"The Biden administration plan for the “day after” in Gaza is rooted in American hubris and ignorance, and therefore doomed to failure."
"The United States has a long history of misunderstanding the Mideast, but this level of ignorance and willful blindness far surpass anything we’ve seen before."
I'm going to have a bit of a #tech#rant (less charitable people might say #whine) here. If you just want jokes and cute bunny pictures, feel free to skip this one.
Object of my #ire this week? #Furnaces. I'm not even going to rant about their main control boards; most of that's been said better than I could say it, by others with more knowledge than I.
But that's when I learned about the new-new kind of motor that (at least my) furnaces use.
They call it an "#ECM" motor, but that is just an acronym for Electronically #Commutated Motor, which just means it doesn't have motor #brushes - just like a DC #brushless motor.
I'm #impressed by what it accomplishes; it is quite the #feat, and not totally #obvious at first glance.
But it means that little control module is really quite #complicated, and is a dense little #blob of high-power circuitry. It would be expensive enough just for that.
As for the metadata leaking, while metadata is obviously available to the admins of the servers you and you recipient are using, these chat histories are not synced in their entirely,
Maybe so, but for a public room it really means nothing because they could just join it anyway. Every client has a copy. The point is neither system has deniability in terms of “I was never talking to this person”. I do think there is more utility in Matrix’s future with P2P accounts however, that don’t depend on a single Matrix server and can be rotated. Anything you aim to be anonymous with should be regularly rotating accounts as we suggest. Take a look at XMPP: Admin-in-the-middle. Admins can get more than enough.
SimpleX chat addresses most of Matrix and XMPP’s shortcomings
Except there is no desktop client, and I’m not sure how it will work at scale. It does not have anywhere near the feature set of Matrix. The whole “spaces” thing is the beginning and I suspect they’ll be doing a lot more there, specifically: “Spaces effectively gives us a way of creating a global decentralised filesystem hierarchy on top of Matrix”.
I hope it can one day replace them.
I honestly doubt that will ever happen they aren’t really competing products. Matrix is really meant for large scale networks, a bit like a whole social media platform, whereas SimpleX is more like a competitor to Signal or Session.
I would like to see Decentralised user accounts and I think they may be still looking at this because it would be nice to be able import your account somewhere else if a home server you’re on shuts down or something.
I agree; the programs comprising our social safety net are #complicated, #expensive to administer, and expensive to provide.
If there was a way to replace them all with a simpler, cheaper to #administer program, I would be all for it - if it didn't provide a disincentive for the people to work, earn a living, and develop some well-earned self-respect.
I have never seen a #UBI proposal that anticipated the moral hazard problem, much less a #solution to it.
What I don't understand about Linux, and never will, is why when something goes wrong, many things go wrong.
Linux can run smoothly for months, and then when one thing goes wrong, it starts a cascade of bullshit just raining down on your head.
Granted if I think about it, I can understand why. I had a problem, tried to fix the problem, caused more problems, distrohopped to fix the problem, and had problems with the new distro. So, not Linux, just me being a dumbass
#MyersBriggs#PersonalityTests is popular and that is about the only thing it has going for it. In reality it is no better than rolling die and assigning people a personality profile based on the die roll.
Carl Jung's ideas are at the base of the test. Unfortunately Jung's work has never been empirically tested. Hint when your base level construct is unsound you might have a train wreck on your hands.
"Useful" in that it points some people to the brand-new idea of #diversity (formerly "irrational behavior" that needs to be addressed by monologues on "why you should see it my way").
Harmful in that it tries to boil down the #complex to the #complicated, with no proper foundation because there can't be one. Especially harmful in its management-by-psychotest form: we'll "understand" each other much better once we've properly labelled ourselves, for life.
What are your opinions on Matrix?
I was sold on Matrix as a viable alternative to Discord but recently read this article which made it look not so good.