Has anyone here attempted running Friendica in FrankenPHP or similar? Was curious if the extra effort was worth any noticeable performance improvement. Thanks!
"Peak Energy just shipped the US’s first grid-scale sodium-ion battery"
Good news because we must transition off carbon fuels now, and good news because its not scarce or hard to mine, or behind some prick's tariff wall, its not dirty, nor burst into flames.
Are you kidding me? This looks like an image of the future. A new cooperatively-owned Bandcamp successor - and we can all be owners. The Mondragon of Music. This is a pretty good path for now out of the hellish technofeudalism we're otherwise in store for. I want to back all projects like this. Let's get onboard this shit and create a better future subvert.fm
y’all talk about fighting against corporate power but stayed mute and didn’t even have a plan when Cambridge Analytica did their thing. slate.com/technology/2018/04/w…
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.” He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
CHICAGO—Shedding light on how technology increasingly shapes everyday life, a study published Thursday by the American Journal Of Sociology revealed that the average American dedicates 97% of their day to retrieving six-digit validation codes.
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Remarkable advance in basic chemistry: Researchers have created hexanitrogen, composed of six bound nitrogen atoms. It's the most energetic molecule ever made!
If it can be made & stored in bulk (big if) it could be a powerful rocket fuel or energy storage material.
Compared to carbon, nitrogen is very stubborn about forming complex molecules with itself. But when it does, the results are unstable, energetic, and potentially explosive.
@rexi Don't worry about that. This fuel would be extremely expensive and explosive, and there's no way to make the cryogenic fuel tanks fail safe. All failure modes, including simply sitting there doing nothing while warming up, end in a huge deadly explosion.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with bulk storage of "the most energetic molecule ever made"? (I'm thinking of Pepcon's 'little accident', personally.)
This is very interesting! Looking up the specific energy of HMX, twice that is still less than hydrogen-oxygen rocket fuel. But it could be a bit better than hydrolox overall due to better density (meaning smaller fuel tanks, and thus lighter fuel tanks).
It could be a great fit for one of my favorite ideas - harvesting fuel using orbital atmospheric scooping. One problem - Earth's upper atmosphere has no hydrogen. But it's got LOTS of nitrogen.
And this also ties in with one of my more unconventional ideas, "Hypersonic Skyhitch". This idea uses a reusable suborbital rocket to boost a payload partly to orbit, where it meets up with a reusable rocket that slows down via atmospheric braking to meet up with the payload and boost it the rest of the way to orbit. It's like a TSTO except the mass of the upper stage does not need to be lifted by the first stage.
But it needs the orbital rocket to refuel in orbit...
@Canageek Liquid nitrogen temperatures are pretty easy compared to liquid hydrogen temperatures. And we do have serious ideas of mining lunar ice to process into liquid hydrogen fuel.
@Canageek I'm not an expert but I think liquid nitrogen is easier to deal with all around than liquid hydrogen.
I think the most "help" pressure can give you with liquid hydrogen is to pressurize it up to the critical point? 33K? That's still way lower than the normal boiling point of nitrogen (77K).
I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me why metallic hydrogen could ever be a potential rocket fuel. The presumption would have to be that it might remain metastable once formed, which I see no reason to think likely.
"If it can be made and stored in bulk" is carrying an awful lot of water here. Let me know where they are working on it so I can be in another state, far far away.
Are you attending a protest sometime soon? Here are EFF’s tips for how best to prepare one’s digital devices and oneself while exercising your First Amendment rights. ssd.eff.org/module/attending-p…
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Tariffs on parts but not new devices? That’s a double standard. More people will choose replacement over repair. That means more e-waste, fewer domestic repair jobs, and more dependence on imported tech.
We need policies that fix the system, not punish fixers.
(Notwithstanding the rumored retaliatory tariffs, which are TBD.)
National security. To prevent foreign businesses simply setting up shop and importing parts from Asia where they are made. The US needs to have full control of production to ensure the integrity of the devices being sold. This mostly includes the chips on the circuit boards and the operating system and other associated software on the device. Trump wants manufacturing jobs to return also. Once entire handsets can be built in the US, tariffs on imported completed handsets will follow
tariffing parts? this will lead to HUGE increase in prices. a 10% tariff on parts will lead to a small 300% increase in price, and that is something as simple as a pencil. this is because even simple devices have more things that goes into them than most people realize. more complex items (eg: computer) can see MUCH greater increases from the same tariff increase.
“‘Sol voyeur’ energy problems with solar!”* *(Warning: does not work^ at night, so get your kicks—shutter clicks?—while you can!) ^(Well, not without batteries. But then you’re getting devices for self-illumination…)
A growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.
This is being done alongside Google recommending app developers forbid installing their apps from the Play Store on operating systems not licensing Google Mobile Services. The combination of these feature ends up blocking users from easily using the apps without modifying them.
We're going to add a secure way of working around this without breaking the app source security model. We'll be adding support for having the OS automatically verify the Play Store signing metadata and then inform Play services those apps were installed from the Play Store.
It's worth noting Android has a standard hardware attestation API for verifying the hardware, firmware, OS and app. This supports alternate roots of trust and non-stock operating systems if apps choose to support it. Apps could perform stronger checks while allowing GrapheneOS.
Android's hardware attestation API has anti-competition issues due to the official verification libraries hard-wiring the Google roots and encouraging only permitting the stock OS. However, it does fully support any other OS with verified boot and can be used with other root CAs.
Google's Play Integrity API is quite different and only supports verifying devices licensing Google Mobile Devices with the stock OS. It has support for enforcing installing apps from the Play Store. None of this has anything to do with security. It's purely anti-competitive.
Google Play Integrity permits highly insecure devices with years of missing High/Critical severity security patches. They pretend any device licensing Google Mobile Services is secure while running the stock OS and anything else is insecure. This is a lie to lock out competition.
There's no security value to enforcing using devices licensing Google Mobile Services. The vast majority of those devices are highly insecure. Software-based attestation (device integrity) is also highly insecure and easy for attackers to bypass. This is only hurting competition.
Hardware-based attestation can be secure, but the way the Play Integrity API uses it is also highly insecure. It can be bypassed via leaked keys from the most insecure Android devices in the ecosystem. Secure way to use it is pinning, not trusting everything chaining to a root.
Even if apps insist on doing these kinds of integrity checks, they can still permit GrapheneOS. We provide a guide on verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation at grapheneos.org/articles/attest…. They can still fall back to Play Integrity API for insecure devices without this.
Multiple prominent banking apps in Europe have already implemented support for GrapheneOS via hardware attestation. The pace of apps adopting the Play Integrity API is unfortunately currently faster than apps adding support for GrapheneOS. This is due to Google marketing it.
If you run into apps banning using GrapheneOS with Play Integrity, make a Play Store review with no links asking to stop banning a more secure OS. Next, make a customer support request linking grapheneos.org/articles/attest…. Multiple apps have permitted GrapheneOS due to these efforts.
@edinburgh_man This is the usual consequence of an app marking their Play Store entry as requiring the device or strong integrity levels from the Play Integrity API.
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@sparklepanic Yes, that's caused by the app marking their Play Store listing as requiring the Play Integrity API with the device or strong integrity level. The app may not actually require it and may work without it if installed from elsewhere. However, the app may check install location and enforce installing it from the Play Store.
If they properly implement the Play Integrity API, their services will check that the app passes it to use the services. Many apps are missing doing this though.
@sparklepanic If they enforce checking it for their services as was always intended from the beginning, there's no workaround. GrapheneOS shows a notification when an app uses the Play Integrity API so it's very obvious when it's the reason an app is blocking using it. Note the app triggers using it locally but their server fetches the result from Google's server itself and verifies the result there. However, some apps only enforce it via the Play Store toggles which don't do that.
@AudraTran That's one other way to install apps from the Play Store from other sources, but not the only one. If apps implement this, the app developers officially releasing builds outside of the Play Store won't work either. Google is convincing app developers this is a security feature but it isn't one and is being done to reinforce the Play Store Android app store monopoly. Google is going to face severe antitrust consequences for these actions but justice moves slowly and we need it quickly.
@AudraTran That's one other way to install apps from the Play Store from other sources, but not the only one. If apps implement this, the app developers officially releasing builds outside of the Play Store won't work either. Google is convincing app developers this is a security feature but it isn't one and is being done to reinforce the Play Store Android app store monopoly. Google is likely going to face severe consequences for these actions but are moving fast and the consequences are slow.
I've started to experienced this with a number of apps in the last week or so, and don't believe it was after a known OS or play services update, so suspect something has changed somewhere, probably Google defaulting it!
yes I just ran into this when I updated an app and then it refused to launch because I didn't install it from the Play Store. The funniest thing was messing with Play Store permissions occasionally allowed it to open; the lock wasn't even fully working!
Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.
Thought I'd write an #introduction for all those #newhere from the Musk exodus:
I'm an analytical chemist. I've hosted my own #Friendica node (instance) at my home since 2018, shortly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. From there, I got bit by the #selfhosting bug and am now hosting my own #opensource replacements for many FAANG services.
Welcome all to the #fediverse ! If you are thinking about self-hosting and have questions, would be happy to help as able! #introductions
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Good to know thanks! I keep most of the database in memory with a pretty large innodb buffer pool so I guess that's about all I can do.
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