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"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone'

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Amusingly, Commodore's statement says the [high prices were] triggered by an "explosion of new technologies" but stops short of specifying exactly what those technologies were. That perhaps shouldn't be surprising given Simpson's love of GenAI and its use in Commodore's promotional material thus far, but it's somewhat ironic that one of the reasons for the high price is, in Commodore's case, self-inflicted to a degree.)

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Cloudflare, Chrome, Firefox Developing Next-Gen Privacy Pass: PACTs

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Apparently a legitimate server gets to issue tokens to you that verify you're a real person and not just a spambot approximating one. How this works in practice is apparently cryptographic magic (which I won't question here, but IIRC can be easier to pinpoint your identity on its own if a smaller group of people receive these tokens). But the magic isn't as big of an issue as the people issuing those assurances, and how centralized they are. Which is a bit frightening in its own right.

One thing's for sure: Google, in concert with two browser manufacturers dependent on Google for their existence, cannot convince me they have created something cryptographically secure on their own. (And the article makes it clear that this won't replace identity tracing for any website or ad network that's realized that "unethical" and "profitable" are nearly synonymous).

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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’

Hmm I wonder if Sanger knew better. I wonder if there was any smoking gun posted online that would prove this.

“Wikipedians are now debating whether my proposed WikiProject Intellectual Diversity should be permitted to become an official WikiProject (club/group of editors),” Sanger said on X on Friday and linked to the Wikipedia talk page about the issue. “Lots opposed. Also lots in favor.”

“Can I still join the movement?” one person replied to Sanger on X.

“Let's just say that if I answer that question one way or another, the playground moms who rule Wikipedia might block me,” Sanger responded.

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WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History

The bigger lie is probably at the beginning of the article, from the CEO of Telegram.

[WhatsApp] reads users’ messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this — and never will.”

This whole article is exhausting to read because it appears AI generated, though. I've never seen somebody write that many short, "punchy" sentences in a row. For example, take a gander at this seven-word, three-sentence paragraph.

WhatsApp uses this. It’s real. It works.