Hacker NewsLaunch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents
#HackerNews #LaunchHN #Cua #OpenSource #Docker #ComputerAgents #YC #X25
Kevin Karhan 
Also the blatant dismissal of absolitely basic #OpSec & #ComSec is just flabberghasting.
- It's inherently wrong to put all eggs in one basket and #Signal being not shut down like #SkyECC & #EncroChat makes it just as sus as #ANØM / #OperationIronside / #OperatioTrøjanShield and #CryptoAG / #MINERVA / #RUBIKON.
Only #decentralized, #OpenSource & #OpenStandards can actuall survive long-term and remain #secure.
- Otherwise we'd all gaslight ourselves into ignoring the hard lessions we learned that bought us to the #Fediverse and why we ain't on #Shitter or #tumblr or #BrownSky or #NSAbook (any more)!
It's the same reasons we use #PGPG/MIME & #SSH and not #X400 & #X25!
- Unlike with @signalapp one doesn't has to trust the provider or app. #XMPP+#OMEMO works regardless if you use @monocles or @gajim or do #SelfHosting and only trust code you wrote yourself...
IOW: Think "How can you weaponize Signal?" and see what you csn do just holding key people in contempt...
- And I'm not even talkibg about #Govware - #Backdoors and #MassSurveillance alike #Room651A, but just duely submitted warrants that @Mer__edith will comply with...
The less #info a provider has, the less they can be forced to snitch upon customers.
- So even if you don't give a shit that #CloudAct makes this a "#CantUse & #WintUse" (out of US-centrist privilegue to not comply #GDPR & #BDSG) for many, it's still dishonest.
"#JustUseSgnal!" is a form of dangerous "#TechPopulism" aimed at bamboozling #TechIlliterates who don't know better, abusing information asymetry to pull rank instead of investing the time and effort to *explain "how" and "why" this is indeed a good or bad idea.
- There's a reason why @tails_live / @tails / #Tails doesn't include #Signal and why I'll say it again that XMPP+OMEMO over @torproject / #Tor is the gold standard in terms of #privacy and #security when it comes to #ComSec that isn't #airgapped aka. "Airgapped PGP".
The only ones that have a chance to beat that are @delta / #deltaChat but that's just #PGP/MIME #eMail in a nice UI...
- You may now laugh at me and think my "#TinfoilHat sits too tight" but I'm shure sooner or later I'll be evidenced as correct...
Cassandrich (@dalias@hachyderm.io)
@kkarhan@infosec.space @signalapp@mastodon.world @monocles@monocles.social @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Very few systems promoted as Signal alternatives match the cryptographic privacy properties (see: ratcheting, etc.) of Signal. The claims about "located in the USA" and "Cloud Act" are all nonsense because the only threat to Signal users from this is availability (seizure and shutdown of the server infrastructure), not undetected breakage of privacy properties. There are presently no systems with superior privacy properties to Signal *and* level of functionality on par with what general public expects. There are a lot (like the XMPP stuff, *sigh*, and Matrix) that are worse in both regards. If you're happy with reduced functionality, Cwtch (and possibly some other similar Tor-based systems) or VeilidChat are stronger, but it's gonna be a while before you convince normies to use them, and in the mean time they're still going to be on insecure shit like WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Telegram, etc...
peronNuevo Monográfico!
"La historia de Telenet, y la Comercialización de la conmutación de paquetes en los Estados Unidos"
#gemini #x25 #redes
gemini://texto-plano.xyz/peron/articulos/telenet.gmi
"La historia de Telenet, y la Comercialización de la conmutación de paquetes en los Estados Unidos"
#gemini #x25 #redes
gemini://texto-plano.xyz/peron/articulos/telenet.gmi
Nuevo monográfico: "Las redes X.25".
#x25 #modem #redes #arpac
https://texto-plano.xyz/~peron/articulos/www/x25.html
#x25 #modem #redes #arpac
https://texto-plano.xyz/~peron/articulos/www/x25.html
oneguynickMFJ bids us Farewell:
MFJ and ARRL catalogs sat near my Computer Shopper as dreams of things I could not afford. I was sad to hear that MFJ is finally shutting its doors, even if it is apparent to some degree that time has passed.
There was something special about flipping page after page, wishing for something. The posters of an Icom IC-706 or DEC Alpha that graced my walls seem so distant in time now.
HabrRJE: распределенные вычисления эпохи мезозоя
Говорят, что современная технология разделения ресурсов в концепции ЦОД берет свое начало с появления RJE — Remote job entry , или удаленной пакетной обработки. Утверждение спорное, однако сам по себе механизм RJE интересен прежде всего с исторической точки зрения, поскольку его можно считать как минимум предтечей различных терминальных систем. Вот об этом механизме, а также об использовавшем его железе мы сегодня и поговорим.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/serverspace/articles/788450/
#RJE #мейнфреймы #IBM #Remote_Batch #OS/360 #System/360 #Synchronous_transmitreceive_(STR) #BSC #Bisync #Houston_Automatic_Spooling_Priority #HASP #HDLC #X25
Hans HübnerThe synchronous serial interface of my VAX failed and needed repair - Not a fun task given the amateurish setup in my basement. After extracting the machine and fixing a couple of cracked solder joints on the DSW42-AA, it is now back on TELEBAHN. After re-assembly, the setup looks neater than before, but I still dread the next time something fails. #retrocomputing #x25 #vax #sparc
alecmStuff To Read: OSI: The Internet That Wasn’t – IEEE Spectrum
If you were a geek and online in (not least) UK academia in the 1980s and early 1990s, you were probably not using TCP/IP except on the local LAN of the Computer Science department. This was because people who sat on committees and who were therefore very Clever™ had decided what your network should be like, viz: a horrible glorified phone network where other prefabricated computer services would TellYouWhatYouNeedToKnow™.
This is the story of that network:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt
Aside: one of the more interesting things about this design was that it shared later architectural aspects with Tor Onion Networking – viz: The Dark Net – e.g. Circuit-Switching, probably for equally architectural reasons.
