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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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I am Director of System Architecture at SCI Semiconductor and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. I remain actively involved in the #CHERI project, where I led the early language / compiler strand of the research, and am the maintainer of the #CHERIoT Platform. I was on the FreeBSD Core Team for two terms, have been an LLVM developer since 2008, am the author of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (libobjc2 and associated clang support), and am responsible for libcxxrt and the BSD-licensed device tree compiler. Opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability they are random ramblings and should be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom and / or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep refrigerated. Warning: May contain greater than the recommended daily allowance of sarcasm. No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) 10mo ago

Much as I like #Signal, threatening to leave a country if they pass laws banning end to end encryption demonstrates a weakness in the system. The Signal Foundation should not have the technical ability to 'leave' a country. At worst, they should be able to stop receiving donations from people in that country.

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) 10mo ago

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqdnn8lhve69yuy85zzcnl7aymzlr4t6dwhq55hkc4tzf3typen65ssc48vs There was a paper on combatting misinformation that was published a few months ago (I don’t have the link handy) that supported this. In particular, directly raising and contradicting a point didn’t make people change their minds, but posting well-sourced things (you know, not like the ‘a paper I read and don’t have the citation now’ thing I’m doing right now) that contradicted things did make people (slowly) change their minds. Don’t post their stupid thing and rebut it, post something that directly contradicts it. For example, ignore Musk’s claims about US Aid and just post about how it improves national security for a very low cost and helps stabilise domestic food prices at the same time. Completely ignore their misinformation and post facts and evidence that happen to directly contradict their narrative.