Natanael

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[–] Natanael 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

All my 3 are deliberately linked (spread across servers for redundancy)

[–] Natanael 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Newer versions of that pan use ceramics, not Teflon

It seems to be slightly less non stick, and more sensitive to quick temperature changes over time (hurts adhesion of the ceramics), but otherwise it's pretty solid and very safe

[–] Natanael 1 points 2 days ago

Same with Matter. Home Assistant has a Matter module too. And, Matter is designed to be open!

[–] Natanael 4 points 2 days ago

Matter is more of a higher level IoT coordination protocol.

Zigbee and Zwave are radio protocols (relatively long range, low energy).

The neat thing here is you can bridge a lot of shit into Matter, and then use almost anything you want to control all the different devices. Everything becomes visible in the same control panel regardless of connection type and manufacturer. Everything becomes available for automation tools too!

If you run the software Home Assistant on a computer at home then it can act as your IoT control server, and giving it radio antennas for Zwave and Zigbee will let it act as a bridge to relay commands to devices that use those protocols (like a ton of small lights and sensors and more).

[–] Natanael 1 points 2 days ago

Which may suck for people who needed it for vacation homes, or worse, to help their old parents or something like it

[–] Natanael 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you want fancy IoT that's quick to set up, look for Matter devices with full offline support

While the Matter spec requires offline control support, it doesn't require full OEM independence, so you have to look up the individual devices first to check if they're independent. The main difference being that some OEMs have a lot of extra features outside the Matter spec and other extras which require an account and device registration, etc, so check that the specific features you want works FULLY offline and with 3rd party apps. (I've seen Matter controller devices with screens and whatnot which are only configurable with the OEM app)

You can use Home Assistant with its Matter module (open source) as your home controller, together with necessary radios (specifically Thread/Zigbee), and firewall off your devices if you want full control.

And Home Assistant of course also has support for a little bit of everything, like MQTT and custom HTTP commands and more, so you can still control random devices even if they don't support Matter

[–] Natanael 3 points 2 days ago

Not with that ~~attitude~~ timescale

[–] Natanael 2 points 2 days ago

The cake is real but you have to wait for the sequel (the rebuttal paper)

[–] Natanael 8 points 2 days ago

The real study is testing nocebo effects

[–] Natanael 1 points 4 days ago
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submitted 4 months ago by Natanael to c/crypto
 

Context: https://bsky.app/profile/martin.kleppmann.com/post/3lr6ex2glkc2h

This system is baked into the Guardian's news app that millions of people have installed. Every regular user of the app generates cover traffic, and an attacker monitoring the network cannot distinguish someone using the secure messaging feature from a regular user.

Open source;

https://github.com/guardian/coverdrop

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The cryptography behind passkeys (blog.trailofbits.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Natanael to c/crypto
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