John Hess

UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel.

They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America.

Your rights and freedoms are in danger.

NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/

We all need to channel this Chicago man’s utter contempt

i weep each time I read about the time Jonas Salk was asked if he planned to patent the Polio vaccine and asked

"would you patent the sun?!"

Can it be the size of the statuettes? 1 plz.

Century-Scale Storage If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

I’m glad you asked :-)

lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

Using TLS ECH from Python At first, the idea of encrypting more of the metadata found inside the initial packet (the “ClientHello”) of a TLS connection may seem simple and obvious, but there are of course reasons that this was...

I wrote a blog post about using TLS Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) from Python guardianproject.info/2025/01/10/u...

I want to make a data decenter. A small, terrible computer with a bad wireless connection, put somewhere inconvenient, powered by the sun, that you can run your flimsy website on. No SLA, no ISO anything. Just sometimes a computer.

Everyone I know makes up silly songs about their pet. Yet, there are virtually no silly pet songs released by major artists. This is surely a conspiracy of the record labels to deprive us.

LA folk—

my friends in altadena are looking for a new home on the east side — two bedroom and dog-friendly

any leads would be deeply appreciated 🙏

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