current encryption algorithms

The encryption-scares don’t really bother me. It’s as if everyone thinks quantum computers will come of age but for some reason quantum encryption won’t equally scale up to match it?

Like, of course current encryption methods are at risk, they aren’t designed to match quantum computing and any that would, while it would be nice if it also performed on current PC’s… it wouldn’t need to in the longrun.

I do agree that the in-between time of “Oh shit, a quantum computer was invented” and “Ta-da! Encryption that chokes QC!” is a bit scary. Here’s hoping most devs take measures and precautions during the first few warning-shot hours lol.

I wonder what the next grift will be. Maybe big money billionaires will technofy religion.

How long can we enjoy this era of federated spaces can get away with whatever because they’re too small for world governments to give a shit?

I’m guessing until Ai bots can start correlating who is who based on ip and fingerprinting en-masse, but even then, it won’t be everybody, and we’d just move to a “use TOR/I2P” suggestion on every instance.

I’m a free speech pirate. Join our XMPP or Matrix room, ask for “gus”.

We feature such hits as:

• 8647

• Free Luigi

• Free Palestine

• Epstein didn’t kill himself

AND MANY MORE!

The economy collapsing would be a symptom of housing being an unaffordable commodity. It’s all connected. Our entire government is meant to sell everything under it from the bottom-up. It’s just doing its job.

As for a collapse, they’ll cook the numbers forever and hold the entire system up on life support if it means burning poor children as fuel to do it, they’ll make sure it happens. It’s the world we live in. Cheers.

Can you please tell me you’re entirely ethical smartphone setup?

A used Onpeplus 10 with Lineage on it

au contrair, that’s still Android!! We got em! Ez, kek!

Yeah, and I didn’t pay for it. I don’t use Google services. You said ethics, right? I bought it used, Google doesn’t profit and I don’t use any of their services, so, they don’t continue to.

Seems pretty sound to me. Lemme know if you need a recc for a TV or anything. I’m good with those too. I like helping normies connect with technology.

I’m an old pirate who remembers, and the thing, the raw ingredient missing in this scenario?

need

If it didn’t exist, if there was no possible way to get a copy of somesuch Gundam episode whatever in english, some dude somewhere would cross the ends of the earth to get it onto the internet. Piracy is motivated entirely by utility and need, it’s why music piracy atrophied into almost nothing until Soulseek arrived and streaming prices increased. Supply met demand, and it will again for fansubs.

If it’s needed, someone will meet the need. We did it in 1998, we’ll do it next year.

Not gonna happen. Half of the country isn’t aware anything is wrong.

Hell, a good chunk of them are sold on it. Get a perspective outside of a city, or take, I dunno, North Carolina as an example.

The fuck has happened in NC since January? Nothing, and that’s their experience. Same-same, yada-yada. Riot? Why?

Linux Phones have a few software hurdles to pass through to get usable.

The biggest problem right now is adoption and contribution to the ecosystem, but there’s a few things in the way of outright using Linux apps on a phone. One is that most Linux apps aren’t made to be verical. Some newer ones can adapt to it, but many of the apps you likely would depend on using a Linux laptop are almost unusable on a Linux phone, like… vlc, for instance.

The network stack isn’t as beaten to death for 4G and 5G as Android’s is. I work in a slightly iffy area, and on Android I’d have times where I’d lose signal, but it would always come back within 5-10 minutes or so. There’d be times on Linux when it wouldn’t until I’d missed two calls and three texts and an hour and a half had gone by because the system was choking on a comma or a misplaced semicolon it found somewhere in the background and wouldn’t reset until I forced airplane mode off and on. If I was at home, or in the city, I’d never notice this problem, but the second I hit a road trip or went to work, boy.

Also, and this is just my phone, my OP6T had iffy microphone and earpiece settings. Pulse Audio was at the forefront of this audio stack almost entirely unchanged from its appearance on gnome or kde and on a phone it’s just confusing and obtuse as to what app is using what and what even is what. If you got it right, it was fine, then the next call it wouldn’t be, or would change back, again, probably more the 6T being a 6T than anything else.

I think right now, in this interim period, I’m going to buy a hotspot that I can just slip a sim card into and tether a Linux phone to it. I can use Conversations on Waydroid and use JMP.chat to send phone calls and texts over XMPP. I did fine on my OP6T for my actual use of a phone. I was browsin’, I was textin’, I was sendin’ messages, I was doin’ terminal stuff, administratin’ my servers, readin’, listening to musicn’. It was fine. Will do some experimenting.

Which discourse is just right, Goldilocks?

The tailscale method, bake it yourself. It’s all routing-based.

If you have a remote VPS and a home wireguard server and both are connected, then you have a remote connection outside of your home network. Make it a transit router. Then you’ll have your mesh and your VPN all in one, even if it’s still just all you.

Go a step further and connect mullvad to the vps and do a little routing work.

As for what routing work specifically, I couldn’t begin to tell you. Ai and some search-engine-fu might be necessary.

Here’s a (similar) example, even if he’s doing it backwards to my suggestion:

https://superuser.com/questions/1776851/routing-wireguard-peers-traffic-via-another-peer

Crypto’s only use for me is making it universally easy to pay every tech/vpn company I deal with.

beyond that, people launder money, buy drugs and do darkweb shit with a minority of privacy folks harping privacytokens like Monero.

I’d love if Steam took BTC and people selling used items online embraced it. The grocery store? Ehhhhhhhhh. Nah.

“WG Tunnel” on f-droid lets you define a config/native for either mobile or wifi, whichever you want.

two configs on both? It does that. A config on one and nothing on the other? It does that. It swaps whenever your phone moves from mobile to wifi or vice versa.

if neither is selected, it considers it “both”.

They’re not wild berry, tho? walks off

15 years ago a pirate decided to name the main channel on the Nintendo Wii for homebrew the “Homebrew Channel”, as it has been for 15 years.

That was my reference. If you found a hacked Wii right now and turned it on, it would be one of the channels available.

I do too. They tend to speak from the heart but the second something is inconvenient, they’re cool with relaxing their morals.

Hey, you paid for them to spy on your media, give them their money’s worth.

it’s commercial software

digital cancer

now I need to find a Wiimote, damnit

Because Android is ran by a capitalist corporation that spies on you 24/7 and seeks to restrict and control their platform.

If I could make it convenient, I’d carry a flip phone and a laptop. I trust both far more than Google, and slightly more than GrapheneOS.

Downvote all you like. I’m not telling any of you to do anything. You want security? Toss your phone out of a moving car and get a notebook.