This report on the technical aspects of end-to-end encryption was prepared by the author as a consultant for Privacy International who have a special licence for its use; the author further licences it to the public under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

This report will be periodically updated to address typos, missing content, missing concepts, other clarifications, etc; a list of diffs/changes will be published for transparency & change tracking.

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A quiet corner of the internet where you can think, write, read and connect. Like how the internet was supposed to be.

part 1 dropped on february 16th. 53 megabytes of source code from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. the full codebase of the platform that verifies your ChatGPT account.

what happened next was… definitely not what i expected.

AI slop concerns are at an all-time high. jazzband just shut down in part because github has become inundated with unqualified AI PRs. facebook, X, reddit, et all feel more machine than human these days.

lobste.rs, on the other hand, feels very human. i believe that this is in large part due to their membership system.

Sketch a UI in minutes, export as Markdown, paste into Claude Code or Cursor. AI reads a wireframe faster than your explanation. 20+ components, zero setup.

Jelly is an experimental terminal forum for developers and friends. Everything happens over SSH. No web UI, no javascript, just text.

Like (we suspect) quite a few of our readers, undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen runs a mail service and settled on exim as the reasonable alternative to the classic sendmail way back when.

Welcome. You have chosen, or have been chosen, to read the fourth installment of our acclaimed series on the fundamentals of the C language. Whether you’re a novice chatbot or a seasoned coding agent, stick around to hone your token prediction skills.

Every text on the shelf. Search the canon, filter by format, and switch between cover and list views.

When Zarathustra’s three apes founded The Gatalog in June of 2021, they did not yet know they had killed Jstark. Their founding manifesto was a confused but earnest refutation of digital rights management (DRM) written for Ammoland.

On August 25, 2021, they got the first test of these values when Everytown sent a take-down notice to DEFCAD for the removal of three Gatalog files.

Joined by FPC, our groups quickly organized to fight the first federal intellectual property claim in the history of 3D2A.

It would not be the last.

Given an array of data, what is the slowest way to sum up the integers? Is it adding the numbers from left to right, adding them randomly, or doing something else? In this post, we are going to build a data access pattern from the ground up that sums numbers as slowly as possible by exploiting memory pitfalls.

I learn how to draw a triangle with a GPU, and then trace the code to find out how the graphics system works (or doesn’t), looking at Mesa3D, GLFW, OpenGL, Vulkan, Wayland and Linux DRM.

A fast, modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations.

Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) is a collection of utilities to simplify and automate the process of gathering forensic traces helpful to identify a potential compromise of Android and iOS devices.