coming from the fact that this was a talk held at #39c3, maybe, just maybe, this was not about selling anything at all?!

i feel like that might be hard to grasp for some HN users.

Since Signal lives and dies on having trust of its users, maybe that's all she is after?

Saying the quiet thing out loud because she can, and feels like she should, as someone with big audience. She doesn't have to do the whole "AI for everything and kitchen sink!" cargo-culting to keep stock prices up or any of that nonsense.

How can a service like Signal live and die by the trust of its users when they openly lie to them. Signal refuses to update their privacy policy to warn users that they store sensitive information in the cloud (and more recently, even the contents of user's messages in some cases).

Lying to users by saying that signal doesn't collect or store anything when they actually do doesn't sound like something a company who expected you to trust them would do. It sounds like something a company might do if they needed a way to warn people away from using a service isn't safe to use while under a gag order.

why does a post from january 2026 recommend ubuntu version 22.04?

duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46428699, flagged as slop

> Because many people hold Apple to higher standards, that is why.

Not really; I'd have the same expectation of any other individual or company of the given size.

Right, but you wouldn't realistically expect any opposition from most companies. Apple sometimes opposed.

I think I understand the theory. But in fact it looks like tangled.sh is indeed using a "proprietary" Bluesky API rather than... e.g. calling `danabra.mov` right away to fetch his avatar: https://tangled.org/@tangled.org/core/blob/master/avatar/src...

... or am I misunderstanding?

That does look weird to me. I would expect it to more generic because this would be miss data stored in PDS outside bluesky. At least according to my layman understanding.

lol it's like you didn't even read the OP...

your own blog post has the very wording the author was criticizing and you seem to be absolutely ignorant about it:

> "Future versions of my [...] will successfully address"

> "LLMs will become so good, no [...]"

I did exactly this. Got an Eve smart plug meter and it works flawlessly in HomeAssistant. I'm also pretty sure I had upgraded to the latest firmware via Apple Home app before doing so.

They work without issues Ine HomeKit mode. With thread/matter only Apple got the keys or whoever paid them to get them.

Also: the Apple home app can’t change their mode to matter, you have to do that in home assistant.

Great, their new devices actually work in thread mode with HA, but their older ones only when you got an Apple hub device. I’ve got 6-7 of their devices before matter was a thing and 0 work with HA. Even those that got firmware updates.

Can you configure SSID and password when using the access point mode? For example when I have multiple of them in my university, I'd want to name them according to the rooms they sit in, while also making sure people can only print to the ones they can actually physically see (and therefore read the password off of a sticker)...

You can, but only manually via SSH. The Wi-Fi credentials are printed on the sticker, along with the QR code to connect, that's why I though it would be strange if you can't use it right away.

> you can work on things like Google search or the Facebook news feed, all of which seem like marginally good things

lol, where has the author been in the past decade? both of those are bad, especially the feed algorithms are scientifically proven to have a strong influence on the decline of trust into democratic institutions

he worked at palantir for 8 years dude, do you think he has the capacity to discern if the Facebook news feed was a net positive for society

That's it. I'm done with Mozilla...