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The Best Encrypted Messengers in 2024 in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For disappearing messages to work, your conversation partner has to promise they won't take photos of their screen, and they have to promise to use an app that actually implements the feature instead of just pretending to, and the app developers have to promise to have implemented the code to delete a message when the service says it should

Is there actually a cryptographically-sound and physically-complete method for ensuring that a message is only legible for a temporary duration once it leaves your own device and is delivered to someone elses?

So let's say I wanna ping 1.1.1.1... every 5 seconds... forever. Alternatives? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hmmm, is CloudFlare known for being a bad actor in terms of privacy?

Setting that aside, no matter what you pick, you'll be exposing your IP address, from which your ISP and/or general location may be derived

If you don't trust CloudFlare with that information then you basically cannot trust anyone else, so maybe you'd need to run your own service and ping that instead now that you're in a situation where you can only trust yourself 🤷

The other issue that comes to mind is that you're only testing reachability to one address, which means you could get a false negative where that address stops working but the rest of the internet is actually fine

X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We need a verified check-mark for true wayland users :P

Wi-Fi connectivity issues resolved by dropping wpa_supplicant in favour of iwd in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I did actually do this already, separate from working on this issue, but can confirm the intermittent problems with the combination of wpa_supplicant and systemd-networkd

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Wi-Fi connectivity issues resolved by dropping wpa_supplicant in favour of iwd (lemmy.ml)
 

My desktop PC is the only machine in the house having Wi-Fi connectivity issues (connects fine, but drops out randomly after a few minutes or sometimes a few hours)

I think wpa_supplicant is getting confused and thinks signal strength is poor (I have a Netgear mesh, but this seems increasingly common, so it's weird for that to be the issue)

I did pick up a TP-Link USB Wi-Fi adapter, but can reproduce the same connectivity issues

The fix was switching away from wpa_supplicant in favour of iwd, which seems rock solid in comparison

I'm sure there's a way to fix wpa_supplicant, but it's man pages only seem to list the options without actually describing what they do, which seems sort of poor considering how old the project is 🤷

Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not an expert, but my understanding of the Global Shortcuts portal is that it's very much designed for the push-to-talk use case where an app is not focused but still receives button events for exactly the keys its interested in and no other keys: I think this would cause problems if an app requested every key (e.g. if the request was approved then no keys would work in every other app)

It'll be interesting to see how the remaining compatibility/accessibility issues are tackled, either in portals or in wayland protocols

Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There's a portal for Global Shortcuts: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.GlobalShortcuts.html

KDE and Hyprland already implement it, and COSMIC seems likely to

On the app side, if we can get the major toolkits to adopt it, then hopefully that covers most actively-maintained apps (but it's unlikely to cover legacy apps): https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/38288

Firefox "tabs" in a tiling WM in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Gosh, I'm so fascinated by the concept of removing/hiding the tabs implementation from every app and relying 100% on the window manager to provide this

A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Wayland breaks global hotkeys: I present to you: Hyprland (where you can get global hotkeys). Now, it is normally not allowed by design, as a security measure

Not disagreeing at all, but I'd like to add some information here to support your correction

There's a GlobalShortcuts portal ( https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/#gdbus-org.freedesktop.impl.portal.GlobalShortcuts ), and this is implemented for hyprland in xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland ( https://github.com/hyprwm/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland/blob/b2fc1110963fa583ad5348a9dc0101bd58ceac7a/hyprland.portal#L3 )

So, technically, there is nothing in the wayland collection of protocols that supports global keyboard shortcuts, but (along with lots of other supporting functionality), this is addressed via the collection of portal APIs

As it happens, KDE already supports the GlobalShortcuts portal: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/blob/master/data/kde.portal#L3

Any desktop can provide an implementation of the GlobalShortcuts portal, and any app can adopt it as required (although if it's implemented within popular toolkits/frameworks, then app developers won't have to even think about it)

Here are related tracking issues:

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[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Proton emails are stored in an encrypted form that goes beyond the simple authentication that is part of the POP/IMAP specifications

Proton does have open-source bridges/proxies, so they aren't hiding these details from us

Perhaps Thunderbird could be enhanced to support the Proton features directly?

Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode in c/linux@lemmy.ml
Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol (signal.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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We believe that the key encapsulation mechanism we have selected, CRYSTALS-Kyber, is built on solid foundations, but to be safe we do not want to simply replace our existing elliptic curve cryptography foundations with a post-quantum public key cryptosystem. Instead, we are augmenting our existing cryptosystems such that an attacker must break both systems in order to compute the keys protecting people’s communications.

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Our new protocol is already supported in the latest versions of Signal’s client applications and is in use for chats initiated after both sides of the chat are using the latest Signal software. In the coming months (after sufficient time has passed for everyone using Signal to update), we will disable X3DH for new chats and require PQXDH for all new chats. In parallel, we will roll out software updates to upgrade existing chats to this new protocol.

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Migrating Arch Linux's packaging infrastructure to GitLab (about.gitlab.com)
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Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling (arstechnica.com)
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Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022 (opensource.googleblog.com)
 

Rumor 1: Rust takes more than 6 months to learn – Debunked !

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Rumor 2: The Rust compiler is not as fast as people would like – Confirmed !

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Rumor 3: Unsafe code and interop are always the biggest challenges – Debunked !

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Rumor 4: Rust has amazing compiler error messages – Confirmed !

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Rumor 5: Rust code is high quality – Confirmed! ...

The Beta for Android 13 is out now: Android 13 Beta 1 in c/android@lemmy.ml
[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Huh, I shared this a year ago Not sure why this is popping up again :shrug:

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Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy—here’s why (arstechnica.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1073275

Great explainer / FAQ

I'll probably still use my Precursor and Yubikeys for the most part, but I'll definitely enable Passkeys wherever they are an option

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Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy—here’s why (arstechnica.com)
 

Great explainer / FAQ

I'll probably still use my Precursor and Yubikeys for the most part, but I'll definitely enable Passkeys wherever they are an option

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Google is activating their own Bluetooth-based tracking network (blog.google)
 

That’s why later this summer, we're launching a refreshed Find My Device experience that makes it easier than ever to locate your devices and belongings quickly and securely by ringing compatible devices or viewing their location on a map in the app – even when they’re offline. The new Find My Device network will harness over a billion Android devices across the world to help you locate your missing belongings like headphones, tracker tags, or even your phone via Bluetooth proximity.

This earlier announcement about a joint effort with Apple to work out how stop stalkers and other criminals from abusing these networks now makes a bit more sense: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-and-apple-lead-initiative-for.html

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Bloatware pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an incredible 60GB (arstechnica.com)
 

We can take a few guesses as to why things are so big. First, Samsung is notorious for having a shoddy software division that pumps out low-quality code. The company tends to change everything in Android just for change's sake, and it's hard to imagine those changes are very good.

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Unlike the clean OSes you'd get from Google or Apple, Samsung sells space in its devices to the highest bidder via pre-installed crapware. A company like Facebook will buy a spot on Samsung's system partition, where it can get more intrusive system permissions that aren't granted to app store apps, letting it more effectively spy on users.

Urgh, it's so frustrating that Samsung is the leading Android manufacturer, the market is rewarding greed and incompetence

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Requiem for a string: Charting the rise and fall of a theory of everything (arstechnica.com)
 

In fact, all the “easy” versions of supersymmetry have been ruled out, and many of the more complicated ones, too. The dearth of evidence has slaughtered so many members of the supersymmetric family that the whole idea is on very shaky ground, with physicists beginning to have conferences with titles like “Beyond Supersymmetry” and “Oh My God, I Think I Wasted My Career.”

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Archaeologists discovered a new papyrus of Egyptian Book of the Dead (arstechnica.com)
 

Archaeologists have confirmed that a papyrus scroll discovered at the Saqquara necropolis site near Cairo last year does indeed contain texts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead—the first time a complete papyrus has been found in a century, according to Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. The scroll has been dubbed the "Waziri papyrus." It is currently being translated into Arabic.

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Google plans AirTag clone, will track devices with 3 billion Android phones (arstechnica.com)
 

Huh, I have mixed feeling about Google doing this

Yay that Apple isn't the only game in town for this functionality

But then it's this functionality in particular with all the horrible stalking that it facilitates

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