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Playing with ideas for healthy communication, mostly based on cryptography and developmental theory.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wins the internet this week with this striking characterisation of the wannabe dictator:

"The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire, just because they show up with a bucket of water."

(Thanks to @Paul_stilgar for this find.)

Your password must contain at least one character flaw that you have long recognized within yourself, but that you would never admit to anyone--not your therapist, your spouse, nor your most trusted friend. It is the dark secret shame that you must bear alone.

@overholt My password is:

myappstorespasswordsinplaintext123!

If you were waiting for some libraries to support UnifiedPush on your Linux app: you now have Rust crates, and GObject introspection bindings, tested with C and Python!

🔔 🦀 🐍

https://codeberg.org/UnifiedPush/unifiedpush-rs

#UnifiedPush #rust #GTK #gnome

unifiedpush-rs

Rust crate for UnifiedPush

Codeberg.org

“when the servers go dark, memory becomes a question of who decides what still matters”

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

Who Will Remember Us When The Servers Go Dark?

We bet an entire civilisation on an unthinkably brutal and comically unreliable stack, and now fate has come to collect that wager. California has a lot to fucking answer for.

If anyone's paying attention, I fixed cookies. :)

https://blog.voboda.com/hdk-sessions/

HDK Sessions

The standard session model: user logs in, server stores state, server decides what you're allowed to do. Structurally incompatible with privacy. I've ...

voboda's blog

Working on zkal, I realised I was tackling a general problem: returning to the benefits of open data for communities, but with modern privacy protection for the individual.

Came up with a pattern that might be useful (or flawed!)

https://blog.voboda.com/proof-projectors/

Proof Projectors

Everyone's focused on what ZK proofs hide. We're missing what they can usefully reveal. Reputation, attendance, commitment, these used to require surveill...

salvor voboda

@JuliaRez You just made me realise that React and corporate culture suffer the same problem.

Too much boilerplate.

Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw

The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Forbes
How many people here would be interested if I did a digital security/privacy advice blog somewhere?