BitSound @ BitSound @lemmy.world

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I think lemmy.world turned off image uploads while they work on mitigating some attacks.

Use Fastmail, and you can have masked email addresses that come in like regular email. You can look at the "To:" line to tell where the email was sent to, but the title remains the same.

Never going to happen. Even if something was signed, everyone would just develop the tech secretly. It's not like nukes where you need large, special equipment like refineries that investigators can track, and special ores. If you've got some nerds with nice graphics cards, you're off to a good start. Getting more advanced is easy if you produce your own chips, and looks the same as regular consumer demand to anyone suspicious.

Thank you 🙇

Sorry for the Reddit link but lemmy.world's not letting upload images and I'm on mobile so don't want to transcribe this, but just imagine the person you're arguing with is like this:

https://i.redd.it/abynwb2aewo71.jpg

Security is a gradient that depends on your threat model, etc, but unless you're being targeted by a nation-state or something that should be plenty secure

I haven't read it before, but I've been interested. I think I'll bump it up the queue. I've been interested because of this song that quotes from it:

https://genius.com/The-ocean-collective-the-grand-inquisitor-i-karamazov-baseness-lyrics

That was actually a thing in castle design. There'd be one step just high enough compared to the others that an assassin chasing the king would hopefully stumble on it, and the king could turn around and stab the assassin.

I unfortunately can't really offer much advice here. I configured Wireguard on my phone by essentially copy/pasting the configuration from my laptop and changing the values as necessary like the public key and client IP address. Turned it on, it activated VPN mode in Android and everything started working.

I guess make sure you haven't mixed up your public/private keys, your server knows about the new device (and is restarted), and your phone is using the right IP address as basic troubleshooting steps.

I suppose there’s authority, consensus and tradition too

Those aren't sources of knowledge. They can be a proxy for knowledge obtained through the scientific method. Crucially, you can fact-check them yourself, using the scientific method.

How did that authoritative source get their knowledge? If it wasn't through the scientific method, then it's not knowledge. So you can proxy your knowledge through someone else you trust that did the legwork of going through the scientific process, but that's not another way of obtaining knowledge, it's just the scientific process with extra steps.

Personal experience can also result in knowledge, through the use of the scientific method. You can drop an apple and see that it falls. That's the observation part of the scientific method. You can go further and try to figure out why that happens, by using the scientific method yourself based on your personal observations of the apple.

There really isn't another way. It's the scientific method all the way down.

So science is something we use for getting us knowledge about the universe?

We could call it a tool then. Right?

Yes

And it’s better because it delivers higher quality knowledge?

It's not "better" than other options, and it doesn't deliver "higher quality" knowledge. It is the only way of obtaining knowledge about our universe. There's no other option that it's "better than", because the other options don't result in "lower quality" knowledge. They don't provide any knowledge at all.

Science doesn't "do" anything. It's not an entity. People use the scientific method to investigate how the universe works. There aren't really any alternatives.

Say you came across someone claiming that their tonic cured cancer. Why should you trust them? Well, there's no other option than see if it works (or see if someone else you trust has already done so, preferably with a peer-reviewed, double-blind study and all that). Now you're using the scientific method.

I mean, I guess you've got other options. You can blindly trust them. You can pray to the deity of your choice. You can cast snake bones and interpret how they land. None of these provide actual knowledge though. They're all just guesses until you try it out, at which point you're again using the scientific method. That's why there's no alternative. If you disagree that those options are just guesses, then prove it. Guess what? You'll be proving it with the scientific method.

It's like "alternative medicine". There's no such thing. If something works, it's medicine. If it doesn't, it's not.

Yeah, you'll also need to configure your server to whitelist your phone, and then everything should just work. And yeah, you should be able to just use the default deb package on bullseye.

Eh, "your body, your choice" still holds. The rest of us just also get to use our bodily autonomy to say "fine, but stay away from society". Go live in the wilderness and avoid the 5Gs or whatever as you die of a stubbed toe because of your choices.

Yeah, when you configure it, you essentially say "all traffic to 1.2.3.0/24 should go through this wireguard connection". Then, your OS automagically knows "oh, this connection to 1.2.3.4 should go through Wireguard, and I'll handle it like so". You don't have to configure any applications specifically, their network connections just get routed appropriately by your OS.

That reminds me that I should check out home manager. That's a whole rabbit hole I haven't gone down yet. I've moved over to NixOS, but I'm sticking everything in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix atm.

Wireguard might work well here. You'll have to set it up on each device you want to have access your server, but I'm guessing that syncing only involves a handful of devices, which wouldn't be bad.

Huh. Glad I could help, and now I'm going to try it out on my phone too 👍

I would be very surprised if they didn't know the address of every taxpayer, and I do believe it's reported by the companies you work for. If you move, you can fill out a change of address form with the postal service today, which makes the new address generally available. If they really don't have any way of knowing currently, it would be worth every penny of my taxes to just make an online portal available where you can enter that information yourself.