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Not really as those are public things.
Would you mind citing an example of exactly what you are referring to? I feel like I’m presuming a lot of things in your statements here.
Dhcp is more of a issue.
I don’t know if it’s “more”, or “less” of an issue, but all these things are worthy of concern.
That would certainly also be worthy of concern.
have the machine pretend you’re in UTC.
That is a possible solution, though not exactly the most convenient, imo. That is, if I understand you correctly that you are talking about setting the OS timezone to be UTC.
could be defeated by doing an analysis of when the commits were made on average vs other folks from random repositories to find the average time of day and then reversing that information into a time zone
This is the first thing I thought of upon reading the title
It’s also in the post body.
Any given time zone there are going to be millions if not billions of people.
One more bit of identifying information is still one more bit of identifying information.
Git also “leaks” your system username and hostname IIRC by default which might be your real name.
This is only part of a fallback if a username and email is not provided [1].
In case (some of) these environment variables are not set, the information is taken from the configuration items
user.name
anduser.email
, or, if not present, the environment variable EMAIL, or, if that is not set, system user name and the hostname used for outgoing mail (taken from/etc/mailname
and falling back to the fully qualified hostname when that file does not exist).
A fake name and email would pretty much be sufficient to make any “leaked” time zone information irrelevant.
Perhaps only within the context where one is fine with being completely unidentifiable. But this doesn’t consider the circumstance where a user does want their username to be known, but simply don’t want it to be personally identifiable.
UTC seems like it’s just “HEY LOOK AT ME! I’M TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING!”
This is a fair argument. Ideally, imo, recording dates for commits would be an optional QoL setting rather than a mandatory one. Better yet, if Git simply recorded UTC by default, this would be much less of an issue overall.
if you sleep like most people, could be defeated by doing an analysis of when the commits were made on average vs other folks from random repositories to find the average time of day and then reversing that information into a time zone.
I mentioned this in my post.
It’s better to be “Jimmy Robinson in Houston Texas” than “John Smith in UTC-0”
That decision is contextually dependent.
How do you mean?
Huh. That’s actually kind’ve a clever use case. I hadn’t considered that. I presume the main obstacle would be the token limit of whatever LLM that one is using (presuming that it was an LLM that was used). Analyzing an entire codebase, ofc, depending on the project, would likely require an enormous amount of tokens that an LLM wouldn’t be able to handle, or it would just be prohibitively expensive. To be clear, that’s not to say that I know that such an LLM doesn’t exist — one very well could — but if one doesn’t, then that would be rationale that i would currently stand behind.
Fair point. I think “leak” is likely the wrong term to use here. “Exposes” is probably a better one. I’ll update the post promptly.
I’ve played it for a bit, and it’s a decently fun and well-made game! My only gripe is that it requires an email for signup; I wish it would only require a username and password. For most users, though, I’d wager that that’s a pretty minor issue.
That’s actually a pretty slick interface. It makes me wonder how many solid apps have been lost to obscurity.
I’ll see if maybe I’ve just misconstrued the over-complexity for my needs.
It depends how you are defining “over-complexity”. FreeCAD is a very capable CAD application, so, by extension, it has a vast array of features which means that a single task could potentially be tackled multiple ways. That being said, it is not a difficult application to use, imo. The UI feels well designed, and it’s responsive. Like many things, the level of ease of use, and productivity when using it depends a lot on one’s familiarity with the application.
Thank you for your suggestion!
Would you be able to provide some screenshots of the application? The website for the application doesn’t seem to exist anymore, and the GitHub page doesn’t have any images of the application. I must confess, however, that I’m somewhat hesitant to use an application that is no longer maintained, and isn’t popular enough to provide a large enough chance of good security due to the sheer number of people looking at the source code and using the app. Granted, the latter could be solved by me “simply” looking through the source, but I confess that this doesn’t feel entirely worth it, atm.
+1 for FreeCAD.
Your requirements are pretty strict
Ha, I honestly thought I was being pretty lenient with just requiring what I thought were, more or less, the base requirements for a pill tracking app.
Didn’t get the encryption point
If I understand you correctly that you mean that you don’t understand the point of encrypting the data, the reason why I want that is to protect unauthorized access to the data if the device becomes compromised.
MedTimer
I’ve been using this one for a bit, and it does the job pretty well. It definitely is lacking polish and is somewhat buggy, but it’s certainly usable.
MediTrak
I found this one’s UI was rather cumbersome. I would choose MedTimer over it.
Home MedKit
I hadn’t heard of this one! It looks well made. It’s a shame one cannot input entries on any day though. I’m a little wary of a Russian app whose development history I cannot read, especially given that it’s such a small app in terms of popularity, but it seems genuine. The development cadence is perhaps a little lacking.
Interesting idea to use a tasks app for taking pills (presumably with it set as a recurring task). I agree that the format is quite similar in how the data is input and read, but I think there’s still some merit to having a dedicated app for this purpose. Things like data visualizations for dosages, and tracking missed dosages and alternate reminders for things like stock I think are better suited to an app that is dedicated.
Thank you for your recommendation! Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite meet my requirements.
This doesn’t quite meet my requirements for a mood tracking app, but thank you for the recommendation of it as a habit tracker! I will definitely make use of it for tracking habits.
I think this one is the most promising so far.
Very clever use case!