I expect that a large portion of the actually – not supposedly – targeted demographic will still not care or know how to set up encrypted comms, and I guess the EP also expects them not to. If someone actually wants to evade CSAR, they probably would know how to (and if not, all the better).
If Chat Control passes, then encryption will not be effortless and usable by the masses, that's the whole point. Basic encrypted chat will be on the level of Snowden trying to communicate with the journalists back in the days – only possible if both parties are willing to go to lengths.
Even assuming good intent, that was extremely silly from them to donate their money away when they don't have anything to begin with. This either assumes that the community is wiser at doing their work (doesn't sound to be the case), or that they were betting that it'll work out one way or another (most likely through another donation) – not realizing that such a donation is exactly what guarantees their organization's future.
They ARE "the community" that should be turning that money into actually useful things. Non-profits should not donate money. They should spend it or allocate it as grants.
I think that a charity that just funnels money to other charities is very suspicious and needs to be really on top of its stuff to not just seem like an enterprise for skimming money off other people's goodwill.
I also found woodworking recently as a software engineer and it's incredibly rewarding. Both the tactile feeling of the activity, the idea of building something that _exists_ in physical form and exists in your or a loved one's home, and the pride that you feel about a finished product and having overcome challenges and learned something.
Unlike knitting, I love its usefulness. There are so only many use cases for knitwear, but furniture, man, everyone needs furniture. And being in a home that I built by my two hands is infinite joy.
The three aspects where it falls short to knitting:
- It can't be done mindlessly. It would be unsafe and you'd make costly mistakes that you can't undo by pulling on the yarn.
- It's more expensive. The materials are a bit more pricy (compared to hours spent on working them), but the machines certainly are.
- You are confined to space and time. Whether it's your garage or wood shop where you have machines and can make noise and dust, or it's your living room where you exclusively use hand tools – you surely can't do it in your car while waiting for the kids, or at the university, or on the public transport. Whittling small objects is the one exception.
Agree on all accounts. I very much enjoy the limited woodworking I've done, but the logistics are much trickier than knitting.
I do find whittling to be an interesting middle point. Like knitting, you don't need a dedicated workshop. It doesn't take a lot of set up and tear down for a given session. You can fit the project and tools in a small space.
Of course, you're shedding wood chips the whole time, so you can't really whittle on the couch. And you sure as hell can't do it on an airplane. But you can do it when, say, camping with friends, or sitting on the back porch when it's nice out.
> “I don’t think this could have happened in any country other than the U.S.,” Dr. Urnov said.
> “We all said to each other, ‘This is the most significant thing we have ever done.’”
And then in the Discover More section is this article:
> Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research
"Try therapy" is so overly vague that I expect it's nearly useless for a sizeable chunk of people (especially among HN readers).
I've tried therapy with five different therapists in the last seven years. Every time I came away feeling the same, wondering if I'm doing it wrong or if I missed an instruction in primary school.
Can I get by without it? Apparently yes. Am I doing things more optimally with one? Marginally, at best.
> I'm personally putting a LOT of effort to make our claims as accurate and truthful as possible, in every single place.
I'm not informed enough to comment on the performance but I really like this attitude of not overselling your product but still claiming that you reached a milestone. That's a fine balance to strike and some people will misunderstand because we just do not assume that much nuance – and especially not truth – from marketing statements.
> and I care about its value, I’m not going to say anything to tank its value
Probably people like Kokotajlo cared about the value of their equity but even more about their other principles, like speaking the truth publicly even if it meant their losing millions.
