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Does the world still require a reserve currency? Spreading risk across the Dollar, Yuan, and Euros seems more logical. While the hurdles and friction associated with foreign exchange (FX) and interna…

GitHub Copilot costs have ballooned in recent week, what once took $100 requires $300. I like using Claude with VS Code through Copilot and I feel it’s given me much better code, that I can control th…

It's always amazed me that a tech company will pay $300,000+ for a good engineer, because talent is so hard hard to find... meanwhile their recruiter operates unsupported, has a very different id…

Would Taiwan, Ireland, Israel and maybe others be higher on that list?

Sorry I don’t understand. Can you outline why trade would indicate that there isn’t a shortage of chemical fertilizer that would impact crops not yet harvested in developing countries?

There’s probably going to be a famine or famines due to lack of, and expense, of fertilizer resulting in less food for the developing world.

Your company getting hacked because of random plugins for emerging or dysfunctional ecosystems that don’t have enterprise management solutions yet is worth it to avoid friction?

> This is not to defend Microsoft But you are defending MS, conflating a bunch of things, mainly full disk encryption and cloud backups. There's a big difference between Apples cloud backup wh…

At what point will Security professionals start turning down roles that involve “securing” MS Products? I’m already at this point. Securing Microsoft products is busy work while waiting to have it un…

Not low quality if it works!

The issue is only an issue if your phone is physically taken, then unlocked and the message notifications extracted from a iOS cache database. Todays update by Apple fixes issue for every app, not jus…

Oh please, Telegram being mentioned positively during a discussion of security, privacy or state surveillance? Telegram is a security nightmare, it’s not e2ee no mater what BS their very very untrustw…

This comment is based on one of my commits. The round-trip through Int is exactly what makes it safe.Int(value) will return nil (and be rejected) for anything that isn't a valid integer. no ; rm …

Thank you!

Correct. This is a classic security vs convenience tradeoff. I mention that trade off on the landing page, PanicLock vs Shutdown > Use shutdown when you can, PanicLock when you can't. Shutting…

That's good feedback. I just added it to the readme: > "PanicLock fills a gap macOS leaves open: there is no built-in way to instantly disable Touch ID when it matters. Biometrics are con…

I wrote this after the case of a Washington Post reporter, Hannah Natanson, was compelled to unlock her computer with her fingerprint. This resulted in access to her Desktop Signal on her computer, re…

Congrats to to the Wiz team. Wiz is amazing. But, ugh, joining Google will result in less competition and all that entails. Not great for customers. It's a pity going public isn't worth it a…

Never realized that this wasn’t a common expression in the US till now. > “(Ireland, informal, UK, dialect) To come to understand; twig, cotton on.”

Fantastic. And it's from the Norwegian Consumer Council!

> "Even if there were explanatory text, Erika, like most users, doesn’t typically read through every dialog box, and they certainly can’t be expected to remember this technical detail a year f…

> "Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic." Does this mean Azure …

I edited the post and added this: > In practical terms, this replaces a lot of the awkward machinery behind encrypted systems. End-to-end messaging usually requires long-lived identity keys, recove…