Their listed accounts are mostly still up, just inactive. Check bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/tirrel.bsky.social

how about jekyll? Lots of customization available.

Its only 5, but here is a carbonara recipe. https://rachaelray.com/blogs/recipes/carbonara-with-saffron-shrimp

I understand your point of view, but whether you like it or not, your title will be viewed as the framing. “What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?” At a surface reading, it seems to me what that means to you is very different from what that means to others.

I assume you probably wrote it along the lines of “What does it mean for an E2E encrypted protocol to compete with Signal on a technical level”

Others read it as “what does it mean to compete with the signal app” and there is no additional depth to security.

I understand, but its all about framing. “What does it Mean to be A Signal Competitor”, well that is chat apps as that is the space signal occupies. That might not be what space it occupies to you, but that is the space it occupies. “What does it take to compete with Signal’s Security” frames the argument to one component, and I would probably have a very different response to that framing. Because of the framing, your argument comes across as “don’t talk about use case, its not worth my time.” I understand this is because your focus is the cryptographic security, but threat modeling and Human factors has to be a consideration of an overall security posture. Congratulations, you have the best cryptography, but if its not usable, the cryptography doesn’t matter, if the users are the weakness, the cryptography doesn’t matter, if nobody is willing to use it because its missing a key user feature, the cryptography doesn’t matter.

I know enough about cryptography to know to leave it to the experts. I know about hardware power side channels, I know several exploits have been implementation based and not cryptography based, and I know vulnerability does not always mean an exploit

From a “don’t care” position, Elon is probably the only one who has impacted them. For Spez a majority of users probably just use the desktop site, or official app and would be more annoyed with the mods impacting their experience than Spez for making changes. Zuck did a bunch of behind the scenes manipulations, but again the don’t cares wouldn’t have noticed.

The fediverse itself might be resistant to overall control, but you are still tied to an instance, so a rouge admin, or some spam in activity pub could still cause uprooting.

This is a very technology focused view. In any user system, the users themselves have to be a consideration too. I don’t use most of them for the fact I don’t have a smartphone. So for my use case, any chat application that requires one might as well not exist, so read the rest of this with that in mind.

People fall into a few categories:

• The don’t cares. They use whatever everyone else uses, because that’s what they need to use to talk to who they want to talk to.
• The open and defederated. If they can’t self host, it fails.
• The anti-corporate. If it is run by a big organization, regardless of technology its a no.
• The technological illiterate. Basically the same as the first group, but if its not really user friendly they can’t figure it out.

I’m sure there are others, but these are what comes to mind first. While signal might be the one that has the best technology for many that doesn’t mean, and will never mean it is the “best” because their decision matrix doesn’t weigh technology as highly as you, and their knowledge doesn’t allow them to understand the nuances you talk about.

the reddit search engine hack is only because the search engines are so bad and all the old forums are dead. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft pays up, or the government gets involved.

We knew they were going to sell to AI, I think withholding from search crawlers is a little unexpected.

the next dev, Hey this obscure feature probably doesn’t work, should I fix it… No, I’ll just patch “temporary-fix-don’t-use” and let the next guy fix it properly.

No, The processor code that determines power needs was wrong. They were overvolting their own stuff.

According to Gamers Nexus, the microcode issues and oxidation issues are different issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs

From my very short look, the microcode issue causes too high a voltage. From CPU knowledge, the high voltage accelerates breakdown of the dielectric layers.

Firefox reader view.

yes, very nsfw. Its on e621 too. 112 pages. https://e621.net/pools/20047

It finished close to 3 years ago… https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/funkybun/folder/770497/Skinnydip/

There are a few ways to do it for Xilinx/AMD For Zynqs, the processor actually programs the programmable logic, so you just need bit files in the OS file system and your good to go. For any part there is also partial reconfiguration where small bits can be programmed with alternate partial bitstreams without reconfiguring the whole device. There are a bunch of conditions that have to be met, and I don’t have any experience with that style of design, but yep, self reconfiguration, at leas on Xilinx parts, is definitely a thing.

But FPGAs can reconfigure themselves.

Bob Mortimer on WILTY, and I think he did it on Taskmaster too.

If alterations are allowed, fried rice is better with old rice. I think leftover mac & cheese fried with some garlic salt is better than fresh.

There are some desserts I make that need to be chilled for a few hours, those are mostly better after a few days and the porous parts can spend time absorbing flavor.

Unfortunately unlikely to both. The displays all likely have the same controller boards with HDMI support baked in. The TVs are going to be made for people who still have cable and streaming boxes, and unless something has changed, those are all HDMI. Unless a manufacturer not in the forum decides to make a display, I don’t really see anything without HDMI existing.