animatedbarstool

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Someone on Twitter wrote that “children’s rights should absolutely override privacy rights” and honestly, that shook me. The reason I care about privacy so much is because I have kids, and I don’t want them to grow up in the kind of world that person would build.
What do I do for a living? Like many of you, my primary occupation is entering passwords and two-factor codes into a variety of apps and websites all day long.
it seems as if every day science takes another giant leap forward

Missing Dark Sky weather? Merry Sky will brighten your day.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/tech/article/dwight-silverman-dark-sky-merry-sky-17728129.php

It’s like rediscovering an old friend.

Missing Dark Sky weather? Merry Sky will brighten your day.

Dec. 31, 2022, was the last day you could use either the iOS app or the darksky.net...

Houston Chronicle
Solved: 500-year-old mystery about bubbles that puzzled Leonardo da Vinci. Small bubbles shoot straight up in water, but larger bubbles dance and zigzag. This effect has intrigued scientists, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci. A new study finds a solution that we can understand intuitively. https://bigthink.com/hard-science/bubble-mystery-da-vinci-solved/
Solved: 500-year-old mystery about bubbles that puzzled Leonardo da Vinci

The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.

Big Think

The only thing I miss from twitter is the lack of people that came over to mastodon from #spacetwitter
It seems some journalists tried to come over, but all of the companies and officials stayed at twitter (unfortunately). Where are the #spacemastodon #spacetoots?

#space
#rockets
#spacescience
#spacetodon

floating point representation

SimpleX Chat added support for multiple chat profiles – and your traffic is isolated from other profiles.

Also in v4.5/4.5.1:
- unsent message draft.
- filenames based on UTC time, to protect timezone.
- reduced battery usage.
- fixed WebRTC calls.
- fixed one medium severity vulnerability (no impact on message/connections security though) .
- Italian interface, thanks to the users' community and Weblate!

More details: https://simplex.chat/blog/20230204-simplex-chat-v4-5-user-chat-profiles.html

#security #privacy #messenger

SimpleX Chat v4.5 released – with multiple chat profiles, message draft, transport isolation and Italian language!

Useful quantum computers are still far away. Be careful about the hype. Best to reason merit-based in such sensitive, risk-prone landscape. Exponential improvement needed. There is a big dead zone where quantum computers might be completely useless. http://sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_landscape_2022
Quantum Landscape 2022

Professional website of Sam Jaques

SimpleX chat v4.5-beta is released!

- multiple user profiles – with isolation of each profile traffic.
- optional traffic isolation for each chat contact (BETA) – enable dev tools to use it.
- message draft: the last unsent message text and attachments are preserved while the app is running.
- filenames of voice messages and images now use UTC time, to prevent leaking the client timezone to recipients.

Download the apps via links here: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat#readme

#privacy #security #messenger

GitHub - simplex-chat/simplex-chat: SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!

SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱! - simplex-chat/simplex-chat

GitHub