Men lay out papers in Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as part of a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and Médecins Sans Frontières mapping initiative. Photo by: Jorieke Vyncke / CC BY-S

Annals of Technology August 9, 2013 In mid-July, Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director for Human Rights Watch’s Moscow office, wrote on her Facebook wall that she had received an e-mail from edsnowden@lavabit.com. It requested that she attend a press conference at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International…

By Harlin Pierce Not too long ago my mother told me about how chess has gained fresh popularity due to “The Queen’s Gambit,” a hit Netflix drama named after a fundamental opening. I’m an avid chess player and like to think of myself as a somewhat formidable opponent. My main adversary is Wally, an…

Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it. by RS Benedict When Paul Verhoeven adapted Starship Troopers in the late 1990s, did he know he was predicting the future? The endless desert war, the ubiquity of military…

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Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And the best thing about it? You wouldn’t need to force yourself to work. There are people exactly like that who sit down and work without pushing themselves to do it. They even look forward to working. The good news is that you can learn to do…

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Unsere Demokratie basiert auf Papier und ist deswegen sicher – daran halten E-Voting-Gegner seit Jahren eisern fest. Es ist ein Mythos. Ihre Argumentation geht so. Manipulations­versuche würden durch gegenseitige Checks auffliegen. Und vor allem würden die Angriffe nicht skalieren: Eine Betrügerin…

Published inLyft Engineering · 7 min read· Feb 9, 2021 -- Mark Huberty & Clare Corthell, Lyft Mapping Roads to the new terminal at LaGuardia Airport opened in July 2020, evidenced by aggregate Lyft traffic (left). OpenStreetMap data had been updated (right) shortly after opening, faster than many…

Crowdfunding sites have been a mixed blessing for the cycling industry. Platforms like Indiegogo and Kickstarter have allowed brands to gauge demand and fund products, but the funding model comes with

The book is exciting and the story is funny. In fact, I'm learning something new. So much so, that I keep writing down my ideas and shuffling their implications. And suddenly, I realize something. In the past 15-minutes, I've only managed to cover three pages and I'm already thinking about next…

Shall I migrate to Signal, Threema or Telegram? No, because they all have — WhatsApp included — the same problem: They are walled gardens. Imagine a world where for each mail recipient using a separate domain, I would need separate mail client? Or in other words: Gmail users can only communicate…

Wir haben nicht, tun nicht und werden niemals Ihre persönlichen Daten an jemanden verkaufen. Punkt. Jan Koum, Whatsapp-CEO (November 2009) 👍 Rest der Welt (2009) Ende der Geschichte. Jan Koum, Whatsapp-CEO (November 2009) 🤨 Rest der Welt (2016) Nach drei Tagen sind alle migriert – auch der Schwager…

Zum Valentinstag: Das Datingportal „White Date“ ist eine Plattform für rassistische Romantiker*innen. Die sollen sich vereinen, denn die westliche Gesellschaft führe Kriege gegen „Weiße“. Die einzige Antwort: möglichst viele „weiße“ Kinder. Das Problem: es gibt kaum Frauen auf der Seite. Von | 12.…

Das Jahr 2020 fing für die Schweizer Armee gut an. Endlich ein rich­tiger Einsatz! Das Miliz­sy­stem konnte seine Fähig­keit gegen­über einem eindrin­genden Feind unter Beweis stellen. Die Armee konnte zum Ernst­fall rufen: Soldat:innen wurden einbe­rufen, die Kasernen füllten sich mit Rekrut:innen.…

This post is part of the Modern reading series. Collection of odds and ends relating to e-readers including personal reminisces Background Reading has been a huge part of my life. The written word has had arguably more of an impact on my life than anything I have experienced in person. As a kid back…

Mit einem einzigen Log-in soll man online shoppen, Steuer­erklärungen ausfüllen und in Zukunft auch Volks­initiativen unter­schreiben können: Das will die Schweiz mit der elektronischen Identität möglich machen, kurz E-ID. Am 7. März wird über das dazugehörige Gesetz abgestimmt. Es ist die erste…

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Some years ago, I was invited by my then boss, Jann Wenner, the owner of Rolling Stone, to be the lead singer in a band he was putting together from the magazine’s staff. I had just turned 41, and I jumped at the opportunity to sustain the delusion that I was not getting old. “Sign me up!” I said.…

S amstag, 9 Uhr, Dagenham, Ostlondon Für Axel Fischer bedeutet der Brexit erst mal Warten. An diesem Samstag ist es 16 Tage her, dass Großbritannien die EU verlassen hat, jetzt kriegt Fischer die Folgen zu spüren. Seit sechs Tagen ist er unterwegs. Eigentlich wollte er in Dagenham nur kurz halten,…

If you use bricks as dominoes: you get a second wave going in the opposite direction. Watch the original brick domino video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTWiZ7CYoI I think that is the original upload. If anyone finds a better one, please do let me know. Support me on Patreon and help me…

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Intro­duction Update: I wrote a follow up: Keeping platforms open. Check it out if you found this article interesting. I have never used WhatsApp, and never will. Despite this, I still feel the need to write an article about WhatsApp since it’s the perfect case study to help understand a class of…

Published on January 28, 2021 In December 2020, The Council of the European Union released a five-page resolution that called for the EU to pass new rules to govern the use of end-to-end encryption in Europe. We strongly oppose this resolution because it foreshadows an attack on encryption. We were…

Published inBekk · 4 min read· Feb 8, 2021 -- Introduction This year at work, I’ve joined a learning community of people who will build their own mobile app. I plan to get three things out of that: To build an app that will help me (and hopefully others) in editing OpenStreetMap data.To get some…

Posted by Matthew Wild on February 9 2021 There is a significant difference between developing and promoting a protocol (such as XMPP) and a product (such as Signal). Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. This post details how and why Snikket aims to strike a balance between the…

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Das ist ihr Stammtisch: Fritz, Erwin, Walter und Eckhart, alle zwischen sechzig und Mitte siebzig, alle aus demselben Stadtviertel, daher kennen sie sich. Und alle heiter, denn die nächsten Stunden we

Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. Become a Member Now Over a few months in 2007, a day room at Cheshire Correctional Institution turned into a mock trial courtroom a couple of nights each week. Sitting on drab, half-cushioned seats, roughly…

Joint work with Saul Schleimer. In this short video we show how various models of hyperbolic geometry can be obtained from the hemisphere model via stereographic and orthogonal projection. 2D figure credits: 4:09 Cannon, Floyd, Kenyon, Parry. 0:49, 1:20, 1:31, 2:12, Roice Nelson. We thank Gazi…

Businessweek Feature His body wrecked by ALS, my father insisted that his death, like his life, was his to control. Ron Deprez with his daughter, Esmé, and son, Réal, in Maine in the late 1980s. Source: Esmé E. Deprez By January 27, 2021 at 6:00 AM EST This article is part of the February 1, 2021…

Not long ago, I posted a roundup of secure messengers with off-the-grid capabilities. Some conversation followed, which led me to consider some of the problems with P2P protocols. P2P and Privacy Brave adopting IPFS has driven a lot of buzz lately. IPFS is essentially a decentralized, distributed…

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