ᴛʜᴇʀᴜʀᴀɴ 🌐🏴 @theruran@hackers.town

@grainloom @freakazoid @theruran

Looking at the EME spec, the introductory diagram shows the central role of "Content Decryption Modules" quite well: https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/#introduction
An example of a CDM is "Widevine": https://www.widevine.com/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine

Weston implements "protection levels" at: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/blob/master/libweston/content-protection.c

@freakazoid @alcinnz @theruran

It's fully not useful to them to build bulletproof DRM where more people can't watch it than can, so it has flaws...

People use those flaws to grab content, in the end since the VCR there is no way to take AV content and 100% keep it from duplication unless you want no one able to view it... If you can view it, so can something else.

It's why DRM is basically "flawed by design" really and in the end a foolish waste of time, that mostly just makes proper users jump through unnecessary proprietary hoops, this actually proliferating piracy, because it easier now to pirate that to view legitimately entitled content...

To ask @TomTom@twitter.com a question "via e-mail", you need to create a user account. To to this you have to enter your gender, male or female.

"Things become more personal with a TomTom account."

WHAT THE HELL?

Looking forward to the lawsuits when kids start realizing parents have been posting photos of every private moment of their lives without any sense of discretion whatsoever

"As we advocate to restore our Right to Repair, those of us at iFixit are usually mad, sad, and astonished on a few different levels. We’re thinking about the environmental cost of e-waste, the frustration felt by the person trying to make something work, or maybe the financial cost of having to replace entire logic boards instead of fixing one tiny wire."

This is a *general* vulnerabilities-by-type for CVEs across products and categories, not just browsers. But instructive, and should generally apply to Web browsers:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabilities-by-types.php

#Vulnerabilities #WWW #WebBrowsers #Bugs #Security #Chrome #Mozilla #MSIE

Alpine doesn't seem to have a wiki page on setting up gpg yet, especially all the weird incantations you have to scream at your terminal to make smartcards work.

The N700 is the Nozomi (のぞみ), this one.
#photography
#train

McSweeney's worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to produce The End of Trust, an issue devoted to surveillance. It's CC-licensed & available for free download: https://www.eff.org/document/end-trust-0

@theruran Seems to fall into a similar boat as Morton's 'hyperobject' - a thing so big and complex that we cannot actively hold all of it in our mind.

https://t.co/7hM3Nxi0Ps

The 486s Are Here! (What will we do with all that speed?!) (BYTE Magazine, 1989) #retrocomputing

1989 #retrocomputing

'We propose that fungi Basidiomycetes can be used as computing devices: information is represented by spikes of electrical activity, a computation is implemented in a mycelium network and an interface is realized via fruit bodies. [...] In an automaton model of a fungal computer, we show how to implement computation with fungi and demonstrate that a structure of logical functions computed is determined by mycelium geometry.'

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1098/rsfs.2018.0029

might start unironically submitting neo-luddite talks to software conferences

hello. this is a software conference, but i have some bad news for you: software is bad. in this talk i will

The Wiki now supports little 3d art experiences :)

#theWorkshop

ArsTechnica published a thorough #Purism #librem5 review two days ago. Hardware build quality is worse than I expected from a beta batch:

"[..] glue blobs that have squished out from around the display. The earpiece speaker has some of the display glue on it."

Power management still bad, charging indicator not working, doesn't charge when booted, doesn't turn on reliably and battery has to be pulled to make it boot, etc.

Looks like the hardware also still needs a lot of work.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/librem-5-phone-hands-on-a-proof-of-concept-for-the-open-source-smartphone/