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I personally never liked the whole Nord ecosystem. I tried NordPass and encountered bug after bug and had to stop using it. The software seems kind of thrown together / shoddily made just to make a quick buck. They don't nearly put in as much passion and effort as better offerings like ProtonVPN and Mullvad (no affiliation, just really love their services).

And with Mullvad you can just make a one-time payment of EUR 5.00 if you need to use it for 30 days. No auto-renew crap / commitment to long subscriptions to deal with.

> I remember seeing photos of some university - I can't remember where - that actually ripped up the old paths and paved over the desire paths, to great success.

And when people do this: it makes the path a bit jarring since you intuitively know it's been designed that way for maximum efficiency and you are being 'played' in this subtle way.

Well we assume any important Internet choke-point is used for surveillance. If I just started surveilling anything sent en clair my first stop would be Internet backbone connections.

> Communicating the mapping of the code and the real world, as Naur describes, would have required us to document all these processes in meticulous detail. If we had tried to, I believe the result would’ve been multiple hundred pages describing the business processes

Or in other words: building in business logic is paramount and the only thing you should be doing if running a startup, otherwise these engineers are just dossing around with code that doesn't yield a profit.

> Our world is defined by it, and yet we struggle to ever define it

> German psychologist Gustav Fechner provided evidence that people prefer rectangles with sides in proportion to the golden ratio (if you’re curious, that ratio is about 1.6:1)

Glad it mentioned the Golden Ratio and beauty seemingly being in the 'eye of the beholder' as mentioned here:

> Despite his experiments with the golden ratio, Fechner continued to believe that beauty was, to a large degree, in the brain of the beholder.

IMHO Beauty can be subjective, but there are entire industries built on the fact that some beauty is unquestionable, like in the modeling/fashion industry.

> High performance animation and interactivity

Animations that jump out at you as you scroll always seem like a great idea, but are a misfeature to be avoided, since they distract from the content, and give across this 'trying too hard' vibe which I personally never liked.

> Could you explain why Signal users are more careful than email users?

Sorry, I forgot to mention that phones are typically seen as more secure, and phones are the go-to operating systems that people use now, and are (usually) permanently switched on, so have to be secure since they are constantly exposed to the public Internet. (Yes, Windows can be seen as secure too, but IMHO phones are more secure. Windows is getting better over the years and have mitigated and patched a lot of the common vulns you do see).

> Aren't all Signal users also email users?

No. Email is often reached from many different OSes and environments. It is common and expected to see people logging into their Gmail from potentially compromised systems at work, or at Internet cafes. They just assume that whenever they login, the are 'secure' when in some cases the Internet cafe is logging everything or their employer has setup 'monitoring' software to ensure they are actually working and not dossing.

Signal: not so much. They have a single secure device that they use to communicate with, and since Signal is tied to a SIM: migrating your old Signal 'account' to a new SIM is impossible.