Of course.

Lots of cybercrime has been solved by law-enforcement by matching traffic logs based on timestamps and throughput.

I use matrix.

I run an instance for myself an immediate family. I also federate with other instances to participate in some dev groups.

The most active matrix space I’m in, is the one hosted by ani.social. Daily activity on anime-related topics, and also fediverse, lemmy and software.

If you want to try it, the main “matrix.org” instance is far from easy to recommend though. Finding good public matrix instances is a challenge. As such the best way is probably to either host one yourself or know someone who does.

They are out there, though. I’ve seen people be happy with pikaviestin.fi, but that’s only for finnish people. Mozilla also has an instance, though I’ve no experience on it.

There are two PINs, PIN1 for ZKP and PIN2 for digital signing. The card does nothing without one.

Most EU countries provide some way for citizens to sign documents using a private key tied to their legal personage.

Putting it on the ID card they are given anyway just makes sense.

My final paragraph is there to explain that a lot of “digital signatures” aren’t really signatures in any meaningful way. What goes into the actual file doesn’t matter at all, UNLESS it’s the aforementioned cryptographic signature.

When a website has you type a name as a signature it’s a legal representation of that signature. There’s nothing cryptographic at all about it. Wjere would you even store the key? I’ve made ways to use Webauthn keys to do this, but no signatory uses these methods.

I claimed no such thing. That is not a digital signature.

I’m fairly certain we are not discussing the same thing.

I can digitally sign documents the way I have described, NOT IN A WEB BROWSER, using entirely local or even open source software, using my government issued ID card.

The solution provided for electronic signatures by the Digital and Population Data Services Agency is a signature certificate. The certificate is located in the card chip.

As described by the relevant finnish agency, this is enabled by a “signature certificate” stored on peoples ID cards. The functionality uses a separate PIN from that which you use to verify your identity in the context of a website you are visiting.

I am not aware of any other way for me to sign a document in such a way. All the other signatures, which do also work, are something else. And potentially insecure in all the ways OP thinks. (Someone else can type the same name).

It’s really just a digital way to do the equivalent of printing the document, signing it, and scanning it again. Which is also accepted in a lot of situations.

The visual signature part of a “digital signature” is purely cosmetic. The actual signature is the entire file being cryptographically signed using a private key you possess, which any recipient can then verify came from you by using a public key.

This is the case for all government issue signatures (like when using the private key inside a chipped government id card) or any other signature created using a key pair from an issuing authority.

If its not a digital signature in this way, the other way is literally just an image. It can be a vector or an raster, or a straight up scan of a physically signed document. It’s just a picture. It has no digital verification whatsoever.

I’ve only managed it accidentally.

But usually the pattern is contacting/getting contacted due to some matter that needs discussing. The source for that can be needing some pointers on using someone elses code, or providing feedback on how someone moderates, etc.

For me it’s usually come from participating more extensively. Engaging in community building such as my modding titanfall and hosting northstar servers. Starting a bunch of lemmy communities.

Then, once something gives you a reason to go a couple back and forths into an exchange, and there is mutual interest, it just keeps going. After that you can pick up with the same skillset you’d use with someone you’ve met in person.

The difference is that you’ll need to keep it going by deliberately reviving the conversation now and then. That won’t happen by running into the person face to face or some similar context the way it might work with a coworker or someone in your social circle.

Note, #4 will not apply to files MOVED into the directory. Only files that count as “created” there (like a copy operation).

No.

Assuming you’re accessing your files via network mounts, those file are being created by the relevant SMB/NFS/SSH daemon. ALL FILES are created by some process or other. If you click “new file” in Dolphin, that process is Dolphin.

Which means there is a umask you can configure.

My network SMB mount that leads to my jellyfin libraries is configured (on the server) to access the filesystem under my user and the shared media group. Hence files it “creates” are always done so with correct permissions. User, group and umask are configurable for each share.

This way, I can copy files from a share containing “my” files, into the media share, and have the owner, group and umask automatically “translate” into what they should be in either direction. Theres not really a way to do that directly on the system. It’s something you can only really set up when moving files around between the shares and hence their respective environments.

If I did the move in the terminal directly on the host system, shit would instantly break.

Files and directories can only have one owner for user and group, each. If files you create belonged to every group you are in, that’d be a permission nightmare, so by default, the group permission is “unused” (it just gets set to the same as your user).

You could add the application that needs to access files created by you to your user group, but that’s a lot more permissive than it needs to be (it gets to access all your files with group access granted).

If you’re managing files via network shares, the solution is in their settings.

If you’re managing files on the system directly, that’s trickier. New files can be made to inherit the group of the parent directory (edit: other commentor), which solves your problem only some of the time, as it won’t affect files you move into the folder. In those cases you still have to fix the group after moving. That, or copy instead of move.

Bottom line: You’re not really supposed to manage this stuff directly. When you go in and create files directly on the host system, you are bypassing the systems that would normally set permissions inside a share or directory that is being accessed by multiple applications, users, and services.

Making the default of files created in such a way non-permissive, is by design. That you have to manually correct the group permissions on a file you just moved in from another permission environment, is as it should be.

No, you are not expected to cronjob the chmod command.

You want “umask”. That’s the term, you can google it for more info.

Basically, it’s the setting that controls what the default permissions are for the files created by a process.

Jellyfins umask is configurable using the systemd unit file. Arr stack umasks are somewhere in their settings… Etc.

