! A group of people I know tested out the time for mail to be delivered in Washington state a couple of months ago, and while it's often quite fast there are times where even going between adjacent zip codes can take up to ten days. For the August 4 primary in Washington, at this point it's better to drop off your ballots at a drop box -- King County Elections has a map of all the dropboxes in Washington state. If you a...
Post #4026310
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116841848684568048 How can fedi help fight bad internet bills? (1/N) If you haven't read Christine's "What happened to the fight for the internet?" (linked in the quoted post), you really should. You can see some of my initial thoughts about Christine's excellent post in the replies, including an observation that people on decentralized social networks can potentially play a big role in pushing back on bad internet bills, but to date haven...
Post #4022728
Mods and admins: what (if any) policies does your instance have about LLM-driven reply bot accounts? A few specific questions: If the accounts profile gives the impression that it's human, that's arguably impersonation -- although depending on just how the impersonation rule is worded, maybe not. If you have a rule about impersonation, how does it cover this case? If it doesn't set the "automated" flag, is it a violation of your rules? If so what's the wording of...
Post #3584970
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116845902133405690 An excellent thread here. So much of what I see people pointing to as LLM's benefits for coding relates to long-standing problems in software engineering that the field just hasn't addressed. And LLMs don't solve these problems, at best the just paper them over and make dealing with them less tedious -- while reinforcing the problematic dynamics. So yes it's great that people with no programming skills can create s...
Post #1571027
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116448394687799722 Today I noticed that the Quiet Posters feed on Bluesky wasn't working for me. Why's that? Hmm ... this might well have something to do with it 🤣 EDIT: it gets better. It turns out he didn't block me individually; instead he followed an "anti-AI ai haters" blocklist I'm on. 🤣 #bluesky
Post #657755
RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116210928508477743 A major victory -- although the fight still isn't over. From the article: "In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to...