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@liw Yeah, when building data centers, capex is a thing.
It is really HARD being a small data center operator.
It is also really hard to use a small data center, see also the unavailability of everything all of the time in Azure (unlike AWS and Google, Azure has very many locations, close to where you are, which are tiny compared to AWS or Google installations. That means the instance type or service you want isn't available to you when you need it, in the location you need it).
@pup @0xabad1dea @shitpostalotl @enejjohhem in any of these use cases do not try to use a self cooked chat server and protocol, use signal.
Getting protection right for people who actually need this kind of protection is hard, and getting the posed part is hard enough. Don’t try to also amateur the protocol design, don’t become matrix. They suck at what they promise to do, AND using it is he’ll for everyone, even those that just want to chat.
A system with end-to-end encryption has no access to message content on the server because that is literally the definition of E2E encryption.
That means you will never have access to past content – you weren't in the receiver list of a channel when the message was sent, and you won't retroactively get it, because the server cannot add you. You are essentially joining an empty channel or even server.
That also means that the server cannot look into message content, for example to identify and autoban spammers, work on message moderation or otherwise do what anybody would reasonably expect a server to do in terms of safety and abuse control.
It also means that the server cannot provide you with a meaningful server based search at all. Instead the client has to download the content it has keys for and then search locally. That won't happen except on desktop devices, and even there it won't work well.
You could add a server machine user to every message so that search and automoderation would have access to message content. But that means effectively you don't have, and don't need end, and don't want to end-to-end encryption.
Which you don't.
It's not a cool feature, for anybody except the most limited set of users, and these will still hate every second of the experience they are forced to have by their circumstances.
@isis @0xabad1dea com.apple.quarantine is not a security feature.
It is a sales tool.
@cstross @raymaccarthy I know but the press amplifies Space Karen's nonsense with zero fact checking
Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.
He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.
The scale says:
The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:
So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.
We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.
@notjustbikes this is an entirely splendid concept