Badabinski

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[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

Ideally? Now.

In reality? 5 days before the extension deadline ends.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ahh, gotcha. Apologies, I haven't had enough caffeine yet, so it went completely over my head.

That makes sense to me. I also prefer Briar on that basis, although I currently don't use it at all. I've had a hard enough time getting folks to switch to Signal, so I don't want to try to push them to move once again. If Signal starts enshittifying then I'll probably start the Sisyphean push to switch again.

edit: ugh it's Sisyphean not Sisyphusian

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 9 points 3 days ago

Claims require evidence in proportion to their extremity. There is no evidence of a backdoor in that issue. If a security researcher made a post saying "Signal is CIA backdoored, here is exactly how it works," then I would read it and use my relevant domain knowledge as a software dev to make a decision. No explanation is provided, so I have nothing to use to decide. Therefore, my viewpoint is unchanged.

Signal has been audited, and I believe it's been audited multiple times. If you're worried about your 4th amendment rights in the US, don't turn on backups. If you have something serious to hide and your threat model includes state actors, send messages that delete themselves after a certain time period and enforce that discipline amongst your peers. The poster's concerns sound like a skill issue to me.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think that the person you're responding to is asking for the specifics of why Briar is ethically superior. Do the other options have ethical issues? Or does Briar have a specific characteristic that makes it ethically superior (e.g. its p2p nature)?

I'd also like to know. It's never occurred to me to look at the technical nature of secure messaging systems through the lens ethics so I find the idea intriguing.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 14 points 6 days ago

I watched a streamer play it and you couldn't even hear his voice by the end thanks to all of the beautiful stimulation

edit: I watched it in PiP mode on my phone while scrolling through Lemmy, of course

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 11 points 1 week ago

OKCupid was alright before the buyout. I won't say it was great, but I went out with several people thanks to that site and met my current partner of 12 years there.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

This already exists in theory, although not many companies or products are implementing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Authenticity_Initiative

I think Leica cameras can sign their images, but I don't know if any other cameras support it yet.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've been very pleased with my factory-seconds Framework 13 (11th gen i7, 64 gigs of RAM and 2TB storage acquired through other channels). Linux support has been basically perfect for me, although there were some kinks earlier on. The Framework 16 might work for you if you need something with a discrete GPU.

If you want something more mainstream, ThinkPads are often great for running Linux. Not every model is perfect, so I'd recommend doing some research there. The Arch Linux wiki often has laptop specific web pages that show how well supported the laptop is. For example, here's the page for the Framework 13.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 7 points 1 week ago

I think you may have misread the post. What's being proposed is a ban on stuff like "pray the gay away" type conversion therapies.

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Speaking from personal experience, tftp is a terrible protocol so I'm here for it. A lot of tftp's terribleness is due to the simplicity of the protocol in general and it can be forgiven for that since it makes implementing a tftp server/client on marginal hardware really easy. Pre-boot environments are powerful enough now that I think we can use something a bit better.

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