Posts by pojntfx@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B5i5gWOG1ClOkZ7DCi by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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#p2panda for syncing playback positions next? :P
(DIR) Post #B5i5gXL6UPpph4eCvY by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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Check this out, KDE Connect/Valent can now remote control Android notifications showing Multiplex controls via MPRIS. Even seeking works. If you seek it even updates the position for your friend watching the movie with you on their computer somewhere else in the world!
(DIR) Post #B6ChKyjfZlIjI75DZA by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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This might be a good time to start thinking about moving off GitLab.
(DIR) Post #B6Enve0Ibh3jkSeF5E by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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Damn do I miss when laziness was a virtue in software development
(DIR) Post #B6L2BIRd5zlXp8Y6Cm by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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Please, for the love of god, stop calling mass surveillance bills "lawful access". There is no such thing as "lawful access" - once the backdoor is there, it will be used without oversight the second it's in place. There is literally not one example in all of (recent) history of "lawful access" bills leading to anything other than this.
(DIR) Post #B6fivvExkNRK4CULr6 by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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The freedom to compute is a hill worth dying on
(DIR) Post #B6mr3GPpZk4lVXIrS4 by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967There needs to be a law that makes remote attestation - no matter who provides the root certificates, Google/Apple/GrapheneOS - illegal. There is only one use for this technology right now, and it is to prevent people from doing what they want to do with the devices they own, while also making interoperability cryptographically impossible. This is anti-competitive and should simply be illegal.
(DIR) Post #B6mr3Gf4f4GkGoR2DA by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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There is a real chance that in 5-10 years, there will be laptops and smartphones running open processors and operating systems with UX and and an OS comparable or better than the proprietary equivalent, but which are effectively useless to the average consumer because it is cryptographically impossible to use them for anything due to remote attestation proliferating more and more
(DIR) Post #B6mr3GvNgRJT5O43d2 by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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You can't view social media posts because your mandatory eID app for age verification attests your OS image against an allowlist of certs the govt controls, a gate that you can't ever pass. You can't text your friends because WhatsApp requires SafetyNet to "keep bots out". You can't call your doctor because SIM cards don't exist anymore and the eSIM app won't work if you unlock the bootloader, and attests that server-side before unlocking the eSIM.
(DIR) Post #B6mr3Hq6HYgPvIbM2K by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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You can't sign a rental contract because eIDAS requires "mobile device security validation systems" and that's the only remaining way to sign documents, and once again the server uses attestation.The server can be OSS, the app can be OSS, this kind of system could even use open protocols (e.g. OIDC) but because it requires remote attestation it is cryptographically impossible to use and participate in society with on any device that you, the owner, have the keys to.This must be stopped.
(DIR) Post #B7UQ7dInug8GyYnTA8 by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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E2EE just jumped from "relevant" to "w/o it, you can't really provide a service to someone in good conscience in this country" overnightMaking me seriously reconsider where (and whether) to host my Nextcloud next
(DIR) Post #B7UQ7dZ6w3Azn8QUa0 by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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I don't know how to explain to people that usually, metadata is what people base their worst decisions on. People kill based on metadata. People murder based on "x talked to y". Governments round up people based on immutable markers, all of which are just metadata.
(DIR) Post #B7UQ7dlsAbNuQiOgTI by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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A storm of spy bills, wrapped in everything from "saving the children" to "securing digital ID systems" to "verifying real humans" unlike anything we've seen before is brewing in every remaining democracy on earth and nothing seems to be able to stop it
(DIR) Post #B7hlk7DWQjL2OvMJ7Y by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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@fribbledom "Open source, like when you can download something as a file?"
(DIR) Post #B7ojtAMVGd4axWT1gO by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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Hi from a Milk-V Jupiter 2 (SpacemiT K3-powered, the first RV23 chip!)
(DIR) Post #B7ojtAoVaVTUMNZOKm by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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@brettm Yup! Very speedy, even plays 4K video very smoothly. Haven't built Firefox for it yet though, they ship a *special* Chromium build on it
(DIR) Post #B7ojtBzXCztA0rji9w by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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Next up: Porting GNOME OS to this :)
(DIR) Post #B7ojtDFsViYXvqOHGy by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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(I'm so suprised by how usable this is out of the box. Just plugged it in, connected my keyboard and mouse, signed in, done! Suprisingly enough the GPU seems to be working well too ... I'm more interested in using something from AMD with the new PCIe 3.0 slot!)
(DIR) Post #B7ojtEBf2smEp3QQL2 by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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Also, smooth 4K video playback with the hardware decoder! That's a first, my last RISC-V board (Milk-V Jupiter 1) could barely play 1080p content ...
(DIR) Post #B7ojtF9vQoyzpxcYGu by pojntfx@mastodon.social
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Can't wait for the day that we'll get more end-user hardware (honestly, this is already pretty great as is) powered by RISC-V, it's so much nicer to work with than the never-ending ARM SBC slop of downstream kernels and TEE nonsense and non-unlockable bootloaders ...