Notices by Guy (phlogiston@mastodon.nz)

@wiktor
Yes. Centralisation and the strong corporate flavour are my main issues with S/MIME. And for those reasons there's not been much of an urge to make free/low-cost certs available.

#email #authentication

@wiktor
@octade
I *really* appreciate your input here. The purpose of this thread is to venture into opportunities to improve traditional email in a way that doesn't suck (as @soatok also states in depth in his blog post that #email for socially working end-to-end confidentiality sucks). It is also not about other tools (like Signal, Bitmessage, Briar, ...).

This is about potential #cryptography for #authenticity or mon-repudiation use cases of email. PGP flavours, S/MIME or something else?

I was wondering ... as #email encryption via PGP/GnuPG is not suitable for true and ongoing end-to-end confidentiality. But what about authenticity of mails? I dislike S/MIME for its corporate nature, and #PGP via PGP/MIME is well enough supported by many (free) mail clients.

What's the #cryptography or #security community's view on PGP for signing emails? Or what would a suitable alternative be? I haven't come across any, though.

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Wow, one task on ChatGPT o3 is the carbon emission of 5 tanks full of petrol for an average US car.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/realjayscott_openai-has-announced-o3-which-appears-to-activity-7276296915216953345-Lr1u

Stop using this shit, please!

#GenAI #LLM #AI #ChatGPT #sustainability

This looks interesting: A 'Sovereign Workplace' with openDesk. Integrates Nextcloud, Open Xchange, Xwiki, Collabora, Element, Nordeck, etc.

https://www.openproject.org/blog/sovereign-workplace/

Liberate yourself with open source!

@lightweight

#OpenSource #Productivity alternatives

So, the cat's out of the bag. Corporate greed is the driver for the inflation and cost of living crisis.

I'd have preferred an RNZ link (where I heard about it this morning), but could only find this one on the short:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2023/08/rising-profits-not-wages-primary-driver-of-domestic-inflation-during-cost-of-living-crisis-report.html