No updates in the repo for over a year and no answers from the team. The whole crypto currency thing is also a red flag for me. Matrix seems to be the better option by now...
Just what are they trying to do? They are a non-profit which would make a money grab somewhat impractical. Are they worried they are going to get successfully forked or something?
Their unquestioned faith in Intel SGX is somewhat pathetic to be fair.
XMPP has issues on Android and iOS: the app needs to be running and connected to the server at all times to fetch new messages. iOS explicitly disallows this from what I understand, and on Android you are at the mercy of your OEM's battery optimizations unless you specifically keep the app running by pinning it or if the app has persistent notifications. Either way, not something that is easy to explain to normal users, meaning pain points arise very soon.
Matrix is a little more promising, but Element (at least on matrix.org servers) is slow, especially at scale.
Any chat app would have issues with battery optimizations. Solution is usually to use the mobile OS vendors push notification infrastructure. Work on that in XMPP started around 2015 and most popular clients and servers should have some support by now. It's tricky to make something nice while the platform is working against you tho, especially while those push notification systems use/d XMPP themselves.
This is either the mandela effect (I know for a fact that the server was stuck on "April 2020" for at least 6 months), or Signal intentionally hid development and then revealed it all when they realized it was bad PR.
I saw that not too long ago myself. Purely speculation here, but perhaps they opted not to publish any commits until they had a chance to have their MobileCoin implementation audited? Just wish they had been more forthcoming about why they were not pushing commits.
The media are a trusted class of society who are afforded a blanket level of respect based on their role in society.
The media have started to act in the best interest of their clan vs society as a whole.
The Media has fragmented and serves their niches but not society as a whole.
So talking about the media as a whole is possible without having to identify tribes within.
In the above paragraph replace "the media" with "doctors", "scientists", "politicians", "elected officials", "the police", "big pharma", "journalists" ...
I'm not saying you are not making a point - it's just a unnecessarily broad point that is difficult to discuss constructively.
An alternative interpretation is that the media is a reflection of society. If people weren't looking for bullshit articles to click on (actually, not even click on, they usually end up just resharing the article on social media for the headline) to artificially confirm their biases, then the media wouldn't be making bank on this strategy.
Also, the media does not exist outside of society. The media sucks because our culture in general sucks.
Same thing with politicians. We don't get shitty politicians out of nowhere. They come from the people, they optimize for what people want, and people vote for them.
It can be tempting for others to try to call this an example of the Prisoner's Dillema, but the Prisoner's Dillema doesn't apply because there isn't even a marginal upside to "defecting" when your counterpart "defects". We're personally better off when we choose to not participate in this stuff, regardless of what other people do, and we're all more better off as more people choose to not participate.
Some time in my 40s I accepted death. I don't want it to be miserable but I am not afraid anymore of being dead. I think at some point you just notice that your body has seen its best days and life energy starts to diminish. My mom is in her 90s and she often says that she wants this to be over. She still has fun but feels that it's enough.
I agree about growing weary about life is a noticeable trend, among the older relatives I know. Still, human beings are remarkably different. Some are driven by a single overwhelming emotion, like curiosity. To these, I can relate.
Observing different people in my vicinity, I can't help but wonder: why are they so different? Some are energetic, others are not, some are athletic, others are not. Some age faster, others age slower. I can't help but notice that there is some large heritable factor to it, and it waits to be discovered and studied in its fullness.
That’s nice though. I really hope to feel that way when I reach that age (and I hope to reach the age to start feeling tired of life in the first place).
31 years old here, and felt the same way that @koboll has felt for the past 10+ years. I don't know how old I have to get for that view to change, but if I could take an immortality pill I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I have a fair amount of acquaintances who came to realize it is possible to do something about aging, not just sit and wait. Some of these fear death, many not, for those it's just a principled position they assume.
Maybe it's a generational thing.
Yes, youth is temporary, but given how much a person can happen to achieve during their youth, why shouldn't these achievements be related to research on aging and modulation of its aspects?
I can't fathom how most webapps or adclick networks could be more important things to spend your youth on, than this noble project.
If our generation won't succeed, then our children, or their children's children will. At the very worst, we will leave a good foundation behind us. At the very best, we will be there in sound mind and body to meet them as equals.
Part of my fear of death is missing out on the future. Well I get to visit other planets? Will I get to see the resolution to quantum mechanics / relativity? Will I get to see extraterrestrial life? Will I get to see humanity spread among the stars?
I desperately want to see those things. And I'm extremely scared of missing out just because of how frail human bodies are.
I agree to a point, but immortality seems like the wrong solution. Being stuck in a life you _can't_ escape has the potential to be far worse than death.
Nah, they very just too cheap to install large enough AdBlue tanks and too greedy to allow people fill the small tanks up themselves. Or they were unable to come up with engines meeting emission standards.
It’s really a distributed phenomenon. Crappy engineering managers kill people through their crappy managing. And same with moral-less CEOs. To some extent, the engineers have the blame because they agree to write the code. But ultimately the problem exists with.. the managers? the board? the CEO? the customers who enable them all? It’s all of the above. This is why it’s on all of us to have a moral system and enforce it.
The sound of writing with a wood-cased pencil is very soothing. Currently I'm using a MITSU-BISHI 9800 with my absolute favorite being the CARAN D'ACHE Swiss Wood red tip.
