Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant
cross-posted from: feditown.com/post/2498813
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant
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France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom
France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and Zoom
Not only for them, but any other non-European videoconferencing software.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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When Silence Is Mistaken for Peace
Many assume the war is over and everything is fine now. That’s not our reality. Gunfire has decreased, but it hasn’t stopped, and daily life is still tight and uncertain. Our calls may be quieter, but the struggle continues. Any support or solidarity still means a lot.
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Tbh I probably wouldn’t have clicked the link if I hadn’t seen your comment, since I thought this was the original title of the video
its what it was originally but youtube has a way for vids to swap out less attractive titles automatically for alternate titles
But RAM on windows is 15GB vs 9.1GB on Bazzite, the difference is massive! That's only Cyberpunk, I didn't finish the video.
Windows is full of crap, especially Windows 11
Too much open-source AI is exposing itself to the web
As if AI weren't enough of a security concern, now researchers have discovered that open-source AI deployments may be an even bigger problem than those from commercial providers.Threat researchers at SentinelLABS teamed up with internet mappers from Censys to take a look at the footprint of Ollama deployments exposed to the internet, and what they found was a global network of largely homogenous, open-source AI deployments just waiting for the right zero-day to come along.
175,108 unique Ollama hosts in 130 countries were found exposed to the public internet, with the vast majority of instances found to be running Llama, Qwen2, and Gemma2 models, most of those relying on the same compression choices and packaging regimes. That, says the pair, suggests open-source AI deployments have become a monoculture ripe for exploitation.
Open-source AI is a global security nightmare waiting to happen, say researchers
Infosec in Brief: Also, South Korea gets a pentesting F, US Treasury says bye bye to BAH, North Korean hackers evolve, and moreBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Moore Threads announces a new GPU architecture that will power upcoming gaming and AI compute GPUs
Moore Threads announces a new GPU architecture that will power upcoming gaming and AI compute GPUs
Moore Threads unveils Huagang architecture with Lushan and Huashan GPUs, promising massive gains in gaming, ray tracing, and AI performance.Rajesh (Gizmochina)
depending entirely on ONE (quite violent at that) country for the world's compute is insane in the first place. i'm not well read into the decade long chinese effort to make these chips, but i'm rooting for at least some modest success.
from a quick search it seems their previous iteration, the MTT S90 already supports all modern apis and is already comparable to mid-range nvidia/amd chips from a few of gens ago.
which is impressive and it'd probably already cover most usecases, but it seems to be of limited production/availability so far.
They've made substantial progress in the past 10 years. Sadly, the lack of access to EUVL machines is what's really holding them back from making higher end and more competitive technologies.
They are actively working on making EUVL machines domestically, which would be incredible given ASML is the only organization in the world that currently makes them. Still, it'll probably not be till the 2030s that they actually can get into production with that.
If this is a topic that interests you, GamersNexus did an awesome hour-long deep dive into a couple Chinese chip companies and what they've been making and how they are being unfairly handicapped by the west, and the incredible progress they are making despite that. This is sort of perfect timing for Chinese players to enter the market given Western companies are gouging consumers and losing the good will, pretty much every PC enthusiast in the world would be happy to buy Chinese products over Western ones based strictly on price of performance is up to par.
I swear to god it's so easy to spot CIA psyops I could do it with my eyes closed, yet libs see this kind of shit and will still doubt it.
edit: i was very sleepy when i first wrote this comment sorry for the typos
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LFS drops support for System V, citing workload problems and upstream dependencies on systemd
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Linux newbie needs help with solaar
Hello I'm a Linux newbie and I need some help. I'm running fedora on my laptop and I want to connect my Logitech mouse. I got solaar installed but I need to manually install the udev rule. I'm following the Instructions here
So I understand that I need to copy rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules from the solaar GitHub and place it in /etc/udev/rules.d the thing I don't know how to do is get there. I'm not super familiar with the terminal
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You're not a dumbass, you've just been taught to use a computer wrong by the bad operating system.
This is a useful lesson for linux newbies in general: when you want to install a program, go to your package manager first, not your web browser.
muzzle
in reply to Karna • • •Atropos
in reply to muzzle • • •HelloRoot
in reply to muzzle • • •Have you tried selfhosting it? For me, it was unusable, despite a beefy cloud server, even for just 2 people. And thats ignoring setup complexity.
This one is optimized and kubernetes ready, which makes it super easy. Will try out soon.
jim3692
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in reply to jim3692 • • •unexposedhazard
in reply to muzzle • • •Dr. Bob
in reply to muzzle • • •CactusEcho
in reply to Dr. Bob • • •It's licensed under Apache license:
You know that they could just fork it, right? Saying that "it's american", just causes FUD for opensource.
Dr. Bob
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in reply to muzzle • • •Leon
in reply to quick_snail • • •GitHub - suitenumerique/meet: Open source video conferencing app powered by LiveKit.
GitHubquick_snail
in reply to Leon • • •All these services support it. And they support not using e2ee.
I would never use a VC system that supports not using e2ee
Leon
in reply to quick_snail • • •Auster
in reply to Karna • • •ugo
in reply to Auster • • •like this
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jaybone
in reply to Auster • • •Shimitar
in reply to jaybone • • •Nothing to do with license.
