that’s gonna be wework on meth

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 platform

This 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)

could be, there was more of these weird things that i had to do that i don’t remember already because motherboard of that one cracked like three years ago. i also remember that stock driver for tplink dongle was limited and the actual useful one had to be gotten from github

must be greenpeace, move along nothing to see here

(also it’s old news atp)

to get wifi working properly in the first place i had to find a missing binary that wasn’t packaged in any normal way and was only hosted on some dudes github so my expectations were low already. it got a lot better over the years tbh

lmde on a seven year old laptop five years ago, i was already accustomed to wifi on linux being dogshit. energy management was even worse and for some time hibernation was not a thing

Can’t you just disable sleep on close?

i could, but closing the lid turned off radios (wifi + bt) at some low level in a way that i haven’t figured out

starting a cult is just good business

but can both of them lose?

Stirling engines are woefully inefficient tho, PV panels are better unless you’re intending to supplement heat source with biomass or such. In a climate where most of energy is used for heating and little to none on AC, it just makes more sense to use solar collectors instead of PV because most of energy use will be in form of heat anyway, and per square meter collector will deliver much more. If you can couple excess heat production to seasonal energy storage, this gets you most or all of heat needs year round covered by solar, if you don’t there’s still free hot water in the summer and seriously lowered gas bill through the year. Small PV panel might make sense to keep pumps running or cover some of the rest of needs but won’t shift balance heavily either way. In a place where major use of energy is AC this approach makes no sense and PV panels with daily or a bit longer lasting storage of energy, be it in batteries or thermal (tanks of cold glycol or ice or whatever) would be the way to go, because the most sunny day is also the day when you need AC the most and this way you get most of your energy needs covered