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[Jmail @jmailarchive]

Full documentary from @donaldjewkes on how Jmail was made.

[Arben Bilali @Arbeni66]

@laralogan What did they called this operation?
Trust the plan!!

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Encrypted messaging, like @signalapp, is critical for preserving our digital privacy. Two important next steps for the space are (i) permissionless account creation and (ii) metadata privacy.

@session_app and @SimpleXChat are two messaging apps pushing these directions forward.

For this reason I've donated 128 ETH to each. Addresses available on their websites if you wish to follow on:

https://t.co/07ORUYDCu8
https://t.co/FQde3IK0uz

But also, actually download and use them!

Neither of the two are perfect pieces of software, they have a way to go to get to truly optimal user experience and security. Strong metadata privacy requires decentralization, decentralization is hard, users expecting multi-device support makes everything harder. Sybil / DoS resistance, both in the message routing network and on the user side (without forcing phone number dependence) adds further difficulty.

These problems need more eyes on them. I wish all teams working on these important problems best of luck.

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

- be John McAfee
- born in 1945, Britain, raised in the U.S.
- math genius + lethal programmer
- helped build software for NASA’s Apollo program
- worked at NASA, Xerox, Univac
- killed his abusive father at 15
- wanted in multiple countries, Belize, Guatemala, U.S.
- survived 50+ assassination attempts
- marries a former escort who was literally hired to poison him
- creates McAfee Antivirus, the first mainstream antivirus on earth
- becomes insanely rich, lands on Forbes lists
- walks away from his own company before it becomes a giant
- reinvents himself as a crypto prophet + digital freedom extremist
- runs for U.S. president twice just to troll the system
- mentors the whole “leak culture,” inspires whistleblowers like Snowden
- early Bitcoin whale, makes a fortune, loses a fortune, repeats
- hacked Hillary Clinton’s office by sending “free computers” filled with spyware
- belize saga: shootouts, dead dogs, missing neighbors, corrupt police
- lives on a yacht in the Caribbean with ex-military guards
- openly boasts about never paying income tax
- he used to blackmail the official U.S. agencies
- escapes Guatemalan custody by faking a heart attack
- arrested years later in Spain, found dead in prison
- fans still claim he faked his death + dropped coded messages
- part tech pioneer, part outlaw, part cult figure
- the most ungovernable man the tech world has ever seen

Is there anything left for him to shock the world with?

[oɹǝuow ʎnq ʇ,uop @dontbuymonero]

If you already used a KYC sim card on your phone, you can change the sim card many times you want, the IMEI of your phone is linked to your identity forever.
Same apply for your X or other apps accounts. It's useless to use a VPN after you leaked your phone fingerprint to these apps.

[Dr. Luke in China @96Stats]

OK but all LLMs are capable and similar at this point. The difference is US AI companies compete to gain profits. Chinese AI companies decided to invest their time to work with governments to benefit people

Like, DeepSeek isn’t just a chatbot.. it’s already running in China's government, police and healthcare. Shenzhen uses “AI civil servants” that cut document review time by about 90% and boost service accuracy from to 95%. Also DeepSeek is deployed across roughly 90 large hospitals for imaging, clinical decision support, and admin stuff...that makes China the first country to test AI at scale and why Deepseek is a way better company than the rest rn

[Mehul Mohan @mehulmpt]

there are 4 seasons in a year

openai
google
anthropic *you are here*
china

[SH @CH4R4F]

@edzitron I just want to thank you for your work eddy! I'm a fan, keep it up!

[tomie @tomieinlove]

Hitting Opus 4.5 with my toughest benchmark yet!

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now.

Our App Store verifies the app store metadata with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with verification of the packages. Android's package manager also has another layer of signature verification and downgrade protection.

Our System Updater verifies updates with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with another layer of both in update_engine and a third layer of both via verified boot. Signing channel release channel names is planned too.

Our update mirrors are currently hosted on sponsored servers from ReliableSite (Los Angeles, Miami) and Tempest (London). London is a temporary location due to an emergency move from a provider which left the dedicated server business and will move. More sponsored update mirrors are coming.

Our ns1 anycast network is on Vultr and our ns2 anycast network is on BuyVM since both support BGP for announcing our own IP space. We're moving our main website/network servers used for default OS connections to a mix of Vultr+BuyVM locations.

We have 5 servers in Canada with OVH with more than static content and basic network services: email, Matrix, discussion forum, Mastodon and attestation. Our plan is to move these to Netcup root servers or a similar provider short term and then colocated servers in Toronto long term.

France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects. They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed. We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries.

We were likely going to be able to release experimental Pixel 10 support very soon and it's getting disrupted. The attacks on our team with ongoing libel and harassment have escalated, raids on our chat rooms have escalated and more. It's rough right now and support is appreciated.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how its future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
https://t.co/hTewSwD8sa

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, has been shut down.

[SH @CH4R4F]

@AravSrinivas Why not pro users? They also pay a subscription (I got a free pro year with PayPal)

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

This is comical. 99% of Europe’s internet economy, every single internet platform (and thus every source of fast productivity growth) is American, but lo and behold it’s China squeezing Europe

[SH @CH4R4F]

@ctodotnew Invite please 👋

[SH @CH4R4F]

@corbin_braun You're half away buddy keep up the good work 🫡

[sankalp @dejavucoder]

nano banana pro truly in a league of it's own

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

They did the meme