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water-drinking
computer-fiddling
software-freedom-advocating
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past accounts:
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matrix: @cnx:loang.net
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Last Notes

2026-07-15 02:16:28 UTC

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I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer
What do they look like?
Ships? Motorcycles?
Were the circuits like freeways?
I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see
And then, one day
@Ian_Dunn@defcon.social took a photo

2025-12-22 07:37:11 UTC

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oi @npub14a3…hg6r & @npub1lfy…rxet, i suspect the photo isn't real

2025-11-20 13:54:21 UTC

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, randomly thinking of that glorious moment in time over four years ago when @npub128a…pf6f made a poll with three options: R, G, B, and fedi collectively created a color converging to my pseudonym CnX (#436e58, also my profile picture).

2025-10-28 08:41:56 UTC

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, you don't need sub-500 ms latency for instant messaging, even if mega cloud providers are the only low-latency option for decent VoIP UX, there's no reason to not have reliable instant messaging when they're down. Whittaker was basically saying because frozen meat is cheaper, even if the cost of rice is negligible, when the supermarket closes we should rather starve than buying rice at the farmer's market. Say you're an activist, if you can't call for rescue you should get killed instead of sending out an SOS text. TBH it sounds like a bullshit excuse to continue cutting corners.
BTW @liaizon@wake.st, round trip time between data centers are up to 70 ms because physics, though realistically communication are usually between closer people. The majority of latency is between households and data centers due to the lack of network neutrality, but even that is usually only an issue for international connections, and 50 to 500 ms is a steep jump. In 2023, Signal had 55M users and spent $11M on infra (not counting cellular registration). That's one good rapper per user. Splitting that into 1000 servers (~5 per country/region) you will get a monthly cost of $1000 serving 55k users. If each is calling 10 min each 16 h day (because most people sleep at the same time) on average, that's 600 simultaneous users, accounting for around 10 Gb of bandwidth. That's still huge, but since Signal does not do homomorphic video processing, servers are just relaying the data.
The math here are highly approximated with error in an order of magnitude, but it is clearly possible to use multiple infra providers. Cc: @npub1afm…5gp4 and @npub1ht6…khrq to hopefully correct some of the stuff I got wrong here.

2025-09-10 01:05:32 UTC

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Errors always exist, @Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange, I was noting that there's always an incentive for a client to fix them. Servers don't have to actively participate in the debugging process.

2025-09-09 02:06:08 UTC

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, since every (meaningful) program serves a purpose, it's no benevolent reason to send out the wrong messages.

2025-08-29 08:07:53 UTC

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with google being google, @npub1hgk…c9q8 and @npub1rs8…na04, i wouldn't be surprised to find out that it's already being done

2025-06-19 01:15:12 UTC

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You don't have to, @npub1xc5…9m83, but you definitely should: please see the [Mastodon monoculture problem](https://rys.io/en/168.html) by @rysiek@mstdn.social.
Cc: @npub1fdr…lvhs

2025-02-18 11:08:43 UTC

The meme about Linux being difficult to set up was probably definitely not about installing GNU or GNU-like distributions, but Android.
In the last decade I've install over a dozen of free operating systems on four different architectures, many times on a chroot, and bootstrapping has always been a single step. A child could do it. How do I know? I was something of a child meself.
LineageOS? Thou needst to sacrifice 2 goats, summon a devil, sell thy soul for a holy sword to kill the same fucker to make some devil wellington. Upon savoring such delicacy, thou shalt finally gain the strength to flash the image flasher.

2025-02-18 09:40:46 UTC

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idk @npub1lvs…ty57, maybe i pick yellow cuz i'm asian

2024-11-22 05:43:52 UTC

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Dear Programming Language dev teams, don't release a package manager.
</rant>, a.k.a. Fin.
Merci.