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gclawes··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
This is laying the groundwork for mandatory software. Soon after this browsers and messengers will be required to install tracking components to be included in the app stores or approved for sideloading.

This is how the surveillance blob will get around the huge backlash to Apple's mandatory on-device child abuse scanning, close off any avenues to escape it before re-introducing mandatory on-device spying.

gclawes··on Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026
Worse, surveillance appliances. Highly likely we'll see mandatory client-side scanning apps in EU soon, and possibly Digital ID stuff in the UK.

Great opportunity for mandatory remote attestation and mandatory software.

gclawes··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
The ability to use HTTP authentication methods, HTTP headers, etc?
gclawes··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support
Tin foil hat time: this is why Google is pushing to kill app sideloading.

Mobile phones are the only platform at the moment that can reasonably be used to enforce mandatory software installs and remote attestation. Removing sideloading can down the road leading to Google (or Apple for IOS) forcing all app store provided apps/browsers to support government authentication APIs like this.

gclawes··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
I've wanted to buy a Framework to have a linux laptop for so long, but exactly this issue of battery life is what's holding me back.

As soon as Asahi supports TouchID, I think my M1 will become a linux laptop...

gclawes··on GNU Midnight Commander
Something feels strange reading the docs for mc in Material for MKDocs
gclawes··on Positron, a New Data Science IDE
What's different between Postiron's core language system and language systems like LSP and DAP?
gclawes··on Positron – A next-generation data science IDE
Is VS Code/VSCodium becoming the Chromium of IDEs?
gclawes··on The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme
God I hate perl...
gclawes··on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
I wonder if this will eventually lead to battery temperature conditioning on cell phones and laptops similar to electric cars.
gclawes··on LLM Chat via SSH
Is this doing local inference? If so, what inference engine is it using?
gclawes··on Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
Good. Make it an API service.
gclawes··on Quick Primer on MCP Using Ollama and LangChain
This website design is blessed. A great return to the past
gclawes··on Docker Model Runner
Aren't some of the ollama guys ex-Docker guys?
gclawes··on DragonFlyBSD Lands "Next-Gen" Disk Encryption Code
I know Linux gets all the love usually, but it's cool seeing new stuff land in the more "classic" *nix OSs nowadays
gclawes··on 2FA or Not 2FA
You _can_ use a standalone YubiKey or similar dedicated hardware tokens as a passkey, but they have limited slots for discoverable credentials.

But yeah, anything resembling a phone passkey seems to have a sync fabric behind it.

gclawes··on 2FA or Not 2FA
Android has been surprisingly awesome with cross-platform passkeys (i.e. google lets you use BitWarden/1Password/etc pretty transparently).

Anything Apple related is another story...

There's some good movement in the linux desktop space I'm excited about: https://github.com/linux-credentials/linux-webauthn-platform...

gclawes··on Plex no Longer Offers Free Remote Playback for Personal Media
My biggest frustration with Jellyfin is mostly related to using custom or self-signed SSL certs, the clients can't seem to cope with that (especially on Google TV).
gclawes··on Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model
Cool concept, let's see if they can actually do volume production...
gclawes··on Kaneo – An open source project management platform
I wish you could do the demo without having to sign up
gclawes··on TKey – Security for the New World
Been tracking this project for a while, I'm surprised they don't have a FIDO2 implementation yet, given how popular that's gotten
gclawes··on Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
Objective-See has great apps
gclawes··on Moon
Moon should be a state
gclawes··on NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars
I wonder if Marslink will have positioning capabilities for craft like this
gclawes··on Fundamentals of Radiance Cascades
Resonance cascade?
gclawes··on Ask HN: Is it wrong to use my personal laptop for work?
This is the way
gclawes··on OpenObserve: Observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, analytics
No SSO in open-source, pass. I'll stick w/ Grafana
gclawes··on My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
I really wish The Lounge supported something like a PostgreSQL/MySQL backend. Having to keep state in files on a persistent volume is a pain for any app, it's so much nicer when I can just connect to a DB _elsewhere_. The *arr media apps recently added support for PostgreSQL
gclawes··on Moments in Chromecast's history
"faster, more premium" == can't fit in a dongle form-factor anymore I guess
gclawes··on Moments in Chromecast's history
> Google TV Streamer (4K)

Oh, so they're just rebranding and not making it a dongle anymore....

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