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3 days ago this was in the news: > "Epstein files: DOJ withheld documents about claim Trump sexually abused minor" https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/epstein-trump-doj-garcia.htm... W…

> "Most of AdGuard's staff relocated in 2022" So a lot of your staff remain in Russia? If you've still got most of your devs working in Russia, and it looks like that from your git…

The only downside I experienced with using Apple Lockdown Mode is that my apple watch wont vibrate or notify me of incoming phone-calls on my iPhone.

The police and famous actors occupy completely different roles in society and should be treated differently.

3. SVB’s assets. They actually have enough assets to pay, but it will take time for those bonds to mature.

Not really. If 5 or 6 more regional banks fail next week due to depositors seeking the safety of big banks there won’t be enough money to guarantee deposits for more banks. If they…

Are people going optimistic about the efforts to make Python faster?

Watching growing startups hire a junior data scientist to analyse their new mountain of data is very entertaining. One of their first findings is their revenue/growth seems to be d…

2+2=5. VC’s look super active right now because they’re fighting for a small number of solid investments. LP’s have turned off the money taps and fake investment marks no longer pa…

Then you can’t trust the FF code not to send a copy to their own servers also.

Trying and failing to understand the logic of this feature.

Everyone.

> The point is that if your threat model cares about interception, you have to verify the identity of users out of band - same as Signal or WhatsApp or whatever. I’ve read your blo…

To paraphrase another comment on this; if I have to trust the server for Matrix E2EE to work, why don’t I just use Slack? The whole point of E2EE is so you don’t have to trust the …

This is the issue distilled. And the retort seems to be “but we give a warning”. Awfully weak stuff for a cypherpunk-ish protocol. The CCC crowd that rabidly hates anything central…

What if someone already in the group adds a new device? That would hardly cause a flurry or surprise, it’s a common thing to happen. But using Matrix it could also mean whom ever c…

This is pretty big news. I wonder will there be an immediate push back by law enforcement and governments?

Their offices of record were empty when check by journalists. The founder is Russian, most of the engineering team is Russian. The founder visits Russia regularly. I assume their n…

> Telegram has been used by opposition and protestors in Hong Kong, Russia, and Belarus. How successful have those protestors been? In each case it seems like the government was al…

I’m absolutely astonished that anyone trusts Telegram for their communication. Both on a technological, ownership, operational and geopolitical basis. Their “agreement” with the Ru…

1Password. The largest feature disparity is 1password is designed and built by competent engineers. The history of breaches and technical mistakes Lastpass has made over the years …

There’s still not been an “official call” on this either by Poland or the US. And Ukraine still insists they weren’t their missiles and insisting they have access to the investigat…

Transfers of cryptocurrency from FTX have been frozen since yesterday.

Usernames are under development right now so this will address this issue one way or another.

Couldn’t come at a worse time for Musk. The Twitter acquisition has to be the worse tech acquisition ever, judging purely based on the dollar value on day 0.