It is process specific, and something you configure for each application. Owner is whatever user runs the process, and same goes for group.

Group does not need to be same as user. You can run jellyfin with a “jellyfin” user and “media” group, so that some other app managing the media files can deal with jellyfins files by running under a different user but the same “media” group.

As long as you set their umasks to allow group access they will then always be able to pass files and directeries between them.

I’ve no experience with ACLs. I’ve used SMB, and SSHFS to a lesser extent, and always with very simple setups.

My user accessing my own users files via SMB, and ssh only via the admin user and as such with root level access.

But generally, unix-style permissions should allow you to be able to set things up in whatever way you might need. Getting there can be complex, but there is always a way to configure what permissions directories and files will have when created, and hence what users/groups can access them.

Also, sometimes the answer is to edit the groups. Such as adding a user being used to access a share to the relevant groups, instead of messing with owners or groups of existing files and directories.

Or, creating a whole new group (like “pictures” for your camera roll thing) which you add all the relevant users to (yourself, and whatever apps will be accessing the relevant directories). Plus then configure umasks so that files actually default to allowing group level access.

The water comes out at a single point at high pressure below the sphere.

It then travels out and exits all around the sphere.

The water can be pumped below the sphere very slowly, but at high pressure, and that way still lift the sphere.

The water doesn’t get squeezed and accelerate towards the outside edge, because as it flows outward, the circle gets bigger. The area expands.

Hence it slows down, drops in pressure, and comes out at a trickle.

It’s not like pinching the end of a hose. It’s like adding a kink in the hose before the end. There is huge pressure before the kink (the water that lifts the sphere), and after the kink the pressure is super low (the water exiting from below the sphere). It makes the water slow down and come out at a trickle. Even though the pressure before the kink is huge.

It’s bleak, but I’m pretty sure we’re headed towards some form of collapse in terms of food production.

Right now we’re fighting over fossil fuels and rare earth metals. Those are solvable problems, you can have civilization with none or just a small amount of these things, and renewable production will mean that you can have energy without needing fossil reserves or fissiles in your soil.

But I think the next several decades are going to be defined by the international dealings that will occur over arable land, the resources and technology to keep it fertile, and the infrastructure and water sources to irrigate it. Up to and including wars.

The simple fact is, farming is getting harder. For now, the technology is keeping up. Despite corporations in the relevant industries prioritizing profits and intellectual property over national food security.

And even though there’s theoretically more than enough land on earth to feed all currently living humans, there are already individual countries with more people than what their land area can feed.

Worse, there a countries who share the same sources of water, who are increasing their water use in ways that will cause droughts for their neighbours.

I think of them as on the same spectrum.

A thin skinned person, is someone when you stab verbally or try to otherwise harm them in a non-physical manner, it goes straight through, and they are hurt by it. It affects their confidence, behaviour and health.

A thick skinned person, is someone you can insult, and they can dismiss the meaning of the words, and be unaffected by the intended harm.

But that is not mutually exclusive with going “wtf, did you just try to stab me?”. They are opposites, in the sense that the word describes whether malicious words or actions can “pass through” and have the intended effect.

But if someone tries to shoot me, and I’m wearing armor that means it won’t kill me, that still leaves the fact that they tried to shoot me. That I was able to survive it does not make the attempt on my life ok. Being thick skinned, or “wearing armor”, doesn’t mean you react to attacks with inaction.

It describes whether you suffer harm when under fire. Not how you behave in reaction to it.

A lot of people think of being thick skinned as synonymous with turning the other cheek. But being able to take BS doesn’t mean you have to passively allow it.

You don’t sound thin skinned.

Having a thick skin doesn’t mean being unbothered by people trying to walk over you, and thereby letting them.

I get accused of being thinskinned sometimes because of starting a confrontation over a problem or behaviour I’ve noticed, but that makes no sense. Being sensitive to issues is not a weakness, and being numb to them is certainly not a strength.

I can push for change precisely because I’m unbothered by the stress of working against the status quo.

But like others said, you don’t always need to convince. If you say you won’t cover a task because it’s not your responsibility, then there is nothing to discuss. If they expect a task to be done even when you said it won’t, that is not your problem.

It’s theirs.

My moms password manager, is just my password manager. (That’s not entirely true, she did figure it out eventually, but for a while there I was simply saving all her account passwords in my manager.)

1. On android, the setting is in Settings>Security>More Security

2. Yes

3. The fact that it can only be attempted three times, after which a much longer PUK code you from your service provider must be used to restore funtionality to the SIM. It also has limited attempts, after which the SIM is locked forever.

Not sure how that works cryptographically, or how robust a physical SIM is against tampering.

I’ve always used a PIN.

I did not know eSIM is stored outside the normal data partition and survuves factory resets. That doesn’t feel right.

Edit: huh, my eSIM had a default pin set which I had to provide to set one.

The setting is in Security, not SIM card info.

I usually go with Kubuntu.

Set up flatpak, share internet from my phone via usb to install broadcom wifi drivers, and modify the KDE desktop to work more like MacOS (add top bar with search widget and alt menu, turn bottom taskbar into a dock, move window buttons to top left).

Hand it back to the post-MacOS-user. No complaints so far. In fact one came back with another Mac and asked me to do it again.

I’m only speaking from what I have read.

Plus a lot of assumptions.

Such as a homemade centrifuge being sufficient to produce lab-grade results.

You’re speaking with confidence you can’t have, as you’re using wording that makes it clear you’ve no actual experience.