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  • Company A submits a new device for certification signed by their private key.

    Company B certifies the device signed by their private key.

    Company C on boards a device for an end-user and is confident it came from Company A and has been verified by Company B since the device has a certificate that can be verified from Companies A and B.

    Yes it prevents home brew (though you can do home brew by replacing Company C with your own controller), but it also prevents knock offs.

    When this information is distributed (like Lemmy federation), between instances, one has a degree of assurances all these records originated from the signer.

    While the ledger part is not required, it provides a nice audit trail for the companies who do not trust each other enough without the transparency. Sure a central authority like the ESRB could do the same, but we could also all be on Reddit and not Lemmy...

  • I'm not, it was just an example data broker. You are 100% sure that data is not getting sold?

    I picked Google because back in my days of ignorance, their rewards app would ask if I made X purchase at Y store down to the penny. I wasn't using GPay/GWallet, just my a debit or credit card. The Y I get with location services. Them having the transaction amount leads me to assume credit card companies/payment processors/etc are sharing this data in near real time. Probably anonymously but with enough data points to trace it back to an individual with a degree of confidence.

    So I use XMR when I can. Locations services are also off.

  • Privacy is a crime? I pay for several online services with XMR (or BTC swapped from XMR): Jmp.chat (mobile service), EteSync (E2EE contact sync), Proton Mail, Mullvad VPN, Usenet (might have an argument there).

    Why can't I access Google's individual transactions but they should have access to mine?

  • https://csa-iot.org/certification/distributed-compliance-ledger/

    Matter Distributed Client Ledger. In use by Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung, and many more.

    Contains all the attestation information for on boarding Matter devices. Where once it was Google Home vs Apple HomeKit vs Amazon Echo / Alexa, supporting devices can now work cross ecosystem.

    Since many of these companies are competitors working together. A distributed ledger makes sense to keep everyone honest and provide a level of tech supported governance.

  • It is. I run a virtual camera for blurred backgrounds that logs when clients connect and noticed one of my web conferencing type apps like to take a photo ever second. Haven't taken time to investigate which (likely candidates: slack, zoom, webex, discord).

  • https://kycnot.me/?t=&q=sms

    I've been using Jmp. You don't get a sim though (at least for calls and text, you can for data). It goes through Jabber. Their app can integrate with the dialer for calls. Never gave any personal info. Only paid with BTC / XMR.

    SMS is not private. JMP is upfront about it: https://jmp.chat/privacy. Still didn't have to give any personal info so better than the alternative for a basic privacy enhancement threat model.

  • Not op but I've moved on to nixos, or I use nix for managing the home folder on Ubuntu / Darwin machines.

    Disclaimer: I'm a software dev not a sys admin, though I manage a number of machines for dev and home lab stuff.

    After the high learning curve, its so much easier keeping my systems in sync.

    Super easy to rollback on a bad upgrade.

  • With UBI, its assumed to be part of a surplus economy is my understanding? Use some of the remaining surplus to pay workers who want a marginally improved quality of life (no billionaires to limit wealth hoarding).

    Offer child care to those who wish to have a career, maintain a community garden, teach part time, etc.

    Optionally or additionally, provide enough funding to allow for passion projects.

    Fund open projects for those who want to work together to push the limits of humanity.

    If I didn't have to slog and worry about keeping a roof over my family's head and food on the table, I'd be dedicating all my spare time to space exploration instead of making APIs for some company.

    Overly simple and likely impossible to implement, but there are ways to enable finding a purpose outside of art and culture.

  • Just use rclone. Its bidirectional sync is kinda meh last I tested it, so I do manual syncs in each direction. Otherwise its awesome. Can even encrypt your stuff with your own key.

    Supports a bunch of backends. There is an androind client called Round Sync with cron-like scheduling to keep my phone backed up.

  • If you are interested in pushing more, there are other JVM languages.

    Scala was my first functional programming language after doing Java -> Groovy -> Scala. All 3 can access the entire Java ecosystem and are compatible with each other. Scala is like having Generics for your Generics (Higher Kinded Types).

  • Grew up in a religious household with 8 years of private school operated by a religious institution in the states.

    Never really believed and went full atheist around 13 years old.

    Good feelings about something not on the bad list (usually something sexual) they take as a message from god. In other words, if they want something that benefits them, those feelings are used to justify their shit behavior because its some divine touch making them feel that way.

    At least that's been my experience. I wouldn't trust them either.

  • I'm running GrapheneOS on a 7 pro. Battery isn't great, but I've not had any major issues... At 44% with about 2 hours screen time and 16 hours since last charge. Downloaded a bunch of updates including a system update / reboot / optimize. Listened to a few hours of music over Bluetooth. Also forgot to shutoff location services after using the GPS last night. Bluetooth connected Garmin watch. Dual e-sim (Fi and JMP).

    I normally end the day around 60%.

    You might checkout DivestOS. Last I heard they had e-sim support without needing to install any of Google's software. GrapheneOS didn't have this feature when I got this phone. If its not on GrapheneOS when I upgrade next I plan to try and get the e-sim on with it before installing GrapheneOS.