The ‘Authenticated Transfer Protocol’, or AT Proto for short, is a very simple system at its core. A user signs up on a Personal Data Server (PDS) on which they’re given a data repository.

Ok this is some kind of web automation thing. Nothing to do with dialup modems where you say ATDT followed by the phone number, and so on.

Let us know how it goes!

The US federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour but that’s ridiculously low and impossible to live on almost everywhere. States and cities can also have their own minimums. California is $16.90/hour and San Francisco (an expensive city in California) is $19.61/hour. Multiply the hourly amount by around 168 hours/month to get the monthly amount. But, if your BF has some kind of professional job in an expensive city, he will be making a lot more, at least $50/hour (100k/year), depending. To put this in context you basically can’t get any decent rental housing in San Francisco for $2000/month for 1 person.

Is this like a real boyfriend or an online boyfriend? I wonder what he is thinking.

The one I linked is 12v but you can select other voltages with the pulldown. I mean you can order 6v, 9v, 12v etc. versions, not that they are programmable. There are programmable ones elsewhere, and also some that handle higher current.

This is pretty spammy. Those types of adapters have been around forever. You can get them from adafruit and probably aliexpress and so on. https://www.adafruit.com/product/6032

Is this some silly AI training question? 1000kg is the weight of 10 humans with some luggage for each of them, so transporting it by plane shouldn’t cost drastically more than 10 passenger airfares. I mean come on. Plus you have to move it around by truck before and after the plane flight. Again no biggie. Clearing customs, who knows.

From the linked post:

It is tempting to file “print management software” under boring infrastructure, and that is precisely what makes this class of product so attractive to attackers. PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF are among the most widely deployed print-management platforms in the world, dominating large enterprises, healthcare networks, and higher education — sectors where on-premise print infrastructure remains the norm and where the Application Server is routinely joined to Active Directory, holds privileged service accounts, and sits on network segments rich with lateral-movement opportunities. On Windows, the Application Server binary pc-app.exe runs as a service with SYSTEM privileges by default, so any code execution inside the Java process is, for practical purposes, full host compromise.

What are they going to do about upstreams that use it? Like the Linux kernel for example.

From TFA:

CVE-2026-60004 allows attackers to abuse Gitea’s diffpatch endpoint to install and execute a Git hook from repository-controlled content.

“An attacker with ordinary write access to a repository can execute arbitrary shell commands as the Gitea OS user,” the maintainers explained last month, after the vulnerability had been patched in Gitea v1.27.1.

Source for this?

This is a start: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117140352254892456

The obsession with security chips is what allows Pixels and iPhones to be the most secure devices on the planet.

I remember the govt trying to muscle Apple into unlocking someone’s iphone, til they suddenly stopped because they found Cellebrite could unlock it instead. There have been several new iphone generations since then but I haven’t heard about govt muscling anytime recently. So I have to infer they can still unlock iphones. As for Pixels, this is in Dutch but very recent: https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6023856/drievoudige-moord-in-oosterhout-telefoon-van-verdachte-gekraakt

Machine translation of main paragraphs:

The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has unlocked the Google Pixel phone belonging to 29-year-old Veronica K., according to the prosecutor. “A large number of images of weapons and stacks of cash were found on her phone. There are also a large number of chat messages that can now be read.” K. is alleged to have facilitated the murder by supporting the perpetrators.

The prosecutor expects to receive the first results from the NFI on Thursday. During the hearing, the prosecutor also said there is good reason to hope that the NFI will be able to unlock the Google Pixel phones belonging to the other two suspects as well.

So I think you’re putting too much faith in this stuff. I will ask my crypto homies if they have any recent info about phone attacks though.

More relevantly, most secure devices AGAINST WHAT? You’re talking about a locked phone attack which is the absolute least of most users’ worries. The phone is so insecure in everyday use that the border patrol is near irrelevant. Plus users including paranoids like me don’t have any opsec to speak of. When was the last time you crossed a border with an Android phone anyway? I don’t think I’ve ever done that. Like most people I don’t leave the country that often. Last time I did was before I switched to Android, IIRC. I might have had an analog or 2G flip phone or something. If I travel somewhere again it’s not that big a deal to leave my Android phone at home, as I mentioned before.

