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I mean, I get the joke of using that expression in the context of a chat named after The matrix, but it’s an in-group jargon that mostly the terminally online will get.

LOL, you completely lost me at “rozzers”!

The Register failed in their due diligence by not clarifying from the beginning that this is a different Matrix chat than the open standard. They amended the mistake with an update to the post (quoted here in OP), but that is placed at the end of an article that not everybody is going to read all the way through.

IMHO this needs a rewrite to make clear from the outset that the Matrix protocol and matrix.org are not affiliated with the criminal chat service. As it stands, even with the correction, it looks like character assassination of a perfectly legal open source project.

No worries, The Register hid the clarification about the two different networks way down at the end, so it’s an easy mistake. I honestly think they need to put that note at the beginning to avoid confusion.

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Read the linked article; this was a different network using the same name.

There may also be academics or professionals named David Mayer in various fields, such as psychology, medicine, or technology. For example, there could be a David Mayer who has contributed to a field like cognitive science, education, or software engineering.

There may be. There could be. Who knows? 😆

Let’s just consider what a decade in a landfill will do to a hard drive.

It’s not just a big pile of trash you could rummage through, according to the site manager

things that were sent to landfill three or four months ago could be three to five feet deep

So there is a good deal of waste on top eleven years later, which means

1. the layers get compacted, things break, under the weight and pressure of heavy machinery crisscrossing the site.
2. other waste gradually dissolves into who knows what kinds of chemicals. I can’t tell what kinds of waste exactly is deposited there, but clearly electronic parts among others.

We’re talking about a hard drive that was removed from the computer, so it only has a thin aluminium casing for protection. Chances are it’s crushed beyond recoverability.

Also, in 2013, this would have been a mechanical drive. Even in optimal circumstances, there are a bunch of ways they can fail, leading to data loss.

The spinning disk inside the casing is fairly fragile. One scratch on its surface could render it unreadable, as would, say, spilling a sugary drink into it, which our unfortunate bitcoiner already did. Now imagine the drive buried in an environment full of debris and potentially corrosive chemicals.

TL;DR — At this point, even if a major excavation was undertaken and the drive was located, there is barely a chance that any data would be retrievable from it.

It’s dead, Jim. Bitcoin man is chasing a dream long past its sell-by date.

Thanks for that. I worried it was something worthwhile that I’d just forgotten about in the mind-boggling meantime of “almost a year” since last update.

It not only supports IPFS, it is “built on top of” it, according to the website.

This makes me wonder if it’s usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.

They were right, artificial intelligence is truly helping humanity progress beyond our limitations /s

What utter bullshit to waste time and energy on.

I see. That sucks.

Sharedrop is self hostable.

Other, serverless solutions are

• Warpinator
• Localsend
• Croc
• Syncthing (for the organised background syncer in your life)

I tend to agree. I like being able to install whatever distro I want and add the DE of my choice, and there is a glut of different combos to choose from.

However, are KDE and Gnome going to gradually focus on making their respective DEs work on their own branded OS, rather than any old base system? I know that’s a worst case scenario, but putting a lot of added effort into a full OS is a nontrivial investment for a desktop environment. Some mission drift might be expected.

I’m loving the friendly beard-off between Boimler and Rutherford, who just casually between episodes has grown a stubble that is more impressive than Boims’ shaggy growth.

It’s especially nice that their differences didn’t evolve