… plans emerged last week when the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) published guidance for High Assurance Cryptographic Equipment (HACE) – devices that send and/or receive sensitive information – that calls for disallowing the cryptographic algorithms SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH, among others, by the end of this decade.

With regard to the algorithms used to hash data – particularly SHA-224 and SHA-256 – Buchanan expressed surprise that neither will be approved for use beyond 2030.

“The migration within five years will not be easy, as every single web connection currently uses ECDH and RSA/ECDSA,” he wrote. “These methods are also used for many other parts of a secure infrastructure.”

Looks like we could be in for interesting times.

According to analysts at Emarketer, from when Musk acquired X in 2022 until 2025, they expect X to have lost 7 million monthly active users in the U.S.

The declining user base pales in comparison to the decline of X’s brand and value. According to a recent report from Brand Finance, X’s brand is now worth 673 million. The brand was valued at $5.7 billion before Musk’s takeover in 2022. When it comes to revenue, X’s revenue fell by 40 percent when compared to the prior year based on internal company data from June 2024.

Question about browsers: Do you have a preference of Firefox, Fennec or Iceraven?

Thanks for the tip about Web Archives. I’ll put that on for sure. Was considering sideloading Bypass Paywalls Clean and they mentioned Iceraven, which I had never heard of.

Edit: BPC link goes to a *.ru TLD. Link is also on the BPC wikipedia page. They previously got booted from gitlab and github.

The apps are different on iOS bc of apple’s walled garden. For example, NewPipe (in the other comment) is a music app on iOS and I didn’t know about it before. The browser is locked to Safari or skins of safari, so extensions are pretty limited. Graphene gives a lot more options so I’m looking for those RE: piracy.

I’m unclear where you’re redirecting from. If you’re looking to redirect from Instagram profile pages to Piokok profile pages, then you’d want something like:

• Example URL: https://www.instagram.com/linustorvalds
• Include Pattern: https://www.instagram.com/*
• Redirect to: https://www.piokok.com/profile$1
• Choose Wildcard
• Description: Redirect instagram profiles to Piokok profiles

Edit: for some reason I can’t seem to remove the trailing / from www.instagram.com* You don’t want the last backslash in that line. Nothing inbetween com*.

The Anglos prefer muffins with nooks. Saxons like ones with crannies. Anglo-Saxons prefer English muffins which have both nooks and crannies.

I’ve watched enough NOVA specials to understand this meme