aspiring Rustacean, JavaScript jockey, 3D printing addict, use Arch Linux btw, Apple-captive, Google-captive, Meta-escapee, parent, spouse, cisgender, he/him
I'm currently using Signal, and happy with it, but they still don't have reproducible builds, making it impossible to confirm that the code we can read on GitHub is actually what is running on my device
So, even now, it could be doing something that isn't able to be audited
I guess Element/Matrix or Briar are the better options from this perspective, without losing any end to end encryption
Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely?
Sure, at least until software you want to use is flatpak only, e.g. Bottles
I agree that there are much bigger problems, but those bigger problems have solutions that are not allowed under capitalism and USA imperialism, so labels is all we're allowed to fix 🤷
The legal drinking age in Australia is 18 years old, and it has always struck me as odd that it's so high in the USA
Australian sports fields are covered in alcohol logos So the entire time you are watching football with your children, they are exposed
Ban all advertising for alcohol, too, please
Planet America, orbiting the American sun, in the galaxy called America
Is anyone else concerned about internet-connected 3D printers?
Howdy, folks!
I'm teetering on the brink of connecting my Sovol3D S06 ACE to my wireless network, but I'm pausing because this device can make physical real-world actions like:
None of this happens in normal usage, of course, but watching it self-calibrate did make me wonder:
All IPv4 traffic from the internet goes through a NAT/firewall that I conceivable control, but my devices all get p
I know Google just donated to Trump's inauguration, and also does all the stupid surveillance capitalism crap that Google does, but I just compared prices, and Google Workspace is a few dollars per month cheaper per user than Proton is, for my needs (family, custom domain names, etc)
We've been on Proton for a few years, and it's fine, but we do also have Pixel Android phones, and not using Google services constantly feels like swimming upstream, plus all family members also still end up having to use Google services for work, anyway
It's just not practical for me to de-Google, which is a shame, so I think I'll be switching in a few months, unless pricing changes significantly :S
first timer here, Sovol3D S06 ACE arriving this week, open to suggestions :)
Sovol SV06 ACE is a 3D printer with a speed of up to 600mm/s. It can print a 3D Benchy in 13 minutes; it is very advantageous among similar products. Pre-assembled components can be assembled in 15 minutes. Fully automatic leveling technology can avoid tedious leveling processes and automatically ca...
After immersing myself in 3D printer content on YouTube and Lemmy, I'd talked myself all the way up to spending AU$2000 which is just absurd for a first timer, but then talked myself into the Sovol3D S06 ACE as a decent starting point, haha
Anyhow, I'll be running this in my garage (garage door open) and I think the first batch of filament in the pack is either PLA or PETG, which seems beginner friendly
I've been wondering about 3D printer profiles and calibration in slicer apps... is there a way to print as many benchies that will fit on the bed, but each which different profile parameters, so I can see which profiles do or don't work best? Or do current slicer apps always produce a plan that uses the same parameters for the entire job?
Note that I'm 100% on Linux (no Windows here), so I'm probably limited to https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer or https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer (or maybe https://github.com/GladiusSlicer/GladiusSlicer if I'm in the mood for contributin
Thanks for sharing! <3
Okay, let's go with xterm running bash, where the user ran ls, so xterm -> bash -> ls ...
ls never talks to xterm directly, it's stdout/stderr are provided by bash bash effectively outputs a grid of characters to xterm, xterm doesn't know about prompts or words or line feeds, just the grid ls outputs a line, bash adds a row of output to the grid that it sends to xterm bash discards the top-most row, moves all other rows up by one row, and then inserts the row for the ls output Now imagine a hypothetical fork of bash or some other new shell ...
Thus, this is entirely a shell problem, with a shell solution
However, what I've neglected to mention so far is that terminal emulators and shells are almost certainly optimised for rows dropping off the top edge and new rows being added to the bottom edge
So, the role of a terminal emulator in this scenario could be to provide ANSI control characters or other protocol for operating just as quickly in the opposite direction, sure
There's also https://www.waveterm.dev/ which seems to be an open-source attempt at something sort of like Warp/Jupyter
I don't mind that it uses the web stack for rendering, but that'll probably turn some folks off
The whole thing is weird and the CEO especially so, and not weird in a good way: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html
https://www.partykit.io/ sort of? maybe?
