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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Which is my point, by the way: It at least attempts to negotiate the UX tension created by high security systems, which is a good thing and something that the people at Signal deserve credit for.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can find it on the website now; it might have been there when I did my initial review. I am not sure. It's good scientific practice to lead with your downsides. And what is communicated in the screenshot is important. It is the first thing people see, and it frames further engagement.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This tension creates a trade-off without a clear, optimal solution. The benchmark should be about how you negotiate this tension and what creative ways you can find to increase the practical security across a large population. Saying "we are clearly better because we enforce" is a bit too simple.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Usable security is a thing; to enforce key verification in a direct way is to force people to perform a ceremony that they do not understand and that creates friction for them. Which changes in no way the fact that key verification should happen. No argument about that.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In this way, hierarchy reproduces itself, and the human drive to *be ethical and do good* may actually contribute to the miserable state the entire world is in.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The people with power are not aware of their corruption, always surrounded by people just like them, but the less corrupt person makes the corrupter ones notice the injury to their soul. Suddenly they cease to "be bad" and start to "feel bad" and they want to stop whoever makes them feel this way.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can also advance without corrupting your soul, but it's much harder because you have to do so alone, or you need to organize, always at a great material disadvantage compared to corrupted peers. You get none of the help they receive for their corruption.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So at every level of power in hierarchical organizations, you tend to find those people in power who were willing to strike the bargain at that level. Most of them stopped advancing, when their level of corruption was reached.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The closer you get to the top, the more corruption you must accept onto your own soul for them to share their power. It becomes worse quite fast, and great evil lurks far lower in the hierarchy than we would expect. A corrupt soul is the price of power; this is how I believe it works.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The way power constructs itself is by making a bargain with everyone who holds a little leverage: betray your fellow people and become one of us. We'll bribe you handsomely; just cease your solidarity. This happens on every level of power, sieving societal hierarchy by how corrupt you are.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This seems to use a number of non-standard definitions, making Olivd look better why making the other applications look worse. Signals safety number provides e2e auth for instance, the UI just doesn't enforce going through a verification step. This chart therefor appears misleading to me.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everybody who seriously works on technology has copped out years ago. The saying is, that normal people get all the new apps and smartphones, while programmers have only two devices: a printer and a computer, and that we keep a gun next to the printer in case it makes a noise we do not recognize.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also believe that post-quantum security rows are conspicuously missing; this is an area where for instance signal does decidedly better than Olvid right now.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also noticed, that the website header does not advertise that this is a comparison created by the Olvid team; it wouldn't be hard to mistake this for an independent third-party comparison. I suggest you put an Olvid-logo into the header to make this conflict of interest obvious.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Habt ihr für das Thema PQC/Crypto eigentlich Interesse an weiteren Partnern?

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mom, I'm fed up with never being able to meet friends. I want to live alone; be my own person. I am moving out! I am going to anti-de Sitter space. Many families have been torn apart by the holographic principle. Don't become one of them, talk to your kids. www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seem...

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Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? | Quanta Magazine

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.

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Mistress Divinity @queenofautism.myatproto.social · 07/06/2026

if an autistic person asks if you're autistic, you're no longer self-diagnosed, you're now peer-reviewed

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Afro Celt Sound System is an incredible band. Listen to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppwb...

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The Soul of a Sister

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The name is reinterpreted as an attack on their ego, because they are being handed a mirror so they react to that perceived attack by counterattack. Perceived victim and offender roles are swapped; a DARVO-spiral (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim/Offender) ensues. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Because of this dynamic, the name of the place represents an ego-threat to them. It reminds them of how their lack of ethics/complicity is visible to others. It is not that they can not bear thinking of the violence, it is that they are made to look bad by its existence and communicative presence.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The situation in that place is so obvious that it breaks through the mental coldness barrier of bourgeois-minded people. They try to avoid awareness of the violence, because if they saw it they would be morally obligated to do something. They are a good person after all, so they think.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Don't dream it, be it! Thank you, Tim Curry.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh and congratulations to writing here. I do not know you outside this post, so it would be presumptuous to write that I am proud of you as is my standard response in these situations, but I am sure the people close to you are proud of you!

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh and I forgot to write in the post: Sleep is super super (super) important, if you can not sleep, try to address that issue. Medication may be worth it.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

TL;DR: Rest and figure out how to rest well. Full post: cupdev.net/~karo/post/2... There are some bits of advice I am not willing to share in public; if you want to hear those, I will have to write a DM.

