To fight back against chronic forced smartphone upgrades, we need a tool to track public access points that impose new phones
Looks like the EU somewhat wants to start to interfere with Amazon’s habit of trashing unsold goods. If you work in an Amazon EU warehouse, get your whistle ready.
Please consider removing *@lemmy.world from the sidebar
anti-repair tactic: h/w support s/w ships as a download manager instead of an actual app (Transcend HDDs)
Lemmyverse is not decentralised. It’s neutral at best.
There is a “Cathedral and Bazaar” within the fediverse that manifests as utilitarian users and deontological users, respectively
Wrote a script to find decentralised communities w/in the fedi. It selects nodes w/active users < avg+2σ. Is that a good approach? Check my math plz.
linkage.ds8.zone has been “temporarily” down for days now
Vcard 4-- Unable to include the /fingerprint/ of an OMEMO encryption key
How can I send a GDPR request to Google if I am not a user/patron? How can Google ID me to process my request if I do not want them to have my name or mailing address?
How old TomTom and Garmin Satnavs could be useful, instead of e-waste (but OSMand and Organic Maps need to improve)
Accidental nearly BiFL goods; tracking prolonged static design consistency and parts compatibility -- Thinkpads & Whirlpool vs. short-lived competitor designs
Repairers face an ultamatim: lick Google’s boots or create e-waste. How can local govs fix this problem?
Petitioning for local govs to open up junk yards
Should local govs establish a centralized DB to track discarded appliances and notify repairers?
We need a piracy exception written into law for service manuals and wiring diagrams -- and we need repair pros to share the docs. How can local govs make this happen?
wisdom of button batteries -- anyone think they are a good idea?
(shell) st0rage.org down for good
New community to track non-BifL goods
lemmy.sdf.org is down
There is a blind “for security reasons” excuse the industry likes to use to force people to chronically upgrade their hardware.. to boost sales. I try to stay immune to that bait.
The access point needs to protect itself -- full stop. An access point that oversteps their authority and becomes a nanny that dictates security practices on others without knowing their security posture and threat model to protect people from themselves can bounce. We don’t want their “help”.
In any case, the DB I am proposing is factual. Whether a fact in the DB is “good” or “bad” is for the users of the DB to decide. And either way, it’s useful.
Can you give more details? If the certs have not expired, the device is able and willing to make a connection. If the certs fail due to age, the app makes the user aware of the problem (and in the case of OSMand it refuses to use the connection regardless of the user’s wishes). So what’s the issue?
Note the context is with captive portals. If someone thinks it’s a good idea to force a captive portal on a public LAN to get a simple “I agree” signal, why might that be sensible? AFAICT, it’s down to a clumbsy admin who did not think through the consequences of SSL on a captive portal. The captive portal is not in itself a useful resource for the user. It’s just an obsticle with the sole purpose of getting a signal that someone agrees to the text of a policy that is public anyway. Once the obsticle is out of the way, it’s the independent job of every resource to implement appropriate security for the task at hand, which in come cases may not involve SSL at all (e.g. accessing an onion server). But when the captive portal blocks someone due to (what I regard as clumbsyness), the apps the user would use are blocked regardless of how well they are secured.
(edit) Some captive portals collect personal info, where you must submit an email or phone number. SSL is probably unavoidable in those cases, but ideally the app would collect that info as well. We would want the DB to indicate that sharing personal data is a precondition to access.