rcbrk 2w ago • 100%
Aliexpress
rcbrk 2w ago • 100%
Could go old school and build your own:
Page 66: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/AUSTRALIA/Electronics-Australia/EA-1992-07.pdf
Page 126: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/AUSTRALIA/ETI-Australia/90s/ETI-1990-01.pdf
rcbrk 2w ago • 100%
^PSST, rumour is that paedophiles use HTTPS...^
rcbrk 2w ago • 100%
That rules it out for me then. I like to use XMPP+OMEMO with about 4-5 clients which I can continue a conversation with at any time. Main mobile, tablet, desktop, other desktop, and backup mobile which is usually switched off. (Even if a device has been missing for too long and run out of OMEMO keys, the keys sync up again once I send a message with it.)
rcbrk 2w ago • 100%
You have to trust the servers with your metadata, and that the servers have their inter-server communication locked down, but at least you can choose/operate servers.
Some clients are a bit flaky with their e2e encryption defaults or from a UI perspective it is easy to send an unencrypted message (in a new chat for example) before noticing that was how it was set.
There are a few XEPs the server needs which enable things like OMEMO, efficient mobile data/battery use, offline and multiple device deliverability, file transfers, etc. Audio/video calling has various requirements as I think xmpp only facilitates the setup of the call.
rcbrk 3w ago • 100%
XMPP lacks good clients and suffers from fragmentation of protocol standards implementation
- For Android: Conversations is excellent, also on F-Droid if you don't want to use the Google store.
- For iOS/MacOS: Siskin or iOS/MacOS: Monal.
- For Linux/Windows: Gajim or Linux: Dino.
"Protocol fragmentation" is not a valid complaint about XMPP -- it's like complaining that ActivityPub is fragmented; but that's not a problem: you use the services (Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, etc) built with it which suit your needs, mostly interacting with that sector of the federation (eg, Lemmy+Kbin), but get a little interoperability with other sectors as a bonus (eg, Lemmy+Mastodon).
rcbrk 3w ago • 100%
When human shields are used, the attacking party must take into account the risk to civilians. 191 Indiscriminate or disproportionate harm to civilians remains unlawful and the civilian population can never be targeted.
So, from this I understand that every time Israel makes an accusation of "human shields", it's a direct admission of guilt of war crimes in that they are knowingly targeting civilians.
rcbrk 4w ago • 80%
The HK company's brandingdesign/branding was licensed to a manufacturer nominally based in Europe.
Edit: many sources, but here's one: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trail-mystery-woman-whose-company-licensed-exploding-pagers-2024-09-20/
rcbrk 4w ago • 100%
Don't do it. Alkalines are all shit now and will leak all over your electronics.
Get some decent NiMH.
rcbrk 4w ago • 100%
Yeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.
Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).
rcbrk 4w ago • 83%
remote access
To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.
Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.
rcbrk 1mo ago • 53%
Should one sympathise with car-supremacists?
rcbrk 2mo ago • 100%
Reader mode exposes a much better headline:
Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought
rcbrk 2mo ago • 100%
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Most
people^1^, even in this very thread, clearly don't [...]
- Signal shill-bot personas.
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Tip of the iceberg when it comes to examining the corruption of land ownership in Australia. It's hardly talked about. The linked article doesn't even talk about it. The public as a whole (and traditional owners) should be the only financial beneficiaries of rezoning. I suspect private maximisation of rezoning profits is the reason behind why urban developments here are almost universally that awful single-story no-greenspace roof-to-roof packed suburban hellscape.
www.commondreams.org
>[...] The 92-page document compiled by the legal team lays out a number of specific ways Albanese and other Australian officials have acted as an accessory to genocide, including: > > - Freezing $6 million in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East amid a humanitarian crisis based on unsubstantiated claims by Israel; > - Providing military aid and approving defenee exports to Israel, which could be used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the course of the prima facie commission of genocide and crimes against humanity; > - Ambiguously deploying an Australian military contingent to the region, where its location and exact role have not been disclosed; and > - Permitting Australians, either explicitly or implicitly, to travel to Israel to join the IDF and take part in its attacks on Gaza. > >"The Rome Statute provides four modes of individual criminal responsibility, two of which are accessorial," [attorney] Omeri explained in a statement. [...] See also: Birchgrove Legal's [media release](https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/2024/03/01/birchgrove-legal-files-case-for-complicity-to-genocide-to-the-hague-international-criminal-court-media-release/) and [communiqué to ICC](https://birchgrovelegal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ICC-Referral-Australian-Government-Ministers-and-Opposition-Leader-04032024_BLG.pdf)
www.youtube.com
>The Australien Government has made an ad about its Whistleblower Protection Laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. > >Take action: droptheprosecutions.org.au https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ad-whistleblower-protection-laws/
Don't use Firefox, use Lynx. Better yet, boycott http etc entirely. Gopher or die. Why are you still using a backlit display? Pipe your terminal into a passive character LCD and go to bed when the sun goes down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOaahWFfug Alt-ASCIIart image for those already on a 20x4 display (modified to fit in a 20x4 display): ``` text ╔══════════════════╗ ║Debian GNU/Linux ║ ║ttyACM0 Login: █ ║ ╚══════════════════╝ ``` This is your life now. Modern computing has revealed itself to be mostly unreasonable. Go outside; potatoes need harvesting, the birds are eating your tomatoes, and the chickens haven't been fed yet.
