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@opensourceopenmind @chesterdott I think the regular Librem 5 gives a bit better bang for the buck 馃榿 That's what I'm using and I'm still happy with it.

@agx Not today 馃槃

But sooner than later I think!

@hardpenguin13 Because people let them. Who cares if your solution is lazy and vastly overreaching if you can just get away with it?

@mkljczk @janeq @m0bi @dzokero ...i Twitter, i Blip, i identi.ca... (w troch臋 inny spos贸b, ale mia艂y)

@janeq @m0bi @dzokero Facebook mia艂 kiedy艣 bramk臋 pozwalaj膮c膮 zalogowa膰 si臋 do niego klientem XMPP, ale nie by艂o tam nigdy 偶adnej federacji. Nazywanie tego serwerem XMPP to jednak troch臋 semantyczne nadu偶ycie; to zupe艂nie inny przypadek ni偶 Google Talk.

@bananarama @hacks4pancakes @simonmicro It can make things worse if you expose HCI over UART and don't expect it to effectively give access to device's memory.
That seems like a very niche case though.

@rolenthedeep @millihertz Not even over Bluetooth, but over Bluetooth's HCI - so actually over UART and only if you happen to expose HCI there...

@nelson If you use these to exploit other devices, then sure - just like you can with monitor mode and packet injection on a Wi-Fi card that allows you to do it.

Of course you could always use other tools to do the same thing, but probably not as cheap as ESP32.

@nelson Worth adding that the same thing could have been achieved by writing a free replacement for the blob, like it's already happening for ESP32's Wi-Fi: esp32-open-mac.be/

@nelson Define "against".

The binary blob has features that let you do more than the official API does.

If your code exposes these capabilities outside, you're in for a nasty surprise, as you may have not factored these capabilities into your threat model. Otherwise - nothing changes; there are features there that you never used cause you didn't know about them, and they still remain unused in your code.

But now that you know about them, you may want to use them creatively in your projects :)

@nelson There's a news story about "undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices" which turns out to be bunch of undocumented debugging commands accessible over HCI interface as implemented by the binary blob that's used to interface with ESP32's Bluetooth peripheral.

Which is a bad news for you if you exposed that HCI interface into untrusted contexts for some reason, I guess? Otherwise this development is actually empowering the users.

Today we can observe who reads the news with comprehension and who passes stuff forward without second thoughts 馃槣

This is Sway in HDR mode, but unlike last time, there are no hacks nor tricks. It supports both SDR and HDR content on both SDR and HDR outputs. Phew!

Want to try it out? Instructions here: gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots

@dzwiedziu @m0bi My mamy gmin臋 @brwinow :) I @fedigov pr贸buj膮ce bardziej zakropkowa膰 t臋 map臋.

@wariat @dzwiedziu @m0bi Nie dziwi - Niemcy od dawna maj膮 bardzo silnie rozwini臋t膮 sie膰 hackerspace'贸w i najwi臋kszy w Europie klub hakerski, co nie pozostaje bez wp艂ywu na instytucje publiczne, zw艂aszcza na szczeblach lokalnych. To efekt dekad dzia艂ania.

For those interested, I鈥檝e pushed the firmware that implements the necessary alt-mode dance to get UART out of the 's USB-C port to 鈥檚 repository.

It wasn鈥檛 pushed before because it was very crude and I wanted to clean it up before pushing. It still is, but I decided to actually get it out regardless rather than risk having it sit and wait for even more months 馃槢

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@alexadeswift @agturcz Actually, they all do seem to be somewhat connected to vitamin D at least 馃槈

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