Even in the border patrol picture, Graphene and TPM won’t protect you from what used to be called rubber-hose cryptanalysis (xkcd.com/538). They’re defending from the wrong threat.

Look, I understand the advantages of crypto hardware. I’ve programmed it and written simulators for it. But, the way to really keep cryptography in people’s hands is to make it not require special hardware. Thus I’m skeptical that the government hates Graphene, but it really did hate PGP back in the day.

If I get to add new hardware to phones, TPM would be on my list but not at the top. First might be something like POCSAG (plus build out the pager network again) so you can receive text messages without transmitting anything or revealing your location. Second, third, etc. would be in a similar vein.

That’s all very nice but not many of us are willing to buy a $1000 phone (or an obsolete Pixel) to get Graphene. They soon won’t be able to run it on new Pixels, and also the stuff about AOSP updates stops mattering since AOSP itself is nearly dead. The obsession with security chips (fighting the seized phone attack while comparatively ignoring much more relevant threats) is another misplaced priority. It’s the old notion of “fence post security”, putting a 100 foot fence post in the middle of the desert expecting the attacker to try to climb over it instead of going around it.¹ And again, I’m amused at the idea of the US and Chinese governments allowing a Motorola (Lenovo) Graphene to be sold if it’s really that secure.

We need a de-googled Android fork (maybe Lineage is that) on mass market phones using the hardware that those phones have. Otherwise we’re acquiescing to the notion that Elon Musk deserves more privacy than Joe Schmoe when it should be the other way around.

¹ hpmor.com chapter 115.

You believe GrapheneOS is not able protect against Motorola?

Um yes? How do you protect against someone who literally controls the hardware?

Jellybean was Android 4.3. I think Android phones weren’t really usable before that. But I didn’t get one til much later. The Galaxy S3 originally came with 4.0 and later with 4.3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III

No idea about your custom firmware ofc.

I have an old Android 2.1 music player (Archos 43) still kicking around. It’s slow and the Android software is not very good.

I think that isn’t really a thing. Usually you would have a tape drive in a backup server for a network, and the backup server would have its own HDD, so you’d back up over the network to the HDD and then dump HDD to tape locally at close to the transfer speed of the disk. Higher capacity tapes have fast transfer and if your data source can’t kee up, the tape has to start and stop all the time, which slows everything down and wears everything out.

“Some TB’s” = single digits? Probably just back up to remote storage if you have enough network speed.

It’s a large pot, yes, but not so big as to be hard to find or to consider custom fabrication. Web search found lots right away. Restaurants use them.

100 litres isn’t that big. Mexican grocery stores (I mean big ones, not bodegas) around here have them. Look at restaurant supply places too. Or Amazon if you must.

Added: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=100l+steel+pot

finds a bunch.

I get the impression that most kindle books are sold (well rented) by subscription, i.e. all you can read for a fixed monthly fee, so a subscriber downloading an AI book or other crap doesn’t pay any increment to do so. IDK how the revenues are divided up.

So when I say it requires no resources, I’m comparing it to alternatives like going on a retreat or participating in some sort of group. My point is it has lower barriers than alternatives which makes it more available.

Therapists are professionals who have to get paid, just like doctors, electricians, piano teachers, bicycle repairpeople, or whatever. I left out car repair because that’s largely about access to expensive garage facilities and special tools. Yes those costs are significant financial obstacles for lots of people, especially if they’re recurring. Participating in a group (like joining the local chess club) is usually free? Or if you mean a therapy group, I think that’s a a therapist leading a group session, so the participants split up the cost and it’s cheaper than individual therapy.

Anyway, this is money that has to come from somewhere.

I had not heard of the guy before, but like anyone else, he has his own perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alok_Kanojia

I’ll take The Noisy Decisions RMS and Linus Torvalds Made That Devastated Microsoft for all the marbles, Alex.