rcbrk

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My #1 recommandation for messenger, as the day of today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

That rules it out for me then. I like to use XMPP+OMEMO with about 4-5 clients which I can continue a conversation with at any time. Main mobile, tablet, desktop, other desktop, and backup mobile which is usually switched off. (Even if a device has been missing for too long and run out of OMEMO keys, the keys sync up again once I send a message with it.)

How save is XMPP really? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You have to trust the servers with your metadata, and that the servers have their inter-server communication locked down, but at least you can choose/operate servers.

Some clients are a bit flaky with their e2e encryption defaults or from a UI perspective it is easy to send an unencrypted message (in a new chat for example) before noticing that was how it was set.

There are a few XEPs the server needs which enable things like OMEMO, efficient mobile data/battery use, offline and multiple device deliverability, file transfers, etc. Audio/video calling has various requirements as I think xmpp only facilitates the setup of the call.

Want to monitor system usage on my server - Grafana my best option? in c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Munin feels a little old and crusty, but just works. Over 20 years old now.

Is there any good private messenger at all? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation

  • For Android: Conversations is excellent, also on F-Droid if you don't want to use the Google store.
  • For iOS/MacOS: Siskin or iOS/MacOS: Monal.
  • For Linux/Windows: Gajim or Linux: Dino.

"Protocol fragmentation" is not a valid complaint about XMPP -- it's like complaining that ActivityPub is fragmented; but that's not a problem: you use the services (Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, etc) built with it which suit your needs, mostly interacting with that sector of the federation (eg, Lemmy+Kbin), but get a little interoperability with other sectors as a bonus (eg, Lemmy+Mastodon).

The Myth of 'Human Shields' in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

When human shields are used, the attacking party must take into account the risk to civilians. 191 Indiscriminate or disproportionate harm to civilians remains unlawful and the civilian population can never be targeted.

So, from this I understand that every time Israel makes an accusation of "human shields", it's a direct admission of guilt of war crimes in that they are knowingly targeting civilians.

Israel's pager attack in Lebanon will blow back: Western tech can't be trusted anymore in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The HK company's ~~branding~~design/branding was licensed to a manufacturer nominally based in Europe.

Edit: many sources, but here's one: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trail-mystery-woman-whose-company-licensed-exploding-pagers-2024-09-20/

A sacrifice for the greater good in c/gaming@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't do it. Alkalines are all shit now and will leak all over your electronics.

Get some decent NiMH.

Tails was started more than 767,542 times this month in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

🤔

Yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.

Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).

Yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

remote access

To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.

Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.

most reasonable driver in Nottinghamshire in c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Should one sympathise with car-supremacists?

For the first time, humans were exposed to a deadly combination of heat and humidity. Here's how long they lasted - ABC News in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago

Reader mode exposes a much better headline:

Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought

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The US-led Military Buildup in Australia Is Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before (www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au)
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medication rule (lemmy.world)
 

Transcript:

[showerthoughtsofficial]: When medication says "do not operate heavy machinery" they're probably mainly referring to cars, but my mind always goes to forklift.

[sauntervaguelydownward]: It has honestly never occured to me that this warning was about cars and not construction equipment

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Airbus books record India orders, confirms higher deliveries (www.reuters.com)
 

Meanwhile India's incredible train network suffers continuing decades of neglect resulting in poor performance and tragic rail disasters.

We need a fuckplanes community to complement !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml.

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Daily alarm checks (lemmy.zip)
 
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Blockade Australia climate activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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"Mr Rolles was arrested in late June, when he was pulled off the street in Sydney for allegedly blocking roads and obstructing traffic."

Since late June, Greg Rolles must produce on demand his computer and mobile phone for police inspection, and tell them his passwords.

He is not allowed to use any encrypted messaging apps, like Signal or WhatsApp. He can only have one mobile phone. [...]

These are the strict technology-related bail conditions imposed on some Blockade Australia climate protesters — a development legal experts have criticised as "unusual" and "extreme". [...]

Defence lawyer Mark Davis, who is representing some of the Blockade Australia activists, said the vagueness of the prohibition was concerning.

"It used to name the things you couldn't have, and then they made it all encrypted communication," he said.

"It could be you're on your PlayStation."

He also takes issue with the non-association rules, and the lack of specificity about what an "association" might be. Mr Davis said one of his clients had been pulled in by police after they reacted with a "thumbs up" emoji to Facebook comments [...]

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DuckDuck..Gone: "Why not signal" (archive.ph)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by rcbrk@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
4 comments fedilink
 

So, this is interesting. I wanted to find that essay by @dessalines@lemmy.ml outlining the many issues of Signal and suggested alternatives, but DuckDuckGo had nothing for me. Not on the first page, not on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th page.

I thought maybe I just imagined the title, but sure enough, on searching lemmy posts, it was right there. Then I thought "hang on, there's hardly a mention let alone criticism of signal on any page of those search results!".

Hmm.. the wording might be a bit ambiguous, but let's compare:

All of the following except Gigablast returned a healthy list of results including the original essay:

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It's crypto! It's blockchain! It's decentralized! It's PaNQuaKE! (panquake.com)
 

Does anyone know what this thing is? Some kind of decentralized, open source, anti-establishment, etc platform aiming to be an alternative to twitter, but we plebs aren't allowed to see or participate in the development process or even see any source repositories yet.

To me there's a bunch of red flags, but I can't put my finger on what I reckon they're flagging. It's that combo of roll-your-own-crypto and promises of decentralization and secret-open-source-development-model all tied together with node.js and blockchain.

No mention of other decentralization efforts, their envisaged place/relationship with the fediverse, ActivityPub, Mastodon, possibility of extending their new blockchain protocol ideas with other platforms. Nothing even about how they're better than the fediverse or whatever.

They were banned from twitter tho so they "must be legit"? The slides on the "tech" page mostly have this "COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE - NOT FOR UNAUTHORISED USE OR DISSEMINATION" watermarks, which is pretty weird.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/G08ek

https://archive.is/panquake.com

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