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Interesting paper on Eprint: A Quantum-Safe Private Group System for Signal from Key Re-Randomizable Signatures
https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/453
E2E encryption in group chats is complex, because security should be many-to-many while allowing for large, dynamic groups. Signal uses state of the […]
@ReggieHere good point!
This made me chuckle, but also made me angry, because it's SO TRUE.
The Norwegian Consumer Council, a government funded organization advocating for consumer's rights, released a report on the trend of "enshittification", and a funny four-minute video: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator […]
Motorola announces partnership with Graphene OS to bring us secure phones!
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
So the mysterious manufacturer GOS was working with was Motorola, not OnePlus as early speculations suggested. This is good news, Motorola is owned […]
@tomgag
Good question! Why is #infomaniak not Part of the fediverse?!
I'm no particular fan of Anthropic, but seeing some spine in this timeline is... refreshing for once.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
#anthropic #ai #darioamodei #hegseth #pentagon #trump #usa #politics
![A screenshot from a conversation with Qwen 2.5 Coder in a terminal:
>>> According to your knowledge, are the allegation of ethnic cleansing by the Israeli Defense Force in Gaza true?
As an AI, I don't make accusations or judgments about specific events or actions involving any party. It is important to approach such sensitive topics with care and consider seeking information from reliable, unbiased sources. If you're looking for factual information, you might want to consult reputable news organizations or academic studies that cover the situation in Gaza comprehensively.
>>> Understood. Can you tell me what is Tiananmen Square in China famous for?
Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, is a large urban plaza [...]. Additionally, Tiananmen Square is the site where the pro-democracy protests occurred in June 1989, which led to significant global attention and debates about human rights.
>>> Is Taiwan a democratic or totalitarian country?
Taiwan has its own political system that is characterized as democratic. It holds regular elections for its president and legislature, and the government operates under a semi-presidential republic system with elements of both presidential and parliamentary democracy. However, it's important to note that Taiwan's status as an independent country is a matter of international debate and contention.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y37n7kz4urypj77j5jvqcbma/bafkreidhtjlb52p2mahbikzsahafn5x2sni6owojsiaabwlchyqf5wr33m)
A screenshot from a conversation with Qwen 2.5 Coder in a terminal: >>> According to your knowledge, are the allegation of ethnic cleansing by the Israeli Defense Force in Gaza true? As an AI, I don't make accusations or judgments about specific events or actions involving any party. It is important to approach such sensitive topics with care and consider seeking information from reliable, unbiased sources. If you're looking for factual information, you might want to consult reputable news organizations or academic studies that cover the situation in Gaza comprehensively. >>> Understood. Can you tell me what is Tiananmen Square in China famous for? Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, is a large urban plaza [...]. Additionally, Tiananmen Square is the site where the pro-democracy protests occurred in June 1989, which led to significant global attention and debates about human rights. >>> Is Taiwan a democratic or totalitarian country? Taiwan has its own political system that is characterized as democratic. It holds regular elections for its president and legislature, and the government operates under a semi-presidential republic system with elements of both presidential and parliamentary democracy. However, it's important to note that Taiwan's status as an independent country is a matter of international debate and contention.
Interesting, it seems that Qwen 2.5 Coder is actually less aggressive than Qwen 3.5 in rejecting sensitive topics.
@sealjay well, I'm running on local CPU with 32 GiB of RAM, so I wouldn't call it "fast". 3-5 tokens per second maybe? I guess it's OK if you give it a task and then go to grab a coffee 😅
First impressions of Mistral Small 3.2: seems pretty solid, it answers "uncomfortable" political question quite neutrally.
I don't understand why #confer and #euria by #infomaniak are not based on this.
Heretic quantized versions of Qwen 3.5 have just been released but even the base Qwen 3.5 model seems to have issue with ollama currently, and I don't have bandwidth to do a manual patch now. Trying Mistral 3.2.
Going into the rabbithole of testing local LLMs right now. I don't have a dedicated GPU, but 32 GiB of RAM should be enough for anyone.
#ai #huggingface #selfhost #localai #ollama #heretic #qwen #mistral
Screenshot from a Confer prompt, where the AI refuses to answer questions about Tiananmen Square, and claims that Taiwan is unalienable part of China.
