Snow Crash is almost kinda satire, but also not. Also, I believe, the first use of the term “metaverae”. It’s a fun read.

For anyone who doesn’t want to have to sit through ads and dig through menus just to get to the website: https://www.charachorder.com/

All that does is compel the recipient to stop what they’re doing and wait until you send the message, which, if you’re typing up a wall of text, could be minutes. This is like calling someone on the phone and, when they answer, saying “hello please hold”. Don’t do it; it’s super rude.

If we’re really lucky, maybe they’ll patent the idea and then everyone else will have to stop doing it.

Thanks for posting this; I’d been seeing a lot of people talking about how China was using backdoors that the FBI wanted and used, but hadn’t seen anything definitive about US use of those vulnerabilities.

Also this is another reminder for me that I’m glad to be able to vote for Wyden.

I’ll be sticking with Protonmail, personally

There are a lot of parts to the puzzle! It’s easy to miss some.

Signal, Whatsapp, etc are great, as long as I don’t have access to your phone and password, right? Likewise, what if your phone’s operating system has a critical vulnerability that the OS makers don’t know about (AKA a zero day) that can allow a complete remote takeover of your device after a single click on a text message? It didn’t end well for Jamal Kashoggi: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/middleeast/khashoggi-phone-malware-intl/index.html

E2EE is great for data in transit, and full disk encryption is great for if someone steals your locked device. Neither will help if you have compromised code running on your machine, though.

It seems to me that Syncthing is the exact right thing to use here; what is “overkill” about it that makes you think you should use something else?

Technically it’s O.MG; they work with and are sold through HAK 5, and license Ducky Script.

Their headline, and the summary above, actually say 0.8%. so either they updated their headline or there was some kind of error when posting it here.

Ah gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks.

I don’t know how relevant FDIC is to the 1%; it only covers 250k, and only in things like checking and savings accounts and CDs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corporation

Most of the 1% wealth is probably tied up in things like stocks and real estate, or maybe they diversify all over the place.

My understanding is that intention is not uncommonly litigated; I believe the question of “intent to deceive” is central to trademark law, for example. That’s also what the the “degrees” of murder etc are about.

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. I do read an awful lot of contacts and talk to lawyers.

As always, there is a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/345/

I’ve found the $5 a month tier to be just about right. There have been a few months I’ve gone over, but they make that super easy to deal with: they just change the subscription renewal date and you start your next month a few days early.

It would basically let you see all the hidden characters that indicate formatting, which made it possible to see why your text would suddenly display in a weird way.

Yup, my Lemur has completely lost one hinge; I’ve actually got the case duct taped together at this point. Their customer support was really bad when i contacted them about it; they tried to get me to agree to charges before they even told me what they were charging me for: it took me days of escalation to get the answer that they were going to ship me a part but had no instructions or videos for installation and didn’t recommend end users do it. I’m actually looking at Framework now instead; I’m pretty done with System 76 at this point.

Sure, but to me that means the latest information is that AI assistants help produce insecure code. If someone wants to perform a study with more recent models to show that’s no longer the case, I’ll revisit my opinion. Until then, I’m assuming that the study holds true. We can’t do security based on “it’s probably fine now.”

Pedantics fighting pedantics LOL

I think you mean “pedants fighting pedants” :p