Gosh darn it I only just onboarded to Omnivore a few months ago Now I guess I need to find a new place to store bookmarks
One example I can think of is Widevine DRM, which is owned by Google and is closed source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine
Google currently allows Mozilla (and others) to distribute this within Firefox, allowing Netflix, Disney+, and various other video streaming services to work within Firefox without any technical work performed by the user
I don't believe Google would ever willingly take this away from Mozilla, but it's entirely possible that the movie and music industries pressure Google to reduce access to Widevine (the same way they pressured Netflix into adopting DRM)
For disappearing messages to work, your conversation partner has to promise they won't take photos of their screen, and they have to promise to use an app that actually implements the feature instead of just pretending to, and the app developers have to promise to have implemented the code to delete a message when the service says it should
Is there actually a cryptographically-sound and physically-complete method for ensuring that a message is only legible for a temporary duration once it leaves your own device and is delivered to someone elses?
Hmmm, is CloudFlare known for being a bad actor in terms of privacy?
Setting that aside, no matter what you pick, you'll be exposing your IP address, from which your ISP and/or general location may be derived
If you don't trust CloudFlare with that information then you basically cannot trust anyone else, so maybe you'd need to run your own service and ping that instead now that you're in a situation where you can only trust yourself 🤷
The other issue that comes to mind is that you're only testing reachability to one address, which means you could get a false negative where that address stops working but the rest of the internet is actually fine
Wi-Fi connectivity issues resolved by dropping wpa_supplicant in favour of iwd
My desktop PC is the only machine in the house having Wi-Fi connectivity issues (connects fine, but drops out randomly after a few minutes or sometimes a few hours)
I think wpa_supplicant is getting confused and thinks signal strength is poor (I have a Netgear mesh, but this seems increasingly common, so it's weird for that to be the issue)
I did pick up a TP-Link USB Wi-Fi adapter, but can reproduce the same connectivity issues
The fix was switching away from wpa_supplicant in favour of iwd, which seems rock solid in comparison
I'm sure there's a way to fix wpa_supplicant, but it's man pages only seem to list the options without actually describing what they do, which seems sort of poor considering how old the project is 🤷
The Signal Protocol is a set of cryptographic specifications that provides end-to-end encryption for private communications exchanged daily by billions of people around the world. After its publication in 2013, the Signal Protocol was adopted not only by Signal but well beyond. Technical informat...
We believe that the key encapsulation mechanism we have selected, CRYSTALS-Kyber, is built on solid foundations, but to be safe we do not want to simply replace our existing elliptic curve cryptography foundations with a post-quantum public key cryptosystem. Instead, we are augmenting our existing cryptosystems such that an attacker must break both systems in order to compute the keys protecting people’s communications.
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Our new protocol is already supported in the latest versions of Signal’s client applications and is in use for chats initiated after both sides of the chat are using the latest Signal software. In the coming months (after sufficient time has passed for everyone using Signal to update), we will disable X3DH for new chats and require PQXDH for all new chats. In parallel, we will roll out software updates to upgrade existing chats to this new protocol.
Arch Linux developer Levente Polyak explains how the project recently migrated its packaging infrastructure to GitLab and what Arch Linux gained as a result.
Emotional testimony leads to plaintiffs' win in first youth-led climate trial.
Wondering about Rust? We're addressing rumors and providing insight gained from years of early adoption of Rust here at Google.
Rumor 1: Rust takes more than 6 months to learn – Debunked !
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Rumor 2: The Rust compiler is not as fast as people would like – Confirmed !
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Rumor 3: Unsafe code and interop are always the biggest challenges – Debunked !
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Rumor 4: Rust has amazing compiler error messages – Confirmed !
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Rumor 5: Rust code is high quality – Confirmed! ...
Answering common questions about how passkeys work.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1073275
Great explainer / FAQ
I'll probably still use my Precursor and Yubikeys for the most part, but I'll definitely enable Passkeys wherever they are an option
Bloatware pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an incredible 60GB
Samsung's Android build is 4x bigger than Google's.
![Bloatware pushes the Galaxy S23 Android OS to an incredible 60GB [Updated]](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9c64c983-54be-4960-a84d-c27ad33b294c.webp?format=webp)
We can take a few guesses as to why things are so big. First, Samsung is notorious for having a shoddy software division that pumps out low-quality code. The company tends to change everything in Android just for change's sake, and it's hard to imagine those changes are very good.
