grandchild
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Comment · 11 days ago
Comment · 6 months ago
You're forgetting that the 20$ are not a sustainable price point. Would your backburner personal app thingy be worth 200$?
Comment · 9 months ago
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!
Comment · 10 months ago
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 for direct consumption by other companies:
https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/exploring-sap-con...
Comment · 10 months ago
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, usability shouldn't trump fun. If I find it's less usable, I can switch back.
Comment · 11 months ago
Also, I'm working on AVS still, from time to time:
https://github.com/grandchild/vis_avs/tree/dev
Comment · 1 year ago
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 while holding the priceless 700-year-old pages.
Comment · 1 year ago
Funky! Round trip through Signal worked. But you can tell, because a regular single emoji gets "jumbo sized", these ones don't.
Comment · 1 year ago
There is also `ts` from moreutils[0]. One of a few gems there. And moreutils is (probably) already in "your" distro.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 software they're running, only the keys they possess.
The server however is inherently untrusted, and the users of the server can benefit from some form of attestation of the software it's running. SGX tries to provide this, as the siblings in this thread explain.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's a bit like the radio version of http://astronaut.io :)
Comment · 2 years ago
If nothing else, do adopt f-strings. It really makes the code cleaner!
Comment · 2 years ago
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 known effects removed such as the Metonic Cycle: Random walk & Linear.
They present the consequences of adopting one or the other prediction model, but only because one has to be adopted for practical decisions. Not because we necessarily know what's going on.
We can't know now which is the correct model. As always, only time and observation will tell.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 already knows your number.[0]
> To me Telegram is going after WhatsApp, not Signal.
They mention Signal by name in the referenced post.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
OTOH we'd also have to know where the bombs are pretty precisely, if i understand correctly. i'd put the bombs on a nuclear airport luggage belt and have them go around in circles. makes a moving target out of them.
There are ongoing efforts to ban the party (through constitutional instruments created specifically after 1945 to prevent a second NSDAP or other similar anti-constitutional extremists) and there is an argument to be made that this is strategical assistance for evidence-gathering.
There has been another effort [0] collecting _public_ statements that can be used in a potential future Constitutional Court case. Depending on your stance this leak complements the ban effort or undermines its legitimacy. Note, Germany has no fruit-of-the-poison-tree evidence provisions!
[0] https://afd-gutachten.de/