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troed

@ troed @fedia.io

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HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.

I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I'm too tired to care now.

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    What stereotypes about your country do you actually happen to fit?

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  • I have two higher educations since tuition is free here. I'm in good health, since healthcare is also free. I took out 18 months of paternity leave with our firstborn since we're an equal society and my girlfriend (now wife) at the time was at uni.

    I have no issues queueing, waiting for my turn. I consider all others to have as much rights as I do to anything, no one is ever "above".

    ... so I'm from ... ?

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    The secret Atari tried to bury (but I can't sleep because of it)

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  • IIRC when Tramiel bought Atari their vision was all about the 16/32 bit computers but did quite a few things to bring in cash based on the existing Atari designs - and chips. That's the Atari 65 and 130XE too just being rehashes of older 8 bit Bushnell computers.

    I'm all Tramiel-Atari era myself so never even reflected on the 8 bit re-releases though so I might be misremembering something.

  • The days of custom Android ROMs are numbered, and Google is to blame

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  • Linux does not suck on phones regarding security. Linux is what brings the security mechanisms faulty ascribed to as being "Android's". See previous posters claiming it was all "extensive modifications" by Android and not just Linux security mechanisms.

    Feel free to get a Fairphone 4, sign your Ubuntu Touch image with keys supported by the chipset and off you go. The fact that no one is selling you that has no relevance whatsoever to whether "Linux" supports it.

  • The days of custom Android ROMs are numbered, and Google is to blame

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  • Why? That has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing. You can configure Linux as Android does it, or choose not to.

    (Secure Boot is what enables "Verified boot" - which is just Android's name for a common sense secure boot loader implementation which is the norm in well protected IoT systems etc)

    /ex Sony Mobile dev, nowadays IoT hw/fw ethical hacker

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • That's one definition of blockchain. Since the solution to the Byzantine Generals' problem in Bitcoin is done by Proof of Work it can't be said to be a part of the blockchain definition since there are many (most?) blockchains that don't use PoW. Some companies peddling "blockchain solutions" even use central authorities.

    So, with "blockchain" just being a chain of cryptographically verified blocks then git indeed fulfills that definition.

  • The days of custom Android ROMs are numbered, and Google is to blame

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  • There's no "mobile Linux". Linux supports Secure Boot just fine, and if a distro wants to sandbox applications that too is done by just configuring Linux to do so (after all, that's what Android does).

  • The days of custom Android ROMs are numbered, and Google is to blame

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  • "uses regular Linux security mechanisms" is true regardless of whether any distributions you use configure them the same way or not.

    The Android platform takes advantage of the Linux user-based protection to identify and isolate app resources.

    As part of the Android security model, Android uses Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) to enforce mandatory access control (MAC) over all processes, even processes running with root or superuser privileges (Linux capabilities).

    https://source.android.com/docs/security/features

  • The days of custom Android ROMs are numbered, and Google is to blame

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  • Android is Linux, and uses regular Linux security mechanisms.

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • "Blockchain" as commonly meant as used in cryptocurrencies - no. Only for Bitcoin - all other *coins are scams.

    However git can be considered to be based on blockchain so in that sense, absolutely.

  • Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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  • piefed is its own category there, but kbin/mbin might be included in "lemmy" - I didn't dive deeper.

    piefed is growing recently but it's not in the millions ;)

  • Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law | TechCrunch

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  • Hi in Mastodon

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • Two of those are here! waving

  • Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential files

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  • Somewhat depending on national laws then well yeah that's usually what you agree to by becoming employed.

  • Elon Musk’s Self-Driving Tesla Lies Are Finally Catching Up To Him

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  • Tesla actually removed software use of the lidars on the cars that had them, to "unify the stack". So, the Tesla Model 3 2020 I had became worse as they "upgraded" the software stack.

    Now driving a VW ID.7. It's "autopilot" (travel assist) is far superior to Tesla's autopilot. However, it does not have or pretend to have FSD.

    Tesla's FSD is impressive for what it can do. I would however be extremely wary to use it because it tries to do more than it should - being unable to handle edge cases.

  • Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

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  • Same amount of posts, more comments. I'd wager on growing.

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • I'm sure if Trump asks Zelenskyy really nicely and says please the US can buy some designs from Ukraine.

  • Trump blames Ukraine for ‘taking on nation 10 times your size’ despite Russia’s blitz

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  • This is a blatant lie, as proven by how Russia have treated the civilian population in the areas they occupy.

    Russian troll reported.

  • Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People

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  • You really don't understand how the scientific method works.

    That makes you a climate science denier.

  • Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People

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  • That's not how climate science works. The IPCC reports detail the current scientific consensus. Single papers do not change the consensus as soon as they are published.

    IPCC AR6 on the contrary said things are better than we thought in AR5, and downgraded the likelyhood for the worst scenarios to play out.

    Have you read any IPCC reports?

  • Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People

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  • If you don't know what the IPCC does I think you should study that first and then reply.