cherti

@cherti@chaos.social

Physicist, likes simulating and automating things. Checking is preferrable over assuming (this only sometimes escalates, mildly, blog name is absolutely completely unrelated…).
Interested in privacy tech and eInk devices.

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#physics #eink #privacytech #RandomPhysicsFact

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indutny, to random
@indutny@fosstodon.org avatar

Big news for an avid SF reader!

@gregeganSF 's new book Morphotrophic is out and can be purchased as a DRM-free epub from: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1541765

I got mine already, and you should get yours! :ablobcatwink:

Can't wait to begin reading it later today.

cherti,

@indutny @gregeganSF I take that as a recommendation for the book? 😃

cherti, to random

Have to say I'm glad right now that all my servers are just running totally unexciting, plain boring Debian stable…

cherti, to Matrix

Hey, I'm currently doing a little research on the cost of modern social media and messaging, given that cost is an everlasting discussion when trying to move people to more free alternatives.

I am still looking for data for messaging, such as #XMPP and #Matrix. So if you have or know someone who operates a somewhat sizable instance for either XMPP or Matrix and would potentially share some details about operational cost with me I would love to hear about it! :)

Thank you so much! 💙

:BoostOK:

cherti,

@mathieui

Both, but primarily I'm looking at hardware/storage/domains/etc.

But I'm secondarily also interested in "staff cost".

Mostly because staff cost massively varies depending on how much volunteer work is involved in administration, moderation and development, so staff cost is way more difficult to compare, so I'm looking at that separately, if I get enough numbers about it.

But given hardware is more consistent over platforms (everybody needs it), that primarily. :)

cherti,

@mathieui

But means that while I'm not really interested in a breakdown of what costs how much exactly, I'm mostly interested in ballpark total cost, I would want infrastructure and staff cost separately because of that.

ganselmartin, to Signal

https://www.heise.de/news/Signal-Unsere-Push-Benachrichtigungen-sind-sicher-vor-Spionage-9573116.html

cherti,

@kubikpixel @ganselmartin wie ist "wer mit wem" über die push-notifications sichtbar?

cherti,

@kubikpixel @ganselmartin wie genau?

cherti, to random

It is ever again pretty impressive how much manages to shrink down backup sizes. Current example: a total amount of data of 1.1T got shrunk down to a mere 140G after compression and deduplication.

If not for all the other amenities and benefits that borg provides, this alone is killer (and currently I think it's the only tool that does both compression and deduplication? I might be wrong on that, though).

cherti,

@cg oh, very nice! I knew this was on the roadmap, nice to see that it has finally landed!
Still seems to still be a little rudimentary in terms of configuring the level (or the docs are), but I really like that they apparently just standardized on zstd instead of having a whole bunch that effectively are inferior to zstd anyways. :D

cherti,

@cg uh, I love that for archiving. But for backups on the go I wanna be a little nicer to my battery. xD
The underlying library even exposes some of the middle ground, which for zstd is particularly juicy [0], but seems like restic does not do that yet. So I hope they add that at some point, I think it would make a really great addition!
Maybe I should open an issue for that, it seems fairly straightforward to implement and also very useful at the same time.

[0] https://insanity.industries/post/pareto-optimal-compression/

blinry, to random
@blinry@chaos.social avatar

TIL: Toilet paper origami! 😍

https://jonakashima.com.br/category/diagrams/

cherti,

@blinry @_sohalt looks indistinguishable from the other two, good job! :D

cherti, to random

Did you know that when you swim, your strokes have to increase entropy to move you forward? Because if they don't, your movement would be reversible, and if your movement is reversible you would just bounce back and forth between where you started and where you ended and never actually get forward.

cherti,

@jfmezei if you can bounce back and forth over a 25m length without turning, then yes. But... I have reservations on the feasability^^

kubikpixel, to chat German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

»Licht und Schatten beim nicht kommerziellen Messenger«

Ich persönlich nutze @signalapp nur für nicht so "wichtige" Themen, denn ganz privat nehme ich ein wenig anders war. Nicht das dies schlecht ist aber sich bewusst sein wie anonym welcher Chat ist und für was Mensch welchen nutzt. Abgesehen davon nutze ich "die Grossen üblichen" von den Konzernen nicht.

