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  • irate944@piefed.socialtoBuy European@feddit.uk•EU OS - Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a common free Operating System for the EU public sector 🇪🇺English
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    2 months ago

    I don’t really know about this one. There are 3 things that kind of bother me:

    1. Skimming through the main page and goal page, there isn’t any mention of how they plan to propose this to the EU. (Or maybe I missed it, someone correct me if I’m wrong please) So… What’s the plan exactly? Stay put and hope someone at EU parliament notices you?
    2. I like Fedora, in fact it’s one of my two distros of choice. That said - considering the point of this is to make EU independent when it comes to OS - why Fedora? It’s from Red Hat, which belongs to IBM - a big tech american company. In theory we could fork Fedora and make our own developments on this new fork, but why when readily available options already exist? Like Opensuse, Ubuntu* or even Debian.
    3. The name… Look, I know it’s superficial but it matters more than we think, because optics are important. Think of every major app or OS in the world. How many of them are named after their country or union? Imagine if Windows was called “United States of America OS”. It’s cringe. Why not use names closely related to EU instead? Like Elysium OS, from Ode to Joy anthem, would sound a lot better and would make the project look more serious

    *I know Ubuntu is from UK, but it would be better than an american based distro

    Edit: just checked their FAQ page, they touch on my point 1 (although not as much I would like) and 2.
    https://eu-os.eu/faq#eu-project

  • irate944@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Password managers are less secure than promisedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Copy pasting a comment that I saw on Reddit

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    Link to the original study (with a less sensationalized title):

    https://zkae.io/

    A few important notes:

    • the study is about Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane and 1Password. Proton Pass isn’t mentioned.

    • the study presumes that they’re working with a malicious server (read this as compromised server, controlled by an attacker). The attacks they talk about in the article would not work on a normal server. Here’s their quote:

    No need to panic: all of our attacks presume a malicious server. We have no reason to believe that the password manager vendors are currently malicious or compromised, and as long as things stay that way, your passwords are safe. That said, password managers are high-value targets, and breaches do happen.

    • Here’s another quote, about other password managers:

    You can ask your provider the following questions:

    1. ⁠Do you offer end-to-end encryption? What security do you provide in case your server infrastructure were to be compromised?
    1. How do you check that public keys and public-key ciphertexts are authentic?
    1. How do you authenticate security-critical settings, such as the KDF type and the iteration count?
    1. Do you provide integrity guarantees for a user’s vault as a whole? Can a malicious server add items to your vault?

    You can also ask your favourite password manager to commission an audit checking for our attacks in their products.

    • If you still feel unsure/unsafe, then adopt an offline password manager (I highly recommend keepassXC).
  • irate944@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harderEnglish
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    3 months ago

    My company forced us to use only Chrome on our PC’s and one of the things I was worried about was the ads. I put youtube in the background while I work.

    And I was surprised by how… My experience was exactly the same as Firefox and Brave. Ok, actually, one or two ads managed to slip through and appeared in the front page - albeit rarely and randomly - but I never got those ads at the beginning of the video. On other websites, I never got ads.

    I was wondering, then, if there was some catch. Maybe the trackers would still get through or something. But according to that link, not even that? lol

  • irate944@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skillsEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I would love to read an independent study on this, but this is from Anthropic (the guys that make Claude) so it’s definitely biased.

    Speaking for myself, I’ve been using LLM’s to help out with jumps in small gaps of knowledge. Like for example, I know what I need to do, I just don’t know/remember the specific functions or libraries that I need to do that in Python. LLM is extremely useful for these moments; and it’s faster than searching and asking on forums. And to be transparent, I did learn a few tricks here and there.

    But if someone lets the LLM do most of the work - like vibe coders - I doubt they will learn anything.