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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I hope they succeed. Given Alphabet/Google’s recent moves to try and lock Android’s app ecosystem down and them just generally becoming more Evil every day, GrapheneOS and LineageOS etc. may be living on borrowed time.

    I watched a video reviewing some phones smuggled out of North Korea a few days ago and it’s truly scary what the endgame of locked mobile phones looks like and given the trends worldwide towards authoritarianism, we’re frogs being boiled slowly toward the same situation.








  • So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

    It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

    Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …

    I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.





  • Wait one god-damned minute. If this is true, and I have no reason to think it is not, why is this not another prominent arrow in the quiver of everyone who constantly has to point out how psychotic Gates and billionaires like him truly are? Jeebus Cripes, what an asshole Bill Gates was/is:

    Bill’s face changes. And in just a matter of five minutes he’s losing it.

    And he’s screaming at me, “YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM!” Spit — I’m not making this up — Spit is coming across the conference room table and landing on my glasses as he’s like, “YOU FUCKED HIM!” I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about

    There are many accounts of how unhinged and abusive Gates was in Microsoft meetings, but this is just off the scale. Speechless.