I’m lucky to have only had one system nuked by a faulty power supply that shut down during a kernel update.
I usually just reinstalled back then. But I didn’t get into it till the late nineties. Back when Ian was still on the list serves.
Unless you mean nuking the OS or borking the bootloader. Then yeah, countless.
Right?! This is why I love the Fediverse and FOSS.
Have a good night/day
Hope you find new fun ideas as well!
I think that’s by design and the nature of the setup. Anyone with the URL can communicate.
If your other comms method is compromised this doesn’t have much use. Which is a different problem all together. I think this would work great as something like a deadrop so two completely faceless people can communicate. I like it a lot.
I don’t know yet. It’s more a thought experiment than anything else.
https://github.com/muke1908/chat-e2ee
Looks like the URL is part of the seed and salt which is cool.
Proving who you are is done in another stream. Like MFA.
You do a one time pad, generate the URL with that. Communicate what’s needed, then the URL dies.
I’m still noodling with it.
Just because I and my family benefit now, doesn’t mean it’ll stay that way. Also again, I don’t want to support or platform an app that charges others, who are not me, to share their own collection.
If they want to charge for the Plex TV or Plex Movies they host, and leave the app free of cost for a person’s own personal collection to be shared. That’s fine.
I have no confidence that’ll happen though.
I still don’t see how
swap to a modified JS that exfiltrates the e2ee key
or
add additional keys
Wouldn’t significantly change the recieved hash and break the stream thus ending comms. Also unless you’re hosting and building it yourself you have to trust the recipient and the cloud host.
I agree if an attacker owns the server comms can be compromised. I thought that was the benefit of the ephemeral nature. It’s for quick relay of information. Best practices would probably include another cypher within the messages themselves like a one time pad or some such.
https://www.itstactical.com/intellicom/tradecraft/uncrackable-diy-pencil-and-paper-encryption/
Yes, that’s great for me and mine, but not for others. I don’t like to support or platform/promote applications that require a subscription for any access at all.
The problem is Plex aren’t Netflix in my usecase. I’m sharing my library with my friends.
Now if they’d like to charge for the content they host. Great more power to 'em, but I feel icky with a payment or subscription model that charges to deliver my collection to my friends and family.
So, like I said. I’ll likely start migrating to jellyfin and start the conversation with people in how to get the jellyfin app on whatever device they have.
It has. Strangely enough they posted a code of conduct after that feedback and started weilding the ban hammer. However I cannot speak to outside forums like XDA or Reddit or even comms here. I tend to stick to their forums or github
Fragility is by design as it’s ephemeral comms. Swapping the js decryption doesn’t make sense as wouldn’t the client just fail or refuse the message stream as the decrypt/encrypt changed? It’s an interesting problem. Thanks for giving me something to noodle on.
Can you expand more on the key management? I thought https://chat-e2ee-2.azurewebsites.net/ passes a PSK Through the header and sets that as a cookie in the browser to sign further comms. I could be mistaken of course.
A lot of flatpaks early on wouldn’t survive a major point release upgrade or worst case would hold on to dependencies and the user would end up with an unbootable mess after an upgrade.
I haven’t seen that recently though.
However I regularly run appimages on my fedora silverblue system so take what I say with a grain of salt.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR CURRENT PLEX PASS HOLDERS: For users who have an active Plex Pass subscription, remote playback will continue to be available to you without interruption from any Plex Media Server, after these changes go into effect. When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee. More on that later in this update.
I guess that’s something.
Gonna be a long slow explanation to my family and friends how to switch to jellyfin. Hopefully there’s an app ecosystem there as well. I was lucky to get a lifetime pass way back in 2009 when I did some work for them. It’s very different now.
Fedora based actually
Plex/jellyfin
If I could do it all over I’d pick jellyfin however plex is on more devices and easier for people to setup…for now.
However you may also be interested in the arr stack. For reasons.
My sentiments exactly. Been an increasing problem over there since 2016 that I noticed but I’m sure there was this bullshittery there before and I just wasn’t in the subreddits where it festered.
Glad to hear it. Hopefully you have a long tenure there and the company grows at a sustainable rate. You’re in like 1% of the market.
You deserve to be there or they wouldn’t have hired you. You work with smart people who know their shit. They wouldn’t have you there if you didn’t contribute.
However remember that as soon as it starts to get bad jump ship or form a union. You only matter until that tiny company gets bought up by another larger company…like Amazon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Amazon
With the impending financial crisis expect there to be a lot of “consolidation” in the market.
Fedora desktop with KDE. Or you could do grape Arch
Or Blueberry Fedora
Great way to get rid of rotting inventory and recoup costs through insurance.
This could be pointed to as a successful test case to get the gov off it’s ass and implement this at a macro level.
You are correct millionaires will not save us, however we should reward behavior we want to see. Lest we get more billionaires who are a net drag on society.