awooo

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[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Currently:

  • Caddy (reverse proxy & website)
  • Matrix (Synapse)
  • E-Mail (maddy)
  • Vaultwarden
  • Xonotic server
  • Resonite headless
  • Prometheus + Grafana (internal, monitoring)
  • dnscrypt-proxy & dnsmasq (for internal DNS)
  • gotosocial (testing)
  • cage (kiosk wayland compositor) with kitty and btop for a nice stat display on the device

All of it running from a phone with Linux :3

I used to have Nextcloud on this thing, but I found it to be insanely heavy for what it does and not very useful when I can just chuck files to the web server if I want to share them.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think what they mean is that someone unfamiliar with your line of work might even read the entire post and come away with it with the view of "Okay, and?" since the title told them this was going to be about "What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?"

The problem there is that what Signal is is different to different people, someone might for example use it like any other chat application, in which case even something like Telegram (ew) or Discord could be an alternative to them.

Again, if someone is familiar with your blog, they'll know what you mean, but the blog post can be viewed by someone in isolation, in which case it won't be so clear, especially since it's also in relation to moving off of Telegram, which is not an E2EE platform at all by default

[–] awooo@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's really shitty, I think it got through to the hoomans of lemmy sadly :/

[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think hands with pawpads and some proper claws are a good compromise :3

I'd be an anthro, so all the benefits of being hooman without being hooman (except sweating, so you'd be able to outrun me eventually)

[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Depends, if it's only biological changes, I'd get myself two hearts, and minimize the chances of any disease or aging knocking me out, then become an anthro folf because being hooman is overrated

If cybernetics are allowed, I'd probably get rid of the damn body and just have a virtual one, with my brain connected to some machine deep underground

[–] awooo@pawb.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hi!

I think it's valid, I would love to be able to do that myself, but I am content with my human body for however long it takes to get there (except the part where it's slowly deteriorating over time)

Other than that, VR is pretty nice

[–] awooo@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I heccin love this!

[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

Is this the apple protogen? lol

[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 11 months ago

It's honestly pretty hard for me to find media I can swallow because of having an anxiety trigger that is so common.

Most media has depictions of death or loss in it, and I've come across first person descriptions that were so immersive that my heart was actually pounding and I had to take a few days to stop feeling down, and it's not something the authors usually mention explicitly. So in the end I don't really watch or read anything serious these days.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope! The point is that the hardware is deployed, and strong attestation is available.

But for now, a lot of apps still rely on the old SafetyNet or weak integrity. So the clock is ticking, the more up to date devices running modern Android there are, the more likely these apps are to switch over to the new system and require hardware attestation, because why wouldn't they once everyone is "ready" for it.

I'm not sure what you're trying to argue against, what I'm trying to say is that the technology is very dangerous and must be banned, I'm with you on user control. But I won't fall into a false sense of security about being able to bypass everything, because we don't have control over low level hardware as we do with software, so these megacorps have the upper hand.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They have already played along, all devices that have Google Play preinstalled have to pass this test.

But locking you out of installing software is not the point, it's much more insidious than that. What will happen is that major services you rely on will want your device to present a cryptographic proof it's running the original software, which can't be spoofed. So for example your YouTube would only send you over the video stream if it knows that on the other side there's an unmodified app running on an unmodified OS. Same thing goes for your bank. At some point you're so locked out of essential services when running a custom OS that nobody will do it, because these days you almost need a phone to function in society.

The hardware doesn't lock you out of your device, it lets remote servers present you with an ultimatum, if you don't present the proof you're out, if you do, that means you're running the stock OS and thus can't do anything.

[–] awooo@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

Well not quite, you still cannot pass strong integrity, because it's based on a hardware chain of trust.

I'm sure there will be vulnerable hardware out there, and groups which are able to extract the keys, so nothing changes from a security perspective, you still can't fully trust the client to not scam you out of money or something.

But for forcing people to see ads, or discouraging the use of free software, adding vendor lock-in? You don't even need special hardware to be annoying about it, SafetyNet in its bypassable form has already made mobile payments unreliable on non-Google Android so much that it doesn't make sense to use them, because you could be denied service at random whenever the binary updates.

Strong attestation in play integrity is pretty much impossible to get around from an individual user's perspective, and in the best case scenario would be bypassable with significant effort, likely involving you having to buy leaked keys on the black market.

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