I wanted to say this is not how it works:

My pet theory is that a lot of systems are constantly looking at what is active on the network and those pings are keeping the machine awake.

or if you meant that, computers are normally not pingable when they are asleep. net adapters only wake the computer when seeing a magic packet with their mac address in it, and it is the operating system that receives the ping request and decides to send back a ping response.

an exception is when it is set up to wake on some network traffic pattern, but few net adapters support that mode of operation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN#Enable_WoL_on_the_network_adapter

as I heard that’s pretty common at oracle, but it’s good to spread the word

its not the system that handles wol, it doesn’t need to ping anything. even the net adapter doesn’t need to do that

it would not be a trusted service, but at most legally. just like centralized chat scanning systems.

It doesn’t even have to store the verification result, if you don’t want to

“if you don’t want to” lol. you won’t decide whether they will store anything, silly. the control is theirs, cemented, the law is on their side, the political narrative will be on their side (think of the children!!), they’ll do whatever the fuck they want.

that does not seem to be right. 21 is way too high, and also this would effectively be a universal restraining order kids and not-so-kids, and adults. I don’t want to go to jail just because of walking by a kid or a young adult, let alone converse with them, only sick people would actually endorse this.

but also pagers only do one way communication, don’t they? that is worthless here. the goal is not to just put a GPS tracker to kids, but to give them a simple communication device.

a heavy handed approach, but I don’t see one that is not heavy handed, private, and effective enough.

slight modification: mobile phone is ok if it only has a small screen like on old feature phones, no capabilities for mobile data but only calls (that’s probably a software limitation), and no social media apps (or any installable apps).
perhaps wifi capability with a weak antenna, or a wifi interface that only supports low speeds.

private communications is a question though, because phone calls and SMS are anything but private.

hey people, this could work!

and its not like we need to ban kids from the internet, but to only allow them with the active supervision of a parent.

how would you ensure that this stays private? not just from facebook, but completely. as I see it, this would require some form of biometric authentication

but dozens a minute increase in the dawn hours?

the config and databases or the media, you mean?

if so, the former, but I mount the meadia with a read only docker volume just to be sure, because chances are I would never notice it

that’s good to know. when I signed last year I think it was enough to type in my id card’s number and my name and location.

898k. I’m very happy this is happening. but I’m worried about how sudden the signatures started coming in, there was a chart somewhere. Hopefully they are valid.

well there’s lots of wasted space where the vacuum bag is empty

you must have lots of LoTs

wpa2, but password limited to 10 characters. letters and numbers only, trying anything else crashes it, and you have to figure this out yourself

ok, a backdoor then. can they overwrite any file with it?

fediverse over Tor?

maybe base it on Briar

*federated

with properly limited access the breach is much, much less likely, and an update bringing down an important service at the bad moment does not need to be a thing

it’ll still cause downtime, and they’ll probably have a hard time restoring from backup for the first few times it happens, if not for other reason then stress. especially when it updates the wrong moment, or wrong day.

they will leave vulnerable, un-updated containers exposed to the web

that’s the point. Services shouldn’t be exposed to the web, unless the person really knows what they are doing, took the precautions, and applies updates soon after release.

exposing it to the VPN and to tge LAN should be plenty for most. there’s still a risk, but much lower

“backups with Syncthing”

Consider warning the reader that it will not be obvious if backups have stopped, or if a sync folder on the backup pc is in an inconsistent state because of it, as errors are only shown on the web interface or third party tools

that’s horrible and funny at the same time.

I will assume they fixed that vuln later