Daily Archives: 2024-05-05

New Lawsuit Attempting to Make Adversarial Interoperability Legal

Source: Schneier on Security

Article note: This is going to be a wild ride. The language in Section 230 that was probably inserted to protect content blockers (think porn blockers) potentially also protects Ad blockers (yay!) and likely also adversarial API access for removing content.

Lots of complicated details here: too many for me to summarize well. It involves an obscure Section 230 provision—and an even more obscure typo. Read this.

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Shibboleth

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Hey! Relatively coherent, adult writing about the current middle east situation that admits there are no "good guy" political entities, only dead and suffering civilians. I hate that decade old grim predictions about the widespread rooting of oppression Olympics as the singular lens on society could lead nowhere good, no where coherent, and to performative-victimhood-as-power-play at all scales, but here we are.
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-Pad Slate, Everyone’s a WiiN-Er

Source: Hacker News

Article note: What a weird object. Data General field data terminal thingy, running WinowsCE, on a PowerPC chip. Possibly the last new product introduced before EMC ate DG.
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