Atemu

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The e-privacy directive is not a thing yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Haha you see, that's the trick: It's not your game. Our corporate overlords in their absolute perfection merely granted you permission to temporarily enjoy their impeccable creation. Hail them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Could you provide more info? On what grounds?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

They claim this one talks to Apple's servers directly without proxy and therefore does E2EE.

See https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works

They do claim to use a custom-built proxy for push notifications (Apple's push notifications obviously won't work on Android) but that's a helluvalot less critical than a message content proxy.

Given their previous behaviour, I'll only believe that when an independent security researcher confirms that the app's code actually implements the iMessage protocol with E2EE as they claim.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Were you using the Google espionage services on GOS? If so, you'd likely gain a little privacy because of µG.

Some devices can lock the bootloader but that's not a generally supported feature on /e/OS.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why bother with such micro optimisations when the purpose is to be used extremely infrequently for compatibility reasons?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It won't. In fact, it might even make that part worse because the quieter parts would become even quieter.

What you need here is a "midnight mode" which is just a compressor; it reduces the dynamic range. Since dynamic range is an aspect of audio quality, this is not something you generally want.

Gain normalisation just ensures that different audio tracks are, on "average", the same volume so that you don't have to change volume all the time to accommodate the different mix of each song.

Spotify has these features for example under it's "Normalise volume" setting; the first two settings do gain normalisation and the high setting also adds a compressor I believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

But my filesystem has RAID and checksums and I use ECC memory, I don't need backups /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It’s just that setting everything up (once) again is annoying and highly inconvenient.

Why though? Have you ever tested your backup?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Accountability? For tech giants? AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I would need to factory reset the whole server for that, which would be … highly inconvenient for me. It took me quite a long time to get everything working, and I don’t wanna loose my configuration.

It sounds like your configuration is not sufficiently backed up.

Data you care about (that includes software configuration files) should be backed up at least three times on two different mediums with one copy being stored off-site (3-2-1 rule).

Also, how should I access the device when I don’t see anything? Is there a workaround or something when I want to reboot without a monitor and keyboard?

There are two ways that I have found for this:

  • Initrd SSH: Just run an sshd inside your initrd. After reboot, you connect from another machine and enter your decryption password through SSH.
  • TPM unlock & measured boot: You use a TPM to measure whether your bootloader, kernel, initrd are all valid and then the TPM releases the decryption key to the kernel; automatically unlocking LUKS.
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