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Create a <domain>.tld/llms.txt or some SKILL.md files. When I encounter these tickets I just share links to these resources and the problem goes away.

I once decided to deny new customers in order to be able to service current demand at the quality we wanted. It backfired and made people want our product even more. Our phones were blowing up. That approach can have unintended consequences!

AIUI, Signal decrypts the E2EE message locally, but then sends the decrypted message to iOS in order to display the notification to the user. iOS then stores this data and it persists after the user dismisses the notification.

This makes sense and there's really no way around it without a change from Apple. If iOS is going to show the user a Signal notification with the decrypted message in the notification body, then iOS must be given the decrypted message. iOS could (and probably should) delete that data off the device as soon as the user dismisses/engages with the notification. But it sounds like they do not.

So Maria machado, the recipient of the Nobel peace prize in 2025 is a would be dictator ?

So you know better than the poor brown people?

You’d be surprised. Last month on a visit to the U.S., 8/10 Uber drivers I had were Venezuelan. I’m a fluent Spanish speaker so I engaged in this very topic. The vast majority of them wanted Maduro out, and the fastest way to that is through U.S. intervention. They were not opposed to this.

Like distributing an iOS app in France that uses encryption? What a pain in the ass that is.

The bureaucracy was painful enough that we just removed from the French App Store and when someone complains we tell them to write their representatives to stop with these misguided laws.

Excuse me, monsieur, do you have a license for that math?

Yes, he’s living life to the fullest!

The most active 80 year old I’ve seen. Lots of travel, speaking at conferencing, networking in his professional circles.

Believe it or not, he’s a fairly conservative person. He’d never done yoga, breath work, sauna, cold plunge, saline IVs. I had the honor of pushing him out of his comfort zone a bit with the hippy health stuff.

He’s speed run learning how to use a smartphone and loves using it to connect all the people he meets together.

I think that was the most intriguing part of Leonard- his ability to pick up a new concept in minutes and apply it expertly. We were discussing modern cryptography and he was able to grok it in < 5 minutes.

Yes, he and Ross are still friends today. If I understand correctly they recently met up for the first time outside of prison.

It’s a very, very hard read. His vocabulary is insane. I had to look up so many words. Very rewarding to make it to the end though.

I had the pleasure of recently meeting Leonard and spending a couple weeks together. What a unique and interesting person. I think he’s the smartest person I’ve ever met. His stories are captivating. Could spend a very long time chatting with him.

My app’s organization is outside the “west”. So in order to complete verification with Google I had to pay some subcontractor of Dunn&Bradstreet almost $500 to get the DUNS. Then I had to get an original certified copy of the organization’s registration from the national registry. Then have an official notarized translation to English and get all that apostilled (another $500 through a service).

Also, Google support refused to tell me what set of documents they would accept. I had to figure it out myself.

Primal.net and yakihonne.com speak nostr protocol and are both pretty slick implementations.

Primal recently launched “build your own algorithm” along with a feed marketplace.

P2P doesn’t work for social, see SecureScuttleButt. Rabble has moved pretty firmly into the Nostr camp. He’s one of the top minds thinking about decentralized social media. Study nostr and don’t dismiss the relay model lightly.

Which blockchain is user data stored on?

What happens if Cipherwill goes out of business before my death? The whole thing goes kaput and I’m stuck figuring out a new solution?

Wow, super cool! I love the unique styling. Haven’t seen that before.

I (well, GPT-4) built freeqrgenerator.app specifically for my wife because she kept using the malicious sites that inject a redirect that inevitably die and stop working.

Thinking I can retire mine and use yours instead on the domain.

n=1 but my mother-in-law has been rocking Mint since late 2019. It does everything she needs and hasn't had a single question about it since 2020. I apply updates when I visit her house every few months. Don't recall any issues with that, either.

I moved my domains over to Cloudflare.

Yes, it could. Largely depends on the team, industry, etc.

In our little niche the median age of a typical employee is ~21. The tasks are things like “mop the floor”.

Yes, maybe someone half-asses mopping the floor to get the points.

