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we live in a world now of systems with multiple gigabytes of RAM. Multiple Multi-Gigahertz processing cores. SSDs with blazing I/O. Even in the face of moore's law, multi-core systems, and even ARM-based multi-core systems are still performing extremely well. All this, and even in spite of the business world's best effort, broadband has, in general, improved greatly.
So how is that, the way forward with web protocols is "my dogshit-performing JS framework has lead us to web servers that have to use UDP to perform at scale." and not "javascript was a language created in a handful of days, maybe we should re-visit that."
Hey! Hey! Want *more nightmares*!? Most modern OT and Industrial IOT controller systems run an IBM project called NODE RED which is a successor to an older project called CODE RED that did OT protocol communication amongst other things. Why bother building something specific when you can use something generic right? Can you guess what NODE RED runs on? That's right! Node.js! THE FACTORIES RUN ON JAVASCRIPT AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Got an email from Ecobee that it noticed my AC running without cooling the home. I noticed that too - apparently Xcel Energy activated the "Saver's Switch" today to disable the AC to reduce the load on the grid. It still runs the fan to circulate air.
It is calling the home now that the high grid usage is over.
I sent a "Quality Report" to Ecobee that this might take place & if they coordinate with Xcel - they should be able to detect it and take action.
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Trump tried to fool Americans with a White House presentation that claimed Biden's jobs numbers were fake and he presented some cherry-picked data that he insisted showed the economy is great.
@Dave_Goldsmith Today was definitely a typical "tourist" kinda day. Enjoyed good food and a walk along the waterfront. My partner introduced me to a cool speakeasy.
every Thursday could be the last! Do you want to drink vodka on your last day? I know the truth, and so do you. At worst have Evan Williams (which imo punches way above its weight class)
my cheapo bourbon favorite back in high school was ezra brookes, the aliexpress version of evan williams its like rubbing alcohol mixed with artifical vanilla extract and woodchips. many strange nights were had at $16/ 1.5L
Across 42 years at NASA, Wade Sisler — executive producer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland—watched the edge of human knowledge progress. During that time, the tools for visualizing and communicating those discoveries evolved just as rapidly. “I’ve spent my career surrounded by people with amazing curiosity and intellect, pursuing questions that […]
A dedicated company secretary protects directors from compliance mistakes and ensures shareholders have clear visibility into the company's management, fostering trust and accountability.
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What I didn't understand from the outside, but have had great role models to learn from, is that security is an ecosystem of ecosystems, and a large contingent of what makes it up is people.
Treat it like a silo or a bunker and you just make your own systems more brittle.
but i've found a lot that's widened and deepened and brightened me, and if i just stayed in my corner beeping boopers, i'm not sure i would actually like it as much!
i just finished up a research project that was 40 hours of technical work, and over 160 hours of coordinating (mostly arguing over technical matters) with the vendor.
i used to have an old laptop that I would throw around in frustration, but it disintegrated. i do have one of those rugged laptops but i'm actually afraid that if I throw it, I'll damage my wall...
What I didn't understand from the outside, but have had great role models to learn from, is that security is an ecosystem of ecosystems, and most of the supernodes are people.
Treat it like a silo or a bunker and you just make your own systems more brittle.
Of the security ecosystem supernodes that *aren't* strictly people (in the human sense), the ones I have identified are:
-DNS -Shitposters -The Furry/Infrastructure Engineer overlap that keeps everything running -The occasional eldritch being that's mostly too tired at this point to care about eating you
some catchy phrase for the petabytes of shitty data, bad writing, and cat pictures we are protecting. That's the crown jewels baby. Deserves a place of honour.
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
Performance will likely be really bad running on a live ISO since you are going to likely be bottlenecked by read/write speeds of the usb you have plugged in. I wouldn’t use it to test performance of games.
In a live environment I was not able too install too much - it always ran out of space, but I am not even sure what space it used, maybe a RAM disk?
