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Pulling the plug on my Signal Group Chats experiment. The lack of moderation tools for group admins has made this a miserable experience.
Clearly, every unguarded crosswalk is fair game
@npub1gsun...fy6l I need to confirm: Is Evgeny Poberezkin actually your founder? And is this actually their blog and not some weird impersonation?
Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude One of the first rules you learn about technical writing is, "Know your audience." But often, this sort of advice is given without sufficient weight or practical examples. Instead, you're ushered quickly onto the actual tactile aspects of writing--with the hope that some seed was planted that will sprout later in your education. Science communication is famously a hard problem.
You didn't need another reason to hate Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram), but here ya go anyway:
Improving Geographical Resilience For Distributed Open Source Teams with FREON In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelevant. Where jurisdiction does come into play, unfortunately, is where your software is developed and whether or not the local government will employ rubber-hose cryptanalysis to backdoor your…
@npub12tsc...x422 Hey why are fascists and antivaxxers being platformed at DEFCON this year? Are you afraid to tell them no? I'm happy to do it if you guys aren't.
If I make a post complaining about an annoying behavior, and we aren't close friends, doing that exact behavior isn't going to endear you to me. I just block.
Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun "Won't someone think of the poor children?" they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. Art: CMYKat If you're totally ignorant of how things work, the proposal of "verifying you're an adult" before you access adult content sounds, superficially, like a…