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Unlike the clean OSes you'd get from Google or Apple, Samsung sells space in its devices to the highest bidder via pre-installed crapware. A company like Facebook will buy a spot on Samsung's system partition, where it can get more intrusive system permissions that aren't granted to app store apps, letting it more effectively spy on users.
Urgh, it's so frustrating that Samsung is the leading Android manufacturer, the market is rewarding greed and incompetence
Humanity’s love affair with cement and concrete results in massive CO2 emissions.
It remains to be seen whether innovations like these can really get the concrete industry to a place where it emits no net carbon dioxide. Yet industry observers and insiders alike find plenty of room for optimism, if only because the momentum for change has built so rapidly. Remember, says Andrew, that as recently as a decade ago there seemed to be no feasible, climate-friendly alternatives to Portland cement at all. The stuff was cheap, familiar, and had a huge infrastructure already in place—hundreds of quarries, thousands of kilns, whole fleets of trucks fanning out to deliver pre-mixed concrete slurry to building sites. “So for a long time, decarbonizing cement production was in the ‘too hard’ basket,” he says.
Yet today, says Bohan, “because of this intense attention to the climate issue, people are now going back and saying, ‘Wow, we didn’t realize all these options were available.’”
How sustainable are fake meats? (Spoiler: much better than real meat/dairy)
Checking whether plant-based burgers may have lighter environmental footprints.
Indeed, when independent researchers at Johns Hopkins University decided to get the best estimates they could by combing through the published literature, they found that in the 11 life cycle analyses they turned up, the average greenhouse gas footprint from plant-based meats was just 7 percent of beef for an equivalent amount of protein. The plant-based products were also more climate-friendly than pork or chicken — although less strikingly so, with greenhouse gas emissions just 57 percent and 37 percent, respectively, of those for the actual meats.
Similarly, the Hopkins team found that producing plant-based meats used less water: 23 percent that of beef, 11 percent that of pork, and 24 percent that of chicken for the same amount of protein. There were big savings, too, for land, with the plant-based products using 2 percent that of beef, 18 percent that of pork, and 23 percent that of chicken for a given amount of protein. The saving of land is important because, if plant-bas
USB-C is getting yet another specification.
The new type of USB4 will continue the USB-IF's questionable naming scheme that only its members and a thumbtack-and-string-covered corkboard can truly appreciate. When it's all said and done, it seems you'll be able to find USB-C ports that are USB4 Version 2.0, USB4 Version 1.0, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 3.2 Gen 1, or USB 2.0, plus some will opt for Intel Thunderbolt certification. And in the case of USB4 Version 1.0, you'll still need more information to know if the port supports the spec's max potential speed of 40Gbps.
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Urine has lots of nitrogen and phosphorus—a problem as waste, great as fertilizer.
In excess, nitrogen and phosphorus in our waste streams can stimulate algal blooms and create conditions dangerous to marine and lake ecosystems and human health. According to the website of the Rich Earth Institute, a Vermont-based company focused on using human waste as a resource, most of the nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater comes from human urine, even though it makes up only 1 percent of wastewater. Removing urine could remove 75 percent of the nitrogen and 55 percent of the phosphorus from municipal wastewater treatment plants. And those nutrients could then be recycled for use as fertilizer.
Whether it's lack of awareness, support, participation, or poor user stories, there are certain strategies that make handling these problems more manageable.
Establishing an Agile way of thinking in an existing company is a big task with plenty of potential pitfalls. However, some problems are more prevalent than others and tend to span organizations. I've identified the four most common issues I've encountered. Whether it's lack of awareness, support, participation, or poor user stories, there are certain strategies that make handling these problems more manageable. How can you implement these approaches to help smooth the way for great Agile success?
All Aboard: Getting Mainstream Users Up and Running on Distributed Systems – Simply Secure
Interesting look at UX for decentralised systems
Research has implications for urban gardening and food production.
Soil contamination, yikes
This is based on research in Australia, but I imagine it applies in every developed area where lead paint and/or lead pipes used to be common
Exhaust contains a host of polluting particles, from soot to nitrogen oxides.
I can't help but feel like we just need to go back to sailing as the primary mode of inter-continental travel
How managers can support and encourage disengaged employees | Trello
It’s disturbingly common for people to say solved problems were never problems.
MNT Reform July 2022 Update—MNT Research
Happy Summer! July is here and with the new month, we're looking forward to enjoying the warm weather and late night light. That might sound like the MNT Research team is taking a vacation, however there's so much exciting stuff going on that we had to write up another post. Let's dive in!