Firefox is a massive piece of code and following modern browser standards is so difficult that it's a feat for big teams of developers and no small team seems to be able to pick the pace needed.
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in reply to Shimitar • • •Yeah, one of the largest pieces of software humanity has created, next to Google Chrome and the Linux kernel, which are all around 30 million lines of code.
To give a frame of reference: With a team of 5 full-time devs at my dayjob, we can dish out a codebase of about 20 thousand lines over the course of two years.
A browser might be somewhat quicker to build, because the requirements are relatively clear at this point and you can start implementing many standards in parallel. But yeah, it's still just an insane amount of code.
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in reply to Karna • • •This is awesome!
But I am confused, isn't github Microsoft though? Why host it there?
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in reply to RomulusCornflakes • • •elucubra
in reply to Karna • • •Why didn't they pour money on Jitsi?
European, mature, FOSS...
I fear grift is there somewhere.
Also, French engineering has a habit of turning sound concepts into messy overengineerd but underbuilt results.
VoIP and instant messaging application with video conferencing capabilities
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in reply to elucubra • • •Any example ?
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in reply to gdaofb27584 • • •matlag
in reply to elucubra • • •The development is quite transparent. The team is looking at reduced development and more integration, so instead of "pouring money on a project", they tried various solutions, and picked the "best one".
One criteria was an integration with their internal communication system: Tchap, essentially a Matrix server. The Matrix video call group didn't cut it because it requires ElementX, and apparently there are unresolved issue there (no idea if it's the app itself or due to customization of their Matrix server). They ended up with Visio, that is not a "new" solution: it's based on LiveKit.
github.com/tchapgouv/tchap-pro…
Etude des différentes options visio dans Tchap
julie-ri (GitHub)yumyumsmuncher
in reply to Karna • • •moopet
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in reply to FitToxicologist • • •matlag
in reply to moopet • • •W is a SWEDISH startup funded by private entities.
It has absolutely nothing to do with France, and the only link you could make here is it's owned at 25% by a media that received subsidies from the EU, like a lot of media do, and France is part of the EU.
The startup has not been endorsed by any public entity at any level.
This is completely irrelevant.
whyNotSquirrel
in reply to yumyumsmuncher • • •matlag
in reply to yumyumsmuncher • • •So they do use available solutions.
borQue
in reply to Karna • • •rmuk
in reply to borQue • • •Salah [ey/em]
in reply to rmuk • • •matlag
in reply to borQue • • •Well, I wish you could just say that, but "the French" is not a consistent body of people.
While we have this team working on a sovereign suite, Macron is rushing a law to ban <15 years old on social network, so… they will soon require all users to provide an ID. It will have to go through a "trusted third-party", not directly to Meta/Twitter/etc., and not to the gov directly, but we all know how much corporates and governments have been trustworthy historically. And once the data is collected, you're just one law away from all abuse.
Needless to say that the teen will rush to VPN, so they also mentioned a potential ban on VPNs! (France would then join the short-list of great democratic VPN-banning countries: North Korea, China, Iran…)
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in reply to Karna • • •quick_snail
in reply to Karna • • •France has horrible laws for encryption, so how much do you want to bet this thing doesn't have e2ee.
This is an Intel operation
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in reply to quick_snail • • •quick_snail
in reply to ouille • • •France requires companies to get permission to export cryptography. They're one of the worst countries in Europe for crypto.
comparitech.com/blog/vpn-priva…
Encryption laws: Which governments place the heaviest restrictions on encryption?
Paul Bischoff (Comparitech)HobbitFoot
in reply to quick_snail • • •SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to quick_snail • • •quick_snail
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •Zoom, Teams, Meet, and all the major providers do not have e2ee on by default. It's a paid extra and almost nobody turns it on.
Mega uses e2ee by default, and it cannot be turned off.
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in reply to quick_snail • • •I hope they do work on e2ee and they it will indeed come soon.
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in reply to quick_snail • • •quick_snail
in reply to E_coli42 • • •French people are literally not able to fork it and add e2ee without the government's permission.
France requires government approval for exporting any software with crypto
E_coli42
in reply to quick_snail • • •SeductiveTortoise
in reply to Karna • • •Die Office-Suite für die Öffentliche Verwaltung
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in reply to Karna • • •Seems pretty neat. Hopefully it's somewhat simple to compile and set up. It's kind of weird that livekit is VC funded though. Not necessarily the best, since they might have to relicense it to make investors happy at some point.
Look at their list of investors: livekit.io/about
The programmability aspect of LiveKit is cool, not that it matters much since this "meet" app is just something built on top of livekit.
About LiveKit
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in reply to Karna • • •Hemingways_Shotgun
in reply to Karna • • •I get that government use needs to be stringently tested for security, and so things take a little longer. But really, there are PLENTY of good FOSS products in existence that can be used as a base framework and a head-start to things like this.
You don't have to re-invent the wheel when you could easily fork Jitsi-meet and harden it/secure it to your needs in the government.
Jitsi is one of my top 5 FOSS projects that are basically already mature enough to be used in a professional setting
BastingChemina
in reply to Hemingways_Shotgun • • •It's literally the third word on the github readme of the project linked I'm the post :
Lovekiy is an open source framework for voice and video conferencing
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