ddtaylor

17 ms·

421.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
So happy to see so many new Linux users as a long time user and developer for the platform. I want to welcome anyone and PLEASE feel free to use AI to make awesome stuff or solve problems. The FOSS community is still adapting to the new inf
422.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Maybe I'm confused this seems like OpenRouter?
423.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
The FCC doesn't require DMA channels, but the baseband processor may have access to it among anything else.
424.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Before my arrest (CFAA) I operated on Tor and PGP for years. I had property seized and I had a long look at my discovery material, as I was curious which elements they had obtained. I never saw a single speck of anything I ever sent to anyo
425.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Both Session and Briar are decentralized technologies where you would never be able to approach a company to get any information. They operate over DHT-like networks and with Tor. Signal does give out phone numbers when the law man comes, b
426.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
47 CFR Part 2 and Part 15 FCC devices are certified / allowed to use a spectrum, but you must maintain compliance. If you're a mobile phone manufacturer you have to be certain that if a bug occurs, the devices don't start bec
427.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Briar has multiple modes of operation. The Bluetooth mode is not the default mode of operation and is there for circumstances where Internet has been shut down entirely. For users who configure Briar to connect exclusively over Tor using th
428.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Others mention you must still register with a phone, although you can remove it from your account after you go through the username stuff? Usually HN is pretty good about identifying that the default path is the path and that opt-out like b
429.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
I would think being able to subpoena records for all active signal users would be a cause for concern. Ironically enough Reddit seems to have a pretty good take on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1
430.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Thankfully the only artist I listen to on there has been known as Bryce from the suberbs for two decades: https://soundcloud.com/ytcracker
431.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
I'm confident the people executing non-complaint people in the street would be capable of compelling a citizen.
432.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
There are a lot of solutions to denial of service attacks than to collect personal information. Plus, you know, you can always delete an account later? If what Signal says is true, then this amounts to a few records in their database which
433.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
OTR has been on XMPP for so long now
434.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
> He knows as well as I do anything on a phone can never be secure I assume because of the baseband stuff to be FCC compliant? Last I checked that meant DMA channels, etc. to access the real phone processor. All easily activated over the
435.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Briar and Session are the better encrypted messengers.
436.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
In past instances where Signal has complied with warrants, such as the 2021 and 2024 Santa Clara County cases, the records they provided included phone numbers to identify the specific accounts for which data was available. This was necessa
437.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
My Session and Briar chats don't give out the phone numbers of other users.
438.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
The utility of federated networks increases a lot when bad actors cause harm to people. What had a minimal value and failed to get attention yesterday when they need was low may be drastically different today when that need is high.
439.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
I don't know signal very well but when I have spoken to others about it they mention that the phone number is the only metadata they will have access to. This seems like a good example of that being enough metadata to be a big problem.
440.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
He's likely referencing that you would need to use different syntax and style, like re-assigning a variable or chaining calls, like when working with a String in Java. In C, you can simply mutate the underlying characters. So changing
441.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
I the lines between IMEI banning or blacklisting and the modern unlocking techniques they use have been blurred a little bit and so some carriers and some manufacturers don't really want to do or spend time doing the IMEI stuff and wou
442.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Sure if you want to compete against Google or Samsung. Maybe that is the plan that one plus has. My understanding was that they were going after a different Market of phone users that might want a little bit more otherwise why not just go w
443.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Not really dramatic IMO. Basically mirrors everything we have seen in other industries like gaming consoles, etc. that have destroyed ownership over time in favor of "service models" instead.
444.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
BlueSky has to be centralized right now because the quality of the federated network is too poor right now.
445.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
The vast majority of Windows applications uses probably 1% of the API. That's why you can play a lot of games or run a lot of different apps and they mostly seem to work and only usually the obscure features like the help section or so
446.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Soft quit so they can continue to bleed money and delay further talent acquisition.
447.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
My guess is that something that looks like the "teacher and student" model. I know there were methods in the past to utilize the token distribution to "retrain" one model with another, kind of like an auto fine-tuning, b
448.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Didn't this all start with data privacy? How is TikTok user data more private today than it was a year ago?
449.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
Microsoft killed local accounts in Windows 11 and made this the default path by users: Your private encryption keys are sent to Microsoft in a way that requires no other keys. This is a failure and doesn't happen on systems like LUKS.
450.
by ddtaylor 9mo ago
BitLocker has a littered history of providing full disk encryption. Use LUKS instead.

More ›