Why zulip instead of the good ol' IRC?
It has modern features. It stores message history. It has a fairly unique feature of letting you create ad-hoc "topics" (that go under a "Channel") that make it easier to manage the flood of conversation.
Readit Newsorblivion commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
I feel like I'm taking pills, but hear me out.
If there's one thing we learned from the Snowden leaks is that the NSA can't break GPG.
Look at it from the POV of someone who like me isn't an expert: on the one hand I have ivory tower researchers telling me that GPG is "bad". On the other hand I have fact that the most advanced intelligence in the world can't break it. My personal conclusion is that GPG is actually fucking awesome.
What am I missing?
The NSA can't break GPG assuming everything is working properly. This blog post (which to be fair I only skimmed) explains that GPG is a mess which could lead to things not working properly, and also gives real life examples. You may also want to see https://gpg.fail (you can tell they're from the ivory tower by the cat ears). The blog post also mentions bad UX, which you and I can directly appreciate (if anything I might expect ivory tower types to dismiss UX issues).
Seems to be down? Here's a thread with a summary of exploits presented in the talk: https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3ma...
Maybe the site is overloaded. But as for the "brb, were on it!!!!" - this page had the live stream of the talk when it was happening. Hopefully they'll replace it with the recording when media.ccc.de posts it, which should be within a couple hours.
orblivion commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
> It will evolve into a modern AI browser
Next time I run into Richard Stallman I should ask him for tips on browsing the web
orblivion commented on EFF launches Age Verification Hub eff.org/press/releases/ef... · Posted by u/iamnothere
Like many mention in other comments on this post, it's possible to implement using ZKPs. There are likely other methods that would be effective without compromising privacy. None of them are part of the Age Verification discussion because kids are not the actual point of Age Verification.
When I say "if we have to know you're not a kid, we have to know who you are" I'm not stating an actual truth, but the argument as it is playing out politically.
Okay but then if a ZKP solution is presented, that's calling their bluff. They now have one less excuse for surveillance.
EDIT: Actually do one better - tell them that for 16+ websites, you're actually protecting teenagers by keeping them anonymous.
orblivion commented on EFF launches Age Verification Hub eff.org/press/releases/ef... · Posted by u/iamnothere
orblivion commented on Are you stuck in movie logic? usefulfictions.substack.c... · Posted by u/eatitraw
I think part of the reason I'm "conflict averse" is that airing things out very often doesn't turn out like... well, like the movies. Sometimes the issue I have with someone is just "weird" and socially unacceptable to air out, or maybe the person doesn't turn out to be as reasonable or understanding as I hope they are. Or maybe after enough of these, it just becomes overwhelming to the other person.
orblivion commented on Things that aren't doing the thing strangestloop.io/essays/t... · Posted by u/downboots
Running OpenStreetMap off the grid (self-hosted to say the least) on a Raspberry Pi 500 (and to some extent a Pi Zero 2W) for Internet In a Box:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielkrol_openstreetmap-acti...
All of the street and satellite tiles are thanks to maps.black. The search uses Nominatim's sqlite3 mode. I was told that it's experimental only because it hasn't been tried in production yet, so I'm sort of testing it in the process. So far I'm only doing administrative boundaries and natural features, but so far so good! I'm going to slowly add a few more types of POIs, I just don't want the database file to get too big.
Note that Internet in a Box has an OSM offering already, but the data is five years old and the tech makes it harder to update. As of today, there are much easier options on the table, and we get cool stuff like 3d buildings. Also, the search was much more limited.
* https://internet-in-a-box.org/
* https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/customize/SQLite/