@tuma attends dev calls of several open-source projects every week to keep us updated about on-going developemts, new implementations + releases. Pretty cool! View quoted note →

Wi-Fi aware mesh for bitchat 👀

GitHub

wifi-aware/bitchat-version-on-android-using-Wi-Fi-Aware at main · NodleCode/wifi-aware

Research and development on Wifi Aware and its implementation on smartphones. Notes on when using Wifi Aware versus BLE mesh. - NodleCode/wifi-aware

About CIA's investment in Silicon Valley startups, including Palantir + Anduril

Fortune

Inside the CIA-backed venture fund that helped launch Palantir and Google Earth | Fortune

Long before DOGE, In-Q-Tel brought Silicon Valley thinking to the Pentagon.

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End-to-end encrytion for git services

The University of Sydney

Scientists develop end to end encryption for git services

The only acceptable winter

Germany is again opposed to Chat Control 🥳

Patrick Breyer

Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy

In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU&#039;s controversial Chat Control regulat...

It's sometimes forgotten that Chat Control were hardly driven by lobbyists. In 2022, the proposal came after consultations with a little-known foundation from Switzerland which founded with a lot of money a child protection organization. This organization then made massive PR + advertisment for the issue. A later proposal was developed in close coordination with Thorn, a U.S. company founded by Ashton Kutcher + Demi Moore, dedicated to combating CSAM. Thorn was registered as a charitable organization in the EU, though it sells Safer, a system to identify known or suspected CSAM. It's not about protecting children.

Episode 160: The Lobbyists behind Chat Control

It turns out, that the EU's push to completely abolish digital privacy might not actually be an altruistic move to save children from abuse. Severa...

Are you winning @hal ? View quoted note →

@hal knots or core?

@hal Are there any knifemakers on nostr? Or npub associated with knife making? View quoted note →

Are you winning @hal ?

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Voice messages should by default play at double speed

There is no fast way to significantly boost your reading speed without losing comprehension https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100615623267

Alterego captures neuromuscular signals from the jaw + face that are activated by internal verbalization. In that way it can transcribe words that a person has not spoken aloud

AlterEgo

Introducing AlterEgo, the first near-telepathic interface, designed to make technology as intuitive as using your inner voice.

Signal introduces Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet to strengthen encryption

AboutSignal.com

Signal strengthens encryption against future quantum computers - AboutSignal.com

Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR) protects message encryption against quantum computers.

Beautiful GIF animations by Renki

About the history + potential of differential privacy

Privacy Guides

What is Differential Privacy?

Differential privacy is a mathematically rigorous framework for adding a controlled amount of noise to a dataset so that no individual can be reide...