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I recently gave a long presentation on the topic of lawful access to encrypted data, here are my blogposts based on that talk:
* Why is this so hard? www.cert.at/en/blog/2026...
* General considerations www.cert.at/en/blog/2026...
Feedback is welcome.
Künstliche Intelligenz ist so intelligent wie soziale Medien sozial sind.
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day.
I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep
labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?"
The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
New Blogpost.
Lawful access to encrypted data: why is this so hard to do?
www.cert.at/en/blog/2026...
Post a banger that is not in English.
Well, theoretically this is in German. But unless you really know the Viennese dialect, you will not understand much.
youtu.be/Fq8EAwfDMmw?...
Funnily enough, in contemporary German, “wellness” took on the meaning of “spa”.
A hotel with a wellness area is one with a pool + sauna.
And the explosions of air defense systems are pretty.
New blogpost: lendl.priv.at/blog/2026/02...
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
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There is a national organisation in AT that pays out open remuneration to employees (a bit like FDIC) which includes payments for the period of notice. So no worries there.
For the ISPs, it was more a time of consolidation than one of shutting companies really down.
1/2 I worked for an ISP in Austria 1997 - 2002 (by then an EU-wide organisation with an US CEO). The local branch was fine, but we went bankrupt because the group did.
Interesting experience.
On the plus side: the receiver made the decision to not shut the firm down.
Wie steht es um die Informationmssicherheit in Österreich und inwieweit hat das etwas mit der #NIS2 Umsetzung durch das #nisg2026 zu tun? darüber habe ich mit @otmar.bsky.social in der #arsboni #Waschkueche gesprochen.
Via youtu.be/_bRPWZTfGvc
#joinus #wirnennenesarbeit
The lossy compression of LLMs is something I have written about here: www.cert.at/en/blog/2025...
Slightly different angle, but still relevant.
Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant
It's high time that some country gives Musk the Durov in France treatment.
1/Quick thoughts on Venezuela oil and what it means for world politics. Rather than a simple story of corporate oligarchy, more about Trump putting himself at the center of spoils that can be used to consolidate power i.e neo-royalism.
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...
Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person.
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Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
1/ Elon Musk faces a spiralling worldwide crisis and growing legal jeopardy over child pornography and nonconsensual sexual images being generated through his Grok AI chatbot. Multiple countries and jurisdictions have now announced investigations into X and xAI. ⬇️
(1/X) The most popular thing leaders in either parties could do is throw an oligarch in jail. Srsly, would you blame someone for voting for Trump because Trump threw Zuck in the clink?
And they all belong there, not just morally (they deserve far worse than a few years in jail morally), but...
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
It’s interesting how the risk awareness that dependence on US systems - be it in digital services, defence, or payment methods - has been internalised fairly quickly in Europe.
National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives
Ich habe eine sehr ernsthafte Frage:
Warum postet die Präsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Ursula von der Leyen, so etwas auf Twitter/X (Oh, the irony!) und die Europäische Kommission - Vertretung in Österreich repostet es auch noch?
Quelle: x.com/vonderleyen/...
Der US-Präsident, der Medien auf zig Milliarden klagt, zusperren will, als „Volksfeinde“ denunziert und Journalistinnen als „Schweinchen“ beschimpft, geht mit Sanktionen gegen den „globalen Zensur-industriellen Komplex“ (aka EU) vor.
Es ist nur noch irre.
So much for freedom of speech. Alternative voices aren't even allowed into the deeply divided country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
