The other day, I tweeted. “Contrarian perspective here – it’s ok to *not* meet a founder in person before deciding to invest.” This set off a tweet firestorm — mostly …

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So it would be really nice if we could do browser-based end-to-end encrypted video calling, like we do between devices like a desktop app or a mobile app. We want this so that Zoom itself, or an outside party influencing Zoom or their infrastructure, cannot…

Apple has announced today that it is launching an open source project designed for developers of password managers. The goal is to make it easier for developers to “create strong passwords that are compatible with popular websites. Apple’s iCloud Keychain…

Note: this is written about normal times. With the pandemic closing schools and daycares a lot of parents have far less time than usual, and while we're lucky that this has not affected us it's not what I'm looking at this here. When I compare my life before…

The popular desktop Linux distribution, Linux Mint, wants nothing to do with Ubuntu's Snap software installation system.

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Scientist Peter Turchin's work suggests that the next state of upheaval in the US is set to hit in 2020. It’s like that Mayan-apocalypse nonsense, except Peter’s theory is the result of the hard work of a respected scientist rather than some dead...

This is the first post of a series of posts I plan to make about TLA+. What is a computer First, let's take a look at a very philosophical question -- "what is a computer?". I am writing this post on my computer, which has 32 GB of

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In the midst of world-wide protests against racism and police brutality, a lot of people are becoming more immediately aware and concerned about the security of their data and online communication. We’ve gotten a lot of questions at Signal over the past week…

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There’s a certain allure to the elegance of mathematics, the precision of the hard sciences. That much is undeniable. But does the appeal mean that quantitative approaches are always germane? Hardly—and I doubt anyone would argue the contrary. Yet, over and…