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w1nt3rmut3

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w1nt3rmut3··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
Simplex is developed by a person who has a rather difficult view of the world. I would not recommend using it as long as this person is responsible for it.
w1nt3rmut3··on European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws
What do you mean abroad? I don't think anyone is considering moving to the USA. But maybe you mean a different country?
w1nt3rmut3··on Show HN: A local secrets manager with easy backup
It is using https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/symmetri... so no aead. And also using this library as it strongly encourages to use something else. Because of footguns like this.
w1nt3rmut3··on Show HN: Open-sourced (road) traffic counting application
Seems to be made for USA as only cars are counted. In Europe u usually want to distinguish between cars bigger cars, bicycles and pedestrians. You also need to blurr everything not related to cars and you can't just collect all video data in a central space. Or need lower res cameras.
w1nt3rmut3··on Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry
So manjaro is now illegal in Europe cool. Or they need to make it opt-in for EU.
w1nt3rmut3··on C skill issue; how the White House is wrong
Absolutely false. It is not a skill issue to write safe c code. It is simple impossible. As in every humans makes mistakes and we know by know that statistically it must happen. There are also other issues as tooling. We need better languages for system programming. If your are sower because you don't whant to change, than the world will move on without you.
w1nt3rmut3··on AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks
They do and there is even a button in iam to do just that. Also exposed as api to regernate the policy based on usage.
w1nt3rmut3··on Terraform Scripting Concepts
This already exists. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/