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I'm surprised to see this on the front-page. It really doesn't seem to have much substance, just aspiration-porn driving sales of their product. I was hoping to read about how to get started, pitfalls to watch out for, etc.

Just based on the linked bio, it seems like this person’s actual work is focused on addressing mass-surveillance, cooperation between governments and social media to restrict free speech, and differences in moderation in different regions. These are certainly political causes, but I think they are the kind of things Mozilla have always supported? I don’t think Mozilla supporting this kind of work is an indication of some massive change in the company.

Given the direction Brendan Eich has pursued at Brave, I'm personally very glad he didn't remain as Mozilla's CEO, regardless of political views.

Edit: Also, I don't think it's particularly reasonable to single out an individual being funded by Mozilla without a very good explanation as to why. Is there something that Leil Zahra has done which makes you think they are inappropriate to be associated with Mozilla? Or are you just upset by their identity as a queer person?

Just tech journalism? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...

More applicable for kids, although certainly of interest to adults too: Minecraft. Any interest in Redstone will push players towards learning the basics of binary logic, without even realising what they're learning will be applicable down the line. Plus, it has (I assume) the largest modding scene of any game - there's a lot of people out there who have learned Java just so they can target Minecraft/CraftBukkit.

This could have changed in the last few years, but I think rg does tend to (sometimes significantly) outperform ag, see the author's benchmarks [0].

0: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#code-search-benchmarks

It's a bold move to put Learn C the Hard Way as the only book recommendation for learning C, haha. This article seems like a good jumping-off point. I would be interested to see some examples of well-written embedded software which are sufficiently limited in scope that a beginner can feasibly grok the whole codebase.

Really enjoyed the conference this year, sad that I probably won't be able to make it to next year's event in Tokyo. Definitely take a look at the technical program [0] if you're at all interested, I think pretty much all the talks are up on YouTube now.

0: https://rwc.iacr.org/2022/program.php

I appreciate "neobrutalism" is really a very different movement to architectural brutalism, but I'm not sure how the first examples the author provides [1] can really be compared to the original brutalist movement at all. Sure, they use heavy contrast & minimal colour, but to my understanding at least, the most important aspects of brutalism were its focus on exposing the raw materials with which buildings were constructed, its geometry, and its overall minimalism.

To me, examples like [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] would be the closest the modern web can really get to "brutalism", but for some reason I can't imagine design blogs will be fawning over them.

1: https://img2.storyblok.com/860x0/filters:format(webp)/f/1172...

2: https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

3: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

4: http://txti.es/

5: https://news.ycombinator.com/news

6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Posts are fairly few & far-between, but Cryptography Dispatches [1] always has very high-quality content; worth reading if you work in that space.

1: https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in your country.

Wow, seems like the technique is very effective!

> Serious Organised Crime Unit

Are you based in the UK? That's probably relevant, it seems like a lot of the cybersecurity sector over here is very friendly with NCSC & SC is required for a lot of roles.

Hm, with regard to timing attacks, I’m not talking about clearing the cofactor, but rather setting the most significant bit to zero & the second most significant to one. My understanding is that this is to defend against an insecure implementation of the scalar multiplication operation which takes a varying length of time depending on which bit is the first non-zero one, thereby revealing information about the key. The linked article supports this (I believe), but I’m always happy to be corrected about these kinds of things :)

This article [0] has a good explanation of why clamping is necessary. But the process is very simple, you just generate 32 random bytes, clear the three least significant bits to avoid small-subgroup attacks, then clear the most significant bit and set the second most significant to avoid side-channel attacks which may occur if an implementation isn’t constant-time. The Libsodium source shows this pretty clearly: [1], lines 18-23.

0: https://www.jcraige.com/an-explainer-on-ed25519-clamping

1: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsod...

Could you elaborate on what definition of "malware" you're using here? I'm not certain it is the same as how the word is used in common parlance, but I would be interested to hear more if you disagree.

