lrvick

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by lrvick 7mo ago
Not parent poster but I am a maintainer of software powering significant portions of the internet and prove my humanity with a 16 year old PGP key with thousands of transitive trust signatures formed through mostly in-person meetings, using
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by lrvick 7mo ago
We already have it and we use it to validate the trusted human maintainer involvement behind the linux packages that power the entire internet: PGP Web Of Trust. Still works as designed and I still go to keysigning parties in person.
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by lrvick 7mo ago
I can prove all contributions to stagex are by humans because we all belong to a 25 year old web of trust with 5444 endorser keys including most redhat, debian, ubuntu, and fedora maintainers, with all of our own maintainer keys in smartcar
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by lrvick 7mo ago
If you want something better than both of those try Crush which is a standalone go binary by the original developer of OpenCode.
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by lrvick 7mo ago
Sane and moral... and yet they sick their lawyers on open source projects like OpenCode to make sure everyone is forced to use their client software and tracking.
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by lrvick 7mo ago
Any company that feels the need to send data in plain text to third party LLM providers has absolutely no business having government contracts. OpenAI and Anthropic are both a complete joke when it comes to data security. It is hard to beli
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by lrvick 7mo ago
I mean they -are- a supply chain risk, but also, so is every security negligent proprietary software firm the public and government relies on for no reason. Anthropic deserves to -share- this label with dozens of other companies. What is in
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by lrvick 7mo ago
Security focused FOSS does signed commits, signed reviews, full source bootstrapping, and reproducible builds. Proprietary software solutions are unable come close to that level of accountability. Not all published source code is secure but
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by lrvick 7mo ago
Centralized organizations with proprietary software can never offer meaningful end to end encryption because they can just ship an app update to disable or backdoor it at any time. It is better for them to be forced to turn off the security
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by lrvick 7mo ago
As the founder of the stagex linux distribution, and a California resident, it is my personal position that I will never implement age verification nonsense, and no one can physically make me. Our distribution has no centralized legal entit
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by lrvick 8mo ago
How the actual fuck is this not on the front page?
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Sam Altman is pro-extinctionist like most of the surveillance capitalist ghouls. He literally invests in mind uploading companies and believes only the rich deserve to "survive" the singularity he believes it is his job to bring a
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Not with that attitude. There are tens of millions of people pirating software and media and blocking ads. There are not enough prisons to hold them all so the law is not enforceable at that scale. Likewise there have always been and will a
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I would not do this now, but teenage me would be spray painting every lens. Not to give anyone ideas...
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by lrvick 9mo ago
You can take any landline phone and plug it into a VoIP ATA box which in turn plugs into your router, and you have a "landline" now.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
SMS-over-VoIP
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Most VoIP services support SMS. Still no cell phone hardware required.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Easily verified with a multimeter and the most basic of electronics skills. Electronics are not magic.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Still 30s, but also I make new friends all the time from 20s to 70s by just trying to say yes to go new places and hang out with new people. Board game nights, concerts, bars, video game nights, hackerspace events, movie nights, puzzle part
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by lrvick 9mo ago
> printed maps? For complex routes. Otherwise I just jot down a couple exits and an intersection and call it good. > No ‘where are you?’ texts or the like? No one expects this from me day to day because I am rarely away from home for
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by lrvick 9mo ago
> But IF its possible for law enforcement to ping your phone when its on standby, dont you think its possible that it can be pinged whilst on airplane mode too? We do not need to wonder, because this is a physics problem and we have scie
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Simply say it is against your unspecified religion. No one ever questions that.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Not once have I been unable to sign up for something. Likely because I ported a number that once belonged to a real cell phone carrier. Mandatory SMS 2FA is always a red flag on a product anyway as SMS is wildly insecure. FIDO2 or GTFO.
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by lrvick 9mo ago
> That said I’d be lost in five minutes if I tried to drive somewhere without gps I used to be that way, but MRI brain scan studies have proven that regular use of GPS actually atrophies the parts of your brain responsible for navigation
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by lrvick 9mo ago
Hear hear. The types of people that would stop being friends with you for not using proprietary software and platforms are the type of people that would stop being friends with someone for not eating meat, or some other ethical stance. Thes
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by lrvick 9mo ago
If your entire social graph only exists on proprietary platforms then cutting that all at once is going to be brutal. I had to be a loud advocate for open solutions, and had to lead by example organizing IRL events myself with oldschool ema
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by lrvick 9mo ago
If a school tried to demand me or my kid have a cell phone or use any proprietary software, or accept the terms of service of a private corporation like meta or google, I would absolutely sue them and turn it into a media shit storm if need
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by lrvick 9mo ago
> Phones are required Depends on how you define a phone. Cell phones are not required but SMS capable phone numbers kind of are. I ported my cell phone number to a voip provider and get SMS and can even take calls from my desktop, or lap
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by lrvick 9mo ago
I gave up my phone as a lead security engineer at a vc funded company, and continued this when I quit to run my consulting firm full time as single proprietorship. Now we are a team of five running a consulting firm and a PaaS. I spent most
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by lrvick 9mo ago
If you put them in airplane mode they are no longer permitted to contact cell phone towers by law and it is easy to form confidence the baseband modem is actually off because your battery life is so much better. Or pull out an SDR and prove

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