no wonder they can’t moderate everything
That would be the case if it wasn’t a flagrant violation like, “These matrix rooms are spying on these chat rooms without announcing the users in the matrix room”, and Matrix refusing to fix it when informed.
Imagine if Matrix did that to their user base. “We’ll occasionally drop in to listen, or pipe your conversation to other people, but you won’t see the, “x joined”, notice. Cheers!” Creepy spying, the polar opposite of privacy.
“open” and “privacy” are sometimes just buzz words
Yes. Private companies are co-opting the term, and providing source code only after signing an NDA… That qualifies as “Open” but is not FOSS or FLOSS.
Several things, but the issues focus around the company running the show, rather than the API. Their ‘binding rules’ have an outrageous number of loopholes.
Matrix was ‘de-federated’ from Libera.chat because Matrix admins refused to properly moderate their servers, respect privacy, maintain reciprocity, etc. There’s a whole letter explaining the hair ball that occurred.
Their explicit goal is monopoly. Every thing should use our API. Everyone should federate. (Share your data with our servers.)
Companies are companies. Non-profits included. Non-profits are just a way of saying, “We’re not going to the stock market, but we can still funnel money into various pockets… especially our own, or people we want to pay money to.”
Foss/Floss is about ownership, control, modifiability, ect. being handed to whoever owns it. Matrix is about ownership being shared with Matrix.
It’s a wondrous API. Everyone should use it, and set up their own private self-cleaning servers.
Almost… Automattically?
No Jami? Absurd.
Anime source?
Edit: nvm, found it.
Actual edit: Apparently I’m slow with the joke. K-On! Manga about high school music club.
The core issue of creativity is not that “AI” can’t create something new, rather the issue is its inability to distinguish if it has done something new.
Literal Example:
You receive a pre-written response baked into the weights to prevent abuse.
What is wrong with this picture? Not the picture the “AI” made, but this scenario I posit.
Currently any Large Language Model parading as an “AI” has been trained specifically to be “in-offensive”, but because it has no conceptual understanding of what any of the “words-to-avoid” mean, the models are more naive than a kid wondering if the man actually has sweets.
True. Though remarkable is still remarkable.
Notably, the timeline post-discovery is still stellar, regardless of Microsoft/GitHub cock-blocking analysis.
Imagine finding a backdoor within 45 day of it’s release into a supply chain instead of months after infection. This is a most astoundingly rapid discovery.
Fedora 41 and rawhide, Arch, a few testing and unstable debian distributions and some apps like HomeBrew were affected. Not including Microsoft and other corporations who don’t disclose their stack.
What a time to be alive.
Unless you happen to have a friend that wants to get in on it, you’re basically always picking a stranger.
At risk of sounding tone deaf to the situation that caused this: that’s what community is all about. The likelihood you know the neighbors you’ve talked to for years is practically nil. Your boss, your co-workers, your best friend and everyone you know, has some facet to them you have never seen. The unknown is the heart of what makes something strange.
We must all trust someone, or we are alone.
Finding strangers to collaborate with, who share your passions, is what makes society work. The internet allows you ever greater access to people you would otherwise never have met, both good and bad.
Everyone you’ve ever met was once a stranger. To make them known, extend blind trust, then quietly verify.
Anonymous data is useless. Most any data can be de-anonymized. And tracking data is always to “improve services” until the companies are offered significant sums for it…
Truly, thank you so much for responding. I love learning from experts.
This is usually combined with a very well insulated cage to prevent that energy from escaping
Faraday cage. Please. I’m a fool, not an imbecile. And to be clear, I’m well-aware of ionizing radiation bands.
However, my concerns lie in extended exposure. I’ll relate this to analog. Regardless of frequency, sound as quiet as 70 decibels can cause hearing loss after extended exposure. In the territory of 24 hours and longer, mind you. This is as quiet as, say, a hearty conversation, or a washing machine.
