unfortunately, like its predecessor (Nokia’s Maemo/Meego), Jolla’s SailfishOS has never been (and has never had plans to be) fully free/libre open source software.

many components of it are freely licensed, but not nearly enough to constitute an actual mobile operating system you can use.

The text was “highly problematic in countless respects,” Ambassador Dan Negrea, US representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said prior to the vote.

unsurprisingly the HN comments are full of people defending Apple and telling OP he’s wrong about each of his points 🤦

The headline VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker strongly implies that they are going make less cars as a result of their military business, but the article actually says this “shift” is at one of their car factories which they had planned to shut down next year.

The article also neglects to mention some relevant information about the VW Group such as its origins and who owns them today (although they are a publicly traded company, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, the German state of Lower Saxony, and the Porsche family respectively own 10.4%, 11.8%, and 31.9% of the shares, and the Porsche family holds 53.3% the voting shares).

(well actually) you forgot Poland

signal’s “sealed sender” feature has an incoherent threat model

Regarding TVs, WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 publication in 2017 included “Weeping Angel”, CIA malware for Samsung TVs which streams audio from them while they’re in “fake off” mode.

https://mashable.com/article/cia-samsung-tv-hack-weeping-angel

xkcd#37 moment

It’s good to see someone in this thread who knows what an IPv5 address looks like:

IPv5 addresses consist of four hextets a 16bit each.  For the visual
representation, those grouping are used.  The hextets might be
written in decimal, separated by dot '.' characters, or as
hexadecimal numbers, separated by colon ':'.

It’s long past time to start replacing our IPv4.1 deployments!

Supersingular isogeny key exchange (SIKE) is very secure post-quantum replacement for Diffie-Hellman…

SIKE!

fuckin’ a

Activity lights are useful

in even more ways than one might think.

(see also this and this later work from the same author…)

based on the other comments here i had to double check if this thread was in !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml smh my head

well, some of them are built so that the front doesn’t fall off at all

You’re correct on both points (🤦‍♂️ indeed).

I’ve now edited this post to link to their advisory text file instead of their advertising-heavy blog post about it which I had initially linked when the above comment was posted. Thanks.

FYI, the day after you published this blog post, a spam blog posted… their AI reimplementation of it 🤦

ai — dr

(version 2.0 could triple your RAM)

signal’s claimed inability to collect metadata being an obvious albeit elaborate lie is a strong indicator