jabjoe
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- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 days ago:
They should be being sued for doing anti repair tricks.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 days ago:
It’s doesn’t fall over, it just slows down. Or appears to much more than OpenVPN. There could be something else going on, but for what ever the problem was, OpenVPN was coping better and just spitting out errors about a possible replay attack and continuing like nothing was wrong. I’ve not looked again as OpenVPN is working fine. For everything else, I’m using WireGuard.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 days ago:
Ah, I see it. Sorry. Corrected.
It’s not really an issue with OpenVPN as it seams to cope. It’s the only time I use OpenVPN instead of WireGuard.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 days ago:
Man in the middle can be part of it. It’s just basically recording and sending stuff back. Generally I use WireGuard, but on unhygienic networks, were OpenVPN is warning about possible replay attacks, WireGuard doesn’t work as well. Could be something else of course, but I’ve got one end. It’s not constant or always.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 days ago:
To be honest, I’ve found WireGuard’s performance is harmed more by reply attacks than OpenVPN. Least that is what I put it down to when I tried them both from a VPN provider that offered both.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 days ago:
Easy enough to do when it’s mega corps. They don’t really care about anything but money. If everyone had self hosted services with e2e, be far harder. Encryption is everywhere now.
So they will go after the end points. Which again, is a battle they can’t win. All very Cory Doctorow’s “Unauthorized Bread”.
If you care about this stuff:
UK: action.openrightsgroup.org/make-one-donation US: www.eff.org/pages/donate-eff EU: my.fsfe.org/donate
There will be others too, those are just in my head’s cache.
Some how we need to get governments to listen to us serfs instead mega corps and authoritarian police/spooks.
The world they want is not only terrible for digital and political freedom, but competition, thus functioning markets. It’s terrible for making developers and makers instead of dumb consumers, which in turn, is terrible for technology and progress.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 days ago:
This ends with just another war on encryption.
When encryption is legal, they can’t know what is going on between two points. They going to make is so we can only have encryption to nodes they trust?
It is dangerously technologically illiterate to wage war on encryption.
- Comment on VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kicks in 4 days ago:
Shocking and completely unpredictable…
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 4 days ago:
They get their tech advice for laws from big tech.
- Comment on Shared storage between virtual instances 4 days ago:
It will be faster. It’s also cooler because of the Plan9 history. 😀
- Comment on Call to make wet wipe producers pay for polluting England’s waterways 6 days ago:
That is why they should pay. They advertised them as flushable and they most certainly are not.
- Comment on Call to make wet wipe producers pay for polluting England’s waterways 6 days ago:
You mean we pay? How about we take water back and make them pay for the clean up?
- Comment on Shared storage between virtual instances 1 week ago:
VirtioFS. You can share from the host to any number of VMs with that. LibVirtd is good. Even has a nice GUI in virt-manager.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I hadn’t explored block lists on bsky. Just looked, and added a few, though it is seams focused on anti MAGA/fascist/racists stuff. Pressing subscribe to get to block is not initiative.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Clearly people want BlueSky for very different users cases than me. TBH, it’s not been an issue for a while now, maybe because I’ve blocked so much of it when I started I guess.
I always had “Show NSFW content” unchecked, so it should never have that shit come up.
To be clearly, I don’t support them doing this. Unchecking “Show NSFW content” should have always worked. If that doesn’t work reliable, why will this identity verification privacy invasion.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“The laws in your location require you to verify you’re an adult to access certain features.”
I’ve got kids who are always looking over my shoulder. This sounds like it will make my feeds safer. Cleaner feeds is threatening me with a good time.
Is BlueSky really the place for that kind of thing anyway? I certainty don’t like it popping up unannounced, on any platform.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
Well, there are some very successful file sharing systems. That horse did bolt with Napster.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
I hope your right. It’s nice to see questioning of America tech gaint’s monopolies finally now Trump is making America not seaming a safe supplier. More Europe than the UK, but even here, it’s not as fringe to perceive the problem now.
Not enough yet though. Amazon for example has a load of the market, avoids tax’s and has loads of stuff that isn’t really legal in the market because it doesn’t meet the regs. Example, domestic socket EV chargers (granny leads) should be only up to 10A (as it consistent load and wiring quality varies), but most on Amazon are 13A and a few 16A! Hello house fire. Let alone fake CE marking and EMC emissions.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
Yep when Napster just linked people who shared files between them, it was the end of the world. So it’s fine when it’s bigtech / AI?
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 1 week ago:
Not even for feeling safe. For convenience is enough.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 week ago:
Interesting. Fingers crossed!
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 week ago:
That’s what we need.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 week ago:
Good to know. I’d really like to try a proper Linux phone as a daily driver.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
My big problem is banks and satnav.
SatNav need traffic info and there is none, so their routes are bad.
Banks require apps to even use their website for “secure codes”. Those apps try to detect ROMs and refuse to run, not even really being Android is going to make passing that harder.
Let alone random things like parking apps where the app is the only way to pay.
This is a political problem as much as technical. Competition is basically dead. We need government to step in and make competition possible. But they are in big tech’s pocket and the status quo suits them too. Voters either don’t care or believe what big tech says. It’s a mess.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
Organic Maps is great in many ways. It’s maps are so much better. But the lack of traffic data is a killer for route planning in the UK. All the open source maps suffer this. There needs to be open access traffic information for there to be competition.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 weeks ago:
It will be if your using MS tech for it. They will pull the plug on that too. Just not yet, it’s quieter to do it separately later.
On it’s on disks you control in formats you can play with anything you like, its never yours.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 2 weeks ago:
The business is basically thirds last I looked. Windows, Office and Azure.
Not sure how their purchase of platform companies they shouldn’t have been allowed to buy plays into that. Thinking LinkedIn and GitHub.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I hear you. It’s not going to be the case for long anyway.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 weeks ago:
Yes you can, but they are actually in a LXC container with Wayland/X from outside (I think it is also in a KVM/QEmu). (Interesting project : chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/…/README.md)
If you look at the architecture it looks more normal than Android.
www.chromium.org/…/software-architecture/
Others note this:
aboutchromebooks.com/now-more-than-ever-chromeos-…
It’s made of lots of FOSS, but it is a dystopian version of a Linux desktop.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t entirely right because Chrome OS is using a lot more of normal desktop Linux than Android does, which basically uses none.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS
Android is this completely different thing (built round OpenBinder) that ended up using the Linux kernel for good hardware support. It’s basically got nothing to do with desktop Linux, bar needed it to actually build Android. You can argue that Google basically tried forking Linux for Binder and control.