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There's no world in which cops can or will only violate the privacy of obvious criminals.

It becomes "well we need to scan websites to make sure there's no X, Y, or Z, and prosecute the site operators who don't cooperate" real fast.

My thoughts on AI: https://nonograph.com/some-disorganized-thoughts-about-artif...

I can't believe anyone trusts AI to do anything without strict oversight from a human. That's absolutely insane to me.

I think we need less software with AI features. Less stuff chasing the hype train and more "slow" software that encourages thoughtfulness and less reliance on the machine.

I wrote some thoughts on this a while ago. They're not cleanly organized (sorry!) but it's my raw thinking on AI: https://nonograph.com/some-disorganized-thoughts-about-artif...

Also wrote this on the state of VC if interested: https://nonograph.com/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-f...

We need LESS of AI and more HUMAN thinking. The process of thought and the increased difficulty with increased complexity is a feature not a bug.

AI note taking is a scourge on society and needs to go.

Why would anyone use LinkedIn in the first place? It's not like anyone is getting jobs through it with all the AI slop and corporate kowtowing.

You'll also benefit from better privacy if you never register to begin with.

This is exactly what I don't want.

I like point-and-click GUIs, no tiling, no MacOS style dock that wastes screen space, just the Windows UI without Microsoft! That's why I picked Linux.

Absolutely! Meetings about the emails and emails about the meetings!

I wouldn't be surprised if humans cracked it then OpenAI "bought" the solution and work to claim it was GPT's doing

A friend in China built a Flock overlay network that sends live video and audio from ~100 cameras near me to an AWS server for processing and search.

This is proprietary. Yuck

no email wall: https://nonograph.com/cops-search-thousands-of-flock-cameras...

Fwiw, the FBI use Signal regularly, and it's approved for some specific use cases. Don't ask how I know ;)

There are ways to ascertain how and when a person is using their device by analyzing Signal's metadata, then build a predictive model based on months of daily usage to infer when they're most likely about to pick up their phone.

Delta Chat is years behind Signal's protections, and its claims of "zero metadata" are straight up lies. SimpleX has at least four remote execution zero days that I'm aware of, all relating to media processing. I told Evgeny to make the blur effect actually hash the image instead of acting like an overlay, but I was repeatedly ignored before being set as an "observer" role in the SimpleX Public Group.

Look into SimpleX Chat. It's like Telegram but with trustworthy encryption that's always-on, multiple profiles, and the servers are interchangeable so if one or two go down you can just switch them out.

Evgeny is a venture capitalist (ew) but the product is solid and they've published two TrailOfBits audits with a third completed and awaiting publication by TOB

Having used Matrix for almost a decade, it's hot garbage.

Sync is barely working, "unable to decrypt" still exists, the encryption is flawed [0] and the whole thing is effectively just Element and everyone else follows their lead.

[0]: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matri...

Now if only it would come with Linux instead of MacOS!

Apple's software holds the hardware back, and it's ugly (especially liquid glass!)

Thanks! Any good Android clients? "Conversations" seems to be the best and it's nowhere near the polish of Signal & Co. crashes often, UX is clunky, family will never stick with it.

Are there any XMPP clients with the UX and privacy of Signal?

All of them seem to look like they're from the 00s!

exe.dev is NOT open source. Funny

I feel like if you can ignore the bitcoin-bros, Nostr is a better, more lightweight design that doesn't suffer from centralized (localized) shutdowns.

From 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."