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jgtoron Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

With reproducible builds like Signal does you can be sure the app you've downloaded matches the source code that's been audited:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

jgtoron Jane Goodall has died

Been lucky enough to visit that park and it's a fantastic place. Take a walking tour and see the chimp groups up close.

jgtoron Amazon Web Services dark patterns (2024)

> AWS should provide features where you are prompted to set a hard budget limit when you first signup and services fail once that's exceeded

They should, but the entire internal metering & bill generation pipeline isn't setup to support that. You can configure billing alerts but these will only refresh on updates to your estimated bill (typically re-computed every 8hrs). And since service teams are responsible for posting metering records to commerce platform their implementation may vary.

TLDR: AWS Commerce Platform is a mess.

Source: Ex-AWS SDE

jgtoron * 19 Year old pakistani boy built world fastest caching database

Hey Muhammad. This is your project that you are trying to play off as something you've just come across isn't it?

jgtoron macOS Sequoia is available today

Have you updated to Xcode 16?

jgtoron Ask HN: How do you handle users asking for freebies?

Can't you offer a free trial for everyone to test your service and potentially convert if they like it?

jgtoron Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years

No, this was filed for originally Netscape Navigator which codebase evolved into modern Firefox.

jgtoron FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal

For exactly the same reasons, Amazon limits message retentions on it's internal Slack platform and aggressively enforces mailbox quotas in it's internal email system. Up to some shady shenanigans, and don't have to hand it over as part of discovery if they don't got the record in the first place. Exactly the same way criminal gangs operate!

jgtoron [dead]

Seems to be affecting from consumer site and publishing side (App Store Connect).

UPDATE: Looks to be more wide spread, also including Apple Music, iTunes, Podcasts.

jgtoron White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)

Can't wait for a 2026 manned moon mission. Get to watch a live moon landing like my grandparents generation!

jgtoron Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

I actually built 'Tembo - Bilingual Stories' while learning German myself, so hate to plug it on this thread, but we've got lots of German content, maybe you'll find something that interests you?

https://www.tembo.app

jgtoron Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language

Then can I shamelessly plug Tembo - Bilingual Stories (iOS/Android) to you. We offer audiobooks for some of our titles, so you can listen and learn simultaneously. It's a big undertaking to editing them all in-house, but we have audiobooks available for about 30 stories across our courses.

https://www.tembo.app