Peter Rood

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PADD for NetNewsWire

Bringing the 24th century to NetNewsWire.

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PADD for NetNewsWire

Bringing the 24th century to NetNewsWire.

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I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes https://micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-signal-app-mike-waltz-uses-to-text-with-trump-officials/
TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials

đź’ˇUpdate May 3, 2025: I have posted a follow-up, Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials. Update May 4, 2025: Another followup, and a big one: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked Update May 6, 2025: I've written a new detailed

micahflee

Some devs have already started writing network-enabled code. Playdate community legend Rae made a fun weather app:

https://raewtf.itch.io/cloudburst

If you'd like to check out the new networking APIs, download the latest SDK and dig in:

https://play.date/dev/

IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. IT'S TIME FOR

hiring. At @freedomofpress we're hiring a senior digital security trainer. Share with your journalism security friends: https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4526817005

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Defending press freedom for the next generation

Freedom of the Press
Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch

Bridgy Fed is one of the efforts aimed at connecting the fediverse with the web, Bluesky and, perhaps later, other networks like Nostr.

TechCrunch

ChatGPT-4o helped my partner and I converse in Chinese and English as we prepared dinner. It shared a joke in the style of Stephen Chow that we hadn’t heard before.

Its Chinese speech is somewhat idiosyncratic

Universal basic income mitigates tunneling, meaning that people are more able to think beyond just one focus. The need to earn survival income tends to function like blinders that block out everything else but your focus on basic needs. Until they're obtained, we can't think beyond.
I got an unexpected front row seat to the beginnings of ongoing conspiracy theorist rumblings about Signal last month because one thing paranoid cranks on Twitter love to do is play the “Transitive Property of Bad People” game.

Attacking Signal took off with a vengeance bc *NPR* didn’t cave and fire Katharine Maher, their new CEO, who is also on the Signal board. To punish Maher, rw activists mad at NPR began to go after all her affiliations. This is provocateur’s playbook 101. But anyway…

Delightful episode about industrial musicals from Twenty Thousand Hertz

For more than three decades, it was common for American companies to put on “industrial musicals” for their employees. These elaborate productions could rival Broadway shows, and featured original songs about the company and its products.

https://www.20k.org/episodes/industrialmusicals

Industrial Musicals — Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

For more than three decades, it was common for American companies to put on  “industrial musicals” for their employees. These elaborate productions could rival Broadway shows, and featured original songs about the company and its products. And while this music was never intended for the gen

Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

Watched It Could Happen To You, a charming American fairy tale parable set in mid-1990s New York City, specifically Woodside, Queens.

Nicolas Cage plays a good cop who wins the lottery with a great supporting cast including Wendell Pierce, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, and Stanley Tucci.

Isaac Hayes narrates.

Would recommend