So if Steam even fits with all of it's dependencies, you may be able to try out a tiny game, definitely not 150GB Forza Horizon 5.
There are ways to make it work by using persistent storage, but it's a hassle, at this point it would be easier to buy a 25$ 500GB ssd and install Linux on it.
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@hachi We've done that, women are now corporate slaves just like men, no longer having babies, and civilization is collapsing as a result. Congratulations!
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On the Matrix organizations' business partnerships with imperial military alliances and with the police
I see a lot of posts about how shitty the Matrix Communication Protocol (henceforth Matrix) implementations are, but I hardly see any posts talking about how the Matrix Foundation (henceforth MF) and New Vector Ltd. (henceforth NVL) (trade name Element)—the two sister organizations that, in essence, form the Matrix world—are busy building business partnerships with imperial military alliances of nations that are enabling and perpetrating genocide at present, and with police forces actively suppressing and crushing the resistance of anti-capitalist movements, of campaigners for climate change action, of anti-genocide protestors. They have (or are trying to have) commercial relationships with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with the German armed forces, and with various police forces in Europe. They are also wooing the US Department of Defense. This blog post talks about the letter to the US DoD by US senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt urging for the rapid adoption of Matrix. This blog post says that Element is "incredibly fortunate to be working with trailblazers like ... the US Department of Defense ...".
This fealty to the imperial setup also shows in the language adopted by the blog posts of both the MF and NVL. This February 2025 blog post by the MF says that "the International Rules-Based Order is at risk like never before" and cites in support a BBC preview of the Munich Security Conference expressing anxiety about the "old" world order crumbling. Anyone paying attention knows that "the International Rules-Based Order" is an euphemism for neo-liberalism imposed on the global south by their former colonizers to negate the effects of decolonization. If a nation state tries to delink itself from the vortex of global finance, the USA and its allies impose sanctions upon it. If it still doesn't fall in line, the Western transatlantic alliance invades the country and bombs it to smithereens. As its illegal interventions in the former Yugoslavia and Libya and many other places demonstrate, NATO is the organ of choice for such wars. (Also, we all know that the USA and its allies in NATO and several of the non-NATO countries in Europe have been materially and ideologically supporting Israel in its genocide of the Palestinian people.) And exactly this organization is the partner of choice for the Matrix folks. In another illustration of this partnership, Jeroen Franssen, the Innovation Project Manager for the NATO Allied Command Transformation, gave a talk at the Matrix Foundations's September 2024 conference.
The same blog post also talks about the Matrix Foundation's applications to join the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and tech against terrorism. Given that Palestine Action and Extinction Rebellion and other such groups are being labelled terrorists and persecuted by the police forces in several of the NATO and EU countries, the Matrix Foundation joining tech forums for countering terrorism and also partnering these police forces does not bode well for the Matrix protocol.
There are also blog posts with a war-mongering tone on the Element website. This one, for example, links to a news report about suspected sabotage of a link between Germany and Finland, but in the blog post, the word "suspected" disappears and the sabotage becomes a certainty. The escorting of an alleged Russian spy ship from Irish waters gets labelled "robust", again an adjective the cited report does not use. That NATO is concerned is cited. The blog post also approvingly mentions NATO's call on allies to shift to a "wartime mindset". This blog post also talks of NATO "pushing governments to adopt a wartime footing" and advocates for the Matrix protocol and Element itself as the right tools for all these countries in "wartime" mode.
One can go on, but I think the picture should be clear by now. We justly condemn American Big Tech companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, RTX, etc. for profiteering from Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. Why should the rules be any different for the Matrix folks? I know that the Matrix organizations are small fry at present and are in no position right now to profit in the same fashion, but their actions and their words clearly demonstrate a strong urge to join these war- and genocide-profiteers. It is time all anti-colonial, anti-imperial, anti-capitalist activists familiarize themselves with the true face of the Matrix organizations, and act accordingly.
