DetectDefect

This reaction to one unsolicited email is frankly unhinged and likely rooted in a deep-seated or even unconscious regret of building systems which materialized the circumstances for this to occur in the first place. Such vitriol is really worth questioning and possibly getting professional help with, else one becomes subject to behavioral engineering by an actual robot - a far more devastating conclusion.

> I'm not sure what makes you assume that about me.

I'm not sure why you're not sure; the parent comment explained it already: your vision of an idealized pasture is incongruent with reality, namely because the number of animals and resources it would take to materialize and actually sustain such a system defies reason.

This was never a discussion about animal welfare, but about challenging industry-seeded assumptions which were not even being questioned. It is unfortunate this makes you feel threatened and requires a retreat from the conversation, but it is also typical.

> How do you prevent malware running on the pwned laptop from asking for an ephemeral cert to be issued?

If you have malware capable of code execution, restricting the ability to issue one command is not going to be a meaningful control, especially with something like a physical touch which most users are just conditioned to accept, or can be trivially phished into accepting.

> plenty of time for malware to ship the cert back to a command-and-control server.

If your infrastructure cannot distinguish legitimate traffic, or you do not have a defensible network perimeter, again a physical touch is not going to be meaningful; it is not the panacea you are looking for.

> I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features.

To develop and sustain these "AI features", human intelligence - manifested as countless hours of work published online and elsewhere - was exigently preempted and used without permission to further increase the asymmetry of knowledge/power between those with political power and those without (mostly vulnerable, marginalized cohorts).

People will eventually stop eating meat because it is unsustainable, but unfortunately not without causing a great deal of suffering first, and your comment is an example of why this process is unnecessarily prolonged. It is clear you have not done much research on actual animal welfare based on your "pasture" argument alone. I am even willing to bet you think humans currently outnumber animals, when the reality is so much more troubling.

Technology is a fundamental political right; asymmetry of power in a polity through a monopoly on technology is the goal of any State, which people have a responsibility to deny.

The economics of what you describe are impossible. The entire concept of an idyllic pasture is actual industry propaganda which is not based in objective reality.

You cannot treat a commodified individual "better" - it is only possible to euphemize such a logical fallacy.

If you aready have an SSH CA, why not just issue ephemeral certs lasting for several seconds or minutes? What risk would be addressed by adding hardware keys into the mix?

Taste has nothing to do with it; 'tis is all based on economics and the actual way to stop meat consumption is to simply remove big-ag tax subsidies and other externalized costs of production which are not actually realized by the consumer. A burger would cost more than most can afford and the free market would take care of this problem without additional intervention. Unfortunately, we do not have a free market.

I stopped using webauthn for this reason, plus the fact requires a ton of intrusive browser features and access. This surely will enrage most readers, which itself reveals an interesting conditioning that has taken place.

What exactly do we stand to "win" with generative AI?

Curious if you have ever seen footage from a modern industrial farm, which has already replaced humans with domesticated animals and associated machinery, by a wide margin. Unfortunately those videos are a lot less appealing to most people.

Same reason people go to Disneyland and pose with someone costumed as an anthropomorphic cartoon mouse: people model their gods after their own experiences and ideology.

Even excusing that daemon, here is a list of processes which have attempted to contact Apple in the past 24 hours, according to Little Snitch. I am certain this is not even a complete list, because macOS is closed source and likely can bypass application firewalls altogether:

    akd -> gsa.apple.com
    nsurlsessiond -> gateway.icloud.com
    nsurlsessiond -> mesu.apple.com
    nsurlsessiond -> gdmf-ados.apple.com
    nsurlsessiond -> gdmf.apple.com
    adprivacyd -> bag.itunes.apple.com
    CloudTelemetryService -> gateway.icloud.com
    cloudd -> gateway.icloud.com
    amsondevicestoraged -> bag.itunes.apple.com
    tipsd -> ipcdn.apple.com
    parsec-fbf -> fbs.smoot.apple.com
    parsec-fbf -> swallow.apple.com
    com.apple.geod -> gspe1-ssl.ls.apple.com
    identityservicesd -> init.ess.apple.com

Again, I have never used iCloud/Apple services, turned off all available telemetry options and did not open any Apple applications while all this took place (I only use Firefox and iTerm). Almost all of these processes lack a man page, or if they have one, it's one-line nonsense which explains nothing. This is beyond unprofessional.

This reminds me of the final scene in The Conversation, when Caul sits alone in his desconstructed apartment after being convinced he is being eavesdropped - a victim of his own paranoia.

Back up your seeds! Aegis for Android lets you do encrypted exports.

mailbox.org hooked up to Thunderbird allows you to do so using custom domains. You can send and receive email as any string @ your domain.

Shall we showcase our trees?

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       /.\
      /o..\
      /..O\
     /.o..o\
     /...o.\
    /..O..o.\
    ^^^[_]^^^

I would love to see an effort to amass these corpora of knowledge into zim files for offline consumption, similar to stackoverflow et al.

https://library.kiwix.org

Sure, it's only a place for permanent rootkits and bootkits to proliferate, why care about it at all?

How is Dell's firmware security story?

> an evaluation of the value granted by upgradability and repeatability of the machine

The market assigns almost no value to these tenets, nor do the consumers participating in it.

None of those would not prevent someone owning your device because the firmware has vulnerabilities.

Until we see the source code (or at least a man page) that is an unverified claim and the process should be treated like malware:

    while : ; do pkill -9 dasd ; sleep 10 ; done

The tasks it "schedules" must be very low-priority, because nothing breaks when dasd doesn't run.

Have Ubiquiti/Unifi firmware/devices ever been subject to independent, third-party security testing? Surely a company charging such a premium for high-end devices has invested in such processes and is proud to showcase them ...

> Is there proof that Apple is monetizing our data with third parties?

Other than a history replete of cooperation with domestic and foreign state surveillance, which in exchange allow its market position, you mean?

I just opened Activity Monitor - a process called "dasd" is the 5th largest consumer of CPU time. What does it do? Apple does not want you to know. Apple also will not let you disable it. Apple will not even tell you if this process is legitimate (it is signed by "Software Signing" lmao).

    $ man dasd
    No manual entry for dasd

There are like two dozen processes like this, half of which open network connections despite me never invoking any Apple services or even built-in apps. macOS has basically become malware.

Nothing is false about asking to prove a unicorn exists.

> I don't pretend that Apple is saintly, but their profit model is currently to make money through premium prices on premium products

Is this statement based on anything other than Apple marketing materials, perhaps a meaningful qualification from an independent third party? I worry this falsehood is being repeated so much it has become "truth".