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Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf
47•g0xA52A2A•1h ago

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stronglikedan•34m ago
> Surveillance Is Not Safety

Maybe not, but as long as the average person thinks it is, it may as well be.

Animats•29m ago
It's a great meme, though. Use it more.
ktallett•25m ago
The average person doesn't have any knowledge on this system.
rockskon•8m ago
Does the average person think this? Perception of what other people think doesn't always line up with what they actually think.
ktallett•24m ago
Won't somebody think of the children appears to be the world's most effective method of bringing in restrictive and privacy destroying laws, yet they just don't work.
christoph•9m ago
Well yes, the great cabal of people bringing in these immense rafts of surveillance are the very people who commit, or who certainly hang out with the people who commit the most heinous acts. See the Epstein files.

Notice the same people will also talk during the daytime about morals and equality, while then conducting genocide in the evening.

budududuroiu•12m ago
The ratchet ratcheting: client side scanning, then remote attestation to ensure client side scanning works, digital identity verification, etc etc.

Good Internet magazine on indefinite hiatus

https://www.goodinternetmagazine.com/important/
1•bjhess•2m ago•0 comments

Developer Gets Half-Life Running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/developer-gets-half-life-running-at-30-f...
1•ljf•3m ago•0 comments

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/apple-bets-cheaper-ai-will-woo-small-developers/
1•jbernardo95•3m ago•0 comments

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-star-destroyed-universe-rarest.html
2•wglb•5m ago•1 comments

NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/nhs-prescribes-half-a-million-copilot-licenses-f...
1•Bender•6m ago•0 comments

It's do or die for Apple AI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/its-do-or-die-for-apple-ai/5252479
1•Bender•7m ago•0 comments

We moved twice as fast with half the people

https://greggtmengine.substack.com/p/how-we-moved-twice-as-fast-with-half
1•greglee•7m ago•0 comments

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data but reported it as a bug

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/08/consultant-mistakenly-deleted-a-ton-of-data-but-r...
1•Bender•7m ago•0 comments

Federal judge rules Trump's $100k fee for H-1B visas unlawful

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-invalidated
4•xpl•7m ago•0 comments

WWDC26: Early Impressions – Tao of Mac

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/06/08/2040
1•rcarmo•8m ago•0 comments

Routing SDK that cuts gas, slippage, MEV, and bridge fees

https://github.com/passage-cr/routing-sdk
1•passage-cr•8m ago•0 comments

Built to benefit everyone: our plan

https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone-our-plan/
3•j4mie•9m ago•0 comments

Stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/08/un-world-ocean-assessment-severe-stress-sea-l...
2•ljf•9m ago•0 comments

Promising 'Liquid Biopsies' May Not Be Ready for Primetime

https://undark.org/2026/06/08/liquid-biopsies-cancer/
1•EA-3167•10m ago•0 comments

Working with Product Managers

https://www.seangoedecke.com/working-with-product-managers/
2•1zael•10m ago•0 comments

AI and Agency

https://www.bitsandletters.com/ideas/ai-and-agency
2•demaree•16m ago•0 comments

Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations

https://steveblank.com/2026/06/08/g-for-defense-stanford-2026-lessons-learned-presentations/
1•sblank•16m ago•0 comments

What's New in SwiftUI for iOS 27

https://blakecrosley.com/blog/whats-new-swiftui-ios-27
1•blakec•19m ago•0 comments

FrontierCode

https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code
4•streamer45•20m ago•0 comments

In Support of Mandatory Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening and Recordkeeping

https://screendna.org/
2•JumpCrisscross•21m ago•0 comments

China's Lab-Grown Diamonds Emerge as Unlikely Winner in AI Boom

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/china-s-lab-grown-diamonds-emerge-as-unlikely-...
3•JumpCrisscross•22m ago•0 comments

County-level map of air conditioning in the U.S.

https://twitter.com/StatisticUrban/status/2062887160743641293
2•JumpCrisscross•23m ago•0 comments

Nine Fours – your 36 top wiki picks across media

https://0g.software/nine-fours
1•0gs•25m ago•1 comments

Controllable Generative Modeling in Minecraft by Training on Billions of Cubes

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22847
2•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: macOS Apps on Linux: SwiftUI for Linux (and AppKit, NSFoundation, etc.)

https://github.com/Lore-Hex/QuillUI
2•ljlolel•25m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL 19 Beta: The Four Features You'll Feel

https://thebuild.com/blog/postgresql-19-beta-the-four-features-youll-actually-feel/
1•pgedge_postgres•26m ago•0 comments

Avoiding wasteful electricity use while self hosting LLMs

https://patrickmccanna.net/fixing-a-stuck-ollama-runner-and-building-a-gpu-watchdog/
1•0o_MrPatrick_o0•26m ago•0 comments

Why LLM Inference Needs a New Kind of Router

https://www.modular.com/blog/why-llm-inference-needs-a-new-kind-of-router-part-1
1•aviziva•28m ago•0 comments

The Korean Stock Market Just Crashed Sunday Night but the Nasdaq Is Rising

https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/06/08/the-korean-stock-market-just-crashed-sunday-night-will...
2•carabiner•28m ago•1 comments

The Third Generation of Apple's Foundation Models

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third-generation-of-apple-foundation-models
1•2bit•30m ago•1 comments