I’ve met many a 20-something daily user of the software who comment positively on the Daily Checklist feature. I’m sure there are those who disliked it too and just didn’t say anything.

Neat! Congrats on the launch.

I built something similar as a feature embedded in a niche product aimed at helping manage a specific type of business many years ago.

The most popular part of the feature was the gamification built on top of reporting. Managers enjoyed the checklists being completed (and reported) more accurately. Staff enjoyed getting a (small) raise for being on the leaderboard.

Basically we just tracked who specifically marked an item off the checklist as complete. Then provided reports (and printable awards) to management.

The business would then implement a program like “whoever completes the most tasks per quarter gets a $0.50/hr raise”.

These checklists were things like “Front of house AM” “Back of house Lunch” etc. with a step by step list of things that needed to be done.

Just throwing that out there as an idea for a future iteration for you.

I used this just a couple months ago to build a multilingual docs site. The site turned out great! Was able to train a couple people to use GitHub’s built in editor to manage the content themselves.

So much this. I learned this the hard way.

We had a search function with typeahead abilities. I had intentionally removed the rate limit from that endpoint to support fast typers.

One day around 6AM, someone in Tennessee came into work and put their purse down on their keyboard. The purse depressed a single key and started hitting the API with each keystroke.

Of course after 15 minutes of this the db became very unhappy. Then a web server crashed because the db was lagging too much. Cascading failures until that whole prod cluster crashed.

Needless to say the rate limit was readded that day ;).

Same here in Costa Rica. BYD and Geely is everywhere. Tesla's are very rare. Chinese car makers are killing it here.

I've been trying to get my LG 5K display to turn on from macOS for like 2 months now. I just downloaded Lunar to try and fix the problem, but nada. I know the monitor works because if I connect an iPad with the same cable, the display works fine. What's your trick?

It was on Netflix at one point...that's where I saw it at least. Great show, highly recommend.

This link is pretty famous in some “conspiracy theorist” circles, specifically those interested in “Skyking”.

Skyking is a military radio transmission protocol, believed to be command-and-control in nature. Some believe there to be a correlation between the length of the encoded message/how many times the operator says “Skyking” and the DEFCON level/how close the US is to blowing shit up.

I’ve been in places where total AWS spend was a rounding error compared to revenue. Egress fees weren’t a top 10 cost and wasn’t worth optimizing for.

The bosses would’ve blamed me for choosing a tier 2/3 noname provider the first time a day of downtime happens. And they would’ve been right.

Like living anywhere there are pros and cons. The pros list is pretty freaking long, and the cons list has gotten smaller over the years.

This situation has certainly added a con to the list, though it hasn’t changed the balance of the equation so far.

For me, the whole thing is more emotionally taxing than anything. Though it’s not that different from living in Manhattan in terms of the sadness you see every day.

Also, these buses stop in many towns along the way in Costa Rica.

There, migrants decide to get off and spend some time in these towns. Primarily to recuperate after crossing the Darien Gap, but also to panhandle, and sometimes commit various petty crimes.

These small towns do not have the resources nor infrastructure to handle ~5k people per day passing through. There aren’t enough public toilets, police officers, ambulances, nor shelters to handle this volume of people.

I happen to live in one of these small towns, size ~2k people. It’s been very difficult to deal with. The government does nothing, so the townspeople are left trying to add some order to this chaos.

The level of human suffering is high. These people went through some serious shit in the Darien. This isn’t a humane process for anyone involved.

This is going to be unpopular here, but Bitcoin’s layer 2 Lightning Network is pretty ideal for micropayments.

Strike (strike.me) is a Venmo-like app that lets users connect their bank account and then hold a USD balance. The only difference is that users can use their USD to send Bitcoin to the other end. They’re not exposed to bitcoin’s price volatility.

On nostr, users are sending micro tips to other each other fairly successfully. The UX isn’t great right now, but I recommend trying it out- it is a functioning version of social micro payments.

Presumably they’re placing it in the # part of the url, which isn’t passed to servers by browsers. Now, of course, the client could still exfiltrate the key with client side JS, but that would be noticeable to anyone that wanted to check.