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12 Nov, 6 tweets, 1 min read
I headed over to the Home view to see why tech Twitter has gotten so much lamer, and it’s all people speculating on when Bitcoin will hit 100K.
So henceforth this account will just speculate on the Bitcoin price.
I’ve been using Latest Tweets for a couple months now and switching back to Home is like going home to find your parents have turned your bedroom into a Taco Bell. ImageImage
It’s hard for me to say this, given the investment I’ve put into Twitter :) But I’m not sure the new algorithm-driven version of Twitter is worth sticking around much longer.
This place used to be a neat community of people. It still is. I just feel like I don’t reach them and their tweets don’t reach me anymore. And when I look at the Home timeline view I see why.
Anyway, Bitcoin 98K by December 2!!! 🌝

Just kidding. Bitcoin is stupid.

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5 Nov
Many governments realize they’ve “lost” their chance to ban end-to-end encrypted messaging, but they also realize it doesn’t matter because unencrypted backups are much more useful.
So predictably the vanguard of the conversation has shifted away from E2EE (which is in many places a done deal) to device backups — which are still not widely E2EE encrypted.
I personally think that governments want to preserve unencrypted backups because it provides investigative capability. (Ie. they can subpoena Apple to get your texts.) And CSAM fear is just a tool that politicians are using to preserve this capability. But 🤷‍♂️.
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2 Nov
Good thread about the recent Unicode attacks and some previous work that predates it. I agree that citations could be improved. But I want to push back a little. 1/
What was interesting to me about the recent Unicode/Trojan attacks (link below) isn’t that Unicode contains some exploitable fluffery. *Of course* it does. Unicode is terrible. 2/ trojansource.codes
What was surprising to me is how many compilers, source management tools and IDEs were vulnerable to the attacks. I expected this from pomo languages like, say, Golang or Swift. But even compilers for ancient languages like C/C++ were happy to eat Unicode and not complain. 3/
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1 Nov
If the house has a spooky iron gate but the porch light is on, do you trick or treat? Image
You’d expect these houses just to be full of candy. Image
Ok this is extremely unacceptable people. Image
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29 Oct
“Hard drive”? You mean Dropbox, Overleaf, Github and Google Drive, right? I’m sure they’ll all keep my data forever.
Fortunately I’m clever and I’ve checked my Dropbox into Github.
I keep every academic project since 2003 in a directory named src2/. Why src2? Because six years and three laptops ago I somehow corrupted src/ and was afraid to overwrite it. In 2025 I anticipate an upgrade to src3/.
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25 Oct
Imagine creating a social media company and rigging the stock so nobody can ever depose you, and then *not* creating a giant candy factory staffed with weird and magical helpers.
Whenever I read about the exploits of Zuck I’m like SMH that’s what people who actually worry about their jobs do, you dumbass.
“Oh no, promoting voter info might make idiots think my company is politically biased, then we’d have a 4% drop in weekly engagement…”

Seriously, you could invent chewing gum that never loses its flavor and this is what you choose. Image
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25 Oct
Yes, moderation is going to be harder in end-to-end encrypted spaces. You know what else is going to be harder? Algorithm-driven content amplification. And trust me, one of these things is doing way more damage.
The thing about end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is that it’s absolutely tractable to moderate conversations *if* participants report problems. This voluntary reporting capability is already baked into some systems through “message franking” 1/
So when we say “moderation of E2EE conversations is hard” we’re basically saying “moderation is hard if we’re talking about small(ish) closed groups where not one single participant hits the ‘report abuse’ button.” 2/
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