halama_immuno

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physician-scientist, immunologist, oncologist, developer of novel therapies, computer nerd, principal investigator,...[my own views only]
https://www.dkfz.de/en/translationale-immuntherapie/index.php

No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for machine-learning/AI/LLM development or training.

Plumeria beginning to appear

Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online.

We wrote about why this is a terrible idea and what should happen instead.
https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online

We must keep age verification from killing anonymity online | Proton

Powerful forces are exploiting parents’ fears to strengthen their toxic business models. Here’s how we stop them.

Proton
We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities

We discovered a privacy vulnerability in Firefox Private Browsing and Tor Browser that allows websites to fingerprint and track users across origins using IndexedDB database ordering, even after closing all private windows.

Fingerprint
What's the leaf equivalent of bloom scrolling?

#Photography

Edit: #LeafScrolling obviously...
Also: #LeafingThrough

The English word ‘fabric’ is a notorious false friend of Spanish ‘fábrica’: a fabric is a material, while a fábrica is a factory.

However, these words are real cognates: they stem from the same Latin word: ‘fabrica’.

This Latin word even produced ‘forge’.

Click to learn all about these words. For those interested in how ‘fabrica’ could ever evolve into words such as ‘forge’, I described the sound changes step by step.

First #defcon34 reading assignment!

As you may know, the DC34 theme is 'Agency'. Wresting self-determination from the machine.

The story 'The Machine Stops' by E.M. Forster contemplated a situation very like our own all the way back in 1909. One year after the introduction of the Model T.

Read, enjoy and share your thoughts.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890

#defcon #Homework #agency

Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study

AI chatbots can sound authoritative on health, but new research shows they often mislead, especially when users must interpret and apply the answers themselves.

The Conversation

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

That Privacy Guy!