PhilipTheBucket

First possibility that comes to mind is a backed up federation queue on lemmy.world for some reason.

It could also be some failure on sh.itjust.works, but if I had to guess I would say it’s more likely an issue on the sending end.

Yeah, dental issue. Sure.

During heavy rain, flush-fit door handles have short-circuited, trapping people in their cars.

This whole thing roots back to Elon Musk being a twat.

He had a habit, in the early days of his involvement with Tesla, of demanding some particular change to the design (and being able to make it stick because of his position) because it would be “more awesome” in his mind. There were a bunch of them, which wasted millions of dollars even back in those much smaller-scale days, and the whole “electronic door handles” thing is that. It’s obviously worse in pretty much every way (among them cost, reliability, and safety), but he thought it would be awesome, and he’s a self-important blockhead who can’t hear any criticism, and so here we are.

It is funny that in Piefed this topic is classified under “Chilling”

Man, some wild shit is going to happen before 2032. All of this is one scenario, yes, maybe, but this stuff is like weather forecasting on the Titanic at this point.

Do they? When did this happen? I know they arrest people for “Plasticine Action” T-shirts.

Germany’s been doing fucked up stuff for a while. People have literally had the police visit and gotten citations for what they said online (for example calling a politician a “penis” on social media.) It’s fucked.

Here’s the pinout for the webcam component: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tree/main/Webcam

Unfortunately it isn’t really clear whether the switch positions are in the pinout because it’s the mainboard’s job to implement shutting off the camera when it’s off, or just as information with the webcam module responsible for shutting it off in hardware. I have no idea which it is, but it wouldn’t be super-hard for someone capable with EE to take off the bezel and fool around with it and see which it is (or just pay $19 for the magic of buying two of them, if you didn’t want to take apart your own laptop for it.)

They say they provide full schematics on demand to repair shops (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/availability-of-schematics-and-boardviews-BJMZ6EAu). I’m not sure why they don’t want to just post them publicly, so in that sense you might be right, but they also don’t seem like they are trying to keep them or the interface details of the webcam module fully top secret either.

They do seem like they publish enough information that someone could figure out the answer if they wanted to. (People in the forums have fooled around with them and seem to be convinced that they are actually hardware switches: https://community.frame.work/t/how-do-the-camera-and-microphone-switches-work/4271 IDK whether that’s accurate, but that’s what the forum people think.)

No idea why you’re trying to lecture me from this position of authority about taking apart PCBs and whatnot. Anyway, that’s how it works, hope this is helpful for you.

I sort of suspect that the wiring is in a diagram somewhere. I could be wrong, but that would be my guess. It’s not in a PCB, that’s up in the bezel where it’s just wires and stuff.

Framework laptops have a little physical switch to turn off the camera / mic when you don’t want them.

The original SGI webcams, some of the first that ever existed, actually had a physical plastic cover that you could slide over them when you didn’t want the camera on. “No, I don’t trust your hardware any more than your software. I shouldn’t need to. Stop looking at me when I don’t want you to, and prove to me that you are not, or else I will be suspicious.” Back in those days that was sort of a universal point of view among internet people, I think…

Yeah, exactly. If you read the Snowden leaks to learn the details of what some of their actual capabilities are (smuggling flawed keys into the DH exchange for most major web browsers for example), it makes this stuff look like kids in their basements fucking around.

I feel like this is kind of the amateur-hour stuff. It’s certainly dangerous, but in comparison to a lot of state-actor activities (or even committed-amateur activities), this kind of supply-chain attack is pretty blatant and easy to spot. Which doesn’t mean it’s easy to spot – I just mean would be trivial to volunteer and contribute some minimal fixes and enhancements to some open source project, and then at one point smuggle in a zero-day that will basically never be detected unless someone detects the intrusion itself and then works backwards from there with a ton of time to spend on it.

If you’ve ever looked at the obfuscated C contest it should be obvious that this kind of thing can be made completely invisible if you know what you’re doing. Some of the interactions and language features that lead to problems are basically impossible for a casual viewer to see, even if they’re paying attention, and the attack surface is massive and the amount of attention that goes into checking it for weird subtle vulnerabilities is minuscule.