Compared to CopyParty, been using it for few months now, does it also means no directory and no way to explore, namely dropping files more than organizing?

Hopefully he’ll contribute to GrapheneOS or F-Droid.

Agreed, it’s as if you would let the locksmith go through your mail, indefinitely, after they fixed your frontdoor.

Absolutely ridiculous, right? Well… not so much when your entire digital life goes through gatekeepers like Google, Apple or Microsoft.

You jest but it’s a thing https://cooldowns.dev/

That’s the worst part, their justification for more information to make one safer doesn’t even work. For-profit security theater.

what breaks the immersion

This isn’t a game, it’s about your freedom, our freedom.

If you want to use Brave to watch YouTube… well I don’t think you really care. The fact that somehow watching a video on a gaming rig isn’t fast enough so clearly not normal. That being said honestly it’s good you did try.

Artwork idea : load thermostat.

You can’t start a new application if your room is above a temperature threshold.

Extension artwork idea : load credits.

If you do delegate some load to a non digital form, e.g reading a paper book instead of watching a movie, then you “earn” some credits you might use to bypass the load thermostat “when you really need it”.

Measure your system, e.g. Zigbee thermometer for your actual room power draw so the plug for your entire system, computer obviously but also screen, speakers, etc even AirCo unit or physical fans if you have some for the room itself.

That’s the only way to know what is actually happening.

If you do not want to go down that path then the heuristic is simple : the heavier the load on either CPU, or GPU, or obviously both, the higher the temperature. If you have a dynamic system, anything built this last few decades or so, then the fans will not kick in under a threshold which you can consider won’t significantly heat up your room.

TL;DR: if you start to hear fans spinning, you have to reduce your load.

Sorry to be that guy but… why? The whole motivation behind PDF is precisely NOT to be edited, NOT to be responsive, but rather to provide the SAME output, mostly text based, anywhere and everywhere.

I’m not saying she shouldn’t edit PDF but I also have to clarify it is not "normal’.

I’ll refrain from recommending anything before actually understanding the motivation behind her workflow.

no defensive reason to allow inward facing cameras

So you don’t think me witnessing drivers falling asleep at the wheel is sufficient?

I clearly defined the context. You can argue for things outside of what I defined but then you’re not discussing about what I proposed. I can still repeat it in a simpler way at the risk of being condescending : if it’s misused, it’s bad. If it’s used properly for the reason I mention I do believe it’s good.

But that’s not the same power relationship. The usage I explained is about safety for yourself, passengers and people on the road and nearby. The usage for Amazon is about increasing productivity and send the data up the hierarchy. They are not the same usage with the same technology.

This has nothing to do with work though and the power relationship between a boss and their subordinates, does it?

To be clear, again, I’m not saying what Amazon does its workers, in trucks or not, is good. It’s not.

No idea what you are talking about. Are you saying a camera is like a gun?

I don’t know the purpose of this camera but sadly I have seen numerous driver battling against falling asleep, including on highways, so going faster than 100km/h on a 1ton machine.

You all might be excellent conscientious drivers who are horrified that the car might check on your ability to drive but I can tell you with 100% certainty that not all drivers, including otherwise very kind and caring people, are not always able to drive, yet still do so.

To be clear I am not advocating for any data to leave the car at any point. I’m only point that some usages of cameras pointing to the driver might be both beneficial to everybody and not be a privacy problem. How? Well detect the presence of eyes and if there is not, demand a conscious action (e.g. pressing a button) and if this does not work, increase stimulus, etc. This does NOT require any data from being sent to anybody.

Unrelated but I’m also for speed limiters for cars. I also do not think it’s a privacy issue.

Still, to clarify, safety MUST be improved WITHOUT hindering on privacy of anybody involved.

Yep. To give you some example I login to my self-hosted forge this way. I also use PAM on my desktop to login this way. I also sudo this way. Unfortunately I don’t use this on my phone anymore as I switched to GrapheneOS which requires GooglePlay Services for this kind of auth mechanism (with possible work around https://codeberg.org/s1m/hw-fido2-provider that I didn’t try yet).

Please note I’m no security expert but to clarify few things are important precisely when you are not a professional :

• does it support standards? Basically acronyms like TOTP, FIDO, U2F, are what you should be looking for
• is it supported without additional software by supporting standards? can you use e.g. PAM on Linux with it or does it need a companion “app” somehow?

If the answer to either is “maybe” then I recommend before buying you search online and insure it does work with your specific setup. If the answer though is yes to standards and no to additional software then you are, unless there is a weird bug basically, pretty sure to be able to use it however you want, wherever you want.

Sidenote that it’s the same heuristic for IoT. If you buy a “brandname smart thing” then you probably need their idiosyncratic stack whereas if you rely on standards, e.g. Zigbee or ZWave, then you are nearly guaranteed a smooth experience.

Hope that helps. I know that navigating acronyms can be tricky but IMHO here it’s worth investing a tiny bit of time to recognize them.

Finally as we are talking about open hardware and security I would also add 3rd party audits. I don’t have the competency to insure that the hardware and software implementation are cryptographically safe. I can test that it does in some case what it claim to do, e.g. lock after 3 failed attempt, but could some kind of weird collision hash or bad pseudorandomness be used to practically limit the pool of potential keys or passwords? I don’t have the knowledge for that. I also can’t trust that NitroKey did it right based on the claim of their website. So… audits help bridge that gap in trust. If I can’t trust the vendor and I don’t have the expertise despite being entirely open then I look for others who did verify on my behalf.

Yes precisely because I don’t rely on Microsoft or Google to handle that.

I have my own physical keys. I started like most with YubiKey, including a YubiKey Bio, then learned about NitroKey https://www.nitrokey.com/ thanks to NLNet https://nlnet.nl/project/Nitrokey-3/ so now I have passkey that I could verify https://certification.oshwa.org/list.html?q=nitrokey as they are certified and audited https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2015/nitrokey-storage-got-great-results-3rd-party-security-audit

That being said… IMHO your doubt raises an interesting question, why? Why do you NOT trust them? Do you imagine they have your data? Do you think an interactive explanation where one exchange data would help to understand why no trust is required or maybe better, where it matters?

Fairness is pretty much a left-wing principle whereas excluding others from the inner group is a right-wring principle… so it makes sense.

Good question, seems newer but rely on the same mechanism.

FWIW I think detecting VR with Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Pico VR is quite funny. It’s like … hard NOT to detect such devices. You see a huge slab of plastic on the face of someone potentially looking in your direction and the cameras are numerous and visible.

So… for Meta Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta definitely because they are designed to look like traditional glasses and that’s IMHO very wrong. For others like Snap Spectacles or TCL RayNeo it’s quite obvious but still, OK makes sense.

Sadly as 404 media and others reported a lot of abuse came from wearing sneakingly such glasses then coercing people with the footage. I hope people who do abuse those tools do get prosecuted properly.