Yup. If you really need GPIO + any real power, either go with an ARM board from AliExpress or do NUC + ESP32 with a serial connection between them.

Or use a third party client that doesn’t have as much scrutiny on the source code and will Leak your message s

Given what you’ve said, Signal is still what you want and is good for it.

There are two main issues people have with Signal:

First is that it requires a phone number to sign up. That makes some people who want it to be truly anonymous unhappy. It’s not meant to be anonymous, though. It’s meant to be private. Those aren’t the same thing.

Second is that it runs on AWS. This isn’t a problem in the sense that it’s possible for it to still retain privacy while running on AWS. Some people don’t like it because they view the dependence on the infrastructure of an American company to be a risk to availability. They also believe that it would exacerbate a security flaw if one were found.

Personally, I know these risks and still find it to be the best balance between privacy, security, and ease of use.

They think they can win in 6 months if they have to. And in a worst case scenario, if they literally go nuclear - who knows, maybe they can. I just hope they’re not actually that stupid.

Eh, it entirely depends on your threat model. If you’re trying to protect against mass surveillance, it makes sense because you’ll only sometimes have a functional microphone powered on. If you’re trying to protect against a targeted attack against you specifically, then yeah Bluetooth had some problems. You have bigger issues at that point, though. I also think Bluetooth is probably more secure than you think.

I’ll take a more secure Firefox. If this is how it is achieved, so be it.

Done. It just reaffirmed that you’re a dick.

It depends on the code you run on it, really. A lot of the time, too, 4G will be behind CG-NAT which at least means the listening ports aren’t automatically on the internet.

It fails to include a libre software license text file.

I don’t think this really makes sense as the leading point. More like “It’s run by Meta and who knows what kind of backdoor they put in”

Yeah, it uses the signal protocol, but who’s to say they don’t have a secret member of every conversation.

I’ve had stuff spoil early, or last long past the date. Having a visual chemical indicator would be great.

I wish they’d at least release the controller. I know they probably want to do it all at once but that shouldn’t be delayed with the rest of it if that’s all I want.

Well, I wouldn’t download this car.

So, let’s do some breakdown. Let’s say 365.25 days per year. Divide by 12, that’s 30.4375 days per month. 100 hours per month is 3.29 hours per day. That’s almost 23 hours per week.

A reasonable person working 8-5 might get 2 hours of recreation per day during the week. That takes up 2 hours per day, 5 days a week for 10 hours during the week. That leaves 13 hours on the weekend, or 6.5 hours per day.

Realistically, that’s a reasonable amount of time to play video games. On the other hand, fuck these arbitrary restrictions, play games locally.

I thought it used Bing?

There’s a few differences. One is the length. Another is the randomness. The biggest, though, is that in a passkey, the server is verified as well. That means phishing is nearly impossible.

It feels like there’s a lot wrong going on here but my sleeping pill is starting to kick in so if anyone wants me to explain my thoughts ask in the morning

That’s a feature, not a bug

there must be some challenge-response type NFC systems on the market

There are. Hotels use them for door key cards so they can’t be cloned.

I’m curious if that would match the definition in the legislation. It could kind of be argued both ways.

(M) Artificial Intelligence. “Artificial intelligence” means a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. “Artificial intelligence” includes generative artificial intelligence.
(N) Generative Artificial Intelligence. “Generative artificial intelligence” means an automated computing system that, when prompted with human prompts, descriptions, or queries, can produce outputs that simulate human-produced content, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) textual outputs, such as short answers, essays, poetry, or longer compositions or answers; (2) image outputs, such as fine art, photographs, conceptual art, diagrams, and other images; (3) multimedia outputs, such as audio or video in the form of compositions, songs, or short-form or long-form audio or video; and (4) other content that would be otherwise produced by human means.
(Source: P.A. 102-233, eff. 8-2-21; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21; 102-1030, eff. 5-27-22; 103-804, eff. 1-1-26.)

My money’s on “poorly”