Brendan Eich

@BrendanEich
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Created JavaScript. Co-founded Mozilla and Firefox. Now founder & CEO @brave Software (https://brave.com/).

"The old promise of the internet — niche communities, human connection, people exchanging ideas, maybe even paying each other for the work they’d made — never really lost its appeal, but this year it came back with a miniature vengeance."

Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017 - Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017 - https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16795090/internet-community-2017-post-mortem-tumblr-amino-drip-tinyletter

The year we wanted the internet to be smaller

Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017

Very interesting usage (for good!) of the Intel SGX by Whisper Systems: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal

At Signal, we’ve been thinking about the difficulty of private contact discovery for a long time. We’ve been working on strategies to improve our current design, and today we’ve published a new private contact discovery service. Using this service, Signal clients will be able to efficiently and s...

Signal Messenger
First look at the new soul-absorption feature of the iPhone X

Whoever perpetrated 9/11 made all US citizens "political". To swallow the official story and demand allegiance while saying "no politics" engages in politics.

Read the NIST report about WTC7. NIST won't release its model or "data" behind conclusion that fire took down steel framing at free fall. This is enough to cry foul & demand a real investigation.

The way 9/11 and then Amerithrax (US-based whether Ivins or someone else) were used to justify invading Iraq stinks.

Someone lied us into war.

The initial "c" is silent.


> Because the ctenophore invented brains and muscles using a set of proteins and genes so different from any other animal that has ever been studied, it provides a unique opportunity to explore some enormous questions: how divergent can nervous systems be? Do we truly understand how life senses its surroundings and behaves?

https://aeon.co/amp/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence

/via https://twitter.com/cstross/status/893791017257889792

Relevant, spotted in Console:
"Chrome does not support the Push API in incognito mode"
"There is deliberately no way to feature-detect this, since incognito mode needs to be undetectable by websites."

https://crbug.com/401439

Does anyone else judge the difficulty of a problem by how many tabs you close once you've solved it?

Y'know, like Sherlock Holmes' "Three pipe problem" - "This was a six tab problem" or the like.

People who love Apple for its privacy-protecting ways should really try setting up an iPad from scratch these days. I think I basically had to give it a sample of my mum's blood before it was usable.