ZODL Co—makers of a super excellent Zcash wallet—are hiring for five new positions: check it out! jobs.ashbyhq.com/zodl (BTW I have nothing to do with them—I work for a completely different organization. I just want to help great people and great jobs find each other.)
#oopsie
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...
A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"
ghoulish
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden. From the NPR archives.
I think most people would prefer this. #Science
When your representatives throw your community under the bus, your work has just begun.
The silver lining of Flock's influence over police and lawmakers is that it points out exactly who needs to be replaced.
hieroglyphs code #coding #software #programmerhumour #tech #programming
> "Trust me bro, this new tech startup isn't a pyramid scheme"
> Looks at codebase:
In 5-10 years, as models get more expensive & capable, I see the funding structures and support for open models breaking down. We need to consider if we need other options of supporting the open ecosystem.
The inevitable need for an open model consortium
www.interconnects.ai/p/the-inevit...
Why should file transfer have a cost, limits, or require an account?
You paid for the device in front of you and your internet Bill.
That should be enough to send data around, shouldn't it?
Let's dive into how to build a file transfer tool with #iroh in #rust:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4c...
🦀🔐☠️ Tired of deadlocks? Me too! Here's a post about a library that I've been working on to help wrangle the problem in Rust
notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock
A hand holds a small white e-ink e-reader showing its home screen. The display features a book titled “Non-Sendable First Design” by Matt Massicotte, with menu options below for “Browse Files,” “Recently Read,” “File Transfer,” and “Settings.” The battery indicator reads 97%. The device has physical buttons along the bottom. In the background are a textured couch and a round blue cushion.
E-ink display of an e-reader showing a "File Transfer" menu with four options: "Join a Network" (Connect to an existing WiFi network), "Calibre Wireless" (Use Calibre wireless device transfers), "Create Hotspot" (Create a WiFi network others can join), and "Sync Articles" (Download new articles from backend). Navigation buttons "Back" and "Select" are visible at the bottom. Battery shows 96%.
Needed more proof the age of personal software is here? I got this Xteink X4 pocket e-reader. I flashed it with open source firmware. Then vibecoded a backend running on @val.town that pulls `toread` tagged articles from @kipclip.com and converts them to epub ...
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Visited Zion National Park for the first time - impossible to convey how beautiful it is
Cisco, IBM, and the data center lobby is trying to kill an *already existing* right to repair law in Colorado by massively fearmongering lawmakers into exempting their tech under the guise of "security" of "critical infrastructure"
www.404media.co/data-center-...
Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.
That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.
Me. All those reasons. Keep it an electric transport for me and my gear. That's all I want! I can add the rest to make it comfy.
NEW: Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission police—yes, the agency responsible for wildlife conservation and endangered species—are performing dozens of license plate lookups on Flock cameras for ICE, according to public records that show details of the searches.
The fact that police in Georgia did use Flock cameras for traffic enforcement highlights yet again that, essentially, law enforcement agencies are able to use these cameras for whatever they want. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Read now:
www.404media.co/police-used-...
Beware. This sets more incentives to push for OS level responsibilities to shield apps from liability.
bsky.app/profile/prot...
A four-panel meme showing a man progressively putting on clown makeup. In the first panel, he begins applying white face paint next to the text “Give us your ID, it’s just for adult sites.” In the second, with more makeup on, the text reads “Okay, now ID for ‘dangerous content’.” In the third, as he adds a colorful clown wig, the text says “Posting? You better have ID.” In the final panel, fully dressed as a clown with a rainbow wig and red nose, the text reads “Your online Burger King order is on hold, please provide valid ID to access your fries.”
The evolution of verification.
💩null ref
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
The FCC has banned all new foreign-made routers unless they get an exemption from the Pentagon or DHS
This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.
Some US car buyers envy what they cannot have - affordable Chinese EVs - www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
With zksync lite shutting down you can use rotki to see if you have any balances left there and when you bridge them out and back to mainnet, rotki will track that activity and their provenance.
Use rotki, track everything and stay safe and private.
Download here: rotki.com/download
