"Imagination means nothing without doing." --Charlie Chaplin

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs – Juraj Bednar #privacy

A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay attacks the protocol can’t stop, and why the ‘privacy-preserving’ system is a trojan horse for digital ID infrastructure.

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A.I. Should Elevate Your Thinking, Not Replace It - Blog - Koshy John #ai

In talking to engineering management across tech industry heavy-weights, it's apparent that software engineering is starting to split people into two nebulous groups:

The first group will use A.I. to remove drudgery, move faster, and spend more time on the parts of the job that actually matter i.e. framing problems, making tradeoffs, spotting risks, creating clarity, and producing original insight.

The second group will use A.I. to avoid thinking. They will paste prompts into a box, collect polished output, and present it as though it reflects their own reasoning. For a while, that can look like productivity. It can even look like talent. But it is a dead end.

The software engineers who will be most valuable in the future are not the ones who do everything themselves. They are the ones who refuse to spend time on work that A.I. can do for them, while still understanding everything that is done on their behalf. They use the time savings to operate at a higher level. They elevate their thought process through rigor rather than outsourcing it.

That distinction matters more than people think.

Colors of the 1944 Uprising #history

1944 - Collection of 100 colourized photos from the Warsaw Rising

I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you - Android Authority #hardware #copyrights #longread

In 2026, the Kindle isn’t really about books for Amazon. It’s about the ecosystem around them.

USB Cheat Sheet #hardware #resource

Why I Write | The Orwell Foundation (1946) #readings

‘What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art.’

How one programmer's pet project changed how we think about software - YouTube #video #software #clojure

This is the story of how one programmer's obsession with simplicity quietly reshaped how the software world thinks about time, immutability, and what it means to write code that lasts. From a sabbatical pet-project to the backbone of one of the world's largest fintechs and a global community that treats their language like a philosophy. This is the story of Clojure.

Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way - Sky & Telescope #space

Astronomers have located the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk for the first time, showing that star formation is focused within 40,000 light-years of our galactic center.

Using the internet like its 1999 - The Universe of Joshua Blais #internet #history

If you only use social media and video hosting frontends - getting fed by algorithms and visiting the same 5 sites everyday on constant doomscroll, then the internet has never been alive for you. That experience is perhaps ~3-5% of what the internet could be.

For the vast majority of people, yes - the internet is dying: living inside an algorithmically controlled echochamber that they will never get out of, they live and die by what they are “supposed to see”. But, it does not have to be like this.

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain #security

Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 was compromised in the Checkmarx supply chain campaign after attackers abused a GitHub Action in Bitwarden’s CI/CD pipeline.

Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum #software #longread

WIRED has published an article about GrapheneOS with a history of the project nearly entirely based on fabrications from James Donaldson. Donaldson has spent the past 8 years trying to destroy GrapheneOS and the life of the project's founder, Daniel Micay. Donaldson has heavily engaged in fabrications with an ever changing story about the history of the project. Copperhead was forced to drop nearly all of their claims in the ongoing lawsuit. Copperhead was also forced to discontinue their closed source fork of GrapheneOS and is a zombie company with no significant operations or revenue. Copperhead lacks any serious basis for the remaining claims in their lawsuit and it isn't a major concern for us anymore. Their claims have been thoroughly debunked at this point and are primarily an issue in the form of an extreme level of fabrications and harassment they started which is carried on without them. James Donaldson has been thoroughly proven to be a serial fabricator, scammer and thief. Despite this, WIRED listened to his tall tales and presented it as a history of GrapheneOS. We weren't given an opportunity to provide an actual history of the project based in fact as we were led to believe it wasn't a major part of the article and were barely asked about it.

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