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721.
by feanaro 6y ago
> Don’t all companies have a power imbalance of some kind with their users? Some amount of power imbalance is okay. Obviously not every entity can have the exact same amount of power nor would this be desirable. What matters is the scale
722.
by feanaro 6y ago
Why is this disingenuous? The web is decentralized in exactly the same way and browsers play exactly the same role of independent clients for accessing this decentralised network as do Matrix clients for the Matrix network.
723.
by feanaro 6y ago
> The average person can not run a matrix server. Please don't repeat falsehoods like this. The average person can not run anything because software is black magic to them. If you meant the average knowledgeable computer engineer (o
724.
by feanaro 6y ago
A single company owning and having their fingers in everything from search engines, operating systems, phone and laptop hardware, self-driving cars, payment platforms, online shopping platforms, cloud computing platforms and a myriad of oth
725.
by feanaro 6y ago
It's not that resource hungry anymore. Hovering stably around 500M RSS and 8% CPU for me right now. That's with ~25 users and a lot of federated, public rooms, some of them quite large.
726.
by feanaro 6y ago
> Ya, they can be very similar, but as with a lot of legal aspects, intent matters (but is still hard to prove). It is so hard to prove that it becomes practically impossible in most cases, which leads to legislation that can choose when
727.
by feanaro 6y ago
What do you propose should be done about it? Should we prevent markets from "a lot" (whatever that would mean) in a single time period?
728.
by feanaro 6y ago
> e.g. the future that we're heading to in the EU is the same as 5/9-eye countries: there will be a "legal" way of encryption and another one that is illegal, all depending if access can be given to 3rd parties /
729.
by feanaro 6y ago
Element is just one of many Matrix user agents and matrix.org offers just one of many Matrix servers. Each server has the freedom to enforce its own policy. Given that the matrix.org server is a kind of a public face for the protocol, it ma
730.
by feanaro 6y ago
It's discontinued, the links are stale.
731.
by feanaro 6y ago
Wasn't Pattle removed for a longer time? I know the developer stopped working on it some time ago.
732.
by feanaro 6y ago
And while we're at it, let's disallow Google from mandating the exclusive use of their own service for push notifications.
733.
by feanaro 6y ago
It seems a bit wrong to target this to doctors exclusively. Is it just because the cost of your service would be prohibitive for someone not using this professionally? Anyway, I'm not a doctor but one of those types that love looking i
734.
by feanaro 6y ago
I think you may be referring to Chung, Mohidin, O'Leary (2002) < https://doi.org/10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00258-4 >. I know of at least one other study confirming this result ( https://doi.org/10.1
735.
by feanaro 6y ago
A good way is to search for articles with "TOPIC" and "review" in the name on e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ or using a tool like https://inciteful.xyz/ (which was featured on HN
736.
by feanaro 6y ago
It's probably based on the theory that over a longer time frame the eye adapts to slightly defocused images in order to bring them in focus. The key is that the image must be defocused only slightly, not grossly.
737.
by feanaro 6y ago
Agreed. I surveyed the existing medical literature on the topic in about 2018 (or was it 2017?) and conclusion was that it is still a very active area of research with a lot of controversy. Anecdotally, I have a low-grade myopia which gets
738.
by feanaro 6y ago
This is not equivalent since it is reliant on the existence of the FSM, which is not usually taken to be proven, unlike (hopefully) the existence of other people.
739.
by feanaro 6y ago
I think your reaction is a bit too strong, which perhaps makes you miss a subtler point better. This use of the word "chemical" seems to be a thought-terminating cliché of sorts and I would argue it is precisely what leads to over
740.
by feanaro 6y ago
> "It was supposed to be in some sense numerological gibberish, but he had the sense that it wasn't quite gibberish, and he wanted me to say what it was." And Nash was right, Bayer said: "It wasn't quite gibberis
741.
by feanaro 6y ago
There's a certain cognitive overhead and ugliness to having to run `tool3` instead of `tool`, which makes me dislike this solution.
742.
by feanaro 6y ago
And how do you propose to unilaterally and absolutely define what a "bad actor" is?
743.
by feanaro 6y ago
There is a general purpose computer under there but most people don't interact with it like that. The fact that it can does not mean that it will. A lot of this has to do with the ecosystem and how a device is presented and what the UX
744.
by feanaro 6y ago
I don't know much about Beeper, but I do know more about Matrix in general. And yes, the N is configurable there (as in, you can change it in a client implementation, even if it isn't particularly common to have it exposed as a se
745.
by feanaro 6y ago
Yes, I was talking about native Matrix specifically.
746.
by feanaro 6y ago
Matrix's encryption is based on the same cryptographic ratchet technology used by Signal. The protocols involved are called Olm and Megolm. Olm is used for establishing 1-on-1 sessions between pairs of users (or rather, their devices).
747.
by feanaro 6y ago
> - A message would get "pinned" to the bottom in Element. Basically, you could send new messages but a specific message would always look like it was the most recent message (even though it was not). This was a purely visual b
748.
by feanaro 6y ago
Hmm, interesting. What kind of resource usage do you see, compared to mine?
749.
by feanaro 6y ago
When was the last time you tried? My Synapse is stably hovering around 400M RSS with about 10-15% CPU usage. It has about 20 active users, each with 2-3 devices and is joined in hundreds of rooms on the federation.
750.
by feanaro 6y ago
You don't have to host your own server to use it though. It's also not something recommended for an average user. However, if you want a server, installing it using Synapse's docker image is very easy. You literally have to

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