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  • Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

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  • your argument boils down to "the fully functional and loaded gun is in this weirdo's holster and he won't use it".

    the whole point is not relying on the benevolence of the weirdos out there and not letting them even be in the position to do any harm. encrypt my 1on1 comms and I don't give a fuck what happens in the pedo/terror/carding/etc public groups. ample time to implement that in the past decade+ and be on par with practically every messenger out there. but he/they won't implement it, they insist on all your shit being in the "cloud", in plaintext, forever. there is no scenario where there's not a malicious intent behind that.

    I've been using Telegram since the early days. it was phenomenal vs the crap of its day - magical, even. like many, I was enamored with the vision of durov the folksy hero battling the forces of evil (in a bozo nightmare) and bequeathing us this tech marvel.

    but I can't trust it with anything any more. if weirdo can't be trusted about some stuff, then he can't be trusted with anything. enough for me, YMMV.

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • sorry for reiterating, so cross-device sync is totally impossible? or just something you don't use?

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • aside from the dogshit UX and the uber reliance on Evilcorp's infra, having more than two devices (I know, shocker in this day and age!), the arduous migration process to a new device, the limited chat history (I think it's 40ish days) and many more.

    same way Telegram adamantly refuses to implement E2EE, and not only that, it actively prevents 3rd party devs (a number of clients are FOSS) from implementing it on their own.

    both PJ Harvey and durov respond the same way when asked about any of them things - smokescreens, FUD, whataboutisms, etc.

    any of them things woulda been acceptable in 2015, here's a PoC looking for funding, limited devs and resources; remember TextSecure and RedPhone? nowadays, they are nothing short of malicious.

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • how's the chat history with snikket? I had issues with prosody, namely multiple devices coming and going and maintaining the same chat history between all of them, as well when there's a disconnect (device gone forever, new device connects)

    just skimmed their confusing web site, it's free for selfhosting, right?

  • Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

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  • although it's interesting research, I think it's a weak text if you're even tangentially aware of Telegram's bullshit narrative as it focuses on the wrong thing. the main point should be "this dude was caught lying on a number of occasions and throws out smoke-screens and FUD when confronted about super-simple stuff. therefore nothing that comes outta his mouth is to be trusted" which should've prompted a mass exodus from this bullshit platform a long time ago.

    the way more important issue is the collective action problem of dumping this crapware - leave it for what?

    I run XMPP and Matrix servers and use various clients, along with Signal. all of those things are fucking dogshit software, there isn't one that can come close to Telegram's UX. if you fell into a coma in 2014 and woke up now to Element of Fluffy or whatever, you'd think someone's pulling your leg. this is what a decade of development looks like?!

  • Italy admits hacking activists with Israeli spyware Paragon

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  • Excited to see any progress made with VOLTE

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  • thanks. just bricked mine :( will see later if I can resurrect it. which sailfish port are you running?

  • Liberux NEXX is now live on crowdfunding!

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  • this thing is so far off on the horizon based on "things we need", it's not even worth discussing. if you're not a founder whose startup someone acquired for bags of cash and are looking for ways to burn it, skip reading.

    the estimation of like $1200+ for the thing is so disgustingly off the mark, it's comical.

    instead of 20 teams creating their contenders form scratch, what's truly needed in this space is scouting out the thinkpad of the existing models. something that's a gen or two behind but still widely available with at least 8 GB and fast storage. original manufacturer is exiting production to focus on newer generation models and the subcontractor that actually makes them has the tooling to keep 'em coming.

    who's not gonna take a swing at using the thing when they can have the unit new for $200 or flash a used one for like $50? before you know it, you have a user base. then, when you have the user base and a proven track record, you can try inventing a new paradigm outta thin air.

  • Excited to see any progress made with VOLTE

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  • anyone running UT on a SDM845 or similar? I've got pmOS with Plasma Mobile on a OnePlus 6T with 8 GB RAM and it's hella slugish; recent edge versions are way better than the ones from only six months ago, but it's still nowhere close to the fluidity of Android.

    so might consider trying this, but the install process puts me off as I must first restore the factory OxygenOS in order to install and I'd very much like to not do that.

  • My N=1 SUV

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  • how big is the tire and how low do you go with the pressure? how much do you weigh? don't you have issues with pinch flats riding thusly?

  • My N=1 SUV

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  • what's the "low tire pressure" thing?

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  • I'm very bad at convincing people to care about their privacy

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  • for the presentation part, watch standup. watch them construct the story, the path they guide you through, how it all comes together. notice how they lay it out, every syllable, every stutter, how it's all in the service of delivery. planting and harvesting the callbacks. inadvertently, you'll start picking up on techniques and implementing them and you'll notice people hanging on your every word.

    as to the actual part converting them over, determine who you're talking to. if people are aware of the issue but are apathetic about implementing change, that presents one set of issues. if they're completely unaware that there's a problem, you're better off changing environments.

    I have an easy job, in my roles I implement the privacy aspect for tech-illiterate people from a security standpoint and I have a dictatorial position - they have to listen to me. I also don't have tech debt when I implement their IT strategy, i.e. there's never an issue with an OS or app they love or are used to. all of that is way, way harder when faced with someone who can't imagine life without a $1000 easily breakable/losable/stealable slab of glass with the blue bubble and the tiks and toks and whatnot.

    edit: there's this thing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/what-i-discovered-when-i-asked-amazon-to-tell-me-everything-alexa-had-heard I just saw at HN. this dude having a blissfully ignorant walk down melancholy lane, pondering the details of his decade-long spyware-ridden life, completely oblivious to their most intimate family shit just being out there in the world, for anyone to abuse just so he can be a more effective consumer. reaching those people, although possible, is such a tremendous effort I don't think it's worth it.

  • intel-microcode on an AMD system with Debian question

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  • you can remove firmware and other software that doesn't pertain to your system. the regular upgrade process will be shorter and you'll save some SSD space.

    however, you'll lose the ability to take this SSD and plug it in a completely different system, like e.g. an intel laptop, and have it boot right up, unmodified.

  • Cook whole grain oats

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  • thanks everyone for the suggestions. second run: 1 cup groats (thanks for the term), 2 cups water, splash of olive oil, pinch of salt. cover, bring to boil, switch to lowest setting, let simmer. got a glass lid, so monitoring progress.

    20 min - still water left. 30 min - still some water visible. 40 min - none visible, occasional buble pops through. turn off heat, leave covered for 10 mins. sadly, there's some water at the bottom, was hoping everything will get absorbed.

    third run will be one setting above lowest for the simmer part thus hopefully shortening it to 30 mins, and then leaving it covered for 15 minutes, hopefully that will do the trick.

  • Shredding my SSDs (NVMe) under linux?

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  • every mobile device I ever owned is encrypted and protected with a reasonably secure pass-phrase so losing it is no big deal. it is conceivable someone could forensic the shit out of my setup but that is highly unlikely; it's far more likely it'll get wiped and sold or parted out.

    I've done no benchmarks but I haven't experienced any issues ever. the oldest linux device I own is a 2011 MBP (i7-2635qm, so quadcore) and I don't perceive any speed degradation; it's possible 1st gen Core i5/i7 could have issues as those don't have AES-NI in hardware or sumsuch plus they're SATA2 only, but those would be 15+ years old at this point.

    with btrfs that has on-the-fly compression, copy-on-write, and deduping, everything works seamlessly, even when I have database-spanking applications in local development.

    so the only thing I've changed recently is encrypting every device I have, not just the mobile ones. the standalone devices get unlocked with a key-file from the local filesystem so they boot without the prompt. selling/giving away any of those drives, mechanical or SSD, is now a non-issue.

  • Shredding my SSDs (NVMe) under linux?

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  • for future reference, encrypt your drives from the get-go. even if it's not a mobile device, you can use on-device keys to unlock it without a pass-phrase.

    source: used shred on a couple of 3.5" 4 TB drives before selling them, took ages...

  • installing linux on my surface pro 8

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  • that's for Fedora, for Ubuntu it's toram I think? or was that for older versions... Esc during boot to verify, if it goes "loading to RAM" then you know it's working.

  • installing linux on my surface pro 8

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  • to add to what others already said, the work from linux-surface is being adopted in the mainline, so it is possible that your hardware is already supported in a modern distro, like Fedora. boot it off a live USB image and poke around, you'll get a better feel for it.

    pro tip, at the GRUB menu press 'e' to edit the first item and then add rd.live.ram and that should load the image to RAM. you can then remove the USB and it'll be way faster to navigate and it won't touch your existing SSD install.