devops99

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by devops99 2y ago
There's something kinda beautiful about this.
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by devops99 2y ago
> Scattering tidbits around What I am showing you is I already answered your question, you fail at reading comprehension, or you fail at comprehending the very concepts themselves. Probably the latter. > that could solve a real proble
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by devops99 2y ago
> Once you're larger than the fits-in-pocket form factor, your comparables include a straightforward deblobbable laptop To add some further clarity, some people use our solution at music festivals, the kinds of music festivals where
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by devops99 2y ago
> Once you're larger than the fits-in-pocket form factor, your comparables include a straightforward deblobbable laptop A laptop is NOT a comparable user experience to something someone can hold in their hand while on foot: a
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by devops99 2y ago
A solution in production today I am aware of is new to some (and very not new to others) and relatively still somewhat novel, but it is not really bespoke anymore, this pattern specifically was standardized many years ago. I am also aware o
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by devops99 2y ago
I want to emphasize, I do want you to tell me how my approach is wrong, because if you can successfully do that then everybody wins. But if all you can contribute is this model is wrong but without specifying meaningful substance as t
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by devops99 2y ago
but that would be illegal and therefore impossibru /s
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by devops99 2y ago
The "mainstream thought" is more concerned about what Steam games they can play than real-world InfoSec. My "mainstream" is those who attend DEF CON, Blackhat, CCC, or FOSDEM, and also possess technical competency. Ask a
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by devops99 2y ago
Something you can do for free is block all outbound traffic and configure Firefox to use an outbound HTTPS proxy where you can dynamically enforce a blocklist or default deny and an allowlist. Isolate Firefox traffic and observe it some tim
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by devops99 2y ago
Bespoke but-not-really-bespoke closed-market devices made by the right people are very secure, but they are not sold to the profane (you). > ANOM was a trap Yes, ANOM was intended to be a trap. > and most closed encryption schemes are
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by devops99 2y ago
I wish I could agree with you but the real world doesn't work this way. Companies that don't play ball get broken up with anti-trust. Or what happened to the CEO (former CEO) of Qwest happens. The "infrastructure" for th
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by devops99 2y ago
If your core value/goal is security, then it is tantamount to eliminate the potential for software that is not device owner-controlled to undermine Signal's security by stealing private keys. This means 1.] no closed source OS a
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by devops99 2y ago
In theory, "none of this has anything to do with Signal", and you are correct ; but back over here in reality: Signal runs on these systems. Hence the security afforded by Signal is very weak in-practice and questionable at best.
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by devops99 2y ago
The cryptography is not where Signal is vulnerable. What Signal is running on, as in operating system and/or hardware that runs other embedded software on "hidden cores", is how the private keys can be taken. Anything you can
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by devops99 2y ago
We can never trust them again. We must implement as LAW that a SIM card can provide and only provide a Zero Knowledge Proof of "this SIM is valid for this cellular/data plan up to a specific date". If they want to track us al
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by devops99 2y ago
I wonder what kind of expertise and specialized equipment is needed to liberate, as in get Linux as the first thing running, on relatively modern iPhones. To any of Apple's lawyers that may ever happen to read this: - lick my butt
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by devops99 2y ago
The lack of deduplication, or more like avoiding duplication, of what are basically files in some of these implementations is a problem. But it's not a problem for me. It's also not a problem for most people. And it's not at
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by devops99 2y ago
> The garbage is a result of me using Linux I think we're all in agreement with this part.
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by devops99 2y ago
Linux on the desktop sucks ass, for the stupid people. Smart people running Linux on the desktop are having a fantastic time with zero problems.
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by devops99 2y ago
> towards what are almost undeniably the very common experiences of many linux users. While I empathize with these novice Linux users (who may not be self-aware they are as novice as they are), I do so to consider what a distro that avoi
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by devops99 2y ago
> I might as well point out that billions of people think otherwise of Linux. These same billions, sans a very small fraction, don't even have "operating system" in their vocabulary. And as far as they are concerned, Chrom
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by devops99 2y ago
> and it probably won’t work in 5 years Containers have been around for over a decade now. This "no backwards compatibility" meme is utter horse shit.
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by devops99 2y ago
illumos is the living and thriving fork of OpenSolaris. I run some customers' private clouds on illumos. There are some contributions we may be able to upstream before 2025Q3. Looking back on how things panned out, going all in on illu
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by devops99 2y ago
The content is total garbage, which is where the problem ultimately lies.
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by devops99 2y ago
I agree with you 100% and yes I left that part out. So yeah: NOT GEEK SQUAD
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by devops99 2y ago
Drawio, Session, and SimpleX are three that use AppImage, just off the top of my head. > because they come with all the dependencies starting with glibc Good, because my system doesn't have glibc, by choice. > Yeah, that will tot
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by devops99 2y ago
Arch is not for consumers, Arch is for people who think they are "power users" or something like that.
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by devops99 2y ago
> For macOS and Windows you basically have a model where you can go to a website, download a binary, install it, and it runs. We have already had this on Linux for years, it's called AppImage.
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by devops99 2y ago
This website is for hackers, not "geek squad". I am very disappointed that something of such low quality could manage to be linked on one of the first few pages of this site.
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by devops99 2y ago
It's basically a thin-client OS, it doesn't do even 0.1% of what Qubes does. If you dig into the documentation you will see an MSSQL template as its admin backend (yes, it's that bad) and each "application" backend

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