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Yes, the idea of the physical ID card they discuss makes a lot of sense, however that has the problem of associating your device with your ID.

When it gets to cloud hosting the personal data and an intermediary validation service that’s where I get even more skeptical.

I have a vague idea about a system that uses a time and topology based encryption where a person’s private information is encrypted and can generate a public key pair that will only match within a set time frame so that the data is held on government servers fully encrypted and when the user issues a “consent” that consent enables validation of a check-sum when both the user and the website provide the public keys without directly querying the government database. So basically the website is issued a public key by the server that works for all citizens that are above an age limit, and the users are sent private keys from their government data store whenever new data is encrypted. If the user’s age is above the limit, the user’s key will validate the age check, and because the key changes rapidly over time it cant be used to correlate the individual across multiple validation checks.

Users can host a version of the data store locally, that can be validated as matching the government store using the query “is there a match to the shape of this encrypted data” rather than querying a specific citizen info store (this is blockchain tech, but can be centralized). This could be used to fight against identity theft, which is certain to be a crime that spikes with any digital ID system. Thats not the most clear but I think you’ll get the gist, no intermediaries necessary.

All this said, in the US there are private services that validate physical ID cards using the codes on the back or a scan of a photo of the ID, so clearly the information has already been made available to private industry from the government through some channel. So that might be even worse than proposed systems in other nations already, I dont know.

A pretty good system, the crucial implementation being a robust consent management system for data access, and Metadata tracking to make sure the account identifier isn’t being used behind the scenes as a de-facto tracker by the public sector.

To me the risk of Digital ID is two fold, one it gives the government a centralized means of tracking individual behavior and thereby crushing dissent (from a Social Credit System, to straight up Russian style gulagging the opposition). On the flip side it gives private sector actors a central immutable identifiers to associate behavior with that can’t be erased by deleting or abandoning an account.

Age Verification is the point where these two concerns are merging into one. Abolishing online anonymity is tantamount to universal surveillance by both the state and private actors, setting up a system of automated persecution tyrants have dreamed of for ages but hasn’t been possible until today with Machine Learning making mass data processing automation both viable and feasible.

Fascist population control and the “final solution” weren’t possible in the way they were implemented until IBM sold the Germans early tabulating machines / computers. ML is the next phase of that same arc of development.

Use of Digital ID to log internet activity is what makes individual data streams continuous, contiguous, and compileable by default.

The consequences are clear, the question is what we can do to prevent it from happening.

This is the biggest struggle of the decade at least. It needs to be forced on every politician as an issue to make statements on. No votes for Digital ID supporters.

What are the implications for users of FOSS? Should we not be downloading from github?

Links in the article. Hugging Face and Swiss Telecoms host

a gentleperson and a scholar

Please read the article before commenting.

“The model is named Apertus – Latin for “open” – highlighting its distinctive feature: the entire development process, including its architecture, model weights, and training data and recipes, is openly accessible and fully documented.”

Thanks, that is very clear

for reference it looks like those are his custome Space X sneakers, which look especially terrible in this lighting.

Everyone’s shoes are a bit stretched by the wide angle lenses being used, which is why Elon’s feet look freakishly ling and skinny. He does have pretty big feet for his height, or has been doing this oversized shoe gag for a very long time.

Overall his outfit is trash

Does Delta Chat / Arcane Chat suffer from the same vulnerability?

https://arcanechat.me/ https://delta.chat/en/

https://www.dptechnics.com/en/products/walter.html

this looks promising

https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/software/qualcomm-linux

hmmmm, sounds like a mix of open and closed source, but a good starting point.

Good point, and it will have high speed wireless.

There must be a 4g antenna chipset that is Linux native for industrial use.

Seems pretty out of date compared to main branch

Looks like the F-Droid link just goes to the main ArcaneChat page. What are the advantages vs ArcaneChat?

me at the rave

glad to see this info getting slated on an official channel.

I appreciate the fundamentals of the effort, and I also wonder whether this will trigger an IP strategy response from the major manufacturers.

It seems like a complementary FOSS chipset project would go a long way. I look at Linux native hardware like the SteamDeck and wonder, what hardware is lacking from this stack to make this device a phone?

I’m not familiar with a temp and flow two handle mixer for a sink faucet. That could work well if the temp valve is full bore.

Single handle faucets dont replicate temps, you have to guess approximate temp each time and they are almost always center biased.

zheres your standard two tap mixer faucet:

At both taps full open you have full flow/pressure from both the hot water and cold water supply only restricted by the valve full open orifice.

Now add an additional valve to the mixed outlet of the faucet with both hot and cold feeding into the line that runs into it. If the valve is sized to accommodate the full flow from both valves feeding into it, the full combined pressure/flow from both cold mains and hot supply is available.

Also, once you set the temperature you like by turning the temp taps, that temp will be available to you at any flow rate on demand. Nothing you do to the mixed valve will change the temperature of the flow. This is especially useful if your hot temperature is very hot, you can have nice warm water to wash your hands every time without worrying you might scald yourself.