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  • No idea how I'm supposed to take this ranty blog needlessly interspersed with furry cartoons seriously. But it's basically just restating (poorly) all the same criticisms and alternatives written about here: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/

    The 'real' criticisms of PGP are that it's old, it's clunky, and it doesn't support forward secrecy by design. None of that is invalid, but I think the importance of those points depends on the use case and user.

    The alternatives given are myriad and complexity and clunkiness are interspersed between dozens of solutions instead of well understood and documented in one tool.

    That isn't a superior approach. I'm not arguing that PGP is perfect, but it's absolutely asinine to suggest (like this blog and others suggest) that the solution is to use dozens of other solutions with their own problems and with less auditing.

    If we're going to replace PGP, we need to do it properly in a centralized library/toolchain. Breaking up the solution and spreading it around just magnifies the problems.

  • Good space podcasts?
  • Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, which recently became Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe

    About half of their podcasts are about astrophysics, another third is quantum mechanics, and the last bit is an eclectic mix of science.

    Daniel is an incredible science communicator and a tenured experimental particle physicist, but has friends in many fields to bring in and follows astrophysics developments enthusiastically.

  • What to know about Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to serve as defense secretary
  • This is the kind of shit that terrifies me. When Trump first came into power in 2016 it was a shock for everyone, and he wasn't prepared. He took office with GOP traditionalists mostly in his cabinet and in his reporting structure. Several of those found him despicable and put up resistance.

    This made his first presidency extremely ineffectual.

    No such luck this time, every one of these fascist fuckers knows exactly what they're doing and are eager to get to work.

  • Here are the patents Nintendo and the Pokémon Company are suing Palworld about, according to Pocketpair
  • If those are the only 3 items they're suing over, in an American court of law it'd be a slam dunk for PocketPair. Theres so much prior art, open use, and poor definitions involved the patents would be quickly invalidated.

    But I'm not aware of the nuance of Japanese court, only that they tend to protect IP even more strongly than US courts.

    Edit: fuck it, I haven't been very interested so far, but I'm buying a copy of palworld today. Software patents are a broken system and Nintendo deserves every bit of fight given to them.