Legend has it Fupi is Sick Jan's passion project funded with all the money she saved through shady tax practices
This is just BB in disguise!
After a year in quarantine I feel that many of our managers are just like Fupi.
Just like a Pokémon, Fupi can only say his name; also like a Pokémon, we’re going to be making two Fupi fight in a bloody death match next week.
As someone who escaped communism and came across the same craziness in capitalism, this is indistinguishable from the average leaders in our societies
Look at how easily fupi retrieves his fallen hat Fupi, an AI by Albany Dynamics
Subject: Microsoft’s Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World
Source: WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-decentralized-id-blockchain/
The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK’s National Health Service.
For years, tech companies have touted blockchain technology as a means to develop identity systems that are secure and decentralized. The goal is to build a platform that could store information about official data without holding the actual documents or details themselves. Instead of just storing a scan of your birth certificate, for example, a decentralized ID platform might store a validated token that confirms the information in it. Then when you get carded at a bar or need proof of citizenship, you could share those pre-verified credentials instead of the actual document or data. Microsoft has been one of the leaders of this pack—and is now detailing tangible progress toward its vision of a decentralized digital ID.
At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced that it will launch a public preview of its “Azure Active Directory verifiable credentials” this spring. Think of the platform as a digital wallet like Apple Pay or Google Pay, but for identifiers rather than credit cards. …
“In the NHS system, at each hospital health care workers go to, it used to take months of effort to verify their credentials before they could practice,” Chik says. “Now it literally takes five minutes to be enrolled in the hospital and starting to treat patients.”
Microsoft formally started its work on a decentralized identity scheme in 2017 and has slowly open protocol called Sidetree to add records of transactions—in this case, identity verifications—to the blockchain. Microsoft says Azure Active Directory verifiable credentials uses a custom but still open source implementation of Sidetree called Identity Overlay Network. Organizations will be able to run their own ION “node” to verify and store identifiers for their members, like citizens, students, or employees.
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Microsoft says that its new decentralized identity platform will be set up so that even if an account is compromised, attackers can’t just start using your verified credentials to get a student discount on purchases or apply for a loan in your name.
“Beyond just controlling access, developers can further secure user data by encrypting that data using keys from their decentralized identifiers,” a Microsoft spokesperson told WIRED in a statement. “Based on such an approach, a bad actor may gain access to a system or datastore but can’t decrypt the data without keys that reside with individual user.”
- “The basic idea is simple – and far-reaching” — Nate Sheff (Connecticut) on Sellars’ “myth of the given”
- Philosophical questions raised by NFTs — thoughts from Anthony Cross (Texas State)
- “Happy to trade knowledge for freedom” — Ulrika Carlsson on Kierkegaard, Socrates, and irony
- “The ethical character of teacher-student relationships should be determined by the purpose of that relationship: to education the student… The problem… is that purpose is vague” — John Danaher (NUI) on relationships and friendships with students
- The moral significance of maintenance — “the ghetto and the moon” and other issues in engineering (via Zachary Pirtle)
- The prospects of philosophical literary criticism — a conversation between Jennifer Frey (South Carolina) & Jon Baskin (The Point) that touches on the work of David Foster Wallace, Iris Murdoch, Flannery O’Conner & others
- “Junior authors who want to go out on a limb are being penalized by a structure that… doesn’t quite serve the philosophy profession well” — Helen De Cruz (SLU) on the institutional production of “cookie-cutter” philosophy
