alphafalcon

Yeah, nearly the same here. Brouter-web for planning + overpass queries to find infrastructure POIs (drinking_water, supermarket).

On the go: OSMand installed via F-Droid, following the gpx track or routing with brouter on my phone.

I've got a routing profile for following designated bike routes (luckily quite plentiful in Germany) and one that concentrates on good surface conditions for bad weather set up in brouter that are bound to two different profiles in OSMand.

I'm switching in and out of the cycloroute style on OSMand. It's useful for planning, but on the bike I'm not used enough to it to interpret it at a glance.

They occupy a strange niche full of contradictions.

Entering the code on the device itself should increase security as opposed to entering it on a compromised computer.

But plugging it into a compromised computer means the data is compromised anyway.

Their security is way harder to audit than a software solution like PGP. The actual "encryption" varies from actual decent setups to "entering the code connects the data pins with no actual encryption on the storage chip"

Not having to instal/use software to use them means they are suitable for non-technical users which in turn means more support calls for "I forgot the pin, it wiped itself, can you restore my data"

They are kind of useful to check the "data is transported on encrypted media" box for compliance reasons without having to manage something bigger.

Is that a reference to Angleton?

Wow, that sounds like a decent start for an architecture.

I'm tempted to spin up a few Jellyfin instances to see how it might work...

Decent writeup by Charles Stross:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldcon-in-the-news.html

The mode of operation of WorldCon/the Hugos seems interesting as in "May you live in interesting times"

Edit: fixed auto-co-wrecked spelling of Charles Stross

JellyFed(eration) would be awesome. It should use an anonymous overlay network so federation is not limited to people you trust in copyright-zealous jurisdictions.

I didn't know you could hear a picture so clearly.

Teenagers and a dog sound like Scooby Doo. No idea how specific the rest is.

It doesn't. It carries you by having a module for absolutely everything even shooting yourself in the foot.

That's the equivalent of leaving the door open and hanging a sign "Internet over there" pointing at a wall.

Programs don't need to respect those registry keys. If you're worried about internet access, set up a firewall.

Also, if you're worried about malware, the damage is probably done before anything connects to the internet.

B stands for Billion (Parameters) IIRC

Should not be a problem with proper planning. Assuming the Trace tracks side along apparition and shows the destination, just have another mode of transport waiting at the destination.
Apparition -> broomstick -> knight bus would be a simple chain to set up.

Alternatively, depending on the exact mechanics of the trace, multiple apparitions from the same spot could be confusing as well, possibly even in addition to the poly juice plan.

If the trace does not record the identity of the underage wizard that's causing the alert, adding more underage wizards to the equation would cause total mayhem, especially given the usual "competence" of the ministry.

Depending on how cunning you get, using an information channel you control to feed the opposition false information should be possible as well. Set up a plan requiring specific spells, cast them near "traced" Harry and walk the opposite direction.