leesalminen

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Comment · 5 months ago
Create a <domain>.tld/llms.txt or some SKILL.md files. When I encounter these tickets I just share links to these resources and the problem goes away.
Comment · 6 months ago
I once decided to deny new customers in order to be able to service current demand at the quality we wanted. It backfired and made people want our product even more. Our phones were blowing up. That approach can have unintended consequences!
Comment · 6 months ago
AIUI, Signal decrypts the E2EE message locally, but then sends the decrypted message to iOS in order to display the notification to the user. iOS then stores this data and it persists after the user dismisses the notification.

This makes sense and there's really no way around it without a change from Apple. If iOS is going to show the user a Signal notification with the decrypted message in the notification body, then iOS must be given the decrypted message. iOS could (and probably should) delete that data off the device as soon as the user dismisses/engages with the notification. But it sounds like they do not.

Comment · 10 months ago
So Maria machado, the recipient of the Nobel peace prize in 2025 is a would be dictator ?
Comment · 10 months ago
So you know better than the poor brown people?
Comment · 10 months ago
You’d be surprised. Last month on a visit to the U.S., 8/10 Uber drivers I had were Venezuelan. I’m a fluent Spanish speaker so I engaged in this very topic. The vast majority of them wanted Maduro out, and the fastest way to that is through U.S. intervention. They were not opposed to this.
Comment · 1 year ago
Like distributing an iOS app in France that uses encryption? What a pain in the ass that is.

The bureaucracy was painful enough that we just removed from the French App Store and when someone complains we tell them to write their representatives to stop with these misguided laws.

Excuse me, monsieur, do you have a license for that math?

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, he’s living life to the fullest!

The most active 80 year old I’ve seen. Lots of travel, speaking at conferencing, networking in his professional circles.

Believe it or not, he’s a fairly conservative person. He’d never done yoga, breath work, sauna, cold plunge, saline IVs. I had the honor of pushing him out of his comfort zone a bit with the hippy health stuff.

He’s speed run learning how to use a smartphone and loves using it to connect all the people he meets together.

I think that was the most intriguing part of Leonard- his ability to pick up a new concept in minutes and apply it expertly. We were discussing modern cryptography and he was able to grok it in < 5 minutes.

Yes, he and Ross are still friends today. If I understand correctly they recently met up for the first time outside of prison.

Comment · 1 year ago
It’s a very, very hard read. His vocabulary is insane. I had to look up so many words. Very rewarding to make it to the end though.
Comment · 1 year ago
I had the pleasure of recently meeting Leonard and spending a couple weeks together. What a unique and interesting person. I think he’s the smartest person I’ve ever met. His stories are captivating. Could spend a very long time chatting with him.
Comment · 1 year ago
My app’s organization is outside the “west”. So in order to complete verification with Google I had to pay some subcontractor of Dunn&Bradstreet almost $500 to get the DUNS. Then I had to get an original certified copy of the organization’s registration from the national registry. Then have an official notarized translation to English and get all that apostilled (another $500 through a service).

Also, Google support refused to tell me what set of documents they would accept. I had to figure it out myself.

Comment · 1 year ago
Primal.net and yakihonne.com speak nostr protocol and are both pretty slick implementations.

Primal recently launched “build your own algorithm” along with a feed marketplace.

P2P doesn’t work for social, see SecureScuttleButt. Rabble has moved pretty firmly into the Nostr camp. He’s one of the top minds thinking about decentralized social media. Study nostr and don’t dismiss the relay model lightly.

Comment · 2 years ago
Which blockchain is user data stored on?

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