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@pojntfx Must be the "digital sovereignty" that politicians keep talking about...
In addition to only containing code for Android and iOS, the repo also is hosted on a US platform (github).
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mastodon 4.7.3Physicist turned Game Dev.
Working as programmer at a mid-sized gamedev studio, that's mostly doing #UnrealEngine projects. (My profile's title picture is the view from our office window.)
Confessing #RustLang fanboy.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange If I were a malware gang member, I'd rather push some rust crates with a malicious build.rs to crates.io, and let devs use that package in their assignment.
Cargo doesn't ask. It just runs stuff.
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@LALegault@newsie.social Whenever someone does that, I immediately imagine them to look (and behave) like a Ferengi from Star Trek.
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@ciaranmak@mastodon.ie @pojntfx@mastodon.social The problem is: It's such an accurate description of the state of the industry that I can't even laugh about it.
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@WPalant@infosec.exchange Not to mention people who have a Smartphone that doesn't suck - erm, I mean that isn't running Android or iOS.
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RE: https://techhub.social/@jolla/116103764599770365
@jolla@techhub.social For me the biggest highlight of this post is that "The Other Half" is confirmed, with more than enough bandwidth to get a stereo CD quality signal through.
Soo: a headphone-jack accessory seems to be quite doable!
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@JenJen@mastodon.art We really need European alternatives to .
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@heiseonline@social.heise.de Selbstverständlich ist der Entwickler des KI-Agenten für sämtliche entstandenen Schäden voll haftbar.
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@valere Ah, the good old "make a public website to about the bug before patches are ready, because fuck the users" approach of disclosure?
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@rainer @TimothyRoes @khleedril @K4mpfie @ErikJonker @pojntfx
Which also is system-specific and therefore not portable.
What we are dealing with is a trade-off between usability, security and portability. The current approach emphasises the first two strongly over the third.
Since this is a gate-keeper app, where everyone who does not have access will also not have access to certain websites, I think a higher priority should be given to portability, even if it lowers usability or security.
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@lzg As Cory Doctorow put it:
"The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
Source: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Thank you. I fully agree with this - but I could not have formulated it that eloquently.
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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place I just realized what this reminds me of: My old crappy Casio digital camera, which had a non-optional "denoiser" (probably also "AI" based) that smoothed away a lot of details and re-added stuff that wasn't there.
Even with all filters off, everyone looked like they were wearing makeup. I hated that thing (but couldn't afford to buy another camera back then).
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@TimothyRoes @rainer @khleedril @K4mpfie @ErikJonker @pojntfx There is also the option to lower usability instead of security. For instance by allowing key-storage on a dedicated device, like a FIDO token or a smartcard.
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@jargoggles @ana The book "Careless People" describes some interactions between Facebook executives and politicians.
Some of them were quite reasonable. Others, like the meeting with the Irish prime minister at Davos (page 174), are rather disturbing.
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@fireye@peoplemaking.games @stephaniewalter@front-end.social If I would have to guess, I would say it is because most people are professionally blinkered, and it does not even occur to them that there might be a simpler solution.
(And no, I am not excluding myself here.)
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@phl @ErikJonker @dukeboitans @pojntfx Android Device Attestation does not need an account, if I am not mistaken.
There is a similar problem though, namely that you cannot backup your keys if they are linked to the device. If you lose access to your phone (stolen, lost, broken,...), you loose access to the key, and might need to re-register if you don't have a second device linked to your ID.
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@ErikJonker @dukeboitans @pojntfx Thinking about it: The press statement mentions that desktop platforms will be supported.
So, if we take that seriously, and considering that this is just the start, then I guess we can later expect a desktop application, or even a website, that does exactly that: Trade usability for portability.
Similarly to how the ID Austria is handled: You can either use the Android/iOS app (easy to use, non-portable), or use a FIDO token (portable, but worse usability).
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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place Wow. It looks amazing ... ... ly ugly.
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@greenpeace@mastodon.social You might want to _read_ "A city on Mars" though.
(It's a really good book about how feasible a colony on Mars actually is. Spoiler: It isn't. https://www.acityonmars.com/)
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@sos Does Settlers 2 count as strategy?
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@byterhymer@mastodon.social @ole@chaos.social From what I get from Wikipedia it really depends what one considers the point of invention.
If it's about going public, then Telefunken was faster (The Rollkugelsteuerung is mentioned in this brochure from 1966: ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/telefunken/tr440/doku/TR440_Mai1966.pdf ).
If it's about having the idea - well, it's hard to prove who had it first.
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@mojo Why not take something that exists locally and make it work EU-wide?
Here in Austria we have EPS, which works in the browser. It's an API that online shops can use to interface with banks' online-banking websites.
It's simple, it's vendor-neutral, and most important: It does not need an app.
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@ErikJonker @TimothyRoes @khleedril @K4mpfie @pojntfx I only skimmed a bit through it, but it seems the requirements for an Age Verification App (4.2) do not prevent the development of such an app for other operating system:
The point about app stores is a SHOULD requirement, so if the target platform is neither Android nor iOS, this cannot (and need not) be fulfilled.
The point about native crypto hardware is a SHALL, but has the clause "when they are available".
I just discovered that there is an acoustic version of some tracks of the #CassetteBeasts #Soundtrack available on Steam.
Also, it is discounted right now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3607870/Cassette_Beasts_Acoustic_Sessions/
Am I stupid, or does the ZTE MC888 5G router really not offer any way to set up a simple firewall rule to "block all incoming, allow all outgoing" for IPv6?
It seems it can either "block all" or "allow all" (no matter the direction), and individual rules seem to also be limited to single addresses (no ranges/subnets) and severely limited in number...
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong (or if I'm not doing anything wrong: How to work around this?)
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@Daniel_Blake@mastodon.top @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io The problems start if you aren't using the AI because you want to, but because you got ordered to use it.
Cory Doctorow has written a lot about what he calls Reverse Centaurs - persons having to work for a machine instead of persons using a machine. For instance:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org I try to avoid chatbots.
And yet, just knowing that they would exist and might (with a lot of luck) help solving problems faster is paralysing my own ability to logically reason.
Honestly, it feels like an addiction.