https://cupboardunderscore.github.io/ios-rcs/e2ee/

RCS is absolut bullshit. You take an „open standard“ and let 100 company’s implement a closed source solution for it that needs to be kept updated so that all features work across all platforms. Oh hey I want to write from TMobile to some cheap third party service, ups they don’t support it…. E2EE? Beta or not implemented. OpenSource apps are also rare.

And once again a chat protocol that Google touched and it was turned into golden shit. Congrats

I am selfhosting HomeAssistant and one automation is for my ceiling lamp. As I don’t whant to touch the electrical wiring or alter it permanently, I control it via IR and imitated the signal from the original remote via the ESP32 and some IR led. This on his own does not build a full feedback loop, so the ESP does not know if the light changed after the signal got send out. I lacked the correct light sensor in my inventory but remembered that my clock got one for display brightness control. The clock supports MQTT and also exposes the light sensor values in HomeAssistant. So after the ESP sends a signal to turn off or on the light, the automation looks at the light value from the clock to validate that it worked, else it tries sending it again.

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Don’t forget that you need an iPhone for the setup. Or did they remove that requirement?

Yes. I check the logs from my web pages with it.

It is pretty good I use it on many machines. You install it on your machine with a reverse proxy, it then analyses the traffic logs for malicious activity or for known bad IPs and then creates iptable block rules. The web interface is the cloud interface that it connects to, because as the name implies, it works by using log data from all members to block bad actors efficiently

I liked startpage until it broke for my setup, it does not work well with proxy’s, VPN and AdBlock. DuckDuckGo is my go to engine. Maybe in the near future I will setup searx. Also , in Germany there is ecosia but it also broke because of my setup.

XING if you want something in EU and still be somehow visible.

For Federation https://vutuv.de/

I love strongbox. I use it as a backup. I would daily drive it if I could import my passkeys from Bitwarden

I understand your point for Independent Password Managers. For some people this is not a solution. I would always recommend a password managers that fits your needs and know-how. My parents could not use keepass with sync without breaking or loosing shit. But protonpass, or Bitwarden or strongbox could be a viable option. In some rare cases I would even recommend Apple Passwort App. Better than nothing.

Gemma ran at 50/tops Qwen 27B? was way slower , 5/tops 8B models run perfectly fine, but are mostly useless for chat and agents. 8B is only good for specialists. Like one 8B model that can only write and correct python3 code. And then only in English.

I play Minecraft with the PrismLauncher on the M4 24GB. Shaders and DistantHorizon. 50-80fps

AI also works. Gemma 4 26B a4b MLX runs… somehow.

The problem is, that nearly no OS is perfect. Even grapheneOS and copperheadOS. If a three letter agency wants to get access to the systems running a privacy OS, they will somehow get it. Who should block the door to the devs home? They raid them, acquire the signing keys with their methods and deploy a backdoor in the next OTA update.

It is always about thread level and alternative options. If they get Apple, you move to Android, then to graphene, then to sailfishOS and whatever comes next. If you care about it. But the thing is…. Who cares? Privacy and security enthusiast, for sure. Freedom of the press people? Hopefully But these people don’t always know about that shit, and those are to protect.

I like the software. It was somewhat easier than yubikey.

Nice, I also have some. Sadly one of them died.

Google shows how to fuckup their user base. Apple got a better example for that with iOS 16 feature „Automatic Verification“ for CAPTCHAs. It’s not forced, you can deactivate it. And if you don’t have it, you get a normal standard capture like everyone else. Why not that Google, just copy that feature and no one would be pissed of by your „let’s be evil“ marketing.

Oh no, what should the bots do! Starts python authentication pipeline with screen capture and qreader, forwards it to android BlueStacks. Anyway

I also had trouble with that. I had to build some QoS pipes and query’s in OpnSense to reach 1Gbit/s. By now I upgraded my setup with an Intel N100 and 16GB RAM. It’s more than enough for OpnSense

I use OpnSense with Suricata and CrowdSec for that kind of job. But nothing works out of the box in that segment. You have to learn how to setup your environment for your requirements. There a many tutorials and forums, you just have to dig around and find what you need.

Yes. Does PfSense have something like OpenCentral for stack management?