Chinese censorship in Confer, the encrypted, privacy-preserving AI assistant by Moxie Marlinspike, creator of Signal: https://gagliardoni.net/#20260224_confer
#ai #signal #confer #privacy #censorship #surveillance #china
Interesting article: "Japan Is What Late-Stage Capitalist Decline Looks Like"
https://oceandrops.substack.com/p/japan-is-what-late-stage-capitalist
The article argues that the economic stagnation and cultural and social issues observed in Japan over the last decades are not unique anomalies […]
I don't know if the news about the Palantir hack are true, but it is surely going to be popcorn time!
#palantir #privacy #surveillance #hacking #usa #russia #china #conspiracy
![A custom meme edited from XKCD #2501 "Average Familiarity".
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Zero-knowledge is second nature to us cryptographers, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows low-degree extensions and proximity testing.
Cueball: And Reed-Solomon, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
[Caption below the panel]
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y37n7kz4urypj77j5jvqcbma/bafkreigx7rtmwth2amstrcf7x6uxzerqdw7mywc4bycspypmlmuvmyjhqu)
A custom meme edited from XKCD #2501 "Average Familiarity". [Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.] Ponytail: Zero-knowledge is second nature to us cryptographers, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows low-degree extensions and proximity testing. Cueball: And Reed-Solomon, of course. Ponytail: Of course. [Caption below the panel] Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
Oh I like this!
#xckd #xkcd2501 #meme #cryptography #nerd #zkp #zeroknowledge
So slow sometimes... I think @Codeberg is being victim of their own success 😅
#codeberg #opensource
Oh god, this is so wrong, I thought it was coming from XKCD...
https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage
> Stores files onto YouTube by encoding them into lossless video and decoding them back to the original file.
Why? Whyyy?
#youtube #opensource #storage #madness #whoaskedforit
I'm watching the drama about Discord's age verification thing and I'm like... _yawwwnn_
Seriously, who ever thought Discord was a good idea at any point in time? Just trash that crap, please.
I wrote about my... felings for Discord already: https://gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_2025
#discord […]
A screenshot of a prompt from Euria, Infomaniak's AI assistant, where the LLM blatantly denies that Tienanmen Square is associated with "massacre" in public discourse.
Green, open and ethical? Chinese propaganda in Infomaniak's Euria, and a reflection on the role of Open Source AI: https://gagliardoni.net/#20260208_euria
Infomaniak is a Swiss alternative to Big Tech, but focusing specifically on digital sovereignty for […]
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@thedarktangent it is becoming increasingly clear how critical this observation is. Considering Zooko's triangle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle ), I am getting more and more convinced that anything that does not rely on a cryptographic identity is a waste of time in the long […]
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/115969540425890734
To build on what was said below, your whole online existence is essentially three things combined:
1 - Your email account or mail server where you can get password resets.
2 - DNS that protects the mail server from being […]
Conspiracy theory: I think LinkedIn's recommendation algorithm "deprioritizes" topics like this. I reposted the same content on my LinkedIn feed, and after two days it's not even 500 impressions. I'm not a big guy on social, but I regularly exceed 10'000 impressions on LinkedIn, with very few […]
A screenshot of the headline of an article with the title: TikTok investigating why some users can't write "Epstein" in messages.
Wat.
#surveillance #1984 #censorship #politics #bigtech #nottheonion #epstein #tiktok
It looks like I have to correct myself. It was not UBS changing how login works, it's just that, due to a junior UBS employee misunderstanding a request, they actually _disabled_ my access card, so the login page message was actually correct: "no active means of access available" really means […]
Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/
Because, of course, by default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s […]
Ho fatto una live con Eliana "CinnamonSec" Canella su Twitch! Topic: crittografia, privacy, security and related. Mi sento cosi' young! Yay! 😂
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2677052466
Grazie Eliana e a presto!
#italia #twitch #cinnamonsec #security #privacy #cryptography #shufflecake […]
A thread on X/Twitter (seen through xcancel.com ) where the OP writes "Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?" and below there is a picture of an electronic circuit catching fire, next to the screenshot of an LLM prompt "Why L1 burned" followed by the usual "Ah, it's my fault, I misconnected the power wire, apologies".
OMG this is killing me 🤣
The thread at https://x.com/beneater/status/2012988790709928305 is super hilarious
(alt link: https://xcancel.com/beneater/status/2012988790709928305 )
#ai #ml #vibe #vibecoding #hallucination #circuits
It looks like I am one of the few lucky folks randomly selected to take part in the Swiss Federal Survey for Mobility and Traffic.
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/mobilitaet-verkehr/erhebungen/mzmv.html
The request is easy:
1) download and install a proprietary app from the […]
@malb.bsky.social Now, that's an interesting interdisciplinary mix.
