That’s terrible… for the real kidnapers.

That’s excellent news. The random tiktok videos inserted into the article are still making me lose my cool, though.

I feel like the opensuse is always on the outskirt when discussing distros, but their security reviews are often pretty brutal, in a good way.

I have a deep respect for them ever since they ripped a new one to the deepin devs / packagers.

So the google can spy on anyone’s phone calls without a consent (google screening), but if you want to record your own phone calls, there needs to be a mandatory warning. Makes total sense :D

edit: but at least this enables automatic call recording, not just a button, plus automatic deletion of old recordings. This is actually pretty useful.

A user copies it without scrutiny, pastes it into the omnibox

User has to type or paste the malicious prompt manually into the box. This is not a bug.

The whole article is a marketing piece to promote NeuralTrust.

There’s plenty to worry about in the environment we evolved in. And I’m not even australian. :)

That sounds like a fancy speak for a Trusted Platform Module. Isn’t some kind of TPM mandatory to obtain a google certification for a new device?

The dawn of the 4G will forever be remembered as the time our civilization forgot how to make phones that can make phone calls. I feel embarrassed every time I randomly think about VoLTE.

Meshtastic tells you if SOMEONE heard and repeated your message (the cloud icon). You don’t know if it has arrived to the intended destination. Unless you’re in direct range of each other, then you’ll see the person icon.

No way, I thought the thrill of browsing sketchy appstores to find the other half of the ACR phone was part of the fun.

For those out of the loop - ACR phone is a dialer app that does call recording. It’s distributed through the play store, but without the call recording part, because that would be against the ToS. Once installed, it instructs you to go find the other app that serves as an accessibility module with access to the microphone. And by that I mean ONLY your microphone. The other side of the call is recorded only as an echo of the speaker caught by your own mic.

Maybe. Maybe I could finally try to listen to the lower parts of the spectrum…

Nope. Back to the pile…

Honestly, did the word “drop” change meaning in the past few months, or am I just crazy?

The first thing for the EU area would be to check which frequency is more popular in your country. There are 2 options. 868Mhz, and 433Mhz. The good quality lora modeules are tuned for one or the other. There’s no way to switch. 868 tends to be the most popular choice. I personally never understood that decision, but my knowledge of physics is limited by what the youtube science communicators can package up for easy consumption.

If you want solar power and don’t mind the lack of wifi, I’d go with an nrf based solution like RAK4631 due to its low power consumption. Ideally in a form of a kit with base board included. If the wifi is needed, go with ESP32 and a larger solar panel.

I’m testing this ready made node at the moment. It looks a bit pricey, but if you count each component, it might even be cheaper than fully DIY solution. However, even though the nrf based chips have pretty low power consumption, I’m not sure it would survive the winter in denmark. The lack of dedicated power supply capable of low voltage cutoff might also be a problem if we expect the battery to run out regularly.

There are multiple possibilities when it comes to power storage. The LiFePo4 cells are pretty close to perfect, but can’t charge in freezing temperatures. It’s possible to build a heating system, but switching to LTO cells is way easier. If you want to experiment with different type of battery cells, there’s a custom board using the RAK4631 module, compatible with both battery cell types, and capable of proper power management here. A Full kit including a 10W solar panel and 3D printed mounting accessories is also available.

In regards to solar panel and battery size, you can go wild with a tool like this. It can calculate the right values for your specific geographic location.

As for the antenna, the direct visibility goes 90% of the way. The antenna included with your kit should be sufficient for playing around. If you plan to set up a repeater for the larger area, you can go for something decent like Mikrotik Omni 868Mhz

If you want a visual example, look at this video describing the construction of now retired product - Atlavox S4. Similar parts can still be found on AliExpress. I’ve built one of those several months ago, and it’s still going:

And finally, in case you don’t find any online peers around you, try a different modem preset, or checkout Meshcore. Europe is slowly adopting it as a Meshtastic replacement for larger networks.

As far as I remember, the end-to-end encrypted DMs are relatively recent thing in Meshtastic. Before, the messages were just encrypted with the symetric channel key.

The scale of meshtastics avoidance of building security into the design is pretty epic.

This is not an easy problem to solve. Each possible solution requires a trade-off.

Arent these things being ingested as an alternative medicine?

Why stop with power? We should aim for water outages as well! Just when I was starting to think this might not be a pathological ideology…

Good luck to the admins though, I appreciate the effort to stay out of cloud. It’s hard to maintain constant uptime when you don’t have teams of people dedicated to keep stuff afloat.

Now when I think about it, is it even possible to run lemmy on a cluster, like a regular web app, or is it a monolith?

By working with the real hardware vendor, they could apply for the certification, thus making the apps requiring the useless stamp from google work again.

Well, except for those apps that specifically tries to blacklist graphene. Looking at you, Revolut!

What do you mean by “much less usable”? It’s pretty much AOSP in terms of the UX, for better or worse.

Considering the raising popularity of authoritarianism, with a healthy dose of paranoia, it’s not the criminals I worry about.

Nokia n900 could do it live, with a charger connected instead of a second battery.

You disabled the watchdog, because root access was officially supported, turned the brightness way down, connected the charger, and finally swapped the batteries.