As I understand it, you can also see exactly who has looked up your salary info, so it might make for some awkward conversations if your neighbour did search for you.

Also: https://cryptohack.org/, which covers some more modern cryptography.

> this is a rewrite of GNU coreutils, and as such FSF has every right to comment in the project

Sure, and FSF also has every right to tell anyone who writes proprietary software that they hate their guts, if that was how they felt. My point is that this is not a particularly effective strategy for advertising the GPL to developers.

It's not just the FSF's role to "comment" on software licenses, but also to advocate for the use of free software licenses. That involves convincing developers to use them. To go into a project and dictate to them that you don't find their work notable, while still demanding respect for your own project, isn't likely to spark good-will towards the FSF amongst developers. If I were a director at FSF, I would cringe at this kind of interaction, and lean much more towards the "honey" approach for catching flies.

> I should note that in theory there is a gesture I saw referenced in the onboarding materials to go to the "next" page, but I never could figure out how to make it happen

This makes the whole article seem un-serious to me. It seems like there was either a defect with the author's device, or they couldn't take the time to Google "turn page remarkable" and find this help page showing the (very intuitive) gestures listed, with videos: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000958211.... This is absolutely not something I had trouble with on my device.

Thanks, didn't see that, will edit my post. Ominous tone wasn't intentional, was just surprised to see such a quick change.

Two new moderators have already been added to replace those who left on a temporary basis: [0], [1]

0: https://github.com/rust-lang/team/commit/7185102aa6261d0181f...

1: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/moderation

Further information might be gleaned from the associated Reddit thread, where one of the mod team who resigned in this post has offered to answer questions surrounding the departure, although not relating to any specific incidents: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/moderation_tea...

I agree if we’re talking about YouTubers who are already making millions, but if you’re a smaller channel making high-quality videos, I would imagine that view bump is the difference between being able to work on producing videos full time, and having to work multiple jobs.

At that point then, maybe the thumbnails do make the world a worse place, but I believe that’s offset by having more of the good-quality videos produced (since more time can be spent on them if you don’t have to work 2 jobs).

I’d be interested to hear your perspective on this. Obviously the same utilitarian calculus doesn’t apply if the content a channel is producing is crappy alongside the obnoxious thumbnails.

Really sad to see so many people dismiss this just based on the YouTube thumbnail at the bottom. Jeff consistently makes very high quality content, I really enjoyed his series on Kubernetes, I would urge you to look past any preconceptions there.

The fact is, if YouTube makes up a sizeable portion of your income, and that can increase by a factor of 10% just by making a dumb face, you’d be silly not to do so. It’s unfortunate that this is the way things work, but I can personally look past that to ensure that creators who provide value to me are able to put food on the table.

Meanwhile, in the UK: https://www.hcsolicitors.co.uk/news/giving-the-police-your-p...

If a judge authorises a notice, under RIPA, you can be served a 2 year sentence for failing to disclose your phone's passcode.

Why pretend you don't see the false equivalency you're drawing here? A limited amount of free storage/transfer or a consumer cloud product is not equivalent to what Cloudflare are offering here, or what S3 is. If you need S3, Office 365 or Google Drive are simply not alternatives. Google and Microsoft offer viable alternatives, and hey, they cost money: [0], [1]. If there is a completely free alternative to S3, I would love for you to send a link, because Googling doesn't show any reasonable alternative.

0: https://cloud.google.com/storage#section-10

1: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/storage/bl...

Looking past the moral question of whether people should police their own private behaviour like this, there are reasons you might need to take a nude/intimate photo. If you're ill, if you've found a lump, etc., and you can't get a face-to-face appointment with a doctor, taking a photo is probably the best way to illustrate what's wrong.

I would love to know where I can get free cloud storage equivalent to S3.

Literally in the second paragraph:

> oppose the proposed $3.5tn budget bill put forward by Democrats

That makes it pretty clear to me that it's a $3.5TN budget bill. Also, that sentence is a link, so it's underlined. Difficult to miss.