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ragmodel226··on Fight Chat Control
Australia can’t get technical capability notices for anything that matters, maybe some local trash only. (Don’t use Australian software or products folks).

American tech will tell them to pound sand, and you got another international incident in the media.

ragmodel226··on Fight Chat Control
This is a defeatist and damaging attitude. It detracts from the core issue at hand, which is EU government forcing code being run in private messaging apps over data before it is encrypted. It defeats the security model of end to end encrypted messaging, and leads to a society that cannot trust its communications against government interference ever again.

One can criticize analysis of mass surveillance of metadata and encrypted channels, but this is something else.

ragmodel226··on Testing Bitchat at the music festival
Correct, Jack is even going to make double sha256 mining chips in the US.

There will be no NFTs. Jack is Bitcoin (only).

ragmodel226··on Testing Bitchat at the music festival
Calle is a genius and is pushing this space forward, and Jack has the capital to get it there. Ignore the haters, we can have all the things we want now, it’s just going to take a few iterations and lessons learned.
ragmodel226··on Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
Also, MZ in exe is Mark Zbikowski.
ragmodel226··on Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys
Probably shouldn’t call Phil Katz a punk
ragmodel226··on Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?
If you are not at least using these tools, more so than vibecoding but understanding how to improve your craft, you are going to lose. I’m now 100% behind AI gen code as it has given me 10x powers. Ask the right prompts, get the best code. AI, if you reject it, yngmi