gotta be honest, i wasn’t a huge fan

I was thinking of RCS security apparently, but was mainly talking about what’s theoretically possible.

There’s nothing stopping someone creating a E2E encrypted SMS app. The medium doesn’t matter, only the data. You could have end to end encrypted carrier pigeons if you want.

Yep, you lock with the public key and unlock with the private.

You can’t unlock with the public, it’s one way only

don’t they also receive the public keys and can then also decrypt the messages??

A public key is used to encrypt a message, you need the private key to decrypt.

That’s why you have public key servers. it doesn’t matter who has the public key, all they can do with it is encrypt information that only the private key holder can decrypt.

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced I don’t understand how any encryption works because the intended recipient needs the key to decrypt it

The way it was explained to me that finally made it click was so:

Imagine you have a lockable box (public key) and a key (private key), the box is empty so you give it to your friend. it doesn’t matter if anyone sees the open box because there’s nothing in it. your friend puts something private for you in the box and locks it. People see the box as he’s bringing it to you but they can’t see what’s in the box because neither him nor the people watching have the key to the box; only you do. once it gets to you you can open the box with your key

It’s not misinformation. SMS can have end to end encryption if the messages exchanged between two people in a conversation are encrypted.

It’s an add on, in much the way PGP encryption works for email. the first handshake is unencrypted and includes each participants public keys, after that you can have it automatically encrypt each message

you can configure some phones to encrypt all sms messages.

It’s a bit like PGP email though in that, despite it working, no one seems to use it

strap a dremel to your printer.

You now have a CNC machine

Edit: i call it “CNC with a Strap On”

I prefer “struggle fucking”…

consensual of course

Mint. it’s slick, stable and similar (usability wise) to people coming from windows

By discussing their beliefs with them and not ridiculing them.

By avoiding emotional inaccurate rhetoric and biased sources.

By carefully deconstructing their beliefs without attacking them

Not allowing yourself to be pulled off topic.

The right wing movement continues to grow. you can assist them in locking themselves away in their bubbles where their ideology will continue to grow and fester or you can help address the problem and start winning hearts and minds.

There is no other way out of this mess

So they’re actively moderating their instance and removing objectionable material. that’s a good thing.

It’s got like 5 users… Unless they’re actively causing trouble i would be in favour of not defederating.

That said, i’m not a .ca user so it doesn’t really matter to me

it already does this, i’ve had it set up for years. i save them to my mega folder and megasync handles storing them in the cloud

That is until encryption is outlawed

Like all things that are prohibited it will just go underground.

So long as two computers are able to talk to one an other it will be possible to encrypt that traffic>

booo

i doubt it. the user-agent is generated by the browser

i just give em a jiggle and a squeeze and it makes me feel much better

yup, My fiance is a K cup. no way she wants them swinging about when she’s out

There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).

It’s mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn’t a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments

The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it’s literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the “Raspberry Pi” build of Private Internet Access

I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.

couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery

It’s mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.

Honestly it’s game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i’m probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK