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Cake day: January 12th, 2024

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  • I should be able to tell my bank to only trust devices running an OS signed by the grapheneos key, and more importantly I should be able to tell them to trust an OS signed by my key.

    How do you know that your OS installation doesn’t include malware? Like there have been many cases in the last few years where npm modules were found to contain malware. Who says that’s not also the case in some modules that are a part of your OS?

    And more importantly, who is legally liable if malware actually does cause harm? E.g. malware acts on your behalf and sends your money to some criminal organization. Not only did you lose money, but now you’re a suspect of supporting a criminal organization!

    Of course that issue might be alleviated if you simply don’t have any money to send anywhere in the first place. That might be a viable alternative, but it only works for some people, i’d say. Or you could also set a daily transaction limit of say $100 that you can use to buy groceries; to limit your losses that way. The limit ofc cannot be changed from your phone alone, you need to go to a bank physically to change it or sth. Otherwise malware could again change it on your behalf.



  • i’m just guessing here but i think that the critical requirements to be able to run banking apps securely on your smartphone are:

    • lockable/unlockable bootloader
    • quality control of the operating system to make sure it doesn’t contain malware/spyware
    • internet connection & open-protocol banking network

    the first two parts are general smartphone/laptop security and operating system integrity, which can only be done through hardware/general software developers. Like i think we need reliable hardware manufacturers but also institutions that check that open source software doesn’t contain malware. Like when you run apt install some-package who says that some-package doesn’t contain malware?

    The third one is the only part that is actually specific to banking. That’s a whole separate topic and has barely anything to do with the first two steps.






  • “You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all because we don’t need it.”

    “We have a lot of oil,” said Trump. “We were the number one producer anywhere in the world times two by double, at least double. Now I think it’s much higher than that. But we do it. It’s almost like we do it for habit, but we also do it for some very good allies that we have in the Middle East.”

    That does not at all sound like a “probably we shouldn’t be there” statement. It reads more like “some say we shouldn’t but we do it anyways because …”

    Like he outright states he’s doing it for Israel and because Israel asked him to and somehow convinced him. He’s not backing down. That’s not what he’s saying there.





  • fun fact: when a rook spins, it’s still in the same configuration afterwards, no matter what angle it spins by. This is because rooks fulfill the S(2π) supersymmetry and when you rotate them, it’s still the same state. This is why rooks don’t lose any energy when they spin around! In fact many say they have their round shape due to being molded while spinning, similar to a potter’s wheel. Anyways that gains them their special power which is they can store large amounts of magnetic energy in the field due to circular currents flowing inside them without actually experiencing any resistance. They can then use that magnetic field to power something similar to a magnetic coil gun similar to how a medieval fortress might have shot arrows down from the tower, which gives them their long range and makes them so scary.