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David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Dear men,
Masculinity is less Andrew Tate and more Patrick Stewart!
Today we lost a true man
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
For those of us not living on Planet Murdoch, Andrews government, led by Dan & in which Allan served,was re-elected 3x with an increased majority each time
Under Labor MEL officially remains the Most Liveable city in Australia & amongst the top 3 Most Liveable cities globally
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Today the EF and OA announce zkAPI—a new means for private AI
Picture this: deposit ether into a vault, sign a zk proof, get a fixed amount of private inference. Advances like these help us move past middlemen's requirements that we link our data and identities.
Read more below
Quick updates on the Open Anonymity project (@OpenAnonProject)!
1. OA-chat is live! You can now signup: chat.openanonymity.ai
2. We collaborated with @ethereumfndn (@VitalikButerin, @DavideCrapis, @VittoStack, @curryrasul) to develop zkAPI, a new zero-knowledge protocol for accessing gated / paid APIs with unlinkability. It’s like a generalization of OA unlinkable inference that also abstracts payments away. Now also available on OA-chat!
I'm excited because more infrastructure should exist where privacy and sovereignty is foundational and people are in control.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
WSL containers is now generally available
msft.it/6014acIIa
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
I’ll write a reaction post on this later but ARE YOU GUYS SEEING HOW BIG OF A DEAL THIS IS !?
The cryptographic world computer:
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
My attempt to express in somewhat concise terms the true meaning of basically everything planned to happen to Ethereum starting from the fork after Hegota. It's really not just a blockchain anymore. It's a hybrid architecture that combines together blockchains and modern cryptography, to enable much more powerful properties.
FOCIL, EIP-8288, Lean consensus, state management, formal verification, advanced mempool improvements (including privacy), and the longer-term specter of obfuscation all mentioned.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
It is ironic that the thing that is now most annoying about long-running agentic tasks with Large Language Models isn't coding or errors or hallucinations, but the fact that their language gets worse due to drift as a task goes on
Its in your the name! Just write better already!
@diradio Been a paid member since 2015 :-) I've always manually had Edge "save website as an app" so it appears on my taskbar.
Had a quick look, you already have a manifest.json. You’re only missing a few settings for desktop browsers to recognise it as an installable PWA.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Your physical game library is more than a collection of discs. It holds years of memories and stories worth preserving. Starting next week, XBOX Insiders can unlock a digital entitlement for supported physical games. We’ll start with thousands of titles and add more as we can.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
dude thinks he’s Tony stark but he’s really Mr bean
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
It's crazy to think a year from now when the store is shut down the only one who will be profiting from the Vita is Xbox with gamepass.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Here is a video of how the Meta lenticular spoof ad with a surveillance warning looks in real life. 💀
❗️ A lenticular spoof ad at a bus stop near Meta's London headquarters flips TV personality Kylie Jenner's smart glasses campaign into a skeletal surveillance warning depending on where you stand.
The design borrows from They Live, the 1988 film where special sunglasses expose the manipulation hidden inside advertising.
The underlying concern is real, since the latest Ray-Ban Meta generation records up to three minutes of continuous video, has stealth mods and researchers have demonstrated again and again that footage can be matched to names and addresses using facial recognition.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Redo-ing the tweet:
If YOU let your kid roam around a mall and they find their way into Spencers, this is not MINE nor THE MALL'S FAULT
We should not AGE GATE THE ENTIRE MALL BECAUSE YOU CAN'T KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR KID
Yes this is a metaphor for the current state of the internet
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
WSL container's public preview starts today, you can try it out right away! Blog post here for more details:
devblogs.microsoft.com/comma…
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Public consultation survey had no clickable 'No' option to disagree with the social media ban, Labour then used this to claim public support.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups.
This is what they've said:
"But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support.
“A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
People *need* to understand this: the under-16 bans hit adults too.
Whether you’re 15 or 55, your ability to speak freely and anonymously online is at risk.
This. Isn’t. Just. About. Teens.
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Closing the bathroom door: not suspicious.
Sealing an envelope: not suspicious.
Wanting your phone unscanned: not suspicious.
Privacy is the default setting of a free society.
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Introducing Microsoft Scout, the first autopilot agent from Microsoft - 57 days after starting my new job, we are launching Microsoft Scout to our Frontier customers. Big day for the team and for @openclaw #MicrosoftBuild microsoft.com/en-us/microsof…
David Burela @[email protected] retweeted
Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows.
NVIDIA RTX Spark marks a real breakthrough toward that vision.
Looking forward to sharing more with Jensen, who will be joining us live from Taiwan, at Build this week! blogs.windows.com/windowsexp…
