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Cake day: April 6th, 2021

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  • For disappearing messages to work, your conversation partner has to promise they won’t take photos of their screen, and they have to promise to use an app that actually implements the feature instead of just pretending to, and the app developers have to promise to have implemented the code to delete a message when the service says it should

    Is there actually a cryptographically-sound and physically-complete method for ensuring that a message is only legible for a temporary duration once it leaves your own device and is delivered to someone elses?



















  • People complain about Electron, but without it there would probably be even fewer cross-platform apps today

    Some aspects of it might be less than perfect, but let’s not allow perfect to be the enemy of good

    Electron doesn’t automatically mean that an app is bad, just like Unity doesn’t automatically mean that a game is good