Would Git be considered local-first software? Could you call it's data structures CRDTs?
This wouldn't have happened of they made E2E encryption the default in Messenger
That article doesn't really change anything.
Hand written message under the glue in this product box
This is a hand written message that is only visible because this box has been sitting in my closet for so long that the glue dried out. Hiding a message like that is a bit... mysterious.
I assume that this is actually just part of the manufacturing process. Google translate tells me the first part is something about river salt in Japanese. The second part looks like a product ID and the last part is a date in YY.M.DD format. But if it needs to be there why not just print it like a serial number?