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by Signal Foundation

Who uses, recommends or left Signal, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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AI researcher; founder of Eureka Labs, previously director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI.
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I recommend Signal instead of text messages because it end-to-end encrypts all your communications.

His guide to basic digital hygiene: the privacy and security tools he uses day to day.

2025-03-17·karpathy.bearblog.dev ↗

Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline
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Move to Signal, an encrypted messaging app that works on just about everything.

Newsletter post giving readers concrete steps to protect their privacy

2024-11-13·wheresyoured.at ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.