<p>a hill I will die on: the majority of human communications are not associated with a threat model where E2EE is particularly important compensating control, and as such it is a public good to build communications systems that shun security maximalism and instead prioritise reducing friction in human expression.</p><p>1/x</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jacqueline" class="u-url mention">@<span>jacqueline</span></a></span> how to become wildly popular:</p><p>1. fork matrix</p><p>2. remove everything but the UI, app logic, and plaintext message format serialisation stuff </p><p>3. write a server that manages chat rooms and passes the messages around. use regular TLS for cryptography.</p><p>4. job done we now have a simple open system for chatting with people that focuses on the core goal of conversation instead of trying to implement one of the hardest classes of cryptographic protocol for totally overkill reasons</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hannesm" class="u-url mention">@<span>hannesm</span></a></span> happy to have met you by chance 😌</p>

<p>i&#39;m learning that the state of open source instant messaging is still a fucking joke</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> GOLD IS BEST</p>

<p>i&#39;ve been asked about &#39;matrix&#39; (chat platform). does anyone have strong opinions about &#39;matrix&#39; (chat platform)?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://functional.cafe/@escape_velocity" class="u-url mention">@<span>escape_velocity</span></a></span> It does, but not in a way that would make clear what is going on. Specifically in the context of newborns, it needed to be a lot more careful.</p><p>I don&#39;t use Gemini directly, but if that&#39;s what is powering the AI block atop Google searches (I assume it is), it does sometimes provide some citations.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> maybe it&#39;s the one replaced by the 6s and it was left in the new phone&#39;s box?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> What surprised me was that the training module on Derivative Classification was perhaps one of the more interesting units I had to do. It gives some interesting insights into avoiding making things you create classified if you have access to classified information.</p>