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I am not sure how sound this model is scientifically, but I find that it is a very useful way to think about it.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This sounds like burn-out; shame at not having opened the messages makes it even harder to open them. I can share some tactics I use to deal with burn-out stress if you are interested. In any case, I would not try to open these DMs without someone close sitting there, helping you go through them.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Possible because the subjects who assume a lot of other people are doing a lot of tricking, are doing a lot of tricking. They assume everyone else is as bad as they themselves really are.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/08/2026

man, i wish that folks didn’t make big moralizing statements about people on glp-1s. some of us are out here with diabetes just trying not to lose a foot. my glp-1 controls my a1c, makes my life pretty normal, allows me not to use insulin.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There are only two relevant genders: Those who do procreative work and those who do not. Whether you are non-binary, trans, a woman or a man is really not that important.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Discomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?

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Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue
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Increasing my discomfort tolerance has also been one of the greatest assets to improving my mental health.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Gabrielle assembles a party and moves through the lands, helping people until she meets Xena, who is forced to act as a servant for a cruel enemy army leader. Gabrielle rescues Xena, and Xena joins her party. "Umm, do you to know each other"? Now Gabrielle is cruel to Xena; the pendel has swung.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

her to be her servant. She is pretty violent and cruel. Gabrielle tries to escape, but only manages so with Xenas help on the condition that they escape together. They try to make it work, but it ultimately falls apart under Xenas violent behavior. Xena pursues Gabrielle, Gabrielle stabs Xena.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It starts with Ares' army coming to pillage Gabrielle's village. Gabrielle decides on a ruse and tell the enemy leader that she is Xena, not knowing that Xena is the enemy leader. To everyone's surprise, Xena rolls with it and decides to toy with Gabrielle. She takes Gabrielle captive and forces…

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

They are on and off for years, hurting each other, but find that at least; everyone else just stays static. After seven seasons they get together and have found a queer, kinship-oriented community. The next 7-season arc is about this community learning to organize itself and doing political stuff.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reboot of Xena, as a drama about an abusive relationship between Gabrielle, Xena, and Ares. Sequence of "unlikely allies" situations. Gabrielle & Xena emotionally separate from Ares & each other, but find no alternatives for kinship & community, so they build a relationship, untraining violence.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'd split it up and bring back Reservation Dogs and Rutherford Falls, and the ads during breaks would only be for North of North

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every interview with an actor from the new Harry Potter series youtube.com/shorts/QVyIw...

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every interview with an actor in the new Harry Potter series

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Chris Peikert @chrispeikert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh my goodness!!

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

this is why they want to destroy the arts

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Happy to be of help. I wanted to research this for a while but then the collaborator dropped out of the project, so now the thoughts are lingering. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to share them!

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

TL;DR No, because the internet did not just move away from how the old internet was, it was colonized. Actively attacked and destroyed. The technical part would be doable though. Full response: cupdev.net/~karo/post/2...

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That’s a tough one. As a technical project, I am sure you could do something; set up a specialized search engine or some sort of small-web wiki. I think marginalia is such a project:

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think the answer to this question mainly hinges on what you mean by "rebuild the old internet". What is it, that right now can't be done, that after the intervention you suggest could be done. If you can pin that down precisely, I probably have the technical know-how to give you an answer.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Halo: Reach was really cool; I spent two days on the final scene, running towards that…I think it was a big gun. Very enjoyable gameplay experience.

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Übernimm die Versandkosten und heuere im Zweifelsfall einen Taxifahrer an das zu Verpacken wenn die es wirklich nicht verpacken wollen. Ist vermutlich immer noch billiger als selbst hinzufahren.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don't know if this is my favorite video on all of YouTube but if it's not I don't know what would be. youtu.be/2WmlUXsjSv8?...

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Wilco, Nick Lowe & Mavis Staples rehearse "The Weight"

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

They also had Harry's Game by Clannad, but when it comes to Clannad I prefer Alasdair MacColla. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ksB... It is still on my bucket list to learn enough Scottish Gaelic to sing this song…and to learn enough of the history to figure out whether what the guy did was a good thing

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Alasdair MacColla

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Probabilita @dakoraa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My favorite album as a child was a mixtape called "Greatest Irish Bands". They had I don't like Mondays, Tatoo'd Lady, Linger, Irish Rover, Whisky in the Jar, and Dearg Doom, and the original recording of Fairytale of New York. So many fantastic bands, hearing this takes me back.

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