Telegram is the only massively popular messaging service that allows everyone to make sure that all of its apps indeed use the same open source code that is published on Github.
Not true. Signal has a very similar client verification process to Telegram's, described here. The lack of an iOS reproducible build is an Apple limitation / nuisance.
It’s very complicated, the 2nd jailbroken device is necessary because there’s no other way to download the .ipa, but even if you manage to do that and bit-for-bit reproduce the .ipa you downloaded from source, there’s no way to know if the App Store is sending every user the same .ipa or if your other, non-jailbroken iPhone downloaded a backdoored one.
Telegram docs even acknowledge these limitations.
Ultimately, this client verification is not the selling point Telegram's founder makes it sound like, since most messages are not E2EE and the server code is closed.
I'd look into AV1 decoding benchmarks, regardless of NVIDIA vs AMD, as I've been using NVIDIA on Jellyfin for a while with no issues.
HEVC is not as relevant IMO, as it's not available through browsers due to license restrictions (ffmpeg / mpv works fine), so I'd focus on AV1 capabilities, which is not available in many cards.
Compression might be useful in some cases, but the bulk of my data is already compressed or not much compressible (think videos, images, compressed archives, game assets). So the trade off doesn't make much sense to me.
When you argue for housing reform to legalize denser development in our cities, you quickly learn that some people hate density. Like, really hate density, with visceral disgust and contempt for any development pattern that involves buildings being tall or close together.
Aren't these sizes a marketing gimmick anyway? They used to mean the gate size of a transistor, but I don't think that's been the case for a few years now.
Later each new generation process became known as a technology node[17] or process node,[18][19] designated by the process' minimum feature size in nanometers (or historically micrometers) of the process's transistor gate length, such as the "90 nm process". However, this has not been the case since 1994,[20] and the number of nanometers used to name process nodes (see the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors) has become more of a marketing term that has no standardized relation with functional feature sizes or with transistor density (number of transistors per unit area).[21]
personally, I don't care they try to simplify these extremely complicated chip layouts, but keep calling it X nanometers when there's nothing of that feature size is just plain misleading.
So, in conclusion: If your face is large, you’re a conservative; if it’s skinny, you’re a liberal; and facial recognition is bad—we all know that. That seems to be all you need to know.
The paper:
Our results, suggesting that stable facial features convey a substantial amount of the signal, imply that individuals have less control over their privacy. The algorithm studied here, with a prediction accuracy of r = .22, does not allow conclusively determining one’s political views, in the same way as job interviews, with a predictive accuracy of r = .20, cannot conclusively determine future job performance.
r=0.22 is a weak to moderate correlation, btw. An actual predictor will need more data than just one's face in order to have a decent chance.
Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
Here's what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...
Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause ( arstechnica.com )
As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.
What's a good graphics card for jellyfin?
I assume it's not nvidia. Yet I have no idea how to differentiate between them and neither do I know what a good price is....
Which file system do you recommend for Linux?
Just a simple question :...
If You Hate Density, Maybe Don’t Live in A City (Oh the Urbanity!) ( www.youtube.com )
When you argue for housing reform to legalize denser development in our cities, you quickly learn that some people hate density. Like, really hate density, with visceral disgust and contempt for any development pattern that involves buildings being tall or close together.
Neofetch development discontinued, repository archived ( github.com )
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13437386...
TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 ( www.theregister.com )
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find ( gizmodo.com )
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband ( www.popsci.com )
Is there a good, paid gps app? I mean for driving and walking? Google Maps etc is getting worse by the day
I use Komoot for wild walking and biking, and it's incredible. Hugely more accurate and reliable....