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LOS can also be a good way to get updates way longer than what the phone’s manufacturer will provide them for.

No, it uses the WebView that comes with the operating system to minimize memory usage.

Telling tall tales about your height? Not a sign of greatness

I am very happy with Netcup. https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps

Ah, missed the line in the article about secondary tariffs. Thanks for pointing it out to me. A 100% tariff on China and India until they stop importing Russian oil would indeed be very disruptive

What I’m missing from the articles is putting the potential consequences of the threatened tariffs into context. In 2024, Russian imports into the USA were 3.27 billion USD, whereas the GDP of the Russian economy in 2024 was 2.17 trillion. Even if there is fakery in the reported GDP, exports to the USA are likely less than 1% of the Russian economy

You can sign git commits using SSH keys, including the one you use to connect to GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg. These sites also support verifying the signature.

German soldiers can refuse orders under certain conditions (e.g. if they against human dignity)

I think the Google as an identity provider example is misleading. The more common use case will be medium to small companies where several admins/developers need to login to various servers and where manually adding and revoking keys across these servers will be cumbersome.

As the other commenter said, in those cases, the organization would also deploy its own IDP.

The pre mixed spices list their contents and it’s not that hard to come up with something similar by just using the individual ingredients.

Here is an exported result list from Kagi that should be accessible without an account.

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OK, so cases where you control both ends of the communication. Thanks for the clarification.

I’m a developer and would appreciate you going into more specifics about which certificates you suggest pinning.

I have been using it for the last 3 months to expose services from my home internet (plex, wireguard, etc.) through a VPS and I’m pretty happy with it. It’s relatively simple to set up, I haven’t had any outages so far, and it’s nice that it supports UDP port forwarding as well as TCP (for wireguard).

You could go even further and use hard links. That way, you can have two paths pointing to the same data on the partition, with the space getting cleaned up only after all references to it are removed.

Right! The last I remember hearing the “closed source is more secure” argument was about fifteen years or so ago, so it’s surprising that it is being pulled up from the dead.

From the FAQ of the Sunbird website (the tech powering Nothing Chats):

Will the app be open source?

Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

To help satisfy our own ambitious goals of providing total privacy and security, we are currently undergoing a third party audit that will validate our security, encryption and data policies and plan on receiving ISO 27001 certification after launch.

This was a huge warning sign when the first round of news about Nothing Chats came around, so I’m glad we’re now getting early confirmation that security by obscurity still is a horrible idea and doesn’t work