And this is a dual inverted sliding scale. Hearing loss zones:
I’d like to know where the scales for EM radiation amplitudes are. I’ve read a few studies but most of them focus on bursts or separated exposures. Very few of them observe sustained continuous exposure.
Also, I’m aware sound and radiation are not apples to apples, but my point of relating energy input and exposure duration is the same. If you ask anyone if 70 dB is safe, everyone will tell you, “Yes. Of course.” Which is not correct. Even 60 dB can do you further harm, if your ears have not healed from damage sustained immediately prior.
Some small levels of UV 3 might get through (hello skin cancer).
Now you’re getting into much more familiar territory. UV-A, the lowest band of UV, at UV 1 is entirely capable of causing sun-burns. It just depends on exposure time and pigmentation. Any sunburn has the potential to cause cancer. The more intense the burn and larger the affected area, the higher the chance more cells mutate, the higher your chance one of those cells becomes an unstable cancer cell, the higher the chance one of those cells becomes stable, and the higher chance for metastasis… From non-ionising low flux UV-A. Possible, but unlikely. Though increasingly likely as duration increases.
These transmitters can be legally and safely placed in urban areas provided adequate separation between the antenna and the public, usually 30-40 meters.
The EIRP drops off quickly in the first few meters after the antenna, as the signal expands outwards towards the service area; so even being within 15m is generally safe.
Inverse square, I’m familiar. And now we’re cooking with fire. Let’s elide frequency for a moment, pretending it’s irrelevant in the same way mechanical waves’ frequencies are.
Let’s assume 30-40 meters for 100KW antenna and 15 meters for ~20W macro cell is instantaneous minor damage. With each meter you distance yourself, the concentration of wattage decreases. What do you suppose the limit of energy density is for immediate damage when in direct contact? What do you suppose is the limit of wattage for sustained direct exposure on scale of 24 hours. That is, the equivalent of 70dB for intensity. What about sustained exposure for several years?
I don’t fear the effects it will have. After all, death will come to us all at some point. However, that doesn’t mean I’ll be reckless with the time I have left.
Also, I just started studying to get my Ham and haven’t quite wrapped my brain around a lot of the implications, so your input is very much appreciated. Thanks.
It’s all in good fun. No need to spoil the joke.
different frequency bands
Actual conspiracy theory: Very small fish tend to die a few days after being exposed to electromagnetic metal detectors. Fewer die if you hold them above the metal detectors. This is an observable phenomenon you can try at your own expense. While I don’t think 5G is a significant enough increase in energy density to cause you to die, there is a good chance it’s enough to introduce destabilization in homeostasis due to body warming. Especially if you live within 100 meters of a tower. Babies tend to be fussier sleepers when sleeping very near routers or baby monitors using a meager 2.4, 5, or 6 GHz, attempt experimentation at risk of the children.
Whether they’re abusing it or not, that’s a question you’ll have to figure out for yourself.
Not a conspiracy theory: Snowden proved they are. Everyone in a 5 Eyes country is stuck having their private moments exposed at any given moment for any reason.
4 Macaronis in a bit of an ounce.
8 Macaronis in a full ounce.
On the contrary.
KB = 1,000 bytes and MB = 1,000,000 is empirical.
KiB = 1024 bytes or 210 and MiB = 1,048,576 or 220 is Metric.
Remember, empirical is the miserable system the rest of the world abandoned because it made math and science difficult. KB makes storage miserable, never being clear whether your have the exact space your box claims it does. Please continue to FreeTM yourself from British “nonsense”, while the rest of the world evolves.
Have at. Timelines in-order.
Tensions and issues coming to a head:
https://libera.chat/news/matrix-deportalling
https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/deportalling-libera-chat/
Breaking point you’re looking for:
https://libera.chat/news/matrix-bridge-disabled-retrospective
https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/28/shutting-down-bridge-to-libera-chat/
Today: https://libera.chat/guides/matrix