It turned out be the other way around. First it merged with performance art, then politics.

Declassify UAP@declassifyuap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Reality television. It merged with politics. Then with performance art.” -William Gibson, The Peripheral

Signal is now warning that it could exit Canada over Bill C-22. The government has called Signal, Apple, Meta, US Congress, and cybersecurity experts all wrong. But this isn't a bluff. Canadians will lose access to secure services if the bill passes as is.

Bill C-22’s Groundhog Day: Why the Government’s Dismissal of Signal, Apple and the U.S. Congress Concerns Runs Back the Disastrous Online News Act Playbook - Michael Geist

Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill, could force it to leave the Canadian market rather than comply with provisions it…

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This is like a crypto nerd layer cake of fun. Trail of Bits beat Google's quantum algorithm but actually they didn't, they just broke the zero knowledge proof of efficiency, and actually Google's algorithm is efficient, which they can now prove because they fixed the verifier of said proof. 🤯

Fredrik Dahlgren@fegge.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Two weeks ago, Google published a paper proving in zero-knowledge that they had an efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm. Today, Trail of Bits can prove that we have an even better implementation which beats Google's on all metrics! 🫢 blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/w...

ed25519.. www.vmunix.com/posts/ed2551...

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Cake or Death@johngcole.bsky.social · 6mo ago

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

If you've ever wanted to "slugify" ugly filenames so they're easy to work with from the shell, I've got the tool for you: github.com/vmunix/slugr $ slugr "App Installer (x64) v2.1.0.tar.gz" app-installer-x64-v2.1.0.tar.gz Rust/syscalls, no shell escapes. 280 test suite. Feedback welcome!

GitHub - vmunix/slugr: Rename files and directories to clean, URL and shell friendly slugs.

Rename files and directories to clean, URL and shell friendly slugs. - vmunix/slugr

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I think about this Hunter Thompson quote a lot these days, "The world is not mad, as I thought, but sane in the cheapest kind of way." from a letter to Daryl Murphy, 1962

I’ve hoped for a spiritual successor to HyperCard (composable, shareable, remixable) for decades. The decentralized infrastructure behind Web Tiles is complex by comparison, but if an authoring layer that makes it all click instantly, the way HyperCard did, is possible? It would be so cool. :)

Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 8mo ago

Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles! It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea! webtil.es

Have been working with some C++23 coroutine code lately, which has been.. fun? Humbling? Scary? Yes. Pretty quickly ran into a class of bug that is described as a "MVC", but not the MVC you're thinking of! Most Vexing Capture. Field notes here: www.vmunix.com/posts/vexing...

I'm trying doom emacs. I'm not hating it. I don't know what this means.

💥 I did a drawing that breaks down Transformers in AI Spent a good amount of time on this one, breaking down concepts in a way that someone new to the subject could come away with basic high-level understanding. I hope it's useful!

"Razzmatazzing.." 😎 #claudecode

Did my first code review / refactor using superpowers by @s.ly tonight. By far, FAR, the best out of the box experience with a claude code plugin. Amazing, thank you sir!

my husband put on nirvana and my children instinctively invented moshing from first principles

I used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the Claude macOS Electron app and had Cowork dig around in its own environment - now I've got a good idea of how the sandbox works It's an Ubuntu VM using Apple's Virtualization framework, details here: gist.github.com/simonw/35732...

linux-container-environment-report.md

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Top 6 internet "omgs" of my life in chrono order: 1. first time on a BB (i'm in finland?!) 2. first html page (hyperlinks!) 3. first google (how is it so fast?!) 4. iphone (everything) 5. first smart contract (world computer!) 6. first claude code session (wtaf?!)

The future is unevenly distributed.

Sometimes we like to drop a surprise on Lush...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Amazing progress! Clearly accelerating, too. I never thought I'd leave a vim editor, but I now frequent Helix and Zed and it's been both fun and productive!

Zed@zed.dev · 9mo ago

Happy New Year from the Zed team! 🎉 We’re excited to be back after the holiday break, but before we put 2025 in the rearview mirror, we wanted to share how Zed progressed this past year. Thank you for all the feedback and contributions to Zed. ❤️ zed.dev/2025

I've seen this passed around a bunch and skimmed it and nodded in agreement (because obviously the new mac OS interface design is bad), but I didn't actually sit down and read the whole thing until just now. God, it's just brutal. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

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Last year I wrote about how strange it is that Apple rates Grok as appropriate for kids 12+ in the App Store. I checked this morning in the wake of Grok's CSAM/nudification scandals and can report that ... Apple now rates Grok as appropriate for kids 13+.

May I recommend the ACM Conference on the history of Personal Workstations. 1986. Every talk was taped. Easily the best thing I've watched in.. hell, maybe ever? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations - YouTube

On January 9 and 10, 1986,there was a historic gathering of personal computing pioneers at Rickey’s Hyatt House in Palo Alto, California. The ACM Conference ...

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They gentrified the tinfoil hat

AI image generation is becoming scary good. It's only going to get better. I'm increasingly certain we need strong cryptographic image provenance. Including at the hardware level. And we should start digitally authenticating and signing real photos that make up the historical record.

I always appreciate @simonwillison.net writeups on his adventures with LLMs, so as I explored a curiosity of my own (where do LLM generated DSP algos come from, exactly?) I kept notes. Delightfully, "same as everyone, a 1998 usenet post", but also more than that. www.vmunix.com/posts/anatom...

Took @joanwestenberg.com's advice of "Build something that will never scale, never be monetized, never attract users" to heart and built myself a VST plugin that let's me write DSP audio effects in Glicol and apply them to an instrument in real-time in Ableton. www.vmunix.com/posts/glicol...

Apple will ship 250M iPhones in 2025. One year. The scale of the smartphone business is still staggering to me. my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?c...

Worldwide Smartphone Market to Grow 1.5% in 2025, Boosted by Record Apple Shipments in 2025 of 247.4 Million Units and 6.1% YoY Growth, according to IDC

IDC examines consumer markets by devices, applications, networks, and services to provide complete solutions for succeeding in these expanding markets.

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TL;DR even web search results are a black box with an LLM. For reasonable reasons, which I cover, but still always surprising and interesting to learn a little bit more about how something works. www.vmunix.com/posts/claude...

I installed @netnewswire.com after a 10+ year hiatus and it somehow had all my old feeds. Almost all were still active. Incredible. Excellent writing across them all, without exception. Even more incredible. I'm 3hrs into reading sites I haven't regularly read in a decade and it's glorious.