WHAT is the usage and benefit for private users? This is always neglected.
avoiding backdoors as a private person you always can only solve with having the hardware at your place, because hardware ALWAYS can have backdoors, because hardware vendors do not fix their shit.
From my point of view it ONLY gives control and possibilities to large organizations like governments and companies. which in turn use it to control citizens
> Attestation, secure enclaves, and other technologies create ways to distribute software that otherwise wouldn't exist. How many things are in the cloud solely to enforce access control? What if they didn't have to be?
To be honest, mainly companies need that. personal users do not need that. And additionally companies are NOT restrained by governments not to exploit customers as much as possible.
So... i also see it as enslaving users. And tell me, for many private persons, where does this actually give them for PRIVATE persons, NOT companies a net benefit?
> This potential shouldn't prevent our inventing new kinds of tool.
Why do i see someone who wants to build an atomic bomb for shit and giggles using this argument, too? As hyperbole as my argument is, the argument given is not good here, as well.
The immutable linux people build tools, without building good tools which actually make it easier for private people at home to adapt a immutable linux to THEIR liking.
The atomic bomb is good example of what I'm talking about. The reason we haven't had a world war in 80 years is the atomic bomb. Far from being an instrument of misery, it's given us an age of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Plus, all the anti-nuclear activism in the world hasn't come one step closer to banishing nuclear weapons from the earth.
In my personal philosophy, it is never bad to develop a new technology.
Surely for the people who cannot run and manage a firewall the default 'deny incoming' rule that basically every single consumer router ships with works just as well to protect from incoming traffic as NAT? I notice many comments are assuming a sanely preconfigured NAT on routers, but are also assuming either no firewall or one without any preconfigured rules. It seems like a strawman to me.
We haven't forgotten that, but we're also aware that non-IT people can't run NAT either. They can plug in a box that already has NAT configured though, and if they can manage that then they can also plug in a box that already has a firewall configured.
VMs work fine without NAT too -- DHCPv6-PD lets the VM software automatically request a routed prefix.
but for that to work, you need to attach an antenna, no? and where do i get such an FM transmitter? AND android does not support it in the software level, and there's no protocol for the waves?
To have an FM receiver work on a phone, you do need an antenna, the wired headphones serve that purpose perfectly. An FM transmitter is easy to find; you can use the simple 'Jack-to-FM' adapters designed for car radios, or much better, a USB SDR (which can range from a few kHz to GHz).
Regarding the 'protocol for the waves,' you'll need to play with modulation. That’s the fun part. In technical literature, there are many well-defined modulations (like AFSK or FSK) with clear suggested applications for low-SNR environments.
As for Android support, I have no idea. I understand that in this thread, 'free' sounds like 'freedom,' but freedom has a cost. The freedom of communication requires investment: in hardware, software, and the time to learn the physics of the environment.
It depends on which step of the staircase, from pure hardware to pure software, you want to position yourself. Some projects require staying closer to the metal, while others can be purely software. I move up and down this staircase depending on the specific requirements.
If the requirement is to communicate where consumer standards like Bluetooth fail, like in a ship, you have to choose the system for the environment. I evaluate these choices like an architect building a robust system, rather than just using what is available at the nearby shop.
is there an actual real good comparison of bitchat vs. briar from all sides? protocols, cryptography, supplychain, which software stack, usability and so on?
yes, but question can be done in different ways. and tilo jung always at least, not cared, if his questions are offensive... or trying to up the interviewed person
a group of people seems to think, that journalists should trip up people, like in interrogations, instead of being hard in the topic but nice in the tone.
Yeah, that sentiment surely exist that PR and journalism is not the same. Some would even argue that journalism should try to find facts and that being particularly pleasant and nice with doing so is secondary to the goal of fact finding, it’s not PR after all. One could even go as far as to speculate that a journalist being “nice” is not genuine but just a method to gain information. I know I am biased here as this is how I want it to be.
The case if Tilo is quite specific, his interview style uses methods that are effective and uncommon and in part extremely unpleasant, but super effective in making people a accidentally confess to him whilst forgetting all their media training.
Nothing against systemd, but hardwaring is not a good idea in that regard.
With guix, you at least install things in a container.
sadly, guix also went the non-conda-route, so you could not use it as a conda replacement only :(
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