📳 https://www.spektrum.de/news/mythos-signal-licht-und-schatten-beim-nicht-kommerziellen-messenger/2190072
—

cherti,

@kubikpixel @signalapp @briar @cwtch

The article you are citing talks about funding that is not from the CIA, has subsided in 2016 already and interestingly enough, the entire article only talks about the overall sum that the OTF has, but never about how much of that actually went to Signal or its predecessor organisations.
Oh, and the author likes to spew Russian propaganda on X. I think your interpretation here is based on a fairly unreliable source, if not on a full disinformation piece. :)

cherti,

@kubikpixel if you are asking on details about this specific blogpost you linked, it has been extensively discussed and debunked a while ago, see for example the threads following

https://fosstodon.org/@governa/111522201758366994

https://social.tchncs.de/@oli/111519011616445173

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111518851939494602

https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy/111518762504960890

https://fosstodon.org/@mempko/111517477992489459

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

The worst thing about working on another Laundry novel is that I seem to spend 75% of my working time paging through previous years' books trying to figure out precisely which events happened in what sequence and to whom, and another 50% of my time trying to find obscure minor characters I can re-use in a more advanced role, and finally 10% of my time actually writing.

cherti,

@cstross it's just 35% overtime... Could be worse, right? you can take extra vacation for that some other time...

duckandrun

Foxboron, to random
@Foxboron@chaos.social avatar

At this point it's probably worth remembering that the only way Canonical is distributing ZFS in their repos is because Eben said it was fine.

Someone should probably go revisit that.

cherti,

@whynothugo @Foxboron no, because as long as you want to ship a version usable in Linux you need the Kernel headers to compile what you distribute, and they are also GPL.

cherti,

@Foxboron I am actually surprised this was not yet challenged in court given that ZFS currently resides with Oracle of all people.

cherti, to random

@blinry hast du deine ganze neovim-config auf Lua portiert oder nur vimboy? just out of curiosity^^
Schau mir das grad nämlich auch mal an, wie sich eine volle Lua-config so macht.

PINE64, (edited ) to random
@PINE64@fosstodon.org avatar

Open source smart speaker under $25, yes or no?

cherti,

@PINE64

if it is good enough, yes, if the audio is bad, then better not before we just produce more for the landfill.

I do not know what it costs to produce decent-enough-quality audio equipment. Open source hardware just for open source sake doesn't make much sense, it needs to provide good enough functionality so that people actually use it and it's not just for the landfill, but I do trust PINE64 to be able make that assessment. :)

(I personally definitely can't, so I picked "depends".)

og, to Signal

If I download load can I use it as and if I’m on ?

cherti,

@LovesTha @emsquared @og interestingly enough, since forever it was called Signal they never claimed to encrypt SMS (and didn't).
So apparently the part of their reasoning with regards to users assuming something that's not there does seem to hold water, making it a good choice they removed it.

cherti,

@LovesTha @emsquared @og it can, and Signal has done SMS-encryption when it was still called Textsecure, but that was always independent of data. AFAIK what you describe has never been and while it can work, the limits of SMS make the overhead difficult to manage.
Data has just completely replaced it and what you describe seems to have made it a good choice, otherwise people will assume encryption where there is not, which can be quite dangerous.

So good/necessary call on Signal's side I'd say.

meatpuppet, to Signal German

hey mastodon, ich überlege die leute hier im haus bzw den block (ohne konkreten anlass) ein bisschen zu vernetzen - was nimmt man da wohl am besten? ich hab gesehen, kann gruppen mit join über qr code, und angeblich bis 1000 mitglieder.
spricht irgendwas dagegen?
(matrix hat hier wahrscheinlich noch niemand, mailinglisten sind zu abstrakt, whatsapp zu meta... gibts noch alternativen?)
hat jemand erfahrungen, oder ne meinung?
gern boost!

cherti,

@2ndStar @meatpuppet Threema wird nicht tun, weil's Geld kostet. Das führt schlimmstenfallsten dazu, dass du stattdessen eine Whatsapp-Gruppe bekommst, weil Leute die Idee mögen, aber kein Geld ausgeben wollen und es deswegen woanders umsetzen.

gnulinux, (edited ) to linux German
@gnulinux@social.anoxinon.de avatar

Es ist wieder Zeit für eine Umfrage! Dieses Mal möchten wir von euch wissen: Welche Plattform nutzt ihr für Gruppenchats?

Falls ihr mehrere Plattformen nutzt, stimmt bitte für die ab, die ihr im Alltag am häufigsten verwendet. Sollte eure liebste Plattform nicht zur Wahl stehen, freuen wir uns über eure Kommentare.

Sobald die Ergebnisse feststehen, werden wir diese in einem Artikel auf GNU/Linux.ch auswerten.

cherti,

@gnulinux Signal

molly0xfff, to twitter
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar

twitter's self-ddos is worse with tweetdeck 💀

video/mp4

cherti,

@molly0xfff that also means that while they can update their website comparatively quickly, for everyone using tweetdeck, they have to ship a software update before this goes away?
Or maybe they could just answer on the API call with an empty, but valid response or something…

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