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cmeerw

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  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • Group chats are also end-to-end encrypted in WhatsApp (so any monitoring would need to be done in cooperation with one of the participants' devices before encryption or after decryption)

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • declassified internal FBI document I just linked

    don't see any such link

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • It still works (with a few minor updates).

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • yowsup is an Open Source implementation of the WhatsApp protocol. So there is proper end-to-end encryption on the protocol level - that would only leave the possibility of having a backdoor in the "official" WhatsApp client, but none has been found so far. BTW, people do actually (try to) decompile the WhatsApp client (or the WhatsApp Web client which implements the same protocol and functionality) and look what it is doing.

    For anyone really curious, it's not too difficult to hook into the WhatsApp Web client with your web browsers Javascript debugger and see what messages are sent.

  • Can the government decrypt your WhatsApp chats?

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  • It’s no secret that WhatsApp adopted Signal’s encryption protocol just before Meta acquired them, but since it’s all closed source we don’t know if they’ve changed anything since the announcement in 2016 that all forms of communications on WhatsApp are now encrypted and rolled out.

    There is an Open Source implementation of the WhatsApp protocol: yowsup

  • What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?

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  • Jed when you want a simple, Emacs-like editor.

  • Oracle keeps changing the idle requirements for compute instances

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  • At least for memory usage the hypervisor wouldn't be able to tell the difference between memory merely used as cache vs. memory actually used by the software running on the machine (and OSes will usually just use any otherwise unused memory as cache, so you will likely see some inflated memory usage)

  • Oracle keeps changing the idle requirements for compute instances

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  • How do they actually get that information (particularly memory utilization)? Do they rely on their agent that's pre-installed (but can be uninstalled)? At least in their web interface it doesn't show any of that utilization for my instances (one is Ubuntu with their agent uninstalled and the other one is NetBSD).

  • Issue Tracking System for Linux

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  • What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels?

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  • I never really got used to IRC myself, but it's usually fine when connecting to IRC via Matrix.

    BTW, what other communication channels would you have expected?

  • Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?

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  • I am actually using a OrangePiPC as:

    • WLAN access point (hostapd)
    • LTE Internet via a E3372 USB dongle
    • radio via DVB-T dongle/Internet
    • USB speakers for the radio
    • Bluetooth dongle to connect to Bluetooth-enabled speaker in another room
    • USB temperature sensor, motion sensors via GPIO
    • VoIP telephone with connected USB headset
    • small LCD display to show the current temperature and incoming call information

  • How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution

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  • Did a bit more digging through the mailing list (also looking through the links posted on the HN thread), and to me it looks a bit weird.

    OP came up with an initial patch (Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 12:36 PM) that wasn't deemed to be good enough to be merged. Maintainer came up with a different patch (Tue, 7 Jun 2022 00:34:56 +1000) saying "but I wanted to fix it differently". OP then posted a reworked patch (Fri Jun 10 17:15:49 AEST 2022) that looks a lot more similar to the maintainer's patch.

    The maintainer's patch and OP's reworked patch look quite similar, but from what I can see from the mailing list, the maintainer actually came up with that approach, and OP didn't then credit the maintainer in his reworked patch. @kairos@programming.dev can you please clarify, what am I missing?

  • How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution

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  • I am not really seeing any toxic behaviour here.

    OP's patch was largely based on code in ptrace32.c, but that code actually looks quite bad. So maintainer applied a better fix. Maybe ptrace32.c should be updated to use code that's more similar to ptrace-fpu.c now?

  • How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution

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  • So you have just re-posted an old email to the mailing list just so you can link to it, likely confusing everyone on that mailing list.

  • What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

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  • older laptop distro recommendarion

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  • You don't really need to switch to a different distro. Just avoid snaps/flatpack/... and use a more lightweight desktop like XFCE and you should be fine.

  • Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced

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  • the email lists:

    However, every one of these reports has to be triaged, analyzed, and dealt with.

    I don't think non-coding work means non-technical work - you'll likely still need to dig deep into the technical details to actually be able to help

    There is also a link to docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFS

  • Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced

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  • and its linking ability is a huge simplifier for long term planning.

    What long term planning? Who is going to come up with that plan? Will everyone agree to that plan? Who will be paying for the resources to work on that plan?

    Combined with a Kanban board for tracking, progress of tickets. You remove a ton of pain.

    I am not seeing how that would help. What are you going to do if there is no progress on something? Fire volunteer X because he didn't make progress on ticket Y (as he has no interest in ticket Y)?

  • Ubuntu 23.10 Won’t Use Snap Printing Stack After All

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