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  • Sure, but then you’ve just shifted the problem up a level. Now I have to trust that the user id you provide me in the insecure channel really is you. Which means either trusting the insecure channel or trusting that the web app has confirmed who you are in some other way before giving you an ID.

    We have to reject the first since we could skip all the asymmetric crypt and just send a symmetric key directly in the insecure channel.

    If we’re trusting the web app has confirmed your identity, we’ve moved from “just quickly go to this page and it’ll generate you a public key” to “go to this site, upload a photo of your ID and a video of you saying that its you and whatever other verification is needed, then it’ll give you a public key”.

    You originally wrote:

    The one sticking point is that your recipient needs to visit the site before you can send your vacation photos to them, but is it really that hard?

    The hard part isn’t them going to the site in advance, it’s them establishing trust with the site that they are who they claim to be.






  • CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy Guides@lemmy.oneDivestOS ends development
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    1 month ago

    It’s a quite entitled view to take that they should make an effort to pass the project on. It would be very hard to build sufficient trust in a new developer quickly, and passing it on without that trust would be undermining the trust that users of the projects have placed in this dev. If I were him, I wouldn’t be staking my reputation on finding someone to take over from me if there wasn’t already an obvious candidate.

    The successful fundraiser you mention looks to have had a target of $12k USD (from: https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/divestos-is-unsustainable-needs-community-support-we-sent-250-and-you-can-help-too/6660, the original page has been taken down), and was as a alternative to them taking a full time job. I’d say its a reasonable bet that money was spent on living expenses, and IMO $12k a year is much less than this level of skilled work is worth. It’s certainly not enough money to make it unreasonable to shut down the project a year later, and I doubt anyone who donated feels shortchanged by it.




  • If you’re just commuting & riding flat, even-ish trails, you maybe don’t need a MTB at all. You’ll get much bigger changes in handling/comfort/speed from changing the style of bike than the marginal gains from upgrading individual parts.

    What are you hoping to gain from a drivetrain upgrade? It might make more sense to look at changing the type of bike you have, rather than trying to transform a MTB to act like a hybrid/gravel/road bike






  • The male gaze is the idea that we judge things from the perspective of a (heterosexual) man. In particular, it often refers to what society considers to be beautiful. Society often equates being sexually attractive with beauty, and often values people who are considered beautiful more highly.

    The article is critizing the video for claiming to subvert this trope in the second half, while still placing emphasis on Katy Perry’s sexual attractiveness.