You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Convenience
On internet radio and relinquishing control.
Experience, Signal Integration, and the FCLA-SFGA Modes: A Bridge Document
The 80/20 Rule: Reframing Consciousness
Briar Offline Mesh: When Internet Shutdowns Cut 85M Off | byteiota
On January 8, 2026, Iran shut down the internet. 85 million people cut off, mid-protest. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram—useless. But activists are still organizing. The tool keeping them connected is Briar, an open-source messenger that syncs via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi mesh networks, no internet required. It hit 252 points on Hacker News this week, and it’s easy to see why. When governments flip the kill switch, Briar is one of the few tools that actually works.
Void is the greatest ad for Letta. I'm interested to see if it's as good at codi... | Hacker News
Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill
Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government
Isolated Web Apps (IWA) | Chrome for Developers
Isolated Web Apps allow for a high-trust security model for web apps allowing for access to high-trust APIs like Direct Sockets and Controlled Frame.
The Lost Discipline of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot
It's Time to Take Down your Smart Cameras 😬
Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped
'The intuition was to take the complexity and push it onto the user,' Moxie Marlinspike says at Black Hat. 'We were just wrong.'
A Mysterious Signal Transfixes Radio Sleuths -- And Intelligence Experts
The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in Iran? Iranian sleeper cells? Israeli operatives? That’s what experts are trying to decipher.
Good news! I don't need callbacks to implement signals, between components. I can use streams, which are upcoming in WASI 0.3.
Holobrine
>wants to make a UI engine centering wasm instead of JS >wants to use component model >needs callbacks to implement signals >WASI does not support callbacks because of JS scope chains >wasm does not free us from JS, sad
One of my biggest concerns is the rumble(.)com equivalent on AT Protocol taking off. And bad actors understanding the protocol enough to leverage it as a way to never be deplatformed. (I sit with the tension that its purpose is to be ‘the new web’ and you can’t be deplatformed from the net)
kottke.org
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
