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To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What is the 31st month? Modulo 12 would make it July.

10th July 2021. Gotcha.

Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

*peace

Soap makes water wetter. Kind of. It reduces the surface tension, allowing it to spread out and penetrate better. Making it clean better. So could we produce a surface tension-free water? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant

The surface tension of water is due to the molecular bonds. It's unlikely to change because then it would no longer be water.

If your life story was turned into a book,, what would the title be? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

"Wait. What?"

How to randomly pad files before encryption to prevent file fingerprinting? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Just use rclone. It does this natively.

On what distros/desktop envs is it possible to have the same taskbar on every screen? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Does for me.

My experiences with Pi-hole in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

With Pihole you can restrict or be permissive with different devices, based on MAC or IP address.

Which alarm clock apps do you use? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AMDroid. It's the only app I can find that allows me to create alarms from calendars.

Which alarm clock apps do you use? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

LineageOS.

Probably a stupid question, but will we ever have something like a microwave to make things cold? Is there a reason this can't exist? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"sci-fi"

What are all the Reset buttons meanings in Element (Matrix)? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Each message in the various rooms are encrypted individually with their own keys. These keys are derived from the session keys of the participants in each of the rooms. That's a lot of keys.

If you wish to read these encrypted messages across multiple devices you'll need to have the same keys on each of those devices ("sessions ") too.

One method to share the keys is for your sessions to "gossip" them between each other.

When you logout of a session, all its keys are deleted.

If you ever logged out of all your sessions at once, you'd lose access to all those keys and you'd never be able to decrypt your old messages again.

To mitigate that, you can create a key backup that is itself encrypted and stored on the server (Secure Backup). This allows you to download the stored keys from the server, restore them to your current device and rejoin the discussions again.

The Cross Signing process is the process used to authorise your new session and allows it to participate in the key-gossip function. By restoring the keys from the Secure Backup you're implicitly signing-in your device and blessing it all at once.

(... as far as I understand it all. Someone with more in-depth knowledge will correct me, I'm sure)

Websurfx - An open source alternative to Searx which aggregates results from other search engines (metasearch engine) without ads while keeping privacy and security in mind. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This is a "self hosted" community.