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> The completely unrelated
> In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.
Also, I have not seen unlicense before -- guess I'm one of todays lucky 10,000
[0] https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#will-t...
I just noticed there is no IOS version? bit strange no?
also no update on their blog since 2023?
would be interested to read whats going on recently, is there another place to look?
I still imagine a halo device from that show that i think would do well to be made, I imagine a garmin/iwatch that also completes lifestyle and healthcare needs on steroids that also replaces smart phones
in any case my final attempt was contacting a group of people who wrote about account recovery [0] as a last ditch effort, unfortunately some emails bounced and no one responded.
my parents and grandparents occasionally still use my old email and I'm still bothered by it despite it happening over a year ago now. if there is anyone on this list working at google email, I have a lot of evidence showing I owned the account and I would love to have the opportunity to talk to a person about options.
[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
either lower the tax or start offering monthly tax refunds?
would that work as an alternative or equivalent to UBI or am I thinking of something very different?
to add in a Hayek quote
>The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.'
there is a great podcast from Econtalk [0] talking about this in detail that I highly recommend a listen if you are not familiar with it.
back to the point, these changes have unforeseen consequences, some may be good but some could cause a new type of famine or disease that could have devastating consequences. I do not think this point can be overstated.
[0] https://www.econtalk.org/frank-dikotter-on-maos-great-famine...
I find his bio more interesting than the chat but in any case thanks for sharing!
if you have the time have you attempted hosting/selling yourself? I know it sounds ridiculous at mentioning but I purchased my current home without any real estate agents, we did work through lawyers and there were fees there... but likely minimal (I paid under $1500) and I actually enjoyed working directly with lawyers rather than having real estate agents inbetween, this would be my prefered method if I were to sell/purchase again.
I am very interested in what this type of lifecycle might look like considering most data I feel should be kept forever. I wonder how a lifecycle might collide with the challenges that bit rot[0] are dealing with.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/what-is-b...
we can have a separate conversation about that separate issue which I agree needs to be addressed, but not in this thread..
if you need help understanding what whatboutism is here is a great john oliver explanation [0] that will help why this is bad and that pointing out hypocrisy does not create a moral equivalency.
please try to focus on the conversation, and open up a new thread on the issue you would like to discuss, not here.
[0] skip to 6 minutes if you would like to get to that point, I think the entire video is worth a look. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZAPwfrtAFY
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_...
ignoring those two annoyances, it is quite interesting, I was drawn here after watching Sebastian Seung speak [1] which I found in the rabbit hole of reading about the new 100% fatal startup...
[0] https://eyewire.org/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS6nTA3DUuY
Data Science can be applied in many different ways, (somewhat) Recently LightCyber was acquired by PANW [0] and I believe that if you are in data science that may be something that tickles your itch.
if I may give advice, asking a more specific question to a search engine may also get you ona path with additional information. 'cyber security' is a pretty large umbrella and much of it may bore you while only a small handful is interesting... so try to be more specific rather than say 'stuff'
[0] https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/secure-the-network...