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Cake day: August 26th, 2025

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  • I’ve been been deepdiving the cryptcom privacy space over the last week, refreshing my knowledge that was last updated about a decade ago. Signal spooks me because of the number requirement and centralization, but the tech is fine. Matrix is the new hotness but the clients kind of suck. I wonder if there are any i2p based apps? But Signal (or in my case, Molly-FOSS) seems to be fine for most purposes. Unless you’re the secretary of defense… There’s always Tox if you don’t mind the fact that it’s in dev and unaudited.





  • To be fair, “that I ever met” is doing some lifting there. Kinky trans&nb programmers are a minority of a minority of a minority. But a few of the best programmers I’ve met over my years while doing low-level C and C++ systems work just happened to be in that demographic… And wow: they were REALLY good at what they did. One was the kind of person who earned the right to wear a clip-on fluffy tail to the office, and no one would talk shit about. Different times, different places, but they were all the kind of people who would make competent management sweat about the low bus factor.