Limonene @ Limonene @lemmy.world

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Yes, please. Removing the US from NATO has the advantage that countries like Ukraine and Georgia can sooner join NATO. Since Russia is hostile to them, Trump (who is a Russian asset) would never let them join NATO. Getting the US out of NATO removes Trump's vote.

The US can no longer be expected to fulfill its obligations to NATO anyway, so removing the US doesn't decrease NATO's total defensive power. Trump has said he would refuse to help unless other NATO countries increase spending (which is happening slowly, but not yet). Trump would never deploy the military to defend against any attack by Putin. He may even deploy the military to assist Putin.

There are no useful quantum computers. If you disagree, provide a citation.

The quantum computers that exist can't solve anything that can't be done better and faster by a normal computer.

I think quantum computers may be impossible. But if they are possible, they will be a USB/PCIe accessory that works alongside an ordinary processor running an ordinary operating system.

I expect Linux will have a driver for quantum computers before Windows.

One time I was getting estimates for server software for an embedded device I had made. In a teleconference, I told one company that our prototype server ran on nginx. They emailed us an estimate saying we had to switch our embedded system to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, and put the server on Microsoft's cloud, because "Engine X is not an enterprise web server."

Post-quantum isn't really a big problem because it will be a very long time before there are viable quantum computers (maybe never). You should focus on the very real risks of security breaks from normal negligence and design errors.

Threema seems pretty unpopular, so the risk is highest. Signal and Matrix are both popular and have a lot of scrutiny on their cryptography.

All 3 have open source clients, but Signal contains some binary blobs. Only Matrix has an open source server, though end-to-end encryption enforced by the client alleviates most of the concern of proprietary servers. All 3 support end-to-end encryption.

It's an issue.

You can't create an account on desktop. You can't create multiple accounts. You can't create an account at all if you don't have a phone number. You can't create an account if your phone number's previous owner created an account. Signal can be subpoenaed for your phone number.

I'm getting an error message on the site. It asks me to fill out a captcha, but shows no captcha. After 15 seconds it asks me to disable my adblocker to see the captcha, but my adblocker isn't blocking anything from that page. Their instructions are a broken link.

The United States is a second world country.

This article seems like a lot of FUD written from an anti-FOSS perspective. In their second point, they say that F-droid's inclusion policy is "ridiculous" for requiring programs exclude proprietary software. I think the author is ridiculous for asking for this. This is what F-droid is for. I don't want any proprietary apps or libraries on my phone. If developers only want to work on their proprietary software, they don't get into F-droid. If they make a modified FOSS version and put it in F-droid, and let it bitrot and go unpatched when vulnerabilities are discovered, and F-droid issues a security advisory for that program, that's not F-droid's fault.

They'll just roll back the blockchain. Ethereum is a centrally controlled cryptocurrency, though its fans claim otherwise. It's been rolled back before.

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From Podscribe. Scroll down to "Top Podcasts by Downloads & Views per Month". It's a shame Newsweek didn't show their work.

I think that wormhole.app page is different software from magic wormhole (and warp). It just has a similar name. wormhole.app does appear to be proprietary.

Thanks. I think I found its homepage, is it the same as this? That looks like part of Gnome, so should be open source too. (It's maybe available in your operating system without needing a flatpak, if you would prefer it that way)

I'm not familiar with warp, and couldn't find it with a search. But I did find magic wormhole, and it appears to be MIT licensed, so it is open source. I also searched packages.debian.org and found it, so definitely open source.

As for firewalls: it might only block incoming connections, or has an exception for LAN hosts. I'd have to see the configuration to say more.

That's the biggest problem. You need either Canada's consent (which he can't get) or to win a war with Canada plus the rest of NATO.

The second problem: it would make way more sense to become 10 or 13 US states. With respect to both area and population. That would be a big disadvantage to his party in congress.

ydotool is missing a lot of features. It emulates an input device, so it can only send inputs to the active window. xdotool can send keystrokes to non-active windows, and has features for searching for a window to send to. xdotool can minimize, dismiss, or move windows around.

I'm aware of newton. It's a work in progress, though, and doesn't have as many features as X11 accessibility has. Although it might have enough features eventually, I worry that X11 will be deprecated by operating system vendors before that.

The only thing that needs to happen for people to "feel secure enough not to want" guns is for Fox News (et al) to stop spreading disinformation about the levels of violent crime. I see tons of ads falsely claiming that violent crime is through the roof, when it's actually very low and decreasing.

I worry about Wayland for the features it drops from X11. Wayland will never have xdotool support, due to its security model. I worry about onscreen keyboards for drawing tablets and screen readers for the blind.