Enchanted

I still use 3.5mm auxiliary cables on a daily basis. Not phased out quite yet.

AI injected ads LET’S GOOOO

Wow, sounds like she was a smart person, yet completely got brainwashed by AI.

Wow, fuck Chainguard.

It works a little different on Android, but you can still chain OpenVPN, Wireguard, and TOR all at the same time, caveat is your apps have to support a proxy setting. Use firewall permit only localhost connections.

Or if you have a server somewhere, set that up to do the chaining and have your mobile connect to that.

Eh, far safer to chain your own vpns. At least the you know tunnel A cannot see tunnel B’s traffic. Who’s to say if Obscura is correctly doing as they say, or just decrypting it and forwarding over another tunnel. You can’t verify that yourself.

His defense of SHA-1:

Mathematically, for SHA-1’s 160-bit output, the birthday bound means that you would need about 1.4 septillion random files (1.4 quadrillion billion files - 1,400,000,000,000,000 billion - it’s impossible to effectively describe) in a single project to have file hashes accidentally collide.

For the most part the article mostly talks about collision attacks, which quite frankly i think is silly.

He also talks about hashes pointing to other (older) projects using a different hashing algorithm, but can’t the software just detect if its a SHA-1 hash or SHA-256, and fetch it accordingly? He acts like its the end of the world when in my mind most everything can (and probably will) be compensated for pretty easily. It’s reminiscent of the IPv6 fear-mongering.

The thing that gets me is he doesn’t say if the current hashing algorithm or the new one has any support for when hashes do collide. Since that can theoretically happen with both, to me that sounds like a problem worth tackling.

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Set up “no trespassing” signs. Delivery people (usually) still deliver packages as they were invited to the property. Record neighbor trespassing AND stealing, prosecute for a double whammy.

Depending on state, both offenses could be criminal charges, meaning no cost to you.

Absolutely go for the kill and send a clear message.

Neither of those 2 companies are privacy respecting though.

I use a few MA apps, none of which have declared the internet permission. Nor would I ever want them to have internet access.

But a few MA apps actually do require internet to work for their intended purpose, and I will never install one of those out of fear all the MA apps “secretly” talk/share/IPC my data with eachother, effectively granting all the non-internet apps the internet permission.

I’m not saying this is happening. But I’m also not about to delve into the entire codebase to find out.

I think showing tracker info is still a good, insightful thing. Sure, giving an impression one piece of software is better than another because it has less trackers is a bad thing. Users that care about functionality will vet apps on that regard, same with security and privacy conscious users. Some users just like the app to be pretty, and if they ignore everything else but make a decision based in tracker count, all the better in the long run.

Been using zfs and btrfs for so long I forgot ext4 was a thing. Oh my.