Mircea Nistor

CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a "deceptive sleight of hand," a mandator...

Stay vigilant Europe

www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-cont...

So sad to see what happens to Android recently - let's try to push back!

keepandroidopen.org

Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible Transformer components such as non-linear activations and normalization are inherently non-injective, suggesting that different inputs could map to the same output and prevent exact recovery of the in...

I did not expect that: Large Language Models are invertible:

arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

Inside the breach that broke the internet: The untold story of Log4Shell Log4Shell proved that open source security isn't guaranteed and isn’t just a code problem.

github.blog/open-source/...

📣 Looking for some part-time work if anyone needs help with anything web, distributed tech, cryptography, etc.

Currently doing some protocol work for totemgrid.io, but while we wait for funding, I could really use some money.

AT Work profile: atwork.place/u/tokono.ma
Website: tokono.ma

Thymol tastes and smells like thyme (hence the name). Most people, even if not very interested in gastronomy, can distinguish quite a few herbs and spices by their smell and taste. This could lead to a chewing gum that would diagnose any ENT infection.

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository For the past 15 years1, F-Droid has provided a safe and securehaven for Android users around the world to find and install free and opensource apps. When con...

FDroid raises the case against the Google developer forced registration once again. For those who don't know: Google will begin to restrict the sideloading of apps from unverified developers on Android devices starting in 2026 f-droid.org/2025/09/29/g...

Google’s AI Surveillance erased 130k of my files — a stark reminder the cloud isn’t yours, it’s… Introduction

medium.com/@russoatlarg...

The EU Parliament has published a new proposal for Chat Control to mass-surveil all digital communication in Europe. The proposal is ineffective, weakens secure communication, and violates basic human privacy. This must be stopped immediately. #ChatControl
csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

EU Chat Control criticized by 500 cryptographers over privacy risks

Over 500 cryptographers warn the EU draft “Chat Control” could weaken end‑to‑end encryption. The EU council votes on the Danish text on Sep 12, 2025. https://getnews.me/eu-chat-control-criticized-by-500-cryptographers-over-privacy-risks/ #euchatcontrol #privacy #cryptography

They rather enforce it :)

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Did you mean Wurst Käse? 😋

This. Money is, and has always been, trickle up.

That means that the only thing that makes sense is to put it in at the bottom.

We need a universal basic income.

Everywhere it's been tried it worked.

Maybe something could be printed to help hold a pencil there.

Is `JS` also trademarked?

@bsky.app when can we have ENS support? I want to use my .eth domain as a handle!

Now I'm curious where in Transylvania this is. Looks gorgeous!

The art within Sword of the Sea is beyond beautiful and impressive.

It is nothing short of a tragedy Natalie is looking for work right now. Please share this and hire her ASAP.

Developers (hoping to get a swath here of systems people, web people, mobile, and even SRE side here, a real spread) -- what do you feel like you really get wins for when it comes to std lib functionalities / ergonomics of working with Strings and Lists that you just feel comfortable with?

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

Most think engineering growth is about scaling systems. That’s the easy part. Scaling culture and knowledge sharing is by far the biggest challenge.

Exited to finally share more about this passion project I've been working on for a while:

Simple Page is a tool for publishing on Ethereum!

"Ethereum needs more apps", they said. Nice, über simple publishing tool from longtime builder @jthor 👀

Whatever. I ain't gonna read all that. Everybody (besides the U.S. government) just switch to BLAKE3. :-)

This little dialog box that pops up on Macs is the most suspicious thing ever. I’m 90% certain it’s a real system dialog, but still think a smart website could fake it with a pop-up window.

RepRap Pioneer Returns With a DIY 3D Printer That Hits Micro-Level Precision A new RepRap 3D printer that its creator endearingly calls "the next small thing" was presented at Fab25, and its timing is impeccable.

Details, of course, on the RepRap site:

reprap.org/wiki/RepRapM...

all3dp.com/4/reprap-pio...

I don’t know who needs this right now, but I really enjoy browsing “Paper Skygest”, a feed of posts on academic papers *from people you follow*. I think it’s what a lot of us are actually here for

Another new thing: github.com/MetaMask/go-...

It's a fast and simple (battery included) Decentralized Identifier implementation in go.

Currently it supports did:key, did:web and did:plc.