End-to-end encryption is the one of the most basic requirements for a communication system to be secure. Endpoint authentication is another. Message authentication is the third. After those 3 are fulfilled, further requirements can vary from system to system.

It’s like electrical or building code. Just because it’s compliant doesn’t mean it’s safe, but if it’s not compliant it’s almost certainly not safe. Necessary, not sufficient!

Focalboard. FOSS.

The “AI safety” field is about two things: marketing AIs as so powerful that they’re risky to use but riskier to get left behind by competitors using, and keeping AIs from doing so much brand damage that stock price suffers. This story is about marketing an AI as powerful.

Quite happy. I’ve made some bad decisions, like hanging myself, but I wouldn’t be who I am today if I hadn’t, so I don’t regret them. I’m just happy to have learned, and come out OK. If I hadn’t done that I’d have graduated university a year earlier, gotten a different job than the one I have now, never met the woman I’m married to, etc. My life might have been better, but it would certainly have been different. And I very much like the life I have now, so even though I’ve made some objectively bad decisions I don’t regret them. I cannot change the past, and doing so would not be worth the cost, so I have no regrets. I am content.

Were you not in the age group to watch Mr. Rogers? Because he turned out to be exactly what he appeared to be: kind.

A lot of his works are still good. I just won’t buy new ones, I won’t give him any profits.

None of them, really. Mr. Rogers was genuinely as awesome as he seemed. As a young adult, John Von Neumann, Grace Hopper, and Claude Shannon became my heroes. None have anything particularly bad that I’ve seen.

There are some people whose work I admire whom I don’t like, e.g. Harlan Ellison was famously an asshat. But they’re not my heroes, and the work is not the creator.

And the ability to schedule deliveries to happen on a day of the week when you’re likely to be present. And the notifications that your delivery is near, so you can be ready to pick it up (important for expensive items).

With lentils, I like to use stock instead of water for cooking them. That also works for potatoes, beans, and quite a few other boiled foods.

People always point to email as a decentralized system that works. They forget that originally nearly everyone got email through their ISP, and now nearly everyone gets their email through their OS vendor (Google, Apple, or Microsoft), or for businesses one of the few commercial mass mail services like mailchimp that don’t get blocked by spam filters. Self-hosting email is likely to result in a major hassle with undelivered emails due to anti-spam measures these days.

Decently readable, though some of the letter forms you’ve chosen could be confused for others (‘a’ is quite similar to ‘o’, ‘f’ could be confused for ‘t’). When I’m lettering for engineering/math I use engineering gothic letterforms which avoid these ambiguities, among others (I vs l vs ι vs 1 vs 7, a vs α vs o vs ο, O vs 0, q vs g, k vs κ, v vs ν, u vs μ, B vs 8). When I’m handwriting I just write chickenscratch unreadable to anyone else including my future self after a year or so.