@Will_W_Welker Yeah, perhaps. I just don't know of a solution to that. Perhaps a homemade router from parts like a raspberry pi?
But even the RPI has closed source proprietary firmware on it.
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HalFinneyIsMyHomeBoy
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HalFinneyIsMyHomeBoy
@RealHalFinney
Tinkerer of all things Bitcoin, Nostr, cybersecurity, electrical engineering, and anything else I can take apart and put back together with screws leftover
Beigetreten Haziran 2017
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@RealHalFinney All good but I don't trust the hardware.
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Highly recommend flashing your router with open source "Tomato" firmware.
For the same reasons I recommend people run grapheneOS on their phones.
freshtomato.org
Engadget@engadget
The US bans all new foreign-made network routers engt.co/4bDF2AQ
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@mfreeman451 @engadget I should have clarified. It will at least reduce the number of easy backdoors, but not all.
Same as a degoogled grapheneOS phone will eliminate software backdoors, but not hardware backdoors built into the chip. It helps though
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@RealHalFinney @engadget plenty of chips with firmware in these routers that you cannot flash.
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The US bans all new foreign-made network routers engt.co/4bDF2AQ
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@fsebation99 @DoingFedTime @techdroider @GrapheneOS Over the years they have made it very easy.
Start here.
#enabling-oem-unlocking" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">grapheneos.org/install/web#en…
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This is my device, bought with my own money… just let me use it however I want.
I want to install APKs whenever I want, sideload apps, unlock the bootloader, root the device, and run whatever I choose. It’s my phone, I paid for it, and I take full responsibility for it.
If I make a mistake, that’s on me.
Stop forcing restrictions on everyone and treating users like they can’t decide for themselves.
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I lost count of the number of people I personally know who share a similar story.
Valerie Anne Smith@ValerieAnne1970
Dr. Ben Carson just shared a shocking story of how European food reversed a friend’s diabetes—and American food brought it back. “I have a good friend who had a very difficult case of diabetes.” “He went to Italy and within two weeks, it was gone.” “He stayed for three months. He came back here. Within two weeks, it was back.”
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@KeithMukai @github @SeedSigner @codeberg_org @gitlab @giteaio Might as well push to the nostr github equivalent as well. ngit.dev
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So @github has suspended my Claude bot's account for the second time.
I've been making SO MUCH insane @SeedSigner progress. This is the only thing slowing me down.
Now decentralizing my git service provider setup.
I'll simultaneously push to @codeberg_org, @gitlab, @giteaio.
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HalFinneyIsMyHomeBoy retweetet
tfw the guys merging the age verification code into open source operating systems are @Microsoft 🙂↔️🙂↔️🙂↔️
salmonder21@salmonder21
@CryptoCyberia >me thinking "who could even approve merge of ts?" >checked the maintainer >"@\microsoft" lmao
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HalFinneyIsMyHomeBoy retweetet
Founder of @DevuanOrg (a Systemd-free fork of Debian) has declared that Devuan Linux "will remove age verification" that they inherit from projects they base upon.
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If the majority of your agentic coding work is done within an IDE, you're doing it wrong.
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@boldbtcwallet @ChaincodeLabs @jonhbit Indeed, good times at chaincode labs. Made new friends, then we collaborated and made Bold Bitcoin Wallet
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Welcome @jonhbit to @ChaincodeLabs 👋
Chaincode is actually where the Bold Bitcoin Wallet team first crossed paths — and from those early conversations the idea for boldbitcoinwallet.com was born.
Always great to see new builders joining the place where so many #Bitcoin ideas start. ⚡️
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@callebtc True, but if your phone OS is compromised, then signal won't protect you.
Signal on grapheneOS adds better protection.
It won't guarantee against hardware backdoors in the chip from the manufacturer, but it will eliminate software backdoors at least.
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Always manually read the code you are deploying, use your intuition, trust nothing.
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At the end of the day, I believe there is a limit to what companies are willing to automate with AI in regards to security.
Computers cannot be held accountable, if an AI gets something wrong, it doesn't have a family to house and feed.
Boxmining@boxmining
Vibe coding is easy until you’re hit with: - auth - security - workflow logic - context windows - confirmation emails - payment integration And then you wish you knew how to code.
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HalFinneyIsMyHomeBoy retweetet
Yesterday Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier confirmed legislation has passed which explicitly forbids individuals under the age of 14 from being on social media.
However, no information has been produced which states how social media and/or tech companies will reliably ensure people under the age of 14 are not on social media.
The most likely answer is social media and/or tech companies will do age verification using drivers license and/or passport.
If companies do not comply with the new legislation they will be sued and/or criminally prosecuted.
This will inevitably result in social media and/or tech companies in general to advocate for age verification at the Operating System level (as Mark Zuckerberg has already stated multiple times on the record).
This will shift legal liability away from them.
If the social media websites successfully persuade government authorities to move toward OS-based age verification, this will bind your identity to your Operating System in the age of AI.
Attorney General James Uthmeier@AGJamesUthmeier
The time for negotiations is over. Tech companies have 30 days from today to implement age restrictions on social media access for kids under 14. Within 60 days, parental consent must be in place for 14- to 16-year-olds.
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HalFinneyIsMyHomeBoy retweetet
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What if someone used an AI agent to fork the code to avoid the "age requirement" nonsense?
Can't fine/arrest an AI.
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