Notices by LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)

@dalias @georgebaily @VeroniqueB99 Stuff like moisture sensors and inverter microwaves (this allows it to actually reduce the power intensity, instead of just pausing every 10 seconds or something) tend to be on the fancier microwave ovens as quite useful features, but most such things have "smart" variants which are the ones that get put on the floors (one can still readily order the good one online or sometimes by phone, though).

The trashy timer-based 60s-ish ones have a much harder time doing some more finicky things like thawing bread without also cooking it.

@dalias @sarahjamielewis @evacide

In a quirk of how passkeys work — a broadly secure alternative to usernames and passwords which use the WebAuthn standard — a user’s device makes a web request outside of the browser itself. Meaning, that request essentially bypasses Private Relay and exposes a user’s real IP address, even though to them it may look like they are simply interacting with a website as normal.

Side-channel leak, support should never have been present for using an external program that cannot guarantee it will go through Tor.

Such support is only acceptable on Whonix (or similar), anything else would require passkey support to be built into the browser.

Because all web browsers on iOS have to use Apple’s WebKit engine, the researchers also found the issues impact at least one Tor browser, called OnionBrowser.

For two of those leaks, the issues are “entirely based on how iOS and WebKit work and solely in Apple's hands. (That's the part that's kind of dire),” Mike Tigas, the creator of OnionBrowser, told 404 Media.

It's not Tor Browser and what it's doing is utterly irresponsible.

have to use Apple’s WebKit engine

How are they enforcing this?

@dalias @anthropy @mirabilos @Em0nM4stodon

I do so myself too, in terms of power efficiency, and even green energy percentage, that scores really low compared to actual datacenters.

Most of the energy expenditure in a computer is in its fabrication. Datacenters with their short hardware lifecycles are absolutely horrendous for that.

They consider it an externality and disregard it.

Also, the old hardware can be a lot more efficient in use if we get rid of the server-centric always-online model of interaction and opt for message-centric or distributed models.

Those latter models are inimical to capitalist & state control, which is exactly why they have been heavily incentivized against & marginalized. Can't have user agency & autonomy.

This is also the reason why we have such garbage (operating) system architectures instead of far more efficient and secure capability systems. The priority for top-down hierarchical control & structure overrode everything else.

@dalias @BruceMirken There are conversion kits that may not include spyware, too.

They tend to be quite expensive, though.