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What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Generally, the media has focused on the (mainly) men whose names and desires were taken from the company’s subscriber database and shared with the world. [...] Ashley Madison was never really about that. Avid Life Media, its parent company, wasn’t in the business of sex, it was in the business of bots. Its site became a prototype for what social media platforms such as Facebook are becoming: places so packed with AI-generated nonsense that they feel like spam cages, or information prisons where the only messages that get through are auto-generated ads.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Thank you for your kind words.

I have been writing for most of my life. You can for example read (a copy of) the Alt.Best.Of.Internet FAQ I wrote in 1994. [1]

[1] https://www.itmaze.com.au/articles/aboi-faq

I tend to write how I speak and attempt to create enough context so a casual reader on the topic can come away with something whilst still discussing the complexity for someone more versed in the subject.

I have written articles about identity theft, authentication over the phone, as well as other technology issues relevant to the public at large. [2]

[3] https://github.com/ITmaze/articles

I also write a weekly article about the hobby of amateur radio and have done so for over 13 years. It's published as an audio podcast, with email, video and Morse code versions. [4]

[4] https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/

As for the suggestion of a TED talk, I've considered it, but haven't found a topic worthy of the platform.

As a radio amateur I publish using my callsign, VK6FLAB, as an IT professional, it's under my company, ITmaze.

Some other articles:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

use Netiquette

Wow, I haven't heard that in long time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I re-read it and loved the: "Always fasten your seatbelt on the Information Highway", but I'm fairly certain that Malinda McColl wrote it (as part of the mini FAQ on which I expanded with her blessing).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can for example read (a copy of) the Alt.Best.Of.Internet FAQ I wrote in 1994.

The elders🙇‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Hey, I resemble that remark!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

73 🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

🛜5️⃣9️⃣9️⃣ and 7️⃣3️⃣ to both of you!

No callsign though... (yet?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's published as an audio podcast, with email, video and Morse code versions.

Any chance of a SSTV version? 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As it happens it's already on my radar.

That said, I'm not convinced that the YouTube video version is worthy of being transmitted on SSTV, given that it's a waterfall display of the audio.