Covered many times before.

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-unc...) 710 points | the-mitr | 4 months ago | 254 comments

Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 333 points | hourislate | 6 years ago | 70 comments

Room 641A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 248 points | llambda | 13 years ago | 44 comments

Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 207 points | mimsee | 10 years ago | 75 comments

Room 641A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) 51 points | jihadjihad | 2 years ago | 5 comments

Good. I hope it gets covered many times in the future as well, and that we never forget that the moment we stop fighting tooth and nail to protect our privacy is the exact moment it goes away.

it has been gone lmao.

Defeatist totally wrong attitude. People are fighting back against flock and winning for example.

Signal reached 100 M MAU.

GrapheneOS has reached 500k estimated users.

Privacy is more of an issue today than ever before with more people caring about it.

Fisa 702 expired.

Cell network area searches determined to require a warrant by supreme court.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is...

How are people winning against mass surveillance cameras?

There are a few fewer Flock cameras... because municipalities are switching to Axon and Motorola.

We went as far as we could on GCP before PlanetScale. Spanner is amazing but also amazingly expensive. And CloudSQL, also amazing as long as you don’t need write scaling. PlanetScale (Vitess+MySQL plus their branching / deployment and monitoring tools) is just not a combination offered on GCP. And while I didn’t use Aurora, from talking to and exploring AWS it doesn’t really have this combination either.

It makes me so happy to hear you had a good experience. Thank you for being a customer.

That is what the “regular” PlanetScale is all about. It uses the Vitess open source project to do write scaling through shading. It is very powerful and customizable and stable. It was built to run YouTube. Former happy user here.

Has OpenAI made any assurances that customer workloads will not result in agents posting on the internet?

Do you really think that's the fundamental issue here?

Bigger phone = bigger battery = more time between charges

Probably true but they might have a better hinge, i.e. crease takes longer to appear due to superior folded geometry.

And the Apple case is $129.

Agreed. Note, that is at ~50% gross margin and ~15% profit margin which I guess is pretty typical of computer hardware vendors.

Less frequent context truncation, too, leading to better scores?

I'm still on 1P7 (personal, not team) and still using Dropbox for sync. Hope it never breaks. Never wanted to research the new 1P8 server sync model. Of course I saw that nasty Dropbox unverified IdP account takeover disclosure, so maybe it's no better than whatever 1P is doing on the server.

In our case we use both Dropbox and also have a few teams using the 1P.com sync in addition. So we value both, plus just plain still don't like the 1P8 software itself.

Of course with the original Dropbox based sync, a concern is that Dropbox itself isn't set in amber, at some point it might get rug pulled and sadly 1P never introduced WebDAV or some other self-hosted option before subscription/VC fever set in. And I suppose that macOS continues to move along too. 1P7 on the latest and final version is Apple Silicon native and through a lot of major transitions doing nothing exciting, so it might well keep running for a long time. But the browser extensions will probably stop working at some point which is going to be another big line for a lot of people, and legitimately because it's a not insignificant bit of security.

Anyway, I mean, not like one couldn't keep running it a long time via various layers, but I figure probably time to at least survey the landscape on moving on :(