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New comment by tommydee in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

tommydee — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:12:17 +0000

YMMV, but I'm a US citizen with a KYC'd Alipay account and I was able to subscribe for the Chinese price...

... but I borrowed a friend's +86 phone number, which you'll need to even see that price. or maybe a 回国 VPN will work.

New comment by tommydee in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

tommydee — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:06:30 +0000

not gonna happen. China has strict real name verification for SIMs.

New comment by tommydee in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

tommydee — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:48:42 +0000

If you refresh yourself on the thread originator comment, you will notice we are talking about "tech sisters advocating for an absolute right to privacy", not "tech sisters who have built significant technical projects". I think Dr. Perlman fits in the latter, not the former category.

Also, I think the intended meaning of "tech bros" in the article is more nuanced. Charitably: naive, sophomorically idealistic SV tech entrepreneurs who rode the "information wants to be free" wave to a world where WhatsApp & FB Messenger are E2EE by default. Uncharitably: anyone not in author's idealogical tribe, particularly ideologically impure programmers who have turned to entrepreneurism. And Americans.

Good to know you don't think Yan or Runa's technical work is significant, though.

New comment by tommydee in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

tommydee — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:50:22 +0000

- Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the EFF

- Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the EFF

- Runa Sandvik, formerly of Tor Project

- Yan Zhu, EFF Fellow and CISO at Brave

And many, many more.

It rankled me more than a bit that the author apparently looked around his bubble in Denmark and the FOSS community, saw no "tech sister" privacy advocates, and decided to paint with the widest brush possible and assume there are none anywhere.