Here's an article written by skud arguing against someone on Hacker News who suggested usage of real names be enforced.

Skud has written extensively on the subject, and has been cited all over the place. Notably, they're mentioned in this EFF article:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/case-pseudonyms

And they're cited by this Op Ed published in the Communications of the ACM:

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-politics-of-real-names/

I'm reminded of that Hackers (1995) quote:

I need a handle, man. I don't have an identity until I have a handle.

What's you opinion on the matter? Do you think everyone should be using pseudonyms for security? Do you think it'd be better that everyone use their real names online? Why or why not?

It's the kind of project my uni would never dare touch, as it's quite conservative, unfortunately.

Great reporting. Worth watching today.

This is an interesting podcast that discusses the advantages of Delta Chat, such as how it's resistant to being blocking by state governments due to using a subset of the Email protocol (blocking delta chat would effectively block all emails).

The hosts suggest delta chat as a backup contingency plan in case Signal was blocked or went down, but I would personally go further than that, and suggest that Deltachat be used instead of Signal if at all possible, as Signal is a centralized service that requires pairing a highly identifiable phone number to your account.

The US government is acting as a mafia henchman, coming to collect from big tech companies what they are due after having given them so much (at the expense of the American citizen). In return for all it has provided to them, the gov wants the tech giants to spy on US citizens on its behalf.

The latest release of the Paged out! magazine released last week. In this issue: stuff about large language models, an article about query-based compilers which has fired some discussions on the orange website, neat coding theory articles, discussions about telegram/signal, wonderful art (as always), cybersec articles, and more.