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@ rmuk @feddit.uk

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  • A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down

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  • It actually doesn't need to be so elaborate. Even a video camera with the lens cap on generates more than enough entropy. Your phone can mix together predictable but unique variations - time of day, free memory, CPU serial number, battery level - with less predictable physical sensory - light level, gyroscope, barometer, last touch points, nearby MAC addresses - to create far more on-board randomness than anyone realistically needs.

    That said, the whole Cloudflare lava lamp thing is very cool and also gets people talking.

  • A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down

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  • Creating the secure key pairs used for true E2EE requires a mathematical foundation of true randomness, which can only be achieved on a device by working with the OS, through an API call, to get a random seed that includes pseudorandom numbers from the device's sensors. There was a post a while back where a dev used ADB to read the API calls used during WhatsApp account setup that showed that no such calls were made, meaning the keys were either totally predictable, or were actually generated by Meta themselves.

  • This is what they took from us.

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  • I can see why they would change it. No-one is eating at a place called Chik-fil-A I am From Atlanta, especially when there's a Carl's Jr But I Think That's Regional nearby.

  • Where do you discover new music?

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  • +1 for BBC Radio 6, and honourable mention for ABC Triple J which is kind-of the Australian equivalent.

  • ubisys joins Works with Home Assistant

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  • So good to see the industry - as in, the ones actually interested in producing useful long-term kit, not just data-slurping slop - supporting Home Assistant. Ubisys kit already works really well so this is a no-brainer.

  • cum bingo

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  • Never eaten cum out of a condom. Never had a distance competition. But... yeah, everything else. Holy shit. Having the big gay helps.

  • Fuel protesters set to descend on London in major national demonstration

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  • Can't promise dangerous solutions to problems if there aren't any problems.

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Some great responses so far.

    I'm going to go with The Day Today. It perfectly captures the tone of early nineties news and current affairs shows, and it's unnecessary grandiose, bombastic, urgent and it just keeps on going for far too long. It couldn't be more well-suited to the show.

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Here's the full length version of Bojack's Theme that you didn't know you wanted:

    https://youtu.be/UkhHY7U3LwU

    The whole soundtrack is up on Qobuz, Spotify, Deezer, etc.

  • Where do you discover new music?

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  • I listen to BBC Radio 6 Music and ABC Triple-J. Both are brilliant and specialise in new music. The DJs are all passionate and informed, and they're given a LOT of freedom. I've lost track of the number of amazing songs I've heard on 6 Music only for it to get ruined by appearing in a car advert or GoPro montage six months later.

  • Future

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  • You don't know me.

  • Future

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  • "Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock! Shirt! Sock! Sock! Sock! Sock!" - LG Dishwasher, probably.

  • New JFK theory dropped!

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  • It's easy to make jokes about the JFK assassination but if you listen to the first-hand accounts of the people who were there it's honestly humbling.

    https://youtu.be/Yl1apDfQmUs

  • Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge

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  • Edge before it adopted Chromium was an excellent browser - fast, standards compliant, rock solid. Adopting Chromium is basically them doing the absolute minimum to ship a browser at all without showing someone else's logo. We use Edge at work - Chrome and Firefox are also supported - and it shocking how many MDM policies we have to have to make Edge usable.

  • something something

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  • My ex left behind his collection of vibrating sounding rods soooooo, there's option three right there.

  • lol

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  • I saw someone elsewhere suggest a theory: one of Trump's staffers told him to say the picture "has been doctored" which got the Amigara Fault treatment in Trump's mind and came out as "I'm a doctor".

  • Landscape of globally rare habitat restored near Loch Ness in one of first and largest projects of its kind in Scotland

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  • Wonderful to see the diggers roaming in the wild again. And a rare blue one, no less. We only get the invasive yellow ones around here.

  • SBA #90 THE FOOT LONG COMPENDIUM CONUNDRUM CONTINUES

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  • I can't believe how emotionally invested I am in this fucking tripe. Keep it coming, kthxbai.

  • What's your Don Martin sound effect name?

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  • Fucking Foop Foop.

  • Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green?

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  • Jokes on you, I'm a toilet tester; taking a shit and work is all I do.