Derek McAuley
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I do interdisciplinary research to understand the opportunities and challenges in personal data use: the technical, the social, and the policy and regulatory […] [bridged from https://mastodon.me.uk/@drdrmc on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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858TB of Government Data May Be Lost For Good After South Korea Data Center Fire
South Korea's government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a fire at a data center in Daejeon. From a report: As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for government services in Korea. Work to restore the data center is ongoing, but officials fear data stored on the government's G-Drive may be gone for good. G-Drive, which stands for Government Drive and is not a Google product, was used by government staff to keep documents and other files. Each worker was allocated 30GB of space. According to a report from The Chosun, the drive was one of 96 systems completely destroyed in the fire, and there is no backup. "The G-Drive couldn't have a backup system due to its large capacity," an unnamed official told The Chosun. "The remaining 95 systems have backup data in online or offline forms." While some departmers do not rely on G-Drive, those that do have been badly impacted in the aftermath of the fire. A source from the Ministry of Personnel Management said: "Employees stored all work materials on the G-Drive and used them as needed, but operations are now practically at a standstill." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #chatcontrol must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]
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The rarest of Monopoly Community Chest cards “Bank error in your favour, receive £3billion”
The Independent Headline “Data error gives Rachel Reeves an extra £3bn for Budget - but she still has to find up to £40bn Today at 18:19 Rachel Reeves has been handed a rare boost ahead of next month's Budget after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that government borrowing had been overstated by a cumulative £3bn after mistakes in recent public finances data.:.. StarHub 4G < 84 19:14 94% O The Independent UK - Millie Cooke Data error gives Rachel Reeves an extra £3bn for Budget - but she still has to find up to £40bn Today at 18:19 Rachel Reeves has been handed a rare boost ahead of next month's Budget after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that government borrowing had been overstated by a cumulative £3bn after mistakes in recent public finances data.
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Probably an earthing problem with the PA.
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@Floppy OK, based on this will give it another try…
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So because AI companies are currently blatantly ignoring (C) issues we have a secondary market in ransomware. Good grief. https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/
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@sellathechemist Various of my postdocs felt the same way and wanted to store research data places other than the university approved one (the PoS known as Sharepoint). Our solution was use it, ensuring the university held the legal liabilities, but encrypt data before upload…
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@1br0wn Seems like a policy of “let the EU take the Orange Turnip’s wrath”…
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@1br0wn Is this not just an example of “The CMA should consider the actions being taken by competition and/or consumer protection agencies in other jurisdictions internationally, and, where appropriate, seek to ensure parallel regulatory action is timely, coherent and avoids duplication”, of […]
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@1br0wn To me, the issue is what was the security classification applied to this information (stored in whatever form)…either it was misclassified as merely OFFSENS or if marked higher, there was a major security fuck up. Neither scenario paints the MoD in a good light.
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@hailey @1br0wn Who knew? Oh yeah, the whole of psychology.
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Watching live TV for the first time in who knows how long. I see topical ad “I have Telecare and I’m telling my provider” - so what’s that? 5 years after the ripping out copper shit hit the fan? Now we get a program to deal with it. Frak you OFCOM and BT.
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@cstross My wife, a children’s author, got a 1* as the first review of her first book because “this book is for children”. No shit Sherlock.
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@avsm I presume an interview question is “reverse engineer this pb script”? (Do know fediverse that in the Cambridge Corn Exchange there is a door with a label “do not open this door unless you know what is inside” - that sentiment applies to this toot).
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Actually a cursory glance at publications on the topic show complaints of a paucity of longitudinal data. So I’ll revert to the tried and tested auto-ethnography methodology - in my case, two out of my cohort of 25 became academics (even then I did it only 50% of my career, so make that 1.5).
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Originally seen on Slashdot, I thought well this is some Internet shite. But no, it’s a piece of shite from Nature. There is no evidence presented in the article that the ratio has changed. In most fields, there has always been way more PhD students than academic posts. <continues…> […]
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“Google has proposed a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow web developers to write web applications or browser extensions that call a local version of Google's Gemini Nano mode “ Monopoly is as Monopoly does […]
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