ReversalHatchery

@ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org

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ReversalHatchery, (edited )

SIM tray opener tool for smartphones. It’s pretty small

ReversalHatchery,

I think they mean the variable width of the graph’s columns. If you watch it as the graph moves, there are gaps at every 2 columns.

I don’t understand though the thing about font priorities.
And also, would that just change all fonts? Unless you mod the font to only have the braille characters…

ReversalHatchery,

It is, for them.

Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' (tech.slashdot.org)

Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology...

ReversalHatchery,

FYI. Blockchain is only so very power waster because for cryptocurrency uses the users churn out new rounds continuously as if there is no tomorrow.

Here, your public key relatively rarely changes. If you had your protonmail account for years, it probably hasn’t changed ever yet.
Maybe I’m wrong in this, but this seems to be similar to what Keybase was doing, and that was a cool idea!

Best lesser-known distribution/DE for low-end machines?

I know Debian and others can breathe life into older machines. But i wonder if there are any distros with serious optimizations that I haven’t heard of. I’ve already tried MX Linux on an old Thinkpad SL400, and didn’t see any difference from plain Debian....

ReversalHatchery,

If you have any expectation of privacy, you shouldn’t use chromium based browsers. Their purpose is not privacy, and google actively makes sure it will never be.

ReversalHatchery,

If otherwise you don’t plan to use windows on that machine anymore (on bare metal, a virtual machine is not relevant here), it would be better to transfer your data to a Linux native file system. Unless you have a solid preference, ext4 is a good choice.

Basically you just need to copy your files over, but you may need to do it in chunks (and resize the 2 partitions in every round) if you can’t hold the files if the NTFS file system safely while you reformat it.
Also, if you want to keep attributes like file creation time and last modification time, that’ll require a bit more copy parameters, if you want this let me know and I’ll fill you in on the details.
What distro do you use by the way?

ReversalHatchery,

They’re compromised with free software

Lol

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

I think they meant the former, but if there were downvotes that’s still weird

Why Not Store Encrypted Emails in Plaintext Locally?

Clients like Thunderbird are great because you have everything stored locally so you can easily search offline. They also support encrypting and decrypting emails in PGP. However, they seem to have the same limitation as protonmail where you can’t search through encrypted emails....

ReversalHatchery,

fastmail

That’s a paid service, right? I don’t know much about them, they may have other pros too, but proton also allows you to use your own email client if you’re in a plan.

ReversalHatchery,

Protonmail now supports searching in the content of all your mail, though.
Or at least the web client. It will ask you to download all your mail, and it will make an encrypted search index on your computer.

ReversalHatchery,

Can’t BTRFS be used on a LUKS volume? Or does it have disadvantages?

ReversalHatchery,

I see, good points.

I have also experienced that dangling devices break remounting it, but I think there’s a quicker solution for it: dmsetup remove insert_device_name_here.
It’s still a manual thing, though, but 2 steps better. Maybe it can be automated somehow, I haven’t looked into that yet.

ReversalHatchery,

I had similar frustrations with a game. It’s very easy to make mistakes while you’re a beginner in editing such files (I don’t know if you are).
One advice is to make sure to keep the data the same length.

If that doesn’t help, observe the file’s structure a bit more. Maybe it uses a checksum somewhere for the data you want to edit, or it is just stored elsewhere and you were editing the wrong thing.
Make a save. Make the data to change (in the shortest time possible) and make a new save. Compare these for what have changed.

But also, what is your problem?
Does the value just don’t change, or the save becomes corrupted?

ReversalHatchery,

Oh and one more thing!

Do you obtain this file from the file system, or do you need to extract it from some kind of a container file, and then implant back the modified version?
SnowRunner’s asset files cannot be edited unless you unpack and repack them with winrar. Anything else (as far as I tried, windows tools at the time) and it won’t work.

