It doesn’t matter if you hide the number; at some point they deanonymized you when you signed up.

Want to be a dick about “hoops”? Get a number that isn’t traceable. It can be done, but it’s tough. I doubt its possible in the countries that really need anonymity of association.

Matrix

No clue. Never even tried to use it since it’s a Meta product. I was referring to Signal’s phone # requirement being a non-starter.

Matrix and Element. Run your own server if you want or use a server that’s not in the US.

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Don’t ask me for a phone number and I’ll use it.

So I have a smart plug set up on my printer and print server (old HP 4P with separate network print server.

I have NodeRed watching my CUPS queues via HTTP scraping, and if it sees a job in the queue for that printer, it turns on the print server and printer via the smartplug over wifi. I have seen someone link a project that does something similiar.

Same with Piped. Pinchflat downloads it so even if it were throttled when it fetches, it will play at local speeds

Basically it’s two vulns chained; first one gives a remote user privileges that a physically present user would get, in order to do things like put a thumbdrive in and have it mount. Then that udisks privilege can be subverted to escalate that level to root. So as long as you can start a remote session, you can pull root and it doesn’t even look that hard.

Ah. Yah, well, I just went with the article’s own headline since so many comms insist on that.

Are you saying LPEs aren’t a security hazard?

There’s a blast from the past; it has to be 30 years since I played UO.

“Iran is two weeks away from nuclear capability” - Netanyahu: 2012, 2015, 2018, 2023, 2025

Everyone knew he wasn’t going to be able to curtail democratic elections without the excuse of a war. This is on schedule.