Appendix: Is the Matrix Foundation truly independent of New Vector Ltd.?
Someone might argue that it is New Vector Ltd. forming business partnerships with NATO, with the police forces, etc. The Matrix Foundation—the custodian of the Matrix protocol—is an independent entity and has nothing to do with these commercial relationships. The blog post cited above suggests otherwise, it shows that the Matrix Foundation is keen on being a player upholding and implementing the "International Rules-Based Order". But if we ignore the ideological alignment with New Vector Ltd. expressed in the blog post, can we say that the foundation is truly independent of its for-profit sibling?
At present, the MF website states:
In the interest of transparency, we think it's important for people to know that most of our staffers are employees of Element, working under a contract with, and funded by, the Foundation. The exception is our Managing Director who contracts directly with the Foundation.
Yet, the people behind Matrix seem to bristle at the suggestion that the MF is entirely dependent on NVL. This recent blog post by the MF managing director is an example. However, the MF doesn't point out anywhere that a 2019 resolution entitles Matthew Hodgson and Amandine Le Pape, the founders of both organizations, and the Guardians (equivalent to Directors forming the board of a for-profit company, or to Trustees forming the board of a Trust) of the MF, to vote and to fulfill quorum, irrespective of any conflicts arising from their positions as Directors of NVL. The resolution reads:
THAT any actual or potential conflicts of interest of Matthew Hodgson and Amandine Le Pape (the "Conflicted Guardians") arising from or connected with their directorship and/or shareholding in New Vector Limited (whether direct or indirect interest or duty that conflicts or may conflict with the interests of the Foundation or their respective duties to the Foundation) be and are hereby authorised in accordance with section 180 of the Act, and accordingly, the Conflicted Guardians shall be entitled to participate at any board meeting for voting and quorum purposes in respect of the matters detailed in their respective declarations of interest annexed to this resolution.
Readers who would like to check the source should open this page and select the "View PDF" option for the June 21, 2019 entry titled "Resolution of adoption of Articles of Association".
At present, Matthew Hodgson and Amandine Le Pape continue to be listed as Guardians of the MF and as Directors of NVL.
To me, the above 2019 resolution does not inspire confidence in the independence of the MF. The situation is analogous to Matt Mullenweg's simultaneous control of Wordpress and Automattic. Ben Cook, as far back as in 2010, had pointed out how Matt Mullenweg being the boss of both Wordpress and Automattic could potentially lead to a toxic and explosive "conflict of interest" situation. As you can see from comments below his post, he was roundly cursed and criticized for his demand. However, his prophecy came true in 2024. Let's see how things shape out in case of the MF and NVL.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat to world peace.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Thursday the martyrdom of six more citizens, including two children, one of them an infant, due to starvation and lack of medical treatment, as the Israeli blockade and genocide enter their 22nd month.
I was one of the early adopters back when I paid Denver directly to his PayPal account. Nice to see he's still around and the service is expanding and improving.
You’re lucky. When I was recovering from my neck surgery and was limited to lifting 8lbs, I put a nice 8 1/2 x 11 sign on my door to Please Knock and Wait for Answer. The only one who knocked was the pizza guy. UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc. just left the damn packages on my door mat.
Continuing the discussion from Is anyone working on getting a Nostr client into F-Droid: So we did a lot of negotiation with the Amethyst dev, and it seemed we found consensus.
@sonalder > Nostr and Fediverse are not incompatible
True. They're just different models for providing decentralised social services. If there's a social app in F-Droid that can handle Nostr identities as well as ActivityPub accounts, that would fit my needs just as well as a Nostr-only app. In fact, better.
@cypherpunks > i see the images in my comment didn’t federate to mastodon
No, they didn't. Had a look. Nice one 👍👍
The missing images on my end is something to ask about on SocialHub tomorrow, so the Lemmy and Mastodon teams can debug and fix it. Mastodon posts can include images, so in theory there's no reason it can't be made to work.
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