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Errr... I hate to be the bearer of bad news but both the US and the UK have also been heading more and more towards authoritarian governments. Free speech as we knew it is being slowly (and sometimes not so slowly) killed.
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fgs1963 wrote: I hate to be the bearer of bad news but both the US and the UK have also been heading more and more towards authoritarian governments.
and even faster
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Unfortunately a true statement. Neither party in the US is interested in working for the average American.
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OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface (API). But what about my homework!?
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Who's ChatGPT and what API? 
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Microsoft has introduced a new protective feature in the Authenticator app to block notifications that appear suspicious based on specific checks performed during the account login stage. Cautiously optimisitc, while admittedly thinking about the number of legit emails outlook.com trashes.
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I'd saw this change when I was on vacation in October. Wondered what it was about.
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If it is from MS, fine, allow it, else block it all!
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The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has officially ended its strike, which lasted for nearly four months, after reaching a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios. In its announcement, it said it was able to secure a contract "valued at over 1 billion dollars" and that it was able to negotiate "above-pattern" compensation increases, as well as "unprecedented provisions for consent and compensation that will protect members from the threat of AI." Eventually, he never moved at all, but his eyes always stayed open ... staring ahead forever all though the darkness of each night.
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Our 10 person startup gets acquired by Google, we rebuild our product the Google way, and begin to understand that amazing things are possible at Google, if you play the Google game. A follow up to What I learned at Venmo and What I learned at Socratic Google: "We'll forget about you, stop maintaining your ship, and you'll drift aimlessly on our ocean for some years until one of the directors scuttles your ship on a whim."
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Omegle — the site that matched random strangers and served as entertainment for some Gen Z sleepovers, but also had a disturbing side — will shut down. Does anyone want to join a Zoom call so I can play and sing you the Thundercats theme song while wearing a Lion-O T-Shirt? I do the cat growl.
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Sean Ewington wrote: wearing a Lion-O T-Shirt?
As long as it is not the mankini...   
I'll get the coat and head the way out
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The startup behind Halo is aiming for a future where a wearable headband can give people the experience of awakening in a lucid dream. Ever heard of Rekall? They sell those fake memories. A friend of mine tried one their "special offers," nearly got himself lobotomized.
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Certain mushrooms will give you similar experiences. Um, or so they say. 
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Various lawmakers in different countries are proposing to require messaging services to provide a mechanism for law enforcement to decrypt end-to-end encrypted messages. This kind of legislation fundamentally misunderstands how easy it is for bad people to build their own end-to-end encryption layers on top of other messaging systems. I'm not sure if writing code on GitHub to be run in a terminal is going to change policy makers' minds.
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The first time this came up in the US under President Clinton a group of researchers challenged the NSA to decipher their transmission from the University of Hawaii to the University of California. They gave the NSA the exact start time as well as the starting and ending IP addresses. The NSA couldn't decipher it. Turns out they transmitted, in clear, data from the telescopes in Hawaii to their colleagues in California. Needless to say, this was one of the reasons the US stopped, at least for a while, the idiocy of trying to have the government be able to snoop on data transmissions.
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So is US Post service exempt from this. What stopping me encrypting a letter, and communicating if both got the decryption.
add in PO box, and some shady trench coats, shades and hat, I wonder how long before I would be investigated
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25-30 years ago, NSA tried to introduce an encryption chip called 'Clipper' to be included in every phone across the USA (this was before the cellular age). Encryption would be end-to-end, but noone tried to hide the fact that NSA had a backdoor, so they could eavesdrop on every phone conversation in the nation - but "of course" they would do that only under special circumstances of grave crime. Together with Clipper came a ban on any other kind of encryption.
Clipper never was adopted. I think that was a pity. It would have given everyone the freedom to employ any end-to-end encryption without being detected. Or rather: If you were accused of using your own encryption, that would prove that NSA was eavesdropping your phone line, suggesting that you are a bad criminal. If that had happened to me, I guess I would have taken it to court, demanding a compensation for NSA ruining my reputation.
Well, since I am not living in the US of A, it wouldn't happen to me, at least not in the US of A. Norwegian authorities are very eager to follow up demands made by US authorities, so chances are that if US of A had implemented it, we probably would have, too.
In the early years of IP to the home, ISPs let you install SIP software on your PC to replace your old POTS line. There is a selection of SIP clients providing encryption on transmitted data/speech. After a few years, the SIP service was replaced by 'IP phones', which to the customer is a black box with a 1930-style analog phone socket. It uses the same IP line as your ordinary internet traffic, but on a separate channel that you cannot address from your PC. If you ask why you cannot have direct SIP access, you are told that it is 'for security reasons'. I read that as 'because the security services doesn't accept that phone conversations can be encrypted.
Of course I can still install SIP software on my PC and connect to some privately managed SIP server. That would allow me encrypted connections to anyone else connected (directly or indirectly) to the same SIP server. Not to anyone else. Not to any old (but digital, of course) phone - not even unencrypted. The SIP network I would connect to would be a completely closed world, with no connection to neither POTS, the IP phone service delivered by various phone companies or any other eavesdroppable network.
Maybe it never occurred to NSA and their buddies that those cruel criminals may have been using such a closed phone network for years. Maybe even today. SIP clients for Android are available; I guess they can do end-to-end encryption. To the ISP (and eavesdroppers), it would look like another binary data transfer, probably TLS encrypted to the SIP server to hide information about who you are calling. (That might be unveiled by spying on traffic in and out of the SIP site, but if it is big, handling thousands of calls, it would be quite difficult.)
SIP is not for handling the data channel; the intended use is that you and your peer use SIP to agree on a direct channel. Those phone company provided SIP servers didn't do it that way: They gave you a channel where they had the other end - so they could eavesdrop on it. Maybe having managing a SIP server privately, for your own group(s) only, would be better for privacy, after all!
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Go runtime is not aware of the CPU limits set on the container and will happily use all the CPU available. This has bitten me in the past, leading to high latency, in this blog I’ll explain what is going on and how to fix it. Or you could use CPU reservations instead of limits.
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Microsoft now wants you to explain exactly why you’re attempting to close its OneDrive for Windows app before it allows you to do so. Needs an option that says, "Because it's my computer."
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Sean Ewington wrote: "Because it's my computer."
But it isn't your operating system. You own a license to use it, not the OS itself.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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TNCaver wrote: You own a license to use it, not the OS itself.
But ... What I want is not to use it! (or this part of it)
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iMessage serves as “an important gateway between business users and their customers” and should be regulated as a “core” service under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), said Google and a group of major European telcos in a letter sent to the European Commission, and seen by The Financial Times. Being designated as a “core platform service” would be significant for iMessage, as it could compel Apple to make it interoperable with other messaging services. My Trillian IM hasn't been able to access Google Chat for about two years now. How about opening up your messaging APIs, eh Google?
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In response to a request for documents pertaining to the decision-making behind the proposed CSAM regulation, the European Commission failed to disclose a list of companies who were consulted about the technical feasibility of detecting CSAM without undermining encryption. This list “clearly fell within the scope” of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ request. The next time there are elections for the Commission I will ... hey, wait a minute!
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This again exposes a fundamental problem with the EU - unelected bureaucrats are running the EU.
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