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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I've found the Seedstudio thing after posting this too and it looks like the thing I'd be looking for!

What's your experience w.r.t. coverage?
Obviously that highly depends on where exactly you are – you certainly aren't going to have coverage in the outback – but I'm mostly concerned with places where people actually go and would take my bag/laptop/bicycle to. 'Stralia is going to generally be quite different from Germany too of course but it would be a good reference point from which I could extrapolate.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PM is automayically E2EE too if the recepient's server supports WKD or has uploaded their pubkey to keys.openpgp.org.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, they have – I think. When you download an edited image, it supposedly downloads an image with edits applied. The original is optionally available too.

If you download the edited image, this is effectively equivalent to the status quo of image editing.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

The issue is not the instruction set of the processors. That's actually quite well standardised with ARM (albeit unfree) and there is plenty of generic support for it because of that.

The issue is all the "peripheral" devices such as WiFi, WWAN, display etc. that are wired up in extremely bespoke device-specific ways. They are usually implemented in vendor kernels with millions of lines of divergence to mainline at best and/or proprietary blobs at worst.

Changing the ISA from one well-supported closed standard to a less well-supported open one will not change that issue one bit.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Try them. That's the only way. Go to an actual physical place (i.e. a store) and see what you like and don't like about the models there.

Then you can ask for specific advice using those models as a reference.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Are there any (ideally waterproof) compact devices with long battery life (months~years)?

On the website I only found a long list of supported devices with brand name search and protocol type. grep showed no LoRaWAN devices though?

My use-case is theft tracking. I only need the device to be able to locate itself after a theft actually occurred and I request it remotely. (Perhaps also periodically with very low frequency.)

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

SearXNG is not a search engine, it's a search engine proxy. The actual search engines that are being proxied are still the same old google, bing etc.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Disabling su is stupid because you always need some form of privilege escalation, restricting sudo to apt offers no security benefit whatsoever as apt allows arbitrary file modification, disabling root ssh provides no benefit when the unprivileged user has sudo access – I could go on.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd highly recommend you actually read it. Once you look past the LLM-ish phrasing, it quickly becomes clear that the actual information contained is human-made with a great amount of valuable thought put into it.

I've been here for a long-time (go and check if you'd like). There wasn't a single thing in that post that made me think the author hasn't understood the principles of the fediverse that make it so valuable or reasoned wrong about them – quite the opposite.

This post idenifies many (if not most) of the major problems that I have had with Lemmy over the years. The onboarding improvements you've seemed to have at least glanced at are just the tip of the iceberg.
I use Lemmy despite of these limitations but I am also a technical person with quite a bit of tolerance for such technological pain. The high-level improvements proposed here would meaningfully diminish these; allowing less technologically capable or tolerant people to benefit from Lemmy too.

This is actual UX requirement engineering.

If broader (and less technical) user adoption is a goal of the Lemmy project, I'd consider the vision outlined in this post to possibly be one of the most valuable non-technical contributions to Lemmy as a whole.
Seriously.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Yikes, lot's of bad advice in this thread.

My advice: Go develop an actual threat model and find and implement mitigations to the threats you've identified.

If you can't do that, that's totally okay; it's a skill that takes a lot of time and effort to learn and is well-compensated in the industry.

You will need to pay for it. Either through an individual assessment by someone who knows what they're doing, managed hosting services where the hoster is contractually liable and has implemented such measures, by risking becoming part of a botnet or by not hosting in a world-public manner.

My recommendations:

  • Pay for proper managed hosting for every part of your system that you are not capable of securing yourself. This is a general rule that even experienced people follow by i.e. renting a VPS rather than exposing their own physical HW. There are multiple grades to this such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
  • Research, evalue and implement low-hanging fruit measures that massively reduce the attack surface. One such measure would be to not host in a manner that is accessible to the entire world and instead pay for managed authenticated access that is limited to select people (i.e. VPN such as Tailscale)
  • git gud
[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wow is that ever a load of snake oil.

I see this kind of guide as actively harmful because it creates a false sense of security.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It works for me, even with substrings.

It's sometimes a bit fiddly though as adding even the tiniest bit of data that is not contained in the address as OSM knows it will invalidate the entire search.

 

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