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bozey07on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

Why is MTProto considered "home-rolled" but the Signal Protocol isn't? Both are boutique and written from scratch to fit their respective systems.

bozey07on Patient dies weeks after kidney transplant from genetically modified pig

> The pig kidney was provided by eGenesis of Cambridge, Mass., from a pig donor that was genetically-edited using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to remove harmful pig genes and add certain human genes to improve its compatibility with humans. Additionally, scientists inactivated porcine endogenous retroviruses in the pig donor to eliminate any risk of infection in humans.

"donor" seems a little rich.

I dislike what precedent this sets in human's "use" of animals.

bozey07on PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software

I like seeing software written in Free Pascal, they tend to be small and performant. Cheat Engine[0] is another example.

[0] https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine