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DemiGuru··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Mullvad talks a lot about decentralization, then hands its resolver users to one of the biggest resolvers going. Quad9 is a good operator, and they actually fought Sony in German court instead of quietly complying. They still got ordered to block. That's the problem. A blocking order only hurts as much as the resolver it lands on is used, so every operator that shuts down and sends its users to Quad9 makes the next order a better deal for whoever files it.
DemiGuru··on China, Egypt to do away with the use of the US dollar
Does it mean that Egypt would start refusing US aid?
DemiGuru··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
How does the GrapheneOS threat model account for baseband or firmware-level supply chain risks on Lenovo/Motorola hardware, given their historical consumer security incidents like Superfish? Is the open-source attestation sufficient to mitigate hardware-level tampering?
DemiGuru··on Show HN: Embed a real Linux terminal on your website
By no means am I trying to troll here, I'm genuinely asking: why? What purpose does this serve that I'm missing?
DemiGuru··on Markdown editor with live preview built in C++
It's visually pleasing. Appreciate the effort!

I realize that my comment might come off as condescending but it's far from it.

DemiGuru··on Thundermail Email Hosting
No mention of support of: - Labels - Masked addresses
DemiGuru··on A Research Lab for Open Source
Our current research focuses are:

Software supply chain security — We're working on an observatory that allows users to identify and monitor the world's critical Open Source packages in real time, including previously hidden parts of the dependency graph.

Maintainer burnout — Our report on burnout in Open Source has been well-received. We're working on yearly follow-ups, plus a companion report on how AI is affecting maintainer burnout.

Moving forward, the Lab's experts will direct funding to and supervise Open Source sustainability researchers doing critical work. We are already working with universities to teach the next generations of software supply chain experts.

DemiGuru··on Managing Edge Resources Scale a Peer-to-Peer CDN for On-Demand Video Streaming
I find it genuinely worrisome: “Starting in 2020, ByteDance began exploring the use of edge nodes as a partial replacement for CDNs. These nodes mainly consist of idle computing resources on the Internet (e.g., smart home devices and outdated servers), and they are collected by third-party companies and sold in bundles to us at a heavily discounted price compared to CDNs.”
DemiGuru··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Based on what I understand, pull requests are coming. In the meantime they provide directions for people that want to contribute here -> https://github.com/Keychron/zgm/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
DemiGuru··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
For those that are interested: - https://github.com/Keychron/zgm - https://zgm.gg/
DemiGuru··on Almost Went Back: One Month on NixOS
Call me naive, but why not natively run the Nix package manager side-by-side with pacman. This allows one to safely use tools like Home Manager to manage their user environment and dotfiles declaratively while leaving the core Arch Linux base completely untouched.
DemiGuru··on Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-153-Downloads
DemiGuru··on What Is Copilot Exactly?
That’s Finance. They don't fly the plane; they just wait for the right moment to drop the bill for those premium tokens.
DemiGuru··on Apple Just Lost Me
I use offsite backups for that very scenario - From nextcloud (private) to https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage.
DemiGuru··on Apple Just Lost Me
I was in almost the exact same boat as the author. As a long-time Apple power user, I reached my breaking point about a year ago and finally migrated my workflow to Linux. I’m still letting my iPhone age out, but I’ve already stripped it of all Apple cloud services. Instead, I’ve replaced every stock app with self-hosted alternatives running on my own beefy NAS. If you have the technical overhead to manage your own stack, I highly recommend it, owning your data is a total game-changer for privacy.
DemiGuru··on China's Geovis Insighter Technology to Launch SSA Constellation
Geovis Insighter to deploy space situational awareness satellite constellation
DemiGuru··on Org tutorials
Have you considered incorporating orgmode plugin with Neovim? [https://github.com/nvim-orgmode]
DemiGuru··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
Only in a morally inverted world is a nation blamed for keeping land it took while fending off an attack.
DemiGuru··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
"...a lot of land stolen" let me just say that your limited understanding is painful.
DemiGuru··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
The same could be said of any worldview. So tell me—what part of UNESCO’s decision to admit the “State of Palestine” as a Member State strikes you as objectively righteous?
DemiGuru··on Affirmative Action Is Still in Effect. For Men
https://web.archive.org/web/20230908194700/https://www.nytim...
DemiGuru··on Rolex Buys Bucherer
I realize. Which is why I am puzzled by the acquisition of a retailer. What I mean by that is that a retailer that has such financial backing can destroy the watch luxury retail market.
DemiGuru··on Rolex Buys Bucherer
I frankly don't understand how the acquisition of Bucherer (retailer) aligns with Rolex being a non-profit.
DemiGuru··on Shedding Light on CVSS Scoring Inconsistencies
This is a summary of the report: https://www.cs1.tf.fau.de/research/human-factors-in-security...
DemiGuru··on Chinese Cars Star at German Auto Show
I will never trust Chinese electric cars for the very same reason China banned Teslas from certain areas in that country. The cars are equipped with cameras and other data gathering tech that can be coopted for different types of intelligence gathering.
DemiGuru··on Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van
This is nuts!
DemiGuru··on Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair
http://web.archive.org/web/20230831164847/https://www.404med...
DemiGuru··on Meteorologist Is Naming Heatwaves After Big Polluting Oil Companies
The process of extracting the oil from the ground as well the refining process are major contributors
DemiGuru··on China's government has announced that all App Store devs must be based in China
Here is hoping that this marks the point where they "jumped the shark"
DemiGuru··on China releases TV documentary showcasing army’s ability to attack Taiwan
Based on the article I would say that the TV documentary showcases the army's willingness to attack Taiwan. Not their ability.
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