Damn… I was hoping you were aware of things that I had missed…

Anyway, if you run out of M.2 NVMe slots on your motherboard there are still options, since NVMe is just PCIe:

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Reader-Expansion-Internal/dp/B0BK2R7T57

Do you know of any m.2 to SATA adapters that support NVMe? Or are these only for Sata M.2s?

Most phones are full disk encrypted. So they don’t need to zero out the whole disk… They just need to zero out the part of the disk that stores the encryption key. Once the encryption key is erased, the rest of the disk is essentially random noise.

There’s a free demo 😉

(the first hit is free)

The short answer is basically everywhere they can find data.

But sometimes the government even wants to give them all the data they have on every citizen in their country, including medical history, financial information, and much much more. So the police can “Minority Report” terrorism before it happens

That’s not correct. Under the GDPR, the data that Facebook collects on you, makes them the Data Controller. Any partners they share data with would be considered Data Processors. When you invoke your right to be forgotten under the GDPR, then both Data Controllers and Data Processors must delete your data. So if Facebook partners isn’t deleting your data after you filed a request to Facebook, then they are violating the GDPR.

That said Facebook is certainly violating the GDPR left and right. For example with their “Pay or Consent” model…

The problem is that they don’t have to prevent encryption at all…

Many governments are already recording and storing incredible amounts of your Internet traffic.

With this new legislation they want to require all companies, that offer some form of encrypted communication, to submit all the messages for scanning before they are encrypted. So they want to force Facebook and many others to actually intercept the messages before they get “end-to-end” encrypted, so they can get scanned by AI and other systems to look for CSAM.

Of course they can’t prevent encryption… Anyone can get some encryption software that doesn’t submit the messages to scanning before encrypting…

Now you as a person have the options of either using a platform that scans your messages, or finding something that actually offers privacy.

If the government then decides that they want to investigate you, then they just dig into their trove of intercepted messages. If you only used scanned services, then they can see all your messages and probably find something in them to prosecute you over. But if you used any encrypted services they don’t have access to, then they can just start prosecuting you for using encryption that they can’t spy on…

In either case you lose, and they gain the ability to practically put anyone they want behind bars.

And who knows who will wield these tools at a later point, and what they might decide should be illegal, which they can then immediately dig for in all their previously stored and scanned messages.

Enjoy: https://youtu.be/Zh4ze5bWLcI

Also most more recent videos by this guy: https://youtube.com/@foldingideas

That works but requires that you hand over a key for the hot-spot which makes it significantly more cumbersome, especially compared to airdrop

I love LocalSend, the only downside is that both devices must be on the same network. So it won’t work for sending a file to someone else at a bar.

While “MØ” is her initials, it’s actually also a word in Danish for “Maiden”. It’s an old word, not used commonly.

The Google Translate text-to-speak is fairly accurate: https://translate.google.com/?sl=da&tl=en&text=Mø&op=translate

Ørsted is also pronounced fairly accurately: https://translate.google.com/?sl=da&tl=en&text=Ørsted&op=translate

Accurate

“Møl” is the Danish word for “Moth”, the Google Translate text-to-speech pronunciation is pretty good:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=da&text=Moth&op=translate

“Øh” is actually how we spell and pronounce the Danish equivalent of “uh” or “uhm”.

These are great points, but there is something more that phones have going for them.

All modern phones are full-disk encrypted by default, and can be remote wiped. I think this is only the case for Mac laptops, but not for Linux and Windows.

So if your phone is stolen, it’s not really a risk of the thief having your password manager and your 2FA at the same time, but rather can they get in to your phone and then password manager and 2FA before you can trigger the remote wipe.

Unless the attacker is sophisticated enough to mirror the whole disk and attack it offline.

I too am a bit speechless that two companies get to censor what all stores are allowed to sell.

The idea is that you could have your data stored encrypted, such that the entity that is storing your data can’t read any of your data, but can still make calculations or updates to your data without ever learning anything about your data.

The use cases seems rather narrow to me, but there are probably many that I just can’t think of at the moment.

One idea could be something like a VPN service that wants to store as little data about the customer as possible. They could keep the account balance in an encrypted format. When you then add money to the balance, they can increment your balance by however much you paid, without knowing what your old balance was or what the new balance is. And they could then have another homomorphic function that can check whether your balance is positive. If your balance is positive you are allowed onto the service, if it’s not positive you don’t get access. And the company wouldn’t be able to know whether you had $5 in your account or $5000, just that your balance is currently positive.

So yeah fundamentally it’s just being able to store and update some data, while the data is fully encrypted, never decrypting the data, to ensure some form of privacy or confidentiality

Oh yes… I’ve printed a bunch of train track parts that doesn’t exist otherwise…

For example this piece to go up and down from a carpet is indispensable: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4359335

And you can never have too many of these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3325875

I have been on Arch , and I’m now running NixOS as my daily driver… IMO NixOS is less of a hassle to set up, and nearly maintenance free compared to Arch… Twice a year when the channel updates there’s a bit of stuff, but every change I need to make is usually explained in the output of my nixos-rebuild… If something suddenly breaks in an update, I just boot into my previous generation, roll back my flake.lock and wait a few days for a fix to be available…

Last time I used EndeavourOS, I managed to get the graphical installer to install BTRFS on LUKS, it did require custom partitioning in the graphical installer, snapper just worked after that.

Zram (or was it Zswap?) was pretty easy to enable after installatiok

The bootloader might be beyond what the graphical installer can do though… I never really bothered switching…