av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 13, 2020 | Lästipset
På torsdagskvällen lanserade Apple macOS Big Sur och fick samtidigt stora problem med ett av sina säkerhetssystemen – en funktion som kontrollerar de program du startar i din Mac.
macOS kontrollerar nämligen program som du startar och det görs med kommunikation med Apple – om datorn är uppkopplad. Jeffrey Paul är säkerhetskonsult, hackare och grundare av EEQJ, ett konsultföretag.
It’s here. It happened. Did you notice?
I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about.
On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.
It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slowand it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.
Jeffrey Paul
Tack till Christoffer för tipset.
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 29, 2020 | Lästipset
Sara Silverman är en av USAs mest kända komiker – hon har en egen show, syns ofta i tv-sofforna när hon inte gästspelar i filmer och tv-serier. 2007 fick hon hård kritik för att några år tidigare målat sig svart – blackface – i en sketch. Kritiken och upprördheten kostade henne en filmroll.
Frågan är när är det tid för att förlåta, låta saker vara och gå vidare?
Sarah Silverman has argued in favour of a “path to redemption” for people facing instances of “cancel culture”.
The comedian herself has faced backlash for wearing blackface in a 2007 sketch. She said last year that she lost out on a movie role due to a resurfaced photo of the sequence.
She referred to Christian Picciolini, a former skinhead who left a white supremacist movement in 1996 and has since worked as an activist against hate groups. Silverman interviewed Picciolini in an episode of her series I Love You, America in 2017.
The Independent
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 25, 2020 | Lästipset
EVEN WITH A knee injury, Maddie Stone is formidable. As she sets up to do modified circuits at her San Francisco Olympic weightlifting gym—essentially a glorified garage and driveway that have been converted into an indoor/outdoor workout space—she’s totally at ease, even gleeful despite the chilly January fog. I joke nervously that if I end up puking in a trash can while Maddie is crushing reps, it’ll at least make for a good anecdote. Casually setting the clips on her loaded barbell she flashes one of her trademark grins. “You could probably make it happen!”
Stone’s smile and easy laugh may be her most recognizable traits, but her determination reveals itself quickly, too. Her bum knee has been keeping her from doing her preferred workouts—everything from wall stands to the rowing machine is now off limits—so she settles for modified lifts and grinds away on upper-body machines. (“Now is the time to get Michelle Obama arms.”) After years playing competitive tennis in her youth, Stone, now 29, is more used to knee surgeries than she would like. Moving her focus to Olympic lifting and hiking during her twenties didn’t help. Last year she even summited Mount Kilimanjaro.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 27, 2020 | Lästipset
Internt får ledningen för Facebook hård kritik för att slippa igenom hat, rasism och vara för slapphänt mot Donald Trump.
Stora delar av den amerikanska användarbasen tycker tvärtom – att Facebook censurerar och slår mot konservativa åsikter.
Mark Zuckerberg, grundare, försöker hitta en medelväg och hålla sig i mitten.
In 2020, Facebook would be roiled by a global pandemic, internal protests over racial injustice, a deeply polarizing election, and the ongoing threat of multiple state and federal investigations into antitrust and privacy. But on the morning of July 16th, Mark Zuckerberg found his workforce asking for something else: their missing office snacks.
A major sell to candidates is our office perks include free food, read the question, which had ranked near the top of questions asked that week in an internal poll. And now, with work from home, we’ve lost a huge financial part of our package. What is the plan on this?
The Verge
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 15, 2020 | Lästipset
BuzzFeed News har kommit över ett långt internt PM, från Facebook, där en av deras egna forskare varnar för att främmande makt använder Facebooks plattform för att sprida falsk information för att påverka användare. I rapporten finns konkreta exempel på hur främmande makt, andra stater, använt Facebook för politisk manipulation.
Forskaren, Sophie Zhang, säger att hon hittade flera flagranta exempel på manipulation och olika former av försök att påverka användare – väljare.
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections and political affairs around the world, according to an explosive memo sent by a recently fired Facebook employee and obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The 6,600-word memo, written by former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang, is filled with concrete examples of heads of government and political parties in Azerbaijan and Honduras using fake accounts or misrepresenting themselves to sway public opinion. In countries including India, Ukraine, Spain, Bolivia, and Ecuador she found evidence of coordinated campaigns of varying sizes to boost or hinder political candidates or outcomes, though she did not always conclude who was behind them.
BuzzFeed News
Av rapporten framgår också att Facebook antingen agerat mycket långsamt eller inte reagerat och gjort något alls.
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 8, 2020 | Lästipset
Nyligen lanserade Disney storfilmen Mulan och släppte den som köp/hyrfilm. En film som spelats in i Kina till stora delar och där Disney också valt att tacka bland annat fyra propagandamyndigheter i eftertexterna.
Disneys tack till den kinesiska diktaturen kommer i skenet av gripanden, interneringar av närmare en miljon Uighurer, skriver Washington Post.
The most devastating part of “Mulan,” Disney’s much-anticipated live-action remake of the 1998 animated film, isn’t the story. It’s the credits. The film retells the ancient Chinese tale of Hua Mulan, a filial daughter who dresses as a man to join the army, honor her father and save the emperor. While the film engenders pride for China, it does so with a subtle touch: Besides a few mentions of defending the Silk Road, a favorite trading route of Chinese Communist Party leaderXi Jinping, little links it to the modern-day country. The New York Times called it “lightly funny and a little sad, filled with ravishing landscapes.”
Washington Post
