Ectrayn [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Well, I guess this kind of device + LoRa communication or some other sort of mesh network could be quite practical while still being unreasonably safe. And in the plan on the betrusted website they do mention their goal is to lower the cost to ~120usd (which is not nothing, for sure, but is more reasonable). These first batch is to found the development and allow them to work on betrusted.

    I agree the current price is outrageous but given the small number of units they would be producing for this first batch, I can't say I am surprised


  • It has wifi, but if you’re somewhere with wifi, there should be no issue carrying around a laptop or whatever.

    I think you are missing the point. You should consider your laptop to be a potential bug in your life (probably not as bad as your phone but eh). This looks like it is as close as proper opsec as you can achieve (since it is apparently significantly harder to temper with a FPGA than with a CPU), and they want to build a messaging platform on top of it (https://betrusted.io/). It's all open source, including the hardware, it's all "simple" (so humanly auditable) etc.

    And to be fair, it's about as powerfull as a nintendo DS, and a DS can already do a lot of things. So with well optimized code you can definitely write useful apps for it.






  • I am not big on postmodernism (in the sense that I didn't read much on the topic and I am not super attracted to it), but I recently found a video that talked about them and their philosophy in general from a quite interesting point of view, I'll see if I can find it!

    Edit: Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFbP8NYffE (also the whole channel is good although their videos could tone it down on the aggressive editing imho)