[@daniel@gultsch.social](https://gultsch.social/users/daniel) [wrote](https://gultsch.social/@daniel/111929678072451151) > Appealing the removal didn’t yield any result. Google just repeated the same statement "the app was removed because it uploads the contact list" without even acknowledging any of the arguments I made in the appeal. > > I understand that most of my audience here on Mastodon is more ideology aligned with F-Droid but the app sales on Google Play store have contributed significantly to me working (almost) full time on #Conversations_im. > > Without the revenue from Google Play I can’t afford this.
www.theguardian.com
Archived version: https://archive.ph/uKaZc Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231219210750/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/20/us-officials-monitored-pro-assange-protests-in-australia-for-anti-us-sentiment-documents-reveal
[Panquake](https://lemmy.ml/post/139820) have released some source code. Not for Panquake itself, but for a link shortening service. I suppose it's a brand-exposure exercise. https://talkliberation.substack.com/p/panquake-early-release-pnqk-now-available
Transcript: > [showerthoughtsofficial]: > When medication says "do not operate heavy machinery" they're probably mainly referring to cars, but my mind always goes to forklift. > > [sauntervaguelydownward]: > It has honestly never occured to me that this warning was about cars and not construction equipment
Meanwhile India's incredible train network suffers continuing decades of neglect resulting in poor performance and tragic rail disasters. We need a fuckplanes community to complement [!fuck_cars@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/fuck_cars).
**"Mr Rolles was arrested in late June, when he was pulled off the street in Sydney for allegedly blocking roads and obstructing traffic."** > Since late June, Greg Rolles must produce on demand his computer and mobile phone for police inspection, and tell them his passwords. > > He is not allowed to use any encrypted messaging apps, like Signal or WhatsApp. He can only have one mobile phone. > [...] > > These are the strict technology-related bail conditions imposed on some Blockade Australia climate protesters — a development legal experts have criticised as "unusual" and "extreme". > [...] > > Defence lawyer Mark Davis, who is representing some of the Blockade Australia activists, said the vagueness of the prohibition was concerning. > > "It used to name the things you couldn't have, and then they made it all encrypted communication," he said. > > "It could be you're on your PlayStation." > > He also takes issue with the non-association rules, and the lack of specificity about what an "association" might be. > Mr Davis said one of his clients had been pulled in by police after they reacted with a "thumbs up" emoji to Facebook comments [...]
So, this is interesting. I wanted to find that essay by [@dessalines@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines) outlining the many issues of Signal and suggested alternatives, but DuckDuckGo had _nothing_ for me. Not on the first page, not on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th page. I thought maybe I just imagined the title, but sure enough, on searching lemmy posts, [it was right there](https://lemmy.ml/post/81033). Then I thought "hang on, there's hardly a mention let alone criticism of signal on any page of those search results!". Hmm.. the wording might be a bit ambiguous, but let's compare: - [DuckDuckGo "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/IeWpR) - NOTHING - [Google "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/j5tTb) - Plenty of results! Dessaline's essay is first up, followed by a plethora of discussions about the essay on HN, Reddit, lemmys, mastodons, and more. Not evil! ..this time. - [DuckDuckGo "why not signal" dessalines](https://archive.ph/09kpY) - Okay, so DDG has indexed it just fine. Maybe dessalines is "downranked" à la RT.com? - [DuckDuckGo "why not market socialism"](https://archive.ph/mKuAb) - Nope, finds one of dessalines' socialism essays just fine, half way down the page. All of the following except Gigablast returned a healthy list of results including the original essay: - [Qwant "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/T7EWn) - [Bing "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/MwiNa) - [Brave "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/4n1MA) - [Gigablast "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/Sjiwf) - [Mojeek "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/fRiUd) - [Startpage "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/7dhKj) - [Yandex "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/ffQLv) - [Paulgo (searxng) "why not signal"](https://archive.ph/ksOg7)
panquake.com
Does anyone know what this thing is? Some kind of decentralized, open source, anti-establishment, etc platform aiming to be an alternative to twitter, but we plebs aren't allowed to see or participate in the development process or even see any source repositories yet. To me there's a bunch of red flags, but I can't put my finger on what I reckon they're flagging. It's that combo of roll-your-own-crypto and promises of decentralization and secret-open-source-development-model all tied together with node.js and blockchain. No mention of other decentralization efforts, their envisaged place/relationship with the fediverse, ActivityPub, **Mastodon**, possibility of extending their new blockchain protocol ideas with other platforms. Nothing even about how they're better than the fediverse or whatever. They were banned from twitter tho so they "must be legit"? The slides on the "tech" page mostly have this "COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE - NOT FOR UNAUTHORISED USE OR DISSEMINATION" watermarks, which is pretty weird. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/G08ek https://archive.is/panquake.com