

well that you can’t tell good from bad is a skill issue on your part then


well that you can’t tell good from bad is a skill issue on your part then


inshallah in five years all of this horseshit will be distant fever dream memory


good luck with picking and choosing after brainrot as a service does irreparable damage


after 2022 they shat their pants and bought threema license specifically to avoid it, and now migrated from that to matrix (this app)


the few who will stay sharp will have endless job security


yeah it’s element-x


on-prem matrix instead of slack? literally 1984


i doubt that any national comms authority will want to have anything in common with nostr. big point of this thing seems to be that it’s on-prem (or at least in country) and with tightly controlled access
other countries already use matrix for similar purposes (france, germany, estonia) army had their own deployment on similar terms (on-prem, controlled registration)


users [can] retain access to messages even after logging out of the platformThis sounds great. Nothing bad could happen here. I’m sure the people developing this are competent.
the article says:
Further, if users want to retain access to messages even after logging out of the platform, they must set up a recovery key, which the installation manual suggests storing in a password manager.
this is standard matrix thing. if you log out of matrix and don’t do that, you’re greeted with Unable to decrypt message after next login. this is because it’s on-prem matrix instance (or instances) with mandatory 2fa (freeotp is an option) and registration process tying matrix identity to national id, and it’s intended only for public administration internal use. you can’t just walk up and register you have to work there, and as their threat model is about phishing, this does make sense


xmpp sucks balls for this scenario. there are incredible footguns in encrypted xmpp, it wasn’t there from day one and mind you it’s intended for non-nixos users. they have migrated from threema


I mean, yeah. But it’s not some national open source project, and that was claimed. Also, i’d like to know how intensely it was audited, because it’s something different from open-source matrix homeserver/element-x (it’s the propertiary part of it)
polish army used it too before this one, but it wasn’t intended for sensitive info


that’s reskinned, siloed matrix instance with maybe minimal changes


thunderous speed in the range of minutes per residue (not every aminoacid can be used and what they’re printing is dna, not proteins so multiply it 3x. they’re encoding 3 bits per aminoacid, but there’s overhead, error correction and structural requirements that make data density lower than 1 bit per nucleobase)


people see strait closed and think of oil because of course there’s a lot of oil going through it, but oil can be routed through pipelines outside gulf so impact on oil is less than that 20% commonly cited
the bigger impact is on gas, because it can’t be transported that easily and it’s closer to 40% of supply. because gas is so hard to transport you can try to avoid doing that, so it’s turned into fertilizer and diesel and aluminum, whose transport is easier, and isn’t as constrained as LNG transport. byproduct of gas mining is helium and it can’t be mined on its own, and while valuable enough to be flown out of qatar supply stops when gas stops. gulf royals have seen that world tries to get rid of oil, so this energy intensive manufacture was intended as a sort of hedge or insurance, but this too stops without transport
so, yeah. things that can be expected to directly get more expensive are energy in general and gas in particular, plastics of all kinds, aluminum, nitrogen fertilizer and to some degree phosphorus fertilizer (uses sulfur as input). and everything that depends on them, which is broadly everything. the only winning move is not to play ie use renewables for energy. these chinese officials who backed renewables buildout are probably the most vindicated people in hemisphere
that said, you can make fertilizer from other fuels, and in other places too, so it’s likely that it will “just” get more expensive, and lower nitrogen use might work about as well because many farmers overapply it. if you are a westerner i guess you might not see it hitting you too hard, but in places like sudan that will be a problem


what is your threat model? the fact that one person can’t plausibly know many advanced fields at once in sufficient detail limits risk significantly when you don’t ignore that experts are rare


i guess this is partially because chinese opoid users die from bullets and not from overdoses


e2ee is not enough you also need to know what these ends are



lora bitrate and radiated power are tiny and such considerations are only important in peacetime. gps is jammed now routinely and it’s more important than 95% of iot dogshit. telemetry and remote control that matters is either wired or has reserved separate band, like power grid switches. not sure wdym by logistics
you also have to be stealthy and if you emit you’re seen and if you’re seen you’ll be found and soon dead. lora doesn’t help you with that especially if you increase power to overcome jamming. using starlink in iran now for example is a capital offense. last time i’ve checked, irgc ew looks for starlink wifi and they can find it even if it’s renamed because of its distinct signature. it takes less to spot lora. they do not look for uplink for some reason but they try to jam it and downlink too


microwave datalinks might have beamwidths of perhaps fraction of degree, but it’s still not much
the other way around. you can post there so that other ai scraper will ingest it and include it in training data