A rooted phone could not, but anyone with a bottle of acid and a microscope could. Or as I’ve said, a nice optics setup and a high quality projector.
My point being that trusting the camera chip does not help much. But, of course, it would block the easiest software attacks like we have seen so far.
That would be my guess as well.
I’m not a researcher in this field, so I don’t have anything substantial to suggest. My opinion is that it is unsolvable.
No matter what you try, sufficiently powerful entities will be able to modify the sensor to sign images of anything they want to pass as real (or just use a very high quality projector)
It might be better that we are all always weary of an image being AI at this point.
This is a terrible idea. So of course it already exists https://c2pa.org/
It’s already being exploited https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html
We need a solution but that’s not it.
If you like magit, https://github.com/0WD0/majutsu is already quite good.
I think google hides an additional mark in their own edits so the tool can perform an actual check in this case.
They would not detect any AI edit from other providers.
There are tools to remove these hidden “signatures” E.g. https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
I’m not commenting on the ethics.
electrons actually loop around in a closed DC circuit in the speed of light
On average, electrons “move forward” much much slower than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity
But even the whole “electrical signal” is slower than the speed of light:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_velocity_factors
As you mention, use a small fan filter to draw away the fumes. If you can smell the flux vapors, you don’t have enough ventilation (although most people won’t care). Unless you do long sessions I rarely see people wearing masks or gloves but if you are confortable doing so then yes that’s a good idea.
One thing is glasses. Especially when inexperienced, it can happen that you can fling around small solder blobs by accident. You don’t want that in your eyes.
I would suggest not avoiding flux. It’s basically easy mode compared to without. Even if you use flux core solder.