Alleged RCMP leaker says he was tipped off that police targets had 'moles' in law enforcement (www.cbc.ca)

According to Ortis, briefed him about a “storefront” that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies....

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

Why, what else could have they done with laws? Protonmail and literally every other provider on the clearnet is also susceptible to this. The only thing they can do is have lawyers to find what the absolute most minimum they are required to do and only do that, but that’s all.

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

Proton can be legally ordered to start recording the IP address of a specific user. That’s why they recommend that you always connect through their Onion site.
Other than that and if that’s possible, I think it may also be possible to legally order Proton to keep the unencrypted form of incoming emails for a specific user, but Proton did not said it in the article, and Swiss laws might protect them against that. It’s certainly possible technically, and good to be aware of it, I think.

Sorry but I can’t open the second link, as it actively resists it. I suspect though that the problem with Tutanota was not their encryption, but their legal system, which required them to keep a copy of the incoming emails.

Also, don’t mistake me, I’m all for protonmail, and I mean this. But did you know they only encrypt the email contents? Metadata like title, sender recipient and other things in the mail header don’t get encrypted.

ReversalHatchery,

The plan was to have criminals use the storefront — an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota — to allow authorities to collect intelligence about them.

Excuse me, what?

ReversalHatchery,

on the proton encryption, i did know about this but does that apply to proton-to-proton, proton-to-NonProton, or both? if you have details on this let me know.

As I know it applies to both. Formerly they were asking (among other things) about the titles of your latest emails for account recovery. (after I have put all the links here I realized that these don’t give a details on whether this also applies to inter-proton messages…)

A few sources:

proton.me/…/proton-mail-encryption-explained

Subject lines and recipient/sender email addresses are encrypted but not end-to-end encrypted.

www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/…/eiphhs7/?c…

…stackexchange.com/…/why-is-some-meta-data-not-en…

either way the fact that they dont makes me feel that proton is a similar honeypot to signal and telegram, where they make a compromise with the five eyes, to give them metadata even if actual contents are safe. metadata can be much more powerful than contents often times

Yeah, might as well be. But if it is, I’m afraid we won’t get to know for a few decades, if ever. And I think it’s still better than the alternatives… the alternative email providers, that is.
If it comforts you, in their reddit comment I linked they mention (in 2019…) that there’s a proposal they support for openpgp to be able to have an encrypted subject line.

ReversalHatchery,

As I understand the article says the article was finalized on November 8, 2 days ago. Do we know what was the outcome?

ReversalHatchery,

Yeah, except you aren’t supposed to TOFU.

A better solution would be to have both at the same time.
Browser says: x number of CAs say that this site is authentic (click here for a list). Do you trust this site? Certificate fingerprint: … Certificate randomart: …

And then there would be options to trust it once, trust it temporarily, trust it and save the cert. The first 2 could also block JS if wanted.

I can see this would annoy the mainstream users, so probably this should be opt-in, asked at browser installation or something like that.

ReversalHatchery,

Forget the guillotine, we need to roast them live and eat the rich

/s but is it?

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

Hmm, not sure about that, it seems to me it just stores the audio in one series of small fragments, which are just split up somehow by time.

Did you think about recording the audio with something?
Like OBS or Audacity (versions before 3). I think that may be a semi-good solution. Or, for somewhat better quality you could download the whole track (yt-dlp can handle it), and then cut it for the pieces you want to keep, in Audacity (before version 3) or something else

ReversalHatchery,

By the way, playing it in the browser it sounded as if it was pretty strongly compressed for consumption, so to speak, but yt-dlp got a better quality version.

Maybe there’s a quality selector of the website, and it has just been mistaken by uBlock as a tracker among the high profile trackers present on the page?

ReversalHatchery,

Yes, I did. If it doesn’t work for you, you may try updating it with yt-dlp -U.
If that doesn’t help let me know, maybe one of my settings does the trick

ReversalHatchery,

I’ve read recently that for now they are only developing it further for Android, maybe for use with the system webview?

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