GreyBeard
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GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto World News@lemmy.world•Live updates: Trump announces sweeping tariffsEnglish1·12 days agoSounds like I stand corrected.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto World News@lemmy.world•Live updates: Trump announces sweeping tariffsEnglish3·12 days agoDoesn’t the US already have full sanctions with Russia? So literally no trade is happening with them, so a tarrif would be pointless? Maybe I missed trump removing the sanctions at some point in his onslaught of nonsense.
For most people, the thought of replacing an outlet or switch is daunting to say the least. My IKEA smart bulbs are going on 7 years old and still working great.
I did replace every single outlet and switch in my house when I moved in, but that was before I knew about ZigBee or Zwave, and well before matter existed.
I don’t feel the need to replace most of my switches and half of my outlets again.
I had a few Google Home devices, they had a switch to turn off the mic. I assume it was legit switch, because the thing literally yelled at you and had bright red lights any time you muted it. It literally said “The mic is turned off” every time it booted up in a voice that reminds me of a child tattling on their sibling.
Any smart lights I’ve seen always turn on when going from no power to power. It’s a little annoying when the power blinks and half the house lights up, but it means physical switches always work.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneOPto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•3D Printed Art: Alice in WonderlandEnglish3·16 days ago
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneOPto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•3D Printed Art: Alice in WonderlandEnglish1·17 days agoI agree. I really struggled finding good light once the acrylic was on. It was just too shiny. Maybe I’ll try a daylight photo outside or something. In the article there are better pictures of the individual components though. It’s also hard to get the 3D effect in a photo. I thought about trying to embed a short video/gif of it, but didn’t have any handy.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto Technology@lemmy.world•LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev SystemEnglish182·17 days agoDisasters do happen. Hurricanes are a big problem that often take out everything you mentioned except for starlink. And starlink has several problems, being owned by a Nazi is certainly one of them.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server1·20 days agoOh, I’m not defending these dumb-asses doing illegal things to avoid systems setup to safeguard American and its people. They absolutely could have synced things to compromised devices. Just that Signal, themselves, couldn’t do that.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server1·20 days agoSo I and some others here have probably sounded a bit antagonistic to you, but good on you for asking and trying to understand. Public Key Cryptography feels like magic to me too, it’s just magic that I’ve accepted exists without understanding the base math of it all. Without it, however, most of the security of the Internet doesn’t work.
Even most symmetrical encryption (Like AES, which is how you are picturing encryption working) layers on asymmetrical encryption as a negotiation layer to share a key that both parties have but that nobody eves dropping can read. Then once the key is exchanged, they use that because symmetrical encryption is way easier for computers. But for short messages like Signal sends, it wouldn’t surprise me if they stay asymmetrical for the entire communication.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server2·20 days agoSignal does hold the public keys for every user. But having the public key doesn’t let you decrypt anything. You need the private key to decrypt data encrypted with the public key. So in a chat example, if you and I exchange public keys, I can encrypt the message using your public key, but only you can decrypt it, using your private key.
Signal does run the key exchange, which means they could hand a user the wrong public key, a public key which they have the private key for, instead of the other person’s. That is a threat model for this type of communications, however, signal users can see the key thumbprints of their fellow chat participants and verify them manually. And once a chat has begun, any changes to that key alerts all parties in the chat so they know a change has happened. The new key wont have access to any previous or pending messages, only new ones after the change took place.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server2·20 days agoIn the case of signal, it is provable that it cannot. They do not hold the keys to decrypt. The closest risk is the server injecting a new public key into the conversation, which the Signal app will warn about.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server2·21 days agoThe server can’t decrypt it if it doesn’t have the keys to do so. It can be proven that private keys never leave the local device. It can also be proven that the proper public keys are being provided, and that the local device alerts on public key changes with a partner are announced.
Of course, nobody as part of the linked article did any of that verification, but still, a server doesn’t need to be trusted to be functional.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump wants green card applicants legally in US to hand over social media profiles10·22 days agoNobody in this thread suggested not getting the vaccine. Entire problem is that we are dropping below herd immunity thresholds and that means worse outcomes for the vaccinated and unvaccinatable alike.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto pics@lemmy.world•What people online think I drive when I mention owning a pickup truck versus what I actually drive2·23 days agoMy experience is that their ass end ends up hanging over the sidewalk, and the tow hook takes an extra foot or so.
There are plenty if multiplayer Tetris games out there. Tetris 99 was going for something very different.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto Technology@beehaw.org•Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts6·25 days agoI replaced pocketcast with Antennapod a year or so ago. It took some time to adjust, but I’m quite satisified with it now. I feel like I’m slowly converting over at an F-Droid stack on my phone. About all I have left from the Play store are streaming apps and banking apps. I should look into replacing the banking apps with PWAs.
GreyBeard@lemmy.oneto Technology@lemmy.world•“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screenEnglish7·29 days agoRoku started as a streaming media box. You paid them money, they gave you a box that could play Netflix and Youtube. It was a simple transaction. Unfortunately, at some point they decided to start selling/giving their OS to TV manufacturers. This was actually nice at the start. You got a smart TV who’s “Smarts” were designed by competent people. A revolution at the time. But the drive to drop prices lower and lower meant that there was no margin on the TV, which means Roku had to investigate other ways of making their revenue, AKA Ads and selling data.
Of course, the stand alone box probably would have went that way anyways, but at least with selling a dedicated box, there is a clear financial benefit without the need to get invasive.
I absolutely disagree. That’s a fantastic reference for a union logo to make.