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> I believe secrets are still encrypted at this stage similar to cold boot.

Does this mean that the Signal desktop application doesn't lock/unlock its (presumably encrypted) database with a secret when locking/unlocking the laptop?


It wouldn’t matter because the whole OS would be evicted from memory and the entire storage encrypted.

Signal itself wouldn’t even be detectable as an app


Can anyone please provide directions/links to tools that can be run locally, and that take an audio recording of a voice as an input, and produce an output with the same voice saying the same thing with the same intonations, but with a fixed/changed accent?

This is needed for processing an indie game's voice recordings, where the voice actors weren't native speakers and had some accent.


This is a good article: https://insinuator.net/2025/12/bluetooth-headphone-jacking-f...


I see what you've done there!

        int randomNumber = getRandomNumber(1, 808);
        if (randomNumber == 808)
                printGlimmeringText(text, nerdFontText, lastRowColor);
Nice project!


That's an easter egg! Gj! You're the first that has mentioned it.


I found two versions at https://archive.org, there's a PDF manual too.


You are right, there is a a copy with a manual now! It was uploaded 4 months ago and it sure wasn't there all the previous times I've looked.

Unfortunately, the manual doesn't quite match my memories. I recognize a lot of the text and layout so it is clearly something I have seen before, but the technical info isn't really there.

This manual is from May 1989. I read the manual a bit before that, perhaps in 1987, perhaps 1988.

So, does my memory play tricks on me or did they remove all that lovely tech info? All there's left in this version is Chapter 12 "Technical Terms" (which I recognize as something I have read a version of before).

I know I have read about using track reads to catch some of the copy protection tricks (like in the two MartyPC blog posts) and track writes (occasionally even track writes that are aborted at just the right time) to force the data on disk to be just the right kind of wrong.

I double checked that it wasn't in the Copy II PC manuals I could find: the V6 manual from 1990 and the Copy II PC Option Board manual.


Congratulations on the release! If I may ask a question - is it possible to register an account without a phone number on a 3-rd party server?


Thanks!

Yes, it's totally up to a PDS operator to decide how they create user accounts. It's also not required on the Bluesky PDS service any longer, in most cases.

By default the self-hosted PDS requires an invite code, to prevent random people from creating an account. Later other options will exist, including OAuth support which is coming soon.


That's great, thanks!

> It's also not required on the Bluesky service any longer, in most cases.

That's also nice to hear - when last time I tried to register an account (shortly after the free registration launch) the phone number field in the registration form was marked as required, if I am not mistaken.


Yeah, you're right, it was. That was temporary measure during the public launch to prevent spam/abuse. We've made some improvements here recently.


You can also use DNSCloak, which can act as a VPN, and proxy all DNS requests to a trusted DoH server, like AdGuard.


I think wearing such a massive thing on your head is a dead end. It may become a niche product for professionals (as the price and "Pro" in the name suggest), but it's not practical for everyday casual use.

Is it still out of the reach from the current state of art in technology for a thin client, not much heaver than sunglasses - just the visual component and some simple circuit to receive the signal from an iPhone?


I happen to know a few German street photographers, like Siegfried Hansen[1], for example. Now, I wonder, how do they publish their works and organize exhibitions then? Is it possible that there are some exceptions in the law?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Hansen_(photographer...


In GDPR there are some kind of exemptions for art and journalism.


I think this kind of warrant canary doesn't bring much value. It takes only one warrant to make this document historical. And then what?

I wish every account had its own warrant canary.


I thought Reddit had a page with a bunch of canaries (pictures of canaries) on it, and their idea was to remove one at a time. Can't find that now so it must have been some other service.

I think an elegant way for rsync to handle this would be to just move the page from ".../canary.txt" to ".../canary-2.txt".

Sends the message that the first canary is dead, but leaves a second one up for the next warrant.


Or they could host in a country where “secret warrants” don’t exist.


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