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New #blog post: Stylometric fingerprinting redux.
Avoid de-anonymization through analysis of your writing style. Defend against machine- and human-driven stylometric identification.
This is an expanded version of a previous microblog about stylometric fingerprinting. Feedback welcome, esp. from anyone with a stylometry or linguistic close-reading background. Excerpt:
To paint with a broad brush, we can divide most stylometric fingerprinting into machine- and human-driven techniques.Machine-driven techniques: These techniques involve analysis of reading level metrics, unusual words, machine-identifiable grammatical and spelling errors, and statistical analysis of writing style. A great amount of recent research studies statistical analysis of writing style; it’s a rapidly-evolving field. Human-driven techniques: There are some areas in which manual analysis still beats computers. Someone you know may recognize your writing style.
New #blog post: An experiment to test GitHub Copilot’s legality.
A little thought experiment to see if we can determine Copilot’s legality. It’s ridiculous enough that it just might have some insightful message buried deep.
Excerpt:
I am not a lawyer. This post is satirical commentary on:
- The absurdity of Microsoft and OpenAI’s legal justification for GitHub Copilot.
- The oversimplifications people use to argue against GitHub Copilot (I don’t like it when people agree with me for the wrong reasons).
- The relationship between capital and legal outcomes.
- How civil cases seem like sporting events where people “win” or “lose”, rather than opportunities improve our understanding of law.
In the process, I intentionally misrepresent how the judicial system works: I portray the system the way people like to imagine it works. Please don’t make any important legal decisions based on anything I say.
An experiment to test GitHub Copilot's legality
A horrible idea to determine the legality of GitHub Copilot, or of re-creating proprietary speech synthesizers: create legal precedent that doesn't exist yet!Seirdy's Home
A new #blog post appears!
I discuss porting chibicc and kefir, two C compilers, to #OpenBSD.
briancallahan.net/blog/2022062…
#compile #compiler #compilers #C #Unix #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #BSD #program #programs #programming
New #blog post: Two types of privacy. I define and compare the terms “Tracking reduction” and “Tracking avoidance”.
Excerpt:
When qualifying privacy recommendations with context, I think we should go further than describing threat models: we should acknowledge different types of privacy. “Privacy” means different things to different people. Even a single person may use the word “privacy” differently depending on their situation. Understanding a user’s unique situation(s), including their threat models, can inform us when we select the best of approach. How do we choose between reducing a footprint’s spread and size?
Feedback welcome, now matter how insignificant.
Two types of privacy
"Privacy" can mean different things in different contexts. Tracking-reduction and tracking-evasion represent different goals with some conflict and overlap.Seirdy's Home
A #blog post about the new release of #Freshermeat :
cedricbonhomme.org/2022/05/10/…
Freshermeat 0.8.1
I’ve recently released Freshermeat 0.8.1 and Freshermeat 0.8.0, which contains bug fixes, some backend improvements (especially for the CVE fetcher) and a brand new API based on the Flask-RESTX library.Cedric's website
Since I woke up, and there's new users here, #introduction
I am Joel, #Mexican, 21, studying #Mechatronics but I enjoy learning other things online instead
I like #FOSS and styling my stuff, such as #android, #linux or my #blog
I like meeting new people, my attempts at humor are terrible, my #origami posts get kinda famous, I enjoy getting into new #hobbies
Interests: #gamedev #inkscape #blogging #vim #selfhosting #raspberrypk #coding #podcasts #manga #anime #reading #citypop #daftpunk