A lot of network, banking, and telephony protocols historically rely on trusting that there are no bad actors in the chain. Technology has added more links to the chain increasing the opportunities for bad actors to tap into it.

Their wish to break the first rule of network security (you can’t trust the client) shouldn’t be everyone else’s problem.

could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware

Decreasing the cost of using a resource almost always results in more use of that resource.

Laboratory tests showed the devices could reliably endure tens of thousands of switching cycles

That’s not very many when GPUs perform trillions of operations per second.

The actual lesson: get people to pay you for bullshit seminars.

That’s weird. Titles are free.

I’ve tried it, and only ran into a couple apps that wouldn’t work with MicroG. I won’t pretend it’s painless, but it’s workable for someone with sufficient motivation.

/e/os is Android without Google proprietary stuff. It runs most Android apps.

While I have no doubt Meta is doing the absolute minimum it can to comply, they’re not allowed to pick and choose arbitrarily. They can have technical and security requirements, but we’re not hearing from major players about how WhatsApp is refusing them access when they’ve asked.

I’m inclined to think most of them either don’t want to (Signal doesn’t) or aren’t in a position to make it work.

There’s some confusion because of the reference to “Signal protocol”. This refers to the key exchange and encryption protocol originally developed for Signal and adopted by WhatsApp, iMessage, and others.

This is a means of establishing a secure end-to-end encrypted conversation, not a federated protocol for different messaging networks to interoperate. WhatsApp announced that Signal protocol or a compatible E2EE implementation is one of their requirements to allow third parties to interoperate.

Signal has signaled its intent not to interoperate with WhatsApp or anything else several times over the years for both technical and security reasons.

I don’t know if that service can, but LLM-based workflows can do that. Here’s an LLM-based decompiler project which could serve as the first step in such a pipeline.

How much cheaper do you think it should be for not including a 20W power supply? I’d be surprised if Apple’s cost for that part is more than 5€.

because they “care about environment 😉” the €99 charger (which is almost mandatory for a new user) is sold separately.

It’s because they’re required by law to offer it without a power supply. See Article 3a, section 10.

Apple’s first-party power supply isn’t “almost mandatory”, and doesn’t cost 99€. The 20W model shipped with the Macbook Neo in other markets costs 25€ on Apple’s German store, and a generic 8€ power supply from Amazon will work. The power supply most people already have for their phone will usually also work.

It’s changing rapidly, but handing automation tools to people who don’t understand the underlying concepts just gets you a bigger mess. There are no well-established best practices for how to use it safely and effectively because it’s too new and changing too fast.

It will settle down eventually, but a lot of people will do a lot of dumb things first.

LLM-based coding agents have become useful to the point that people are building large software projects without humans writing or reviewing code directly. The naive approach to that will result in disaster if used in a production environment, but practices to improve reliability are evolving.

Popular opinion seems to be that Claude Opus 4.5 was the tipping point for this.

Right. They are not yet domesticated to the level of companion animals and trying to keep one as a pet now is a bad idea.

Raccoons are cool. They seem to be in the early stages of self-domestication, which is probably how we got cats.

AWS is not a simple web page.

Most of the time, I don’t need a car, nor do I have a good place to put one. When I do need one, I rent one. When I can, I rent a fun one (last: 2018 BMW M4 Competition convertible).

If it made sense to own a car in my current situation, I really enjoyed the C7 Corvette I rented. I thought it was more fun to drive than the C8.

Secure boot for PCs has been a thing for a long time now. Many Linux distributions support it.

Are they, or are they against GrapheneOS itself supporting it?

Those are different. GrapheneOS exists to be security-hardened and usually should choose security over utility where there’s a conflict.

Download more RAM. A 4GB DDR4 SODIMM, which would double it, is $15 on US Ebay. Check what that costs where you live.