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What's worrying is that politics are not occupied with this theme at all. Politics are always lacking behind, because they are a reflection of society and society simply isn't that far yet.

It's far more likely that the AI boom will create immense polarization and dissatisfaction at first. Layoffs, loss of purpose and friction. I hope we are able to steer the ship in time and turn the tide.

It's worrying that they don't specify in which cases they require identity checks.

You're a hero

Great work! I really appreciate these tools with the privacy angle!

This will hurt for a lot of startup AI wrappers around these productivity tools.

There is an update:

"Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues"

Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.

Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed. Dec 05, 2025 - 08:56 UTC

LinkedIn, Perplexity as well

Politicians to reach out to in Germany, with a template email:

poststelle@bmi.bund.de, poststelle@bmjv.bund.de, info@bmds.bund.de, baerbel.bas@bundestag.de, lars.klingbeil@bundestag.de, friedrich.merz@bundestag.de, landesleitung@csu-bayern.de, fraktion@cducsu.de, matthias.miersch@bundestag.de, sebastian.fiedler@bundestag.de, alexander.throm@bundestag.de, johannes.schaetzl@bundestag.de, ralph.brinkhaus@bundestag.de

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

ich wende mich heute an Sie, um meine große Sorge über die geplante Einführung der sogenannten „Chatkontrolle“ auszudrücken.

Die flächendeckende Überwachung privater Kommunikation stellt einen massiven Eingriff in unsere Grundrechte dar. Sie gefährdet die Privatsphäre aller Bürgerinnen und Bürger und untergräbt zentrale Prinzipien eines demokratischen Rechtsstaates. Der Schutz der Vertraulichkeit von Kommunikation ist ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil unserer freiheitlichen Gesellschaft.

Zudem zeigen zahlreiche Expertinnen und Experten auf, dass das flächendeckende Scannen privater Nachrichten zur Bekämpfung von Kindesmissbrauchsdarstellungen nicht wirksam ist. Stattdessen schwächt eine solche Maßnahme die Sicherheit digitaler Kommunikation insgesamt und schafft gefährliche Überwachungsinfrastrukturen, die leicht missbraucht werden können.

Ich bitte Sie daher eindringlich, sich bei der entsprechenden Abstimmung klar gegen die Einführung der Chatkontrolle auszusprechen und sich für den Schutz der Bürgerrechte und der Privatsphäre einzusetzen.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

This is the link I could find on it: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343...

I don't see that this is solving the problem. If there is a new law, it still needs to be enforced, so companies still need to have the same checks on identity to make sure they are compliant.

I agree that it should be the responsibility of parents, but if you leave good and bad parenting to the parents only I think we would live in a different world.

If this was the case then Russia would also admit they did it. It's weird to not hide your IP, but still deny the hack on political level.

I'm not so sure. Look at the bargaining power in geopolitics a country gets, when they know a certain country hacked them (Dem. hacks, Clinton email hacks, by Russia). It is always better to hide your tracks or to blaim someone else. Especially if it can be done easily.

It also raised my suspicion.

What I generally don't get, is that in so many hacks they state "this came from a Russina|Chinese|Iranian IP address", hinting that it came from that country probably.

Can someone in the security industry maybe elaborate if this makes sense or not?

This sums it all up:

> embrace the vibes, but honor the craft

You probably missed SAP then.

> The company is the largest non-American software company by revenue and the world's third-largest publicly traded software company by revenue. As of December 2023, SAP is the largest German company by market capitalization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

The annual budget is $ 11.5 billion.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0309-budget.html

Sources?

The flaw is the fact that companies go bankrupt and their data should die with them. In case of bankruptcy it might be impossible to hold on to your DNS and therefore risking old company data leaking.

Here's a link to the original research: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2411858

There is a theory that sleeping more hours was not a determining factor in survival [1]. Homo sapiens mitigated sleeping on the ground as a risk by sleeping in groups.

> However, too much deep sleep is dangerous. REM is the stage of sleep in which we experience dreams, so our muscles become paralyzed to avoid acting out these dreams. In his “social sleep hypothesis,” Samson suggests that our ancestors mitigated the risk of deep sleep by sleeping in large groups with at least one person on guard.

> “Human camps are like a snail’s shell. They can pick it up and move it around with them,” Samson says. Our ancestral hunter-gatherers might have slept in groups of 15 to 20 around a campfire, taking turns staying awake and watching over the others.

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-strange-sl...

> I think one weird aspect of living in Europe, or at least Germany, is that all the stuff that US politicians told me were “too expensive” apparently aren’t!

If you look at the spending of the countries' governments, you partly can explain why these social services, health and public transport are considered better by the author.

One outlier worth mentioning is the big spend on "Defence" by the US. Of course, Europe benefits from that to in terms of protection in NATO.

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/general-government-s...

What a piece of engineering and what a research and work went into explaining it this thorough.

One of the core problems with plastic and their recycling is that plastic doesn't let itself recycle so easily due to the chemical composition. If you have the best recyclable material (e.g. PET), it will only recycle up to 3 to 4 times and even then new plastic is added to guarantee the quality of the recycled plastic. After that, the chemical composition is that much damaged you cannot use it anymore. The second problem is that with the collection of e.g. household recyclable waste, is that there are so many types of plastic in there, that sorting out the "good quality" plastics from the "bad quality" (Single Use Plastics) is a tedious and expensive process. Most of it will be sorted into 1 category, the category where it is used as fuel for energy production. It is burned.

More effective solutions are focussed on avoiding plastics as much as we can. One of the biggest areas to win is looking at the packaging of products.

What's wrong with plastic recycling: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNWn885qWtU&pp=ygUgcGxhc3RpYyB...

The plastic recycling numbers in the EU: https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/sites/default/fil...

American patriotism set aside, I share the author's enthusiasm for these types of technology! The post's main focus on how we stand on the shoulders of giants is so true! It makes me happy and proud as well.

Another fascinating technology that we take for granted, is the possibility to travel with 280km/h in a train and still be able to receive digital bits and bytes. What kind of witchcraft would our grand-grand-grandparents have called that?

Decriminalisation can lead to better control over who gets how much, information to users about usage and dosage and also getting the topic on the table for every normal househould. These effects don't need to be underestimated as they can lead to a more smart and healthy use of a toxic substance, thus leading to less overdoses.

They started Signal "to support, accelerate, and broaden Signal's mission of making private communication accessible and ubiquitous". Yes, Marlinspike is highly talented and worked on the security at Twitter. I don't see anything bad about that.

Signal started of with not ONLY privacy in mind. In the beginning the app required even Google Play Services, which was dropped because of pushback from the community. It seems that his experience in sillicion valley startups, also reflects on how Signal manages growth and thinks about user adoption of their product. On top of that, they try to apply as much privacy as possible. If they would have started the other way around, they wouldn't have gotten so far. A certain spirit seems to be necessary to give privacy to the masses.

Next to that, they are paving the way to no longer require phone numbers: https://signal.org/blog/signal-pins/

A couple of years ago I was in this position. I wanted to know how computers work and stumbled upon this resource. I can highly recommend the exercises given on Github by Xorpd. It really requires no prior knowledge and a lot of the exercises have answers now (still a work in progress though).

Next to that it might be convenient to have something like asmdebugger.com next to it.

Another book that also really helped working with this was "Code: the Hidden Language of Computer Hard and Software" by Charles Petzold. This explains how computers work from light bulb/transistor level, all the way to the top to the OS, the monitor and the keyboard.

Here is the video that explains how he did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FQJEzJ_cQw

Incredible how many hidden tricks/bugs/calculations went into that world record.