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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Nice, thanks for the link ๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Adobe is the one company i'd never, ever, ever want to support, especially with a subscription. ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ all day every day

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The tldr bot is pulling directly from the article - it used to use ChatGPT wayy back when it was originally created, but it got expensive for the creator, so now I believe it uses some sentence interpreter library to compare relevance of paragraphs, in combination with semantic HTML tags/markup.

The code for it is on GitHub

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Flash drive hidden under the carpet and connected via a USB extension, holding the decryption keys - threat model is a robber making off with the hard drives and gear, where the data just needs to be useless or inaccessible to others.

There's a script in the initramfs which looks for the flash drive, and passes the decryption key on it to cryptsetup, which then kicks off the rest of the boot mounting the filesystems underneath the luks

I could technically remove the flash drive after boot as the system is on a UPS, but I like the ability to reboot remotely without too much hassle.

What I'd like to do in future would be to implement something more robust with a hardware device requiring 2FA. I'm not familiar with low level hardware security at all though, so the current setup will do fine for the time being!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Steroids? They've done a complete speedrun lol

Imagine if it was a more mundane issue, let's say the air line in a carriage has blown out and none of the doors work under their own power. Roll the train into the third party workshop to carry out the fix... a copyright notice flags up on the panel screen and now you've got a long 20 ton dead brick in your workshop

Imagine this happened with cars, that would be outrageous man

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

With the fake parts scandal for airplanes I wonder if this should be mandatory for parts that impact public safety for public transport like trains, buses, planes and so on.

Airplanes are vastly more complex though. Four engines, flying at extremely high altitudes at hundreds of km/h, fully airtight, powerful onboard generators, food prep areas, bathroom etc, extensive ethernet networking for the small IFE units and WiFi access points, list goes on...

Whereas a train doesn't have anything close to that, even the high speed ones with all the bells and whistles, so I think it would be a bit unreasonable to expect them to be held to the same standards as an airplane.

The only train I'd suggest an exception for would be a maglev though - OEM parts only there please, especially for traction and em equipment ๐Ÿ˜ณ

Dont get me wrong, I want a full right to repair enshrined in law and using a system like this just to prevent it is clearly wrong, but if it could be adapted to allow for critical parts to be made under license by third parties and helped prevent fake parts then may be a small amount of good can come from this shitty practice.

Some independent validation of the manufacturing materials, their grade and assembly quality could work well here, since I'm not too sure if blindly trusting the parts manufacturers would be a great idea as long as they have profits in mind

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

In this asklemmy comm specifically?

There are two very popular asklemmy communities and they both are run differently ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Is Tesla still training the Autopilot neural network in 3D worlds, or are they now entirely relying on driver data?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Honestly I think developers should just use push notifications to tell the app to directly fetch the notification contents from their server, rather than sending the contents of the notification using push, where it is stored by Apple/Google.

Or do what Element and Syncthing do, which is bypass that entire Google push infrastructure (FCM, formerly GCM?) and connect directly to their own ones instead - at the expense of some additional battery consumption, particularly when there's poor cell service. Due to iOS restrictions on background apps, this probably isn't possible on that platform?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

In the rural areas near where I am, gigabit fiber in underfunded areas is being installed, but sadly a vocal minority of residents keep burning up and sawing down the new fiber internet poles.

Of course we don't hear about the good news from areas where it's installed drama free, but the bad news where something goes terribly wrong is the one that sticks, and affects the general public's impressions of a particular area or stereotype ๐Ÿ˜’

Admittedly the pole installation method for this is quite odd though, maybe a cost saving measure as usually it's done underground

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