Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

"End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026."
help.instagram.com/491565145294...

I don't know how many at-risk people this will affect. I do know that a service removing encryption (even if it was only ever opt-in) does make me unhappy.

Finally written my philosophy on app development, business, and how I, well, we will do things. 💜

Read more:
coolify.io/philosophy/

King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], "Pray Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage
1792-1871

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

I buy $1B of GPUs from you:
- boring
- just a transaction
- markets are unimpressed

I invest $1B in your company, and you provide me with GPUs worth $1B:
- genius
- both stocks go up
- healthy market growth

Audio Recording Reveals United Group and Telekom Srbija CEOs Discussing Undermining Serbian Broadcaster The CEOs discussed removing the chief executive of a United Group subsidiary that owns N1, a Serbian TV channel that has documented nine months of anti-government protests.

The CEOs discussed removing the chief executive of a United Group subsidiary that owns N1, a Serbian TV channel that has documented nine months of anti-government protests.

www.occrp.org/en/news/audi...

What is the charge? Sharing a meal? A succulent Subway meal?

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33) YouTube video by Micah Lee

Check out my #DEFCON33 talk about the Signalgate, full of unbelievable incompetence from the highest levels of the Trump administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...

The Death of US AID The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale

New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.
How Musk and Trump killed USAID.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

I am nano-retiring (taking a lunch break)

SO can easily generate enough revenue to sustain itself. it doesn't have to "hypergrow" or "100x ROI." we don't have to sacrifice it and sell it for parts, just like Toys'R'Us and Red Lobster didn't have to be cannibalised for short-term shareholder profit

Like, I realize SO fed its own body to AI in a one-time future-destroying deal, but what is stopping anyone from rebuilding it? SO needs a decent interface and community that cares, and both are still there and super possible. SO is not the executives who run it

now that stack overflow successfully shot itself in the foot (and face and multiple organs), I have a fantastic business idea, hear me out:

Stack Overflow, but only the bits that made it successful in the first place.

WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages More AI in WhatsApp.

Meta is perfectly capable of making this fully secure and private. Meta also has a track record of breaking their rules and the law and use your data to better sell ad space because that’s their core business, and fines are already priced into operating costs.

www.theverge.com/news/693310/...

worse than average because they learn from quantity so they replicate writing patterns of very prolific individuals who tend to be Not Great writers

I encourage everyone to spend tons of time with AI chat bots and reading the content they create because, like vaccines, it inoculates you to AI slop via exposure to their average and predictable writing patterns, so your brain can learn to tune them out

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

Using Signal groups for activism Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...

I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...

i’m OBSESSED with pitbull and this new wave of fame have you seen the O2 arena videos? just a sea of bald caps and everyone is having a blast

screenshot of the Meta AI prompt

meta AI prompts in whatsapp are absolutely unhinged. looking for relationship advice??

Like and Subscribe: How YouTube Changed the World - What happens when YouTube gets political? - BBC Sounds As YouTube spreads, so does information - the good and bad. We explore the consequences.

EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social joins BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4 to discuss YouTube’s power to spread unchecked information.

“Don’t kill the Pope”

a picture of the apple logo with the caption "0% tariff" next to a picture of a real apple with the caption "10% tariff"

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

did tiktok mess with privacy settings again? welp let’s go spelunking again *dons safety hat, high viz jacket, grabs hammer*

the recession will be vibe coded

they say the Dunning-Kruger effect theory is debunked, but my counter argument is replacing COBOL with vibe coding

Hayao Miyazaki's Opinion on AI Generation in Art from Owaranai Hito Miyazaki Hayao (Full Clip) YouTube video by Jakten

“It is an insult to life”

youtu.be/7EvnKYOuvWo?...

microsoft is to software what AI slop is to quality writing: stuff that seems to make sense at first but quickly shows itself to be convoluted and sometimes genuinely alien crap