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You're forgetting that the 20$ are not a sustainable price point. Would your backburner personal app thingy be worth 200$?

Brian Acton may regret it, but I sure don't, seeing that he went on to bankroll Signal, arguably with money from the sale. Thanks for that!

SAP runs its own cloud/IaaS in addition to running its workloads on the hyperscalers. It's been doing that for years internally, and that SAP cloud is now being extended to be open…

As a kid I actually used the theme on my first hand-me-down. As the regular theme. And I remember chosing it because it was fun! It made my computer more fun. At the end of the day…

Also, I'm working on AVS still, from time to time: https://github.com/grandchild/vis_avs/tree/dev

Once you know that _usually_ people use white cotton gloves when handling museum artifacts, I find it a bit distressing that the person halfway down the article is not wearing any …

Funky! Round trip through Signal worked. But you can tell, because a regular single emoji gets "jumbo sized", these ones don't.

There is also `ts` from moreutils[0]. One of a few gems there. And moreutils is (probably) already in "your" distro. [0] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

I think you're misunderstanding what SGX is used for in the Signal context: It's only used server-side. The clients have no real use for it, because they don't have to attest the s…

It's a bit like the radio version of http://astronaut.io :)

If nothing else, do adopt f-strings. It really makes the code cleaner!

I think it's not answered in the slides. Instead they offer two hypotheses for the _characteristic_ of the observation of the declining length-of-day in the last 20 years, with all…

As of a few weeks ago, you can hide your phone number on Signal, and it's even the default, even for existing accounts. You can even opt in to disable discovery by someone who alre…

the interesting thing is, the device may have to be built but possibly never operated. the existence of this device would make all nuclear-bomb-holders scramble to disarm them. OTO…

further down the article: > if each stage were scaled up to a square meter, it would produce up to 5 liters of drinking water per hour so 1m², times the number of layers.

This stunned me a bit. Which iphone-specific "connections" can’t you replace? If the answer is messages, I can’t imagine they wouldn’t have Whatsapp or some other messenger install…

> Sleep: Jerusalem Look for "Sleep - Dopesmoker". It’s the re-release of the same thing.

maybe add https://asciiflow.com ?

`lstopo` is cool too for bigger servers

While I love the project linked here, "voice" messages allow you to do more than talk. I've sent messages where I'm singing, or also where I'm reading a book chapter. It'd be sad i…

I recently discovered a slight mitigation on the iPad re Youtube ads: If you open a Youtube URL and the preview image looks like it's not the actual video but an ad -- wait. Wait f…

It's an especially hard habit to break for people who are "Team Interrupt", because we learn to cling to the speaker position in normal group conversations this way. People from "T…

Great article, I immediately started to think back to vvvv[1], a great tool I used to use when I was still on Windows. It had many moments of "oh there’s a node for just that!" whi…

First: in mice. The next thought that immediately comes to mind is, if it's an edible animal that's been available possibly for centuries, then probably people would have noticed s…

True, but this was only a question in the grammatical sense. A discussion with only "questions" like these would be very poor indeed.