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A lot of the apparel being destroyed is unsold inventory of up-market brands to protect their pricing power. If they shipped that to less affluent countries for destruction, it's u…

I thought it weird that the post didn’t mention RustCrypto. It’s legit.

> The second step failed almost immediately, with an error telling me that a replayed log entry was recording data belonging to a machine which didn't exist. This provoked some hea…

What to read on the slice universe?

Any details on how passkeys sync using external providers?

Very cool project, congrats to the author! Baaed on the comments, I feel that people are both under and overestimating this. On the one hand it replaces the manual tasks of searchi…

Another thing to keep in mind is that if you want the data to be end-to-end encrypted, then you need both devices to be online at the same time to sync with Automerge.

SwiftUI and UIKit compose well in both directions, so if you choose SwiftUI as your framework, but then run into a wall, it's an option to partially rewrite that difficult part wit…

This is great. I'd recommend the Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists [0] tutorial as the next step. It really helps you grok the borrow checker. [0]: https://rust-unoffi…

This is pretty cool: > Before we jump in, I wanted to share some history with you. Back in 2009 when we first built 1PasswordAnywhere, it wasn’t possible to use it with Dropbox. We…

Shopify supporting Passkeys for all merchant sites could be a great driver for adoption.

If you liked this, you'll probably like this interview with Diffie too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJxOz0I6z5A

Would be curious to see this broken down by fiction vs non-fiction. I read very few non-fiction books cover-to-cover. Most of them could be probably cut by 50% and not lose much.

Web3 refers to the emerging shift in internet value chains from permissioned, centralized databases to permissionless, decentralized databases where users own their data. The drivi…

Re costs: it’s decreasing rapidly. Solana is within 100x of DynamoDB prices so costs are soon becoming negligible. At that point costs can be taken over by the app developer or pai…

The new thing with blockchain tech is that we can now enforce invariants on state transitions in a decentralized manner. Paired with non-interactive zero-knowledge cryptography, we…