If you're in a Republican's district, you can do good right now. You can contact them right now, while @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is buying you time, to tell them to vote against it.

4/4 If you want to learn more about Signal (or just want to hear someone high up in tech be reasonable for once), here is Signal's president talking about it at SXSW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

3/4 In other words, they work because people are dumb or careless. And there's the irony. The message from the Pentagon was essentially, "Hey, don't use Signal, because bad people are using our stupidity against us."

2/4 In other words, the hackers referenced in the announcement weren't exploiting Signal itself, but attempting to compromise the devices that use it. And they were doing so by using phishing and other social hacking techniques. Such techniques rely on human vulnerabilities.

The best PRs are net-negative lines of code

Thank you for making me realize that being forced to learn Scheme in my first semester of college was a blessing in disguise. I have a +9 in (finding (mismatched (symbols))).