This is a project by co-authors of ActivityPub to add more features and a new way to program to the fediverse. Check out the rest of the blog if that interests you.

I am using Ubuntu 14.04LTS “Trusty Tahr”…

Wow that is ancient! Interresting feature, I wonder if it could be reimplemented as a wayland protocol, however I think some modern IDEs and some text editors have something similar nowadays.

I found this community branding very confusing. They should have just branded the version for organisations as “Enterprise edition”!

I think the company perspective “breaking a security chip to allow installation of other airfilters being in violation of copyright” is flimsy at best. No intellectual property is being protected with it, thats why I think putting the fix online and fighting the potential lawsuit is a better strategy. But I see why they wouldnt do that.

manual moderation, and there are some moderation bots that can detect spam.

Being in jail because you fixed an air filter is a much stronger message people could rail against.

I see that its not feasible for the nonprofit to invite breaking the law, but the law seems ill defined in this case, and perhaps a lawsuit that goes to the top could change things. I think lawmakers dont actually care about fixable devices, and proving they can be fixed doesnt change this. Saving someone from prison by way of closing a loophole(DRM to prevent repairs, replacement parts) is something much more actionable for polititians I think.

If I had the kind of money that they seem to have I would try this instead, is all I was trying to say.

But unlike Kociemba, he wasn’t about to share the fix. Though he was able to fix the problem, he doesn’t feel safe weathering the potential legal ramifications that he might face if he released the solution publicly. “I proved that I can do it,” he says. “And that was it.” Still, Fulu awarded him the bounty. O’Reilly says the goal of the project is less about getting actual fixes out in the world, and more about calling attention to the lengths companies are allowed to go to wrest control from their users under the auspices of Section 1201.

And thats where they lost me. The project isnt about actually fixing things? Its just to show the lawmakers that made fixing stuff illegal that stuff can still technically be fixed? Great…?

Fixing something that was obviously hostile in design, and then getting sued for fixing is a much stronger political signal than saying “it can be fixed :)” in a press release! People even get awarded a big chunk of money for it! The foundation seems to have a lot of money, they granted the first bounty to 2 people simultaneously, and they match all bounties up to 10000$ so they could support lawsuits that challenge stuff like this, but instead award money to secret solutions that help nobody.

This is frustrating to read, so close to challenging big tech without actually doing anything!

this is peak schizoposting. I love schizoposts, but it just doesnt belong in this community.

There is an experimental version floating around that does run on linux through the very new android translation layer. Very buggy though currently. Its in flathub.

Its not a backdoor, because secure boot was never about safety to begin with. Its just a piece of security theater, whose primary use is more control for microsoft. “Secure” boot only boots software signed with a microsoft key, thats the “security”. Microsoft also allows linux distributions to be signed, but nothing is technically stopping them from just refusing, for " security reasons", and on some systems secure boot cant be turned off. So it being bustable is a good thing. There are other ways to protect devices from physical access, but generally, if attackers have physical access to your computer, then its compromised, secure boot or not. Framework just didnt want to play along.

The article is from a security researcher involved in the development of post-quantum encryption. Hes known for fighting against various agencies trying to weaken encryption for their questionable benefit. Hes been very successful but a one-man-show only goes so far. Please, if you read this: write those emails to the mailing list and tell others whats going on!

This (sadly) has implications across the whole world, but right now its very easy to stop.

And please, if you do write the email, please dont just copy paste the template in the article, it seems the comitee wants to ignore all the ones with the same wording because of “spam”

Wow, lots of fediverse projects I had no idea existed! Epicyon for example. Although I dont think bluesky is part of the fediverse…

hmmm, bromine, sounds very safe and healthy.

If you want to release your app under the gpl and are not sure whether you are allowed to on the apple app store you can always dual license your app, for example proprietary and gpl. That way you can have it on the app store without legal problems and it can still be F(L)OSS.

However, I have never heard of any legal trouble for releasing gpl apps, so I dont think anybody cares that its technically questionable. Thats an open legal question that no court has answered and I dont think they ever will.

I also have problems with one machine, it just refuses to see the others. It might have something to do with the firewall or SElinux, but I’m not sure.

No, it works on other setups too! I have used the regular kde connect app with enlightenment DE for example.

KDE Connect: An app for iOS, android, pretty much every flavor of linux, windows, etc. that lets you connect any devices together to share files, show notifications of other devices, use your phone as an input device(keyboard, mouse), control multimedia applications(start, play, stop, etc.), trigger commands, and everything else if you make a plugin for it.

Sure. The steam version is easiest, just install steam, get the game through steam and it should just work. Heres a website that tracks compatibility with linux through proton, valve’s solution to running windows games, its installed by default when you get steam: https://www.protondb.com/app/389730

finally

Is it the Ur-Quan masters, aka Star Control II?