dbrgn

After more than 15 years on Twitter, I'll stop posting and interacting on this platform (for a lot of reasons). You can still find me in the fediverse (@dbrgn@chaos.social) and on Bluesky (@dbrgn.bsky.social). See you on the other (much brighter!) side!

Beim blauen Himmel fühlt es sich an wie Twitter im Jahr 2010... Und der Netzwerkeffekt zieht auch langsam richtig an, viele bekannte Handles 🙂

☀️ 🛰️@ESASolarOrbiter’s daring trajectory close to the Sun is paying off, giving us the highest-resolution full views of the Sun’s surface to date. Full story 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…

To celebrate our partnership with @ApostrophyOS, we’re giving away ten (yes, 10!) @punkt MC02 privacy smartphones: threema.ch/bp/apostrophy

the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code

@ChShersh @the_dismal_tide doc.rust-lang.org/std/any/trait.… *runs away*

@the_dismal_tide Lol, I wonder if anyone ever tried

If dynamic typing is so good, why do people keep adding static types to dynamically typed languages?

@AssegaaiJulius @Rainmaker1973 This video explains pretty well how flagellar motors are being studied (including indirect imaging): youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9g… That process alone is pretty mindblowing.

@Rainmaker1973 All I want to see is just ONE real photo of said bacterial nanomotor or bacterial flagellum. Just one.

Bacterial nanomotors spin at up to 20,000 rpm

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

Have you ever wanted to edit or delete a sent Threema message? Now you can: threema.ch/bp/edit-delete

@AkuStable31828 @ThreemaApp @signalapp Not sure if your reply is serious or just trolling, but Signal supports neither Romansh nor Swiss German.

Name an app that’s available in all of Switzerland’s official languages: auf Deutsch, en français, in italiano, per rumantsch (und als Tüpfli ufem «i» auno uf Züridütsch). 🇨🇭 #SwissNationalDay

lol, removing is-number from this package saves 440gb weekly github.com/micromatch/to-…

One of the most requested features hits the public beta: the ability to edit/delete sent messages. 🙌 Join the beta program to give it a try: threema.ch/faq/betatest

🤯 There are many things out of your control when implementing disappearing messages. They can land in notification histories, they might still appear in system logs. Disappearing messages are never perfect. However, that *one thing* that you can do is: Actually deleting them.

@kuenzler @AVM_DE Etwas aufändig und teuer, aber dafür hat man gleich noch Homeserver, NAS und Mediacenter mit dabei.

@kuenzler @AVM_DE Ich habe die Suche nach sinnvoller Consumer-Router-Hardware für Fiber7 aufgegeben und bin bei Eigenbau-Consumer-PC-Hardware (Ryzen 5) mit zwei 10G-Mellanox-Netzwerkkarten gelandet. OS und Routing ist mit NixOS, systemd-networkd und nftables umgesetzt.

Abt. «das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint». #Fritzbox 5690 «Pro» Sample erhalten. Für den Schweizer🇨🇭 Markt leider unbrauchbar. Unterstützt nur 1 Gigabit AON und GPON. Kein SFP+ (10Gig). Kein XGSPON. @AVM_DE ist noch in #Glasfaser-Deutschland 🇩🇪 (aka hinter dem Mond). 😳😢

@richie_penski @mysk_co @dpihac @signalapp @ThreemaApp It depends on the version. V1 is in-memory only, no persistence. V2 stores chats and keys locally, but everything is encrypted with a key derived from the user password.

@mysk_co @dpihac @signalapp I confirm @ThreemaApp Actually in MacOS you need your iPhone in order to use desktop app. They don’t use local drive, only virtual

TL;DR: Don't install @signalapp for macOS, it is not secure. I carried out this small experiment: - I wrote a simple Python script that copies the directory of Signal's local storage to another location (to mimic a malicious script or app) - I ran the script in the Terminal and got a copy of my Signal data on my Mac - I booted a fresh macOS installation in a virtual machine - I transferred the copy of Signal's data to the VM and placed it where Signal expects it: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal - I installed Signal and started it - Signal started and restored my session with all the chat histories 😳 - I exchanged a couple messages with a contact from the VM and it worked 😳 - Then, I started Signal on the Mac - I got three sessions running in unison: Mac, iPhone, and VM 😳 Messages were either delivered to the Mac or to the VM. The iPhone received all messages. All of the three sessions were live and valid. Signal didn't warn me of the existence of the third session [that I cloned]. Moreover, Signal on the iPhone still shows one linked device. This is particularly dangerous because any malicious script can do the same to seize a session. Perhaps this flaw is what makes some users think that Signal has a "backdoor" as it is easy for sophisticated attackers to target a victim who's using the Mac app and see their chats. (The same may be also true for the Windows app) #privacy #security

The clock is ticking: if EU citizens don’t act now, #ChatControl could become a reality – and online privacy a thing of the past. threema.ch/bp/stop-chat-c…

Expanding on @schneierblog’s overfishing analogy, we take a closer look at the factors that may contribute to the continuing decline in online privacy: threema.ch/bp/online-priv…

@FlauschTheQueen @Aljo6769 @haller_urs Ja, in dem Punkt hat der Zoe einen Vorteil 🙂 Hauptnachteil sehe ich beim für heutige Verhältnisse langsamen DC-Laden mit 50 kW, sowie beim fehlenden Abstands-Assistenten. In der Praxis ist es aber kein Problem, auch nicht bei längeren Strecken.