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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money

    That’s not something the Graphene devs could change. The firmware on the existing truckload of old hardware is simply outdated and insecure. To fix that would require somebody to write completely new firmware for those devices. You’re free to take the job. Help the community, and the environment, by reviving all those old devices. Free of charge, or course ;)


  • Your bank does not need to use the app trackers to spy on you. They already know everything important there is about you.

    What the banks are worried about is fraud. Fraud costs them money. But the thing is, the app development cycles are long and complicated, and instead of a pragmatic approach, they just bolt on more and more obscure non deterministic authentication schemes and heuristic checks. That’s why the app wants to know things like your location and access to the list of other installed apps, and simple username and password are not enough to let you through anymore.

    The device attestation for them is probably just another checkbox to tick on the list of “at least we tried”. Regardles of whether it’s actually relevant for security. As long as it saves them more money that it costs them, there’s no reason to not enable it.





  • Telegram can read all your text mesasges, unless you specifically setup an encrypted one-on-one channel between users that’s tied to a specific device, so basically nobody is using that. It does not have to actively siphon the conversations to a state actor, an exploit chain or the good old infiltration by a rogue employee is enough.

    Disclaimer: I use telegram, but have zero expectations of privacy there.

    It also wouldn’t be the first time the russian government is using an organization for their own agenda abroad, while banning it in russia.


  • So it’s not just me. The peering between europe and asia IS crap!

    I’ve been to thailand in november and the connections to europe were hit or miss the whole time. The latency was poor and the reliability varied day by day.

    The only thing that made any difference was switching providers on the EU side. It seems that some ISPs have better peering than others.

    Also lowering the MTU for the vpn tunnel seemd to help a lot, but that might’ve been a placebo.


  • speed will increase as development continues

    LoRa is already surfing on the bleeding edge of physics. There is no way to get anything more out of it, other than allocating wider EM spectrum for this usecase.

    There are some radio amateurs in my area trying Meshcore on 169Mhz for example. There are also some new boards available that can do LoRa on 2.4Ghz, but both approaches have some downsides as well.

    For a more stable and reliable network, we would also need radios capable of communicating on multiple channels simultaneously (remember, the whole thing started off as a reaction to really cheap, almost disposable dev boards), but now we’re approaching the complexity and requirements of the traditional mobile networks.


  • People who studied the code speak really fondly about reticulum, however, it’s not as popular for building the lora based mesh networks, because the full stack does not run on the simple microcontroller. You need what is basically a standard PC connected to it. Given that mesh repeaters are usually designed to run off-grid on solar and battery, wasting additional power for a raspberry pi or similar computer would make the project unfeasible.

    All while Meshtastic or Meshcore are perfectly happy with the esp32 or nrf microcontrollers. And the nrf ones can run without a direct sunshine for days with the reasonably large battery.