Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io), page 4

@quad AFAIK they're a combination of public key auth, UX, and stupid software restrictions meant to reduce your ability to do whatever you want with your private keys

@ignaloidas @quad
> you can do whatever you want, there's just institutional pressure to make your thing useless

thanks, that cleared all my worries

@ignaloidas @quad I need to be able to migrate between devices / OSes / implementations.

Until there's a common API for rotating credentials that all RPs implement, the only realistic way to do that is to export the credentials from the old device and import them to the new one.

@ignaloidas @quad having a key trapped in TPM is fine if that's what I chose to do.

Having no option to make some keys to less important / rarely visited sites exportable feels wrong tho.

It's not even about the final decision, it's about who makes the decision.

If I make decision X because I think it's good for my usecase, that's fine.
But if I make the same decision X, in the same usecase, because it was the only option some company made available, that's oppression

@ignaloidas @quad you are completely missing the point

@ignaloidas @quad this is like saying "it doesn't matter the ruling party demolished the Supreme Court, because they're not passing any unconstitutional bills yet, except those two minor.ones I don't care about"

@ignaloidas @quad
I claim that this is Google & Apple's attempt at a vendor lock-in

@ignaloidas @quad okay

Can you promise me thay this won't change in 5 years, due to tangential events?

What if it turns out webauthn attestation is useful as a captcha / anti-sybil mechanism?

Considering that the technical design permits a power shift away from users, how do I know that power shift won't be realized?

I love SD cards. Especially the part where you write something to them and then you read back something else.

But also the part where there's no obvious way to tell it to flush its internal caches (if any) and power off

@elly @hailey the worst thing is they're older than us, they *must've* had a computer with PS/2 ports in the past...

@elly @hailey

@SuperDicq what's the name of the plant?

It has these thick leaves, does that mean it's part of the "mafia shrubland' you can see in the south of Italy?

Are Linux Device Trees a stable enough format that a bootloader for a particular platform can just have a builtin one and any future Linux kernel will be able to boot on such a device?

@ignaloidas @quad
> software that will know everything about the hardware it's running on beforehand

that reminds me of the Oxide Computer...

@lanodan @quad
> not 1920x1200

@tendstofortytwo I once spent a whole evening comparing the same sha256 hashes between multiple different computers and a piece of paper, with different fonts, sometimes without spaces between digit groups, etc.

At the end of it some of those hashes felt very familiar and personal...

@domi *envies*

ncdu is great btw.

Thank you Ayo.

@jmaris in Poland, we have PiS. It's a conservative populist anti-EU party. After 8 years of rule, they lost the election in 2023. A large part of the new ruling coalition was like "we should make PiS illegal, the people who vote for them are either evil or brainwashed".

But in 2015, when PiS won elections, the previous ruling party was like "everything's fine, no need to do anything", while some people were barely making ends meet.

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@jmaris
And PiS promised 500 PLN/month payiut from the govt for every child a family has (subject to some income criteria).
And PiS also blamed the poor econokic condition of those people on Germans, EU, immigrants, and a bunch of other scapegoats.

And then PiS won, and delivered on its promise.

Had the previous government addressed the economic inequalities, PiS would not have so much voter frustration to exploit.
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