Lucretiel
@lucretiel.me
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Lucretiel
@lucretiel.me
· Nov 2
I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be leading a session at this year's inaugural Rust NYC Unconf! Come by if you'd like to talk or hear about using Rust to underpin common, cross-language implementations of business functionality.
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End-to-end encryption means whatever you're sending is not readable BETWEEN the ends.
If you own an endpoint, you can read it.
That is how the FBI has historically gotten data from Signal chats.
There's no magic. You just go where the plaintext is.
Please stop believing vague scares about this.
If you own an endpoint, you can read it.
That is how the FBI has historically gotten data from Signal chats.
There's no magic. You just go where the plaintext is.
Please stop believing vague scares about this.
January 28, 2026 at 2:20 AM
End-to-end encryption means whatever you're sending is not readable BETWEEN the ends.
If you own an endpoint, you can read it.
That is how the FBI has historically gotten data from Signal chats.
There's no magic. You just go where the plaintext is.
Please stop believing vague scares about this.
If you own an endpoint, you can read it.
That is how the FBI has historically gotten data from Signal chats.
There's no magic. You just go where the plaintext is.
Please stop believing vague scares about this.
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Classic ‘sneckdown’ at the corner of Bedford and Monroe, now featuring daylighting where people driving routinely park up to the crosswalk. ❄️🚶🏻♂️
@nyc.streetsblog.org
@nyc.streetsblog.org
January 26, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Classic ‘sneckdown’ at the corner of Bedford and Monroe, now featuring daylighting where people driving routinely park up to the crosswalk. ❄️🚶🏻♂️
@nyc.streetsblog.org
@nyc.streetsblog.org
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To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally."
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
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Mamdani dropped into remote classes to apologize for not giving the kids a full snow day. He read to the little ones and the older ones were notably excited. It’s a hell of a thing.
January 27, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Mamdani dropped into remote classes to apologize for not giving the kids a full snow day. He read to the little ones and the older ones were notably excited. It’s a hell of a thing.
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One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Kristi Noem and Kash Patel are right: Alex Pretti had no right to possess a gun during a protest. What if he had killed someone?
by Kyle Rittenhouse
by Kyle Rittenhouse
January 27, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Kristi Noem and Kash Patel are right: Alex Pretti had no right to possess a gun during a protest. What if he had killed someone?
by Kyle Rittenhouse
by Kyle Rittenhouse
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hey all those "alt parks service" and the like accounts that people told you to block are fearmongering about signal and pushing for a software that is fundamentally insecure so maybe take the advice to block them seriously this time
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
Session Round 2 - Dhole Moments
Last week, I wrote a blog post succinctly titled, Don’t Use Session. Two interesting things have happened since I published that blog: A few people expressed uncertainty about what I wrote ab…
soatok.blog
January 27, 2026 at 12:14 AM
hey all those "alt parks service" and the like accounts that people told you to block are fearmongering about signal and pushing for a software that is fundamentally insecure so maybe take the advice to block them seriously this time
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
soatok.blog/2025/01/20/s...
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BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:40 PM
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Boy `fork` really is just an unfortunate mistake of an API huh
January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Boy `fork` really is just an unfortunate mistake of an API huh
The masculine urge to toss something a short distance
January 26, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The masculine urge to toss something a short distance
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The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.
Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post.
A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.
A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.
January 25, 2026 at 7:21 AM
The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.
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oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove.
people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.
people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.
January 26, 2026 at 3:44 AM
oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove.
people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.
people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.
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Like, there is just not any kind of coherent ideological definition that places Mandami outside the context of US liberalism. This only makes sense if we're defining these terms solely in the context of cliques and based on affect, style, and which social media faction you associate them with.
January 26, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Like, there is just not any kind of coherent ideological definition that places Mandami outside the context of US liberalism. This only makes sense if we're defining these terms solely in the context of cliques and based on affect, style, and which social media faction you associate them with.
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it's actually crazy seeing someone just loudly doing the good work of government. I fucking love this
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
it's actually crazy seeing someone just loudly doing the good work of government. I fucking love this
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We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.
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And, tonight, the network's flagship news program -- 60 Minutes -- ran a clip show of old celeb interviews to "celebrate the movies" rather than put together an episode focused on what's going on in Minnesota.
The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.
January 26, 2026 at 2:34 AM
And, tonight, the network's flagship news program -- 60 Minutes -- ran a clip show of old celeb interviews to "celebrate the movies" rather than put together an episode focused on what's going on in Minnesota.
Tbh the bug that inspired this (type inference will select a type that implements a trait if it's unique) is one of the few things in the formal rust _language_ that I think is an outright design mistake.
January 25, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Tbh the bug that inspired this (type inference will select a type that implements a trait if it's unique) is one of the few things in the formal rust _language_ that I think is an outright design mistake.
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January 25, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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❄️ VIDEO: Mayor Mamdani seen with a shovel assisting a car stuck in the snow in the Hasidic-populated neighborhood of Williamsburg.
January 25, 2026 at 8:25 PM
❄️ VIDEO: Mayor Mamdani seen with a shovel assisting a car stuck in the snow in the Hasidic-populated neighborhood of Williamsburg.
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Mamdani was already leading during that first debate, but the wind really went to his back after the “What will be your first foreign visit?” question. The others said Israel; he said, in almost these exact words, “Why would I go anywhere? I’d be Mayor of New York.”
Not only that, but NYC snowstorms have historically been a landmine for NYC mayors(Bloomberg in Bermuda for example) and in many ways a NYC mayor is only good as how he handled his last snowstorm.
January 25, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Mamdani was already leading during that first debate, but the wind really went to his back after the “What will be your first foreign visit?” question. The others said Israel; he said, in almost these exact words, “Why would I go anywhere? I’d be Mayor of New York.”
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Mamdani made a 90 sec. video discussing when and how the roads would be plowed, crediting the workforce that makes it possible, reminding owners they must shovel, reminding trash may be delayed, saying there’d be a decision about school by noon, and telling kids it’s fine to hit him with snowballs.
January 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Mamdani made a 90 sec. video discussing when and how the roads would be plowed, crediting the workforce that makes it possible, reminding owners they must shovel, reminding trash may be delayed, saying there’d be a decision about school by noon, and telling kids it’s fine to hit him with snowballs.
It's hard to overstate how much my opinion on this stuff turned around when I stopped using the freebie VS Code AI autocomplete and started using my employer-sponsered Claude Opus
great post, and wonderfully short. (seriously, people need to learn to write less.) this describes well how I use the tools. I would add: only use the best tools and models. don't use Copilot just because it's there in VS Code, nobody likes it
Things are changing in software dev with agentic tools being viable, but the fundamentals haven't. I wrote a blog post covering my mental model for what agents are good for, and how to use them effectively that transcends any specific tool. Check it out: zed.dev/blog/on-prog...
January 25, 2026 at 10:11 PM
It's hard to overstate how much my opinion on this stuff turned around when I stopped using the freebie VS Code AI autocomplete and started using my employer-sponsered Claude Opus
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Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
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it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant
We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 PM
it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant