7 June 2024

24 links ยท Friday

Towards Federated Key Transparency - Dhole Moments

In late 2022, I blogged about the work needed to develop a specification for end-to-end encryption for the fediverse. I sketched out some of the key management components on GitHub, and then the pu…

Fixing my iPhone 13 Pro cameras at -18C

Look, I don't recommend you do this with your phone because bad things may happen, but the front and back cameras on my iPhone 13 Pro stoppe...

Statement on Vavr’s Future

Hi guys, as I mentioned in a previous post, I have redirected my energy from maintaining the Vavr project towards other activities. It seems that many people are uncertain about the future of Vavr. Please allow me to clarify a few things.

A Look Into Cara — Maybe Host Your Own Art

Cara is a social media app aimed at artists that’s grown by more than 600,000 users in the past week. I just learned about it today, but it’s been around since at least the beginning of 2023. Its key features are that it won’t host AI content yet, and it tries…

Has my branch been squash-merged into main?

I have a large number of local development branches, several of which had already been merged into . If the branches were fast-forward merged, things are usu...

Cloning Windows Recall in 30 Lines of Bash

June 6, 2024 This is mostly a demonstration of what Windows Recall actually seems to do under the hood, and is not meant to be seriously used. Here’s the code, I have more to say after: #!/usr/bin/env bash if [ "$1" == "--daemon" ]; then MD5LAST="" while true;…

Awesome aging

I was listening to an interview with the Swedish artist Peter Jöback. They were talking about aging and he said: He says that after 50 he feels he has be...

evading the wifi router ban

Wifi router ban I currently live in student family housing at the University of California, Berkeley. Several years ago, Berkeley IT announced a new policy for wifi routers: Effective July 1, 2024, use of personal routers will no longer be permitted at UVA [st…

Using Phi-3 & C# with ONNX for text and vision samples

In this blog post we explore the integration of Phi-3 Small Language Models and ONNX in .NET applications