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The title somewhat contradicts the body: _The SNB's latest Payment Methods Survey of Companies in Switzerland, published in February, found that "cash acceptance continues to be hi…

Yeah, but are there any official docs on that? Another example: For years the database for the desktop app was unencrypted, because "you can just use FDE" (according to GitHub comm…

"Our protocol is open source. Our code is open source. It’s well documented. Our implementations are open source. Our protocol is formally verified. We’re doing everything we can."…

Absolutely. I generally use English (not my native language) as default language for my Android phone, but there are some apps where the English translation is pretty awful and tha…

Good luck finding documentation about the protocols and APIs used by signal. While every random cryptocurrency has a cryptography whitepaper, it seems that Signal does not.

I own a regular espresso machine, but not a lever machine. A lever machine allows you to control the extraction profile quite well. You can vary pressure and flow rate at any point…

acmed uses 3 weeks (28 days), seems reasonable as well.

I never got the appeal of cordless headphones. A 120$ pair of headphones from the 80s will still work perfectly fine today. A pair of bluetooth headphones will probably die in 3-6 …

I spent my childhood playing real-time strategy games with a ThinkPad TrackPoint. It's great.