cmeerw

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And mainline Linux and a Linux Desktop is still struggling today with power management. Like getting chat messages while it’s asleep.

And the really sad thing is that the power management improvements devs have been working on for the PinePhone are really very specific to that particular device and don't help mobile Linux in general (so it's basically wasted effort).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use them as IMAP storage for a few mailing lists I am subscribed to (but not for my main emails), but they do reject legitimate emails from time to time (not often, but it does happen - and those emails don't show up in "Spam" or any logs).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

similar thing with requires requires { ...

and you can nest it even further: requires requires { requires ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have had pretty good experience with hosting an email server on AlphaVPS, InceptionHosting and just now GreenCloudVPS.

GreenCloudVPS currently have a promotion until Sunday, and there are usually promotions around Black Friday on LowEndSpirit and LowEndTalk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only public keys get exchanged via Meta's servers, those keys don't help you with trying to decrypt any messages (you need the corresponding private key to decrypt - and that private key stays on the device).

Sure, they could just do a man in the middle, but that can be detected by verifying the keys (once, via another channel).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe so, but in this case the point was that the protocol used by WhatsApp hasn't changed in that time and it's still what they describe in their security whitepaper. If you want to use that software as is or maybe reimplement it based on that is up to you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Governments, if they want, can decrypt any chat

Any source for that claim?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In a subpoena case in India, that turned out to be not true.

Source please.

WhatsApp admins hold keys to being able to do that under law pressure.

How do they get the keys?

They only guarantee it for 1-1 messages and statuses, and against “generic” actors for group chats…

Who is "they"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Group chats are also end-to-end encrypted in WhatsApp (so any monitoring would need to be done in cooperation with one of the participants' devices before encryption or after decryption)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

declassified internal FBI document I just linked

don't see any such link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It still works (with a few minor updates).

 

after some unusual rough days for the netbsd-10 branch last week, we now have a state that is building fine again and all tests look as expected. We also made great progress on the icky DRM/KMS issues and overal stability.

The tricky pullups are done (thanks to everyone who helped with it), and package builds are going - so now it looks like we will be able to switch from BETA to release candidate state soonish.

See https://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/netbsd-10/

for the current list of bad bugs we are facing and the amount we dealt with already. Quite a lot of the DRM/KMS releated ones are in feedback state and have just been pinged - hopefully more of them will be closed soonish.

Realistically this is close to as good as we will get the branch for a 10.0 release - so we are now looking at a release date very early in october.

 

Not sure what others are doing to use Ubuntu (23.04) without snaps, but this is what I am doing:

  • for Firefox I found a guide here
  • for chromium I am actually using the Linux Mint packages (which work absolutely fine), and I have just set up a small repository I can add to apt:
deb [arch=amd64 allow-insecure=yes] http://snapless.cmeerw.net victoria upstream
  • this just syncs from Linux Mint and only republishes chromium in the Packages file (with downloads redirected to a Linux Mint mirror). BTW, I am not signing these...

What are others doing?

 

pure GTK front-end, built-in support for the massively popular Language Server Protocol via eglot, and built-in support for TreeSitter.

 
 

first few C++26 core language features have been voted into the C++ Working Draft at the Varna meeting:

  • P2738R1 constexpr cast from void*: towards constexpr type-erasure
  • P2741R3 User-generated static_assert messages
  • P2169R4 A nice placeholder with no name
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