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18 September
17 September
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korrents.com
Ecuador's president is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.Their words
The president of Ecuador is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.
16 September
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Forecasting can turn subjective regulatory judgment calls into objectively observable bets about the future.Their words
Forecasting could fill this role, turning subjective judgment calls into objectively observable bets about the future.
AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDAastralcodexten.com
15 September
14 September
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Eterna-MaticTheir words
Eternas are some of the biggest bargains in vintage watches. This 1963 Eterna-Matic cost $509 at auction + $69 to be serviced = $578 total. It's still accurate to 7 sec/day (dial up).
13 September
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10 September
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All too often, politicians are turning their back on the most beneficial policies because they lack the political courage or the political skill to introduce them.
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We are done with cynicism, irony, and cowardice. The next turning is here.
9 September
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korrents.com
Verifying whether a photo is authentic (unaltered by AI) is becoming an increasingly difficult problem.Their words
In an era where validating image authenticity is turning into a real challenge, I think we have to commend Apple for trying to do something in this field.
8 September
7 September
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Yea video game gfx pipelines will now just visually prompt neural renderers.
5 September
4 September
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It is in practice safe to assume your agents are not going to get prompt injected, even if you are kind of asking for it.
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Cardthezvi.substack.com
3 September
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korrents.com
Turning a game into a means to a broader purpose risks destroying the fun that makes it a game.Their words
After all, if a game takes on a broader purpose then it risks no longer being fun. And a game that is no fun isn't much of a game.
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korrents.com
Large layoffs tend to push out the best employees, who quit for competitors or start their own companies.Their words
That’s the problem with large layoffs; they prompt precisely the best employees to quit to join competitors, or launch their own businesses.
2 September
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I don’t trust Claude to summarize its own system prompts when there’s a risk that material from its system prompt might impact its opinions.
30 August
29 August
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Omarchy is not going to adopt a formal Code of Conduct because those turned out to be struggle-session processes in the last turning. But we are going to play nice. We're going to be courteous, professional, and composed in our direct interactions with users, competitors, and even haters. Because that's what's going to pave the path to the win.
23 August
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/Z, /J, and /MT are not levels on a performance slider. They change restartability, buffering, and concurrency.
19 August
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The first thing I do is I try to make sure that if there is a summary at the very end, here are all the decisions that were made, I will read through that end to end. If there hasn't been, I will prompt for that decision process.
15 August
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Um and we will get it down to minutes. Um this company will get will will get to the point where we have a new reactor turning on every few minutes.
14 August
10 August
From one piece Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Pick something hard and boring: fun problems are the crowded ones now that anybody can prompt a thing into existence.Their words
Maybe I would pick something again that's that's in the category hard and boring because that's usually a category that is a little bit easier to actually find people that will appreciate when you solved something. If you pick something that is fun, even if it's hard, you're gonna have a very tough time, especially in a time where people can just prompt things into existence.
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You know features are the fun part. A new feature is is just a prompt away. The real cost comes after every feature we shipped of course with a configuration option because we didn't want to break everyone's setup.
9 August
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“you are a devil’s advocate, disagree with everything” is probably the worst possible prompt for this agent. within a week everyone would ignore her. she’d become the slack equivalent of a smoke detector that goes off whenever somebody makes toast.
8 August
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I REALLY want to believe that this fixes prompt injection risks for coding agents, but I'm just not there yet
4 August
3 August
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So, a deployment of your agent uh in the real world generates data. That data then grounds the simulator and makes it more realistic. The simulator generates harder edge cases for the critic to score and for the agent to learn from.
2 August
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korrents.com
Interviews reward presentation; only a hands-on case study shows how fast a candidate's thinking decays.Their words
the number of people who present incredibly well, and then you give them a prompt and some data and ask them to come back with a PRD on something, and then we make them verbally defend it, how quickly the thinking decays from folks who are good at the theater, but not the specifics, uh is kind of really telling, I think.
1 August
30 July
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And I think there's a lot of room in a lot of domains for much faster validation models, possibly learned valu validation models that can uh you know get you a a approximation to the true answer much much more rapidly. And that changes how those experimental loops can be thought of and how quickly you can go around those loops.
29 July
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what's interesting is that the model is actually a little bit more intelligent without these prompts.
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And you don't want to guess what's the instruction that the model needs because you might not predict it correctly. The thing that you want to do is you want to run it.
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I think the skill nowadays is less about prompt engineering and more about figuring out how do you give Claude a hard task that seems a little bit too hard. And then how do you make it possible for Claude to verify its work along the way? And the verification I think is probably the single most important thing that people do not get right
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the model does not seem to be prompt injectable anymore.
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it's it's literally we're looking at neurons in the model's brain that light up when prompt injection happens. So the model won't even tell you but we can actually see those neurons and we can figure out and diagnose that it's happening. And then you combine that with the auto mode classifier and with these three layers we just cannot demonstrate prompt injection anymore.
26 July
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The results have surprised me: these things are a lot more capable than I had expected.
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But it's also your instruction budget is like if you give the model too many instructions and especially too many conflicting instructions and that's in your initial prompt and also like if you have a conversation you start going down a path and then you change your mind and you start going down a different you actually I don't want to do any of that I want to do this. It's like a it's a lot of computation the model has to do to notice that it has to ignore that whole thing.
13 July
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30 June
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Usesrcmnd.app
XcodeTheir words
When writing code, I'm mostly in Xcode, often in concert with Prompt and, lately, Claude Code.
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Claude CodeTheir words
When writing code, I'm mostly in Xcode, often in concert with Prompt and, lately, Claude Code.
22 June
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But in order to actually live in accordance with what you believe in long-term, you must make it a habit.
21 June
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BunTheir words
I have no problem with what Bun did, I think Bun is a great project, and I'm not interested in turning this into a Bun post.
3 June
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So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.
2 June
31 May
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The Doxies PenaltyTheir words
Mind candy: continuing Robins's series of historical mysteries set in a very-slightly-alternate Regency London. (I re-read the last one, Sleeping Partner, before turning to this.) Robins continues to be great and I hope that many more of these will flow from her pen.
28 May
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
13 May
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In a sense, we're all turning into project managers, right? And and we can have an army of junior programmers called agents that will just spit out reams of code, but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly our craft is going from one of writing the code to one of of reviewing the code and and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work, if if you will.
27 April
15 April
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Nor nor did I I would say my mistake is I didn't deeply internalize that they they really had no other options that that that a VC would never put in 510 billion of investment into an AI lab with the with the hopes of it turning out to be anthropic. And so that was my miss.
20 March
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So the question is how do I refactor all the abstractions so that I'm not I have to arrange it once and hit go. The name of the game is how can you get more agents running for longer periods of time without your involvement doing stuff on your behalf?
19 March
From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I call it the lethal trifecta because the only guaranteed solution is to cut off one of the legs.
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Problem is, you can solve SQL injection by parameterizing your queries. You can't do that with LLMs.
11 March
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korrents.com
Big companies will lose about half of their engineers, because that is where everybody is setting the dial.Their words
And so, what's happening is everybody on average is setting that dial to about 50% and we're going to lose about half the engineers from big companies, which is scary.
3 March
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Yes, I could totally see how OpenClaw could become a huge company. And no, it’s not really exciting for me. I’m a builder at heart. I did the whole creating-a-company game already, poured 13 years of my life into it and learned a lot. What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.
12 February
From one piece OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The chat box is not the final form of working with models; it is radio shows recorded onto television.Their words
Like, if you think more globally, we are, we copied Google for agents. You have, like, a prompt, and, and then you have a chat interface. That, to me, very much feels like when we first created television and then people recorded radio shows on television and you saw that on TV.
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korrents.com
Do not run a personal agent on a cheap or local model: weak models are gullible and easy to prompt-inject.Their words
That's why I warn in my security documentation, don't use cheap models. Don't use Haiku or a local model. Even though I, I very much love the idea that this thing could completely run local. If you use a, a very weak local model, they are very gullible. It's very easy to, to prompt inject them.
4 February
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korrents.com
Programming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.Their words
It's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.
27 January
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7 January
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Team of RivalsTheir words
Abraham Lincoln surrounded himself with his opponents, gradually turning them into admirers and influential advisors. Lincoln’s approach to leadership offers lessons for anyone looking to tap into the wisdom of others, with or without formal authority.
1 January
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korrents.com
A habit has to be established before it can be improved, so standardizing a behavior comes before optimizing it.Their words
this is a very deep truth about habits, which is a habit must be established before it can be improved. You know, it has to become the standard in your life before you can scale it up and optimize and turning it into something more. You need to standardize before you optimize.
29 November 2025
21 September 2025
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korrents.com
If you cannot say crisply what success looks like, you will not get great work — out of a team or out of an AI.Their words
if you're really unclear about what success looks like the prompt, you're probably not going to get the most amazing work. Um I think that's true for managing teams and it's very much true for managing AIs.
15 September 2025
12 September 2025
From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Yeah. So there's a subtlety here. Emerging capabilities don't just come from the fact that internet data has a lot of stuff in it. They also come from the fact that generalization once it reaches a certain level becomes compositional.
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korrents.com
The date that matters for robotics is not when the technology is finished but when the data flywheel starts turning.Their words
So to me like what what I tend to think about a lot in terms of timelines is not the date when it will be done but the date when it will when like the flywheel starts basically.
2 September 2025
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Like it seems to me right now you could do like a double blind test of the same prompt given to Grock Claude Gemini um Mistral Deep Seek. Do a double blind test. I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell which is which.
25 August 2025
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GPT-5Their words
GPT-5 also is much more literal in how you have to prompt it - it’s a great model but not the best agent, you have to be more precise and specific.
19 August 2025
18 August 2025
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I just think about like really simple things like access to mental health care, access to education, access to medical advice, access to legal advice. We're essentially taking expertise and making it a commodity. And I think that will is generally democratizing.
15 August 2025
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actually it turns out that you can significantly decrease power consumption with a very small reduction in overall compute. So if you if you've got like three really bad days in a row or something, you can actually just like you can dial back your power usage quite a lot without compromising your inference or or um or training.
9 August 2025
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One of my favorite papers about prompt injection is Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
3 August 2025
25 May 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Anthropic prompt engineering documentationTheir words
I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.
6 May 2025
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Unless you’re an extreme power user, asking AI questions every day is still a rounding error on your total electricity footprint.
What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?hannahritchie.substack.com
22 March 2025
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korrents.com
Prompt injection is an extremely hard attack to defend against, and hardly anyone integrating AI is talking about it.Their words
One thing that I don't think a lot of people are talking about as we integrate more and more AI is that prompt injection is an extremely hard thing to defend against because it's not really clear how you defend against it.
12 March 2025
2 February 2025
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Who We Are and How We Got HereTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
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The Selfish GeneTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
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Albion's SeedTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
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Stalin's WarTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
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The Fourth TurningTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
30 January 2025
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Likedrcmnd.app
llmTheir words
This is a command line tool with plenty of plugins that lets you prompt different models. Think of it as a command-line version of Open WebUI. It’s particularly useful for quick scripting and basic automation.
16 January 2025
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korrents.com
Building a working AI demo is far easier than turning it into a reliable production product.Their words
This is perhaps one of the first painful lessons anyone who has built an AI product quickly learns. It's easy to build a demo, but hard to build a product.
31 December 2024
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There’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.
29 September 2024
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Dislikedrcmnd.app
iTermTheir words
iTerm: Tmux is slow, prompt layout breaks when resizing the window.
19 September 2024
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korrents.com
Biology keeps turning up whole classes of things nobody knew existed, and that is what defeats attempts to model it.Their words
The "unknown unknown" problem makes hash (in retrospect) of many attempts at biological theorizing and modeling, and I think that this problem will still accrue to ML models until we know an awful lot more.
5 September 2024
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But in turning these innovations into competitive industries, America has come up short.
31 August 2024
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korrents.com
Art is what results from making an enormous number of choices, and a prompt contains almost none of them.Their words
But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices.
3 July 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Evil Does Not ExistTheir words
Evil Does Not Exist (Japan) 3.7 This is turning out to be an outstanding year for Japanese films. As is so often the case with films from Asia, it begs to be seen on the big screen. Hard to summarize—imagine if Apichatpong Weerasethakul had directed Local Hero. Warning—his films always start slow, and build to a strong second half.
19 June 2024
From one piece Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity CEO on Future of AI, Search & the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #434 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And also this is where I believe the whole prompt engineering, trying to be a good prompt engineer is not going to be a long-term thing. I think you want to make products work where a user doesn’t even ask for something, but you know that they want it and you give it to them without them even asking for it.
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There is a skill to asking good questions, and everyone’s curious though. Curiosity is unbounded in this world. Every person in the world is curious, but not all of them are blessed to translate that curiosity into a well-articulated question.
24 January 2024
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26 June 2023
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korrents.com
Half the population in rich countries is not articulate enough in writing to use prompt-driven AI well.Their words
For sure, half the population is insufficiently articulate in writing to use ChatGPT well.
22 June 2023
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I doubt that the current set of generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, Bard, etc., are representative of the UIs we’ll be using in a few years because they have deep-rooted usability problems.
AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
15 March 2023
15 December 2022
21 February 2022
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One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.
Their words now
But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
1 August 2021
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This brings us to the central challenge of all content tracing proposals so far: to make tracing possible, a tracing system needs to turn every WhatsApp user (including the originator) into a cooperative green circle — regardless of whether users actually want to cooperate with police.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
22 December 2020
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Likedrcmnd.app
Windows TerminalTheir words
Windows Terminal - Finally Windows has a modern terminal. You can run shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
25 February 2020
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The Adventurer's SonTheir words
Roman Dial is a master storyteller, and I've long awaited for a definitive book about these larger-than-life characters and only-in-Alaska events. But Roman's best lifetime work will probably stand as The Adventurer's Son, a story that he never would have wanted to write but that is more heartfelt, personal, and relevant than a book full of true but unbelievable tales.
1 June 2019
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Face of BattleTheir words
The very first historian to inspire me was John Keegan, who I studied under at Sandhurst, because he wrote The Face of Battle, which was one of the key moments in the turning points of military history.
22 August 2018
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But the Commons Clause doesn’t present a solution for supporting open source software. It presents a framework for turning open source software into proprietary software.
22 February 2018
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