Giver of skulls
If you use the .local syntax, and the device name stays the same, I think the domain name based fingerprint should prevent the “do you trust this fingerprint” problem.
If you want to avoid the question all together, you could set up an SSH certificate authority (quick guide here, less dense guides are available on the internet). By signing the servers’ host keys, you can prevent the trust on first use prompt entirely, even for servers you may not have logged into before.
The value for the end user, the way Apple and Google do it, is that it works on every phone. It was always intended to be the next generation of MMS messaging. RCS, as designed, never had companies like Google run their own servers, but Google had to because many carriers never bothered to set up RCS in the first place.
Who benefits today? Everyone sharing chat groups with iMessage people. I avoid iMessage but millions of people are stuck with text messaging or ostracised for breaking group messaging (because SMS and MMS are terrible).
Furthermore, RCS isn’t just text messaging. The standard also contains digital payments and video calls. It’s an open (to carriers) alternative to iMessage that has features ready to go that Signal doesn’t even implement yet.
Communication is literally what phone numbers are for.
Yes, because other federated protocols (email, XMPP, Matrix) don’t have the same features modern messengers have and don’t interoperate with other protocols well. I don’t think XMPP OTR or OMEMO are RFC standards either, they’re just extensions on top of XMPP.
Some XMPP people are part of the conversation and Matrix is already moving to adopting MLS, so clearly “just use x” wasn’t an option, even for them.
Authy just leaked a list of phone numbers. No actual 2FA data was breached. Even if it were, attackers would need your backup encryption password to access any 2FA keys.
You may get more phishing texts, but that’s about it.
That line makes me think AI text generation was involved (or the author didn’t understand what Authy does).
It’s still a good idea to switch on 2FA and switch to TOTP for services that still use SMS.
mDNS solves this. It may actually work out of the box. Try ssh’ing into your-device-name.local. If that fails, check your devices’ names and if they have Avahi/Bonjour/mDNS enabled.
Something like Tailscale will set up a VPN with hostnames and IP addresses for you (and you can host your own entry server if you don’t want to use the cloud stuff). That’ll work across networks. It’ll also add overhead and it’s probably overkill for your use case, though.
As opposed to what? Encrypt them with a key that’s stored elsewhere on the device? Without user prompting (which any malicious app could also do, of course) storing these keys encrypted is very hard. You could use whatever key chain API your platform provides, but that’s just plain text passwords with extra steps. On Windows and Linux it wouldn’t improve security in any way, on macOS it might also not (I don’t know how Keychain access is done on macOS but I doubt it’s impossible to get the key from there if you have local file execution).
Desktop applications aren’t sandboxed, and the ones that are will only be protected against other sandboxed applications. I’m not sure if encrypting local message databases protects anyone in practice. It just adds half an hour of chatgpt aided programing to the job of the malware devs while the users lose access to their own data.
MLS is just the message encryption part, the MIMI working group is working on a standard that would also open up cross app messaging, using MLS for security. Of course, app developers would need to implement that first. Given the EU is forcing some of these companies to open up their services, it’s possible app developers will choose MLS to do this (for EU citizens). Meta itself has several people in the MIMI working group, for instance.
RCS has been around since the early 2010s and absolutely nobody used it until Google did. You had to download carrier specific apps, which then only worked with other people who downloaded their carrier specific apps, because nobody bothered to write unofficial ones. Carriers have been shutting down their RCS servers for years because their customers didn’t care. Google is the only reason anyone uses RCS, if it weren’t for them we’d still be on SMS/MMS.
I take advantage of the free disk space savings and don’t worry about disk space much. I’ll clear out my download directory and maybe some caches when my disk usage grows beyond 80% (as reported in GUI tools). Running duperemove across my drive every now and then also tends to help a lot without deleting anything.
If I do run out of space, there are a few interactive terminal tools that’ll point out the biggest files so I can delete them and save some space in a pinch. I practice, I just don’t really think about it much.
Modern security enhancements to browsers make iframeing random websites a lot more difficult than it used to be. You’d need to mirror the video, but that would take away some of the old internet magic.
Subtle, but perhaps too much so. Why not go for the more aggressive approach of slapping “TRIAL EXPIRED - GENERATED BY AN UNLICENSED COPY OF website.com” across all pages, images, invoices, and so on? A faded out website looks broken, a website indicating the owner’s questionable business reliability much less so. Especially when it comes up in documents hitting other people’s accountants!
They hand a shitload of money to Amazon, who then set up one of their AWS data centers complete with software and all, but only allow the government access. 8 don’t know what they’re gonna do with the data center, but the data center construction will probably be absolutely fine.
df is the standard command line tool to see how much of your disk space is free.
The problems happen in GUI tools too. Most of the time, they work out in your favour (you think you only have 10GB left but you can put 15GB away) but after a lot of deletes you may “lose” some space until you do a rebalance even through you’d think looking at the stats that you have plenty of space.
Another issue is that file managers showing you a file’s size often don’t know about compression. You can store a large text file with standard compression on a disk and have it be reported as 100MB while it only takes up a megabyte of space. You can end up deleting a whole bunch of “hundred megabyte files” and save basically no disk space. Other file types, like images and video, often do represent the real size as they’re already compressed, making some 100MB files larger than others. If you don’t enable compression, you won’t have this problem, or course.
GUI tools also often don’t know about CoW. If you copy a file on BTRFS, the copy action should be instant and take up maybe a couple hundred bytes for the new metadata. To your file manager it looks like you have two 3GB movie files, but in practice they’re just names pointing to the same directory. You can get petabytes of used disk space this way by just making more and more copies, even though your actual disk space barely grows. This also means deleting files may not clear up as much disk space as you’d like.
This is going to be an absolute shitshow when free updates stop and people refuse to pay beyond the ten years of support Microsoft announced back when Windows 10 was released. I hope browser manufacturers give 10 the XP treatment or Windows 10 computers are going to be a malware minefield.
I don’t think many gamers have the millions of dollars in their bank account to actually buy a game.
A transferable license like games on physical media would be nice, though. Which you can still do, as far as I can tell.
Dinosaurs still exist today, so technically they were also around 40 million years ago. I don’t think many people knew birds are dinosaurs before the internet, though, and “walk the bird” sounds a bit strange.
If you really spent three hours pouring through them, you should’ve listened to your teacher explaining how the index works.
As for the rest, yeah, this was true even going into the 90s before everyone had internet. No way to AskJeeves the question because mom was on the phone and she didn’t like it when you turned on the digital satanic screams while she was using it.
I found both sides rather aggressive to be honest. The implication that the use of “he” implies that the author assumes every user is male comes with an implied accusation of some form of misogyny. The aggressive defence again at the implication went too far, but the implication of malice was unnecessary, especially for an unknown outsider butting in.
Furthermore, the “generic he” has also been acceptable English for centuries, and has only been starting to be phased out in the past few decades. In high school, some of my English study materials still came from thirty years before, and certainly didn’t contain gender neutral words like “postperson”. Singular “they” may have been around since the 14th century but that doesn’t mean it was commonplace. My native language doesn’t have an equivalent for the singular they, so I’ll probably use “he” in wrong places. Accusing me of not considering female users because I’m not a native English speaker certainly won’t make me want to help you (though I’d probably just ignore you rather than shut you down; then again, I’m not recovering from substance addiction like the original author was back in the day, so that’s not hard for me to do).
Ah, in that case I would definitely recommend taking a look at Tailscale!