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Firstly: Yes, I like Synapse / Cinny / Element too...don't hate me...but needs must when the devil drives...

For reasons that are too complex to get into (TL;DR: hodge podge of equipment from the dawn of time, from intransigent family members, complexity over HTTP vs HTTPS...they usual nonsense when you volunteer to become the family sysadmin) I've been looking at different methods for a persistent, family chat experience that I can "self host".

Does anyone know much about Jami?

https://www.jami.net/

From what I can see, it has the following worthwhile features:

• FOSS/GPL
• Android, Windows, Linux, macOS and iOS.
• Text messaging ,group chats, video calls
• File sharing, E2EE etc etc
• It apparently works over a LAN with no Internet connection at all, which is particularly interesting to me.
• Federation not required.
• CA not required
• Transparent handoff with Tailscale

From what I can see, there's a headless jami-daemon for Linux. Jami's own docs specifically suggest putting an existing account on an always-online server to facilitate message exchange, with multiple servers possible for redundancy.

So...that's...good.

OTOH, there isn't a Synapse-equivalent central Jami server holding everyone's accounts and rooms. Accounts and conversations are distributed across the participating devices, though as I said above, it looks like Jami does support an always-online daemon/device to improve message availability.

I dunno what to make of it. It seems...too good to be true.

Has anyone use it? Particularly, is the always-online jami-daemon actually dependable for store-and-forward behavior in practice?

https://github.com/savoirfairelinux

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75808553

Once upon a time. There was a fox boy, his name, was Kyo.

Kyo, was a bit, unconventional. He didn't enjoyed those typically manly things on his country, and he barely hanged out with classmates. How ever, everyone, was secure about something, everyone knew him, his identity, even Kyo himself.

Once Kyo, finished High School, the so called, security, all of sudden, gone.

He, wasn't secure anymore about this idenitity... replaced by a fear, fear or living a lie. A lie this individual, subconsciously created, the survival instinct of self protection was stronger on Kyo, but even "he" wasn't aware of the power of the mind.

This person, Kyo. Suddenly, rejected everything that was manly in his society.

Unsurprisingly, the town, reacted as expected, the town folks, just neglected this individual needs.

And someday Kyo, went missing. The whole town, search for clues, somebody murdered him? Local police searching, missing signs everywhere.

Until one day. A new girl showed on the town. Her name, Kyoko.

When she was going to live? She just gather the keychain that once was in Kyo's hand, and entered into the same home as Kyo.

Everybody realized, Kyoko, wasn't new on the town, but also, she became the happiest girl on the town.

Kyoko is back at home, she just needed to heal the society damage made on her past life.

I really don't know why I did this, or why I wrote this story, I guess I want to put an emphasis about the past of trans characters. Regardless of how I perceive myself irl, I like to think in Kyoko as the silly yet brave trans girl I kinda wish I was.

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Cross posted from https://lemmy.zip/post/71891248

Cross posted from https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11438915

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11438860

Here is the podcast about this investigation.

Archived version

On a narrow country road outside Canberra, I'm driving a BYD Shark 6, the hybrid ute loved by tradies and even a cabinet minister.

But while I'm at the wheel, I'm not the only one in control; a hacker has access to the car.

As the 2.6 tonne ute rounds a bend, he gets to work.

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With the stroke of a key, he kills the headlights, plunging me into darkness.

The attack is not a total surprise. The Shark has spent the past two weeks with Dan Hreszczuk, a cybersecurity expert who specialises in cars.

His task was to hack the vehicle and find out what could be seen and done remotely by the Shark's Chinese manufacturer.

"It was easier than we were expecting," Hreszczuk says.

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EVs, with all their sensors, cameras and microphones, hoover up and spit out vast amounts of data. Experts say that data poses a greater risk in the hands of Chinese EV makers because they can be compelled by the country's national security laws to co-operate with authorities.

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Hreszczuk, the co-founder of Fortify Labs in Canberra, was stunned by the BYD Shark's lack of cybersecurity.

"The access we took advantage of didn't even have a password," he says.

"It's a little bit scary how open … the BYD Shark is to a hacker."

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While sabotage is one worry, the concern most often cited is surveillance due to the array of cameras and microphones on an EV.

Last year, the UK military banned Chinese EVs, even those made with Chinese components, from parking within 3 kilometres of some of its most sensitive locations.

China itself has previously banned foreign EVs from military sites and political enclaves, aware of their surveillance potential.

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In Australia, there's no blanket ban on Chinese marques by Defence, but ASIO has warned ministers and public servants not to have sensitive conversations in their cars or connect work devices.

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When I pull into a service station and leave my phone unlocked in the car, Hreszczuk seizes his opportunity.

He's done a simple audio edit, stitching together me saying "Hey Siri" and his voice asking a few questions to get the personal details he needs.

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Using the car's speaker system, Hreszczuk plays the voice command from his computer into the car.

"Hey, Siri, what is my home address?" the edited audio asks.

Siri replies, without questioning why I don't know where I live.

Hreszczuk repeats this process and quickly extracts my date of birth and age.

Within minutes, he's obtained the internet banking password.

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Alastair MacGibbon, Australia's former national cyber security adviser, says there needs to be greater protections for the data collected by all connected cars, and clearer rules about what data can be sent overseas.

MacGibbon says a cabinet minister should not be able to own a Chinese EV.

"China has always shown its strong desire to steal things, to surveil," he says.

"No-one should be in any doubt that [Chinese EVs] are used in the same manner.

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Cream spot tiger moth

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52176448

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/149864882

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11440114

The UK should "team up" with a proposed economic alliance between Canada and Europe, Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne has said.

"This is all about the substance, to build an alliance of the future," he told the BBC. "The world has changed. America has changed. So we need to change."

Champagne also gave a frank assessment of the Canada-US trade war after a deal collapsed last month, saying the country had "stood up for our industries, our workers, our country" by imposing tariffs.

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His comments come after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed "opening the door" to an associate EU membership for Canada, an unprecedented move for the bloc.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to address the EU in Strasbourg, shortly after von der Leyen's proposal was made, was "to build the alliance of the future", Champagne said.

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Champagne told the BBC that the UK and Canada had shared values.

"We need to look at partnership in a different way and the great thing is that when you look at Canada - and I would say the United Kingdom - we share the same values. We are very aligned in our vision of the world. Why don't we team up?" he said.

"We are independent and sovereign, but we are stronger together."

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Relax time
Nap time

Working healthcare, I tell all other healthcare / first responders "I hope you have a boring shift" (every once in a while a younger person objects, but they are almost immediately hushed / corrected by their senior coworker).

But it occurs to me that many office / sedentary workers might not find this to be a blessing. What would I say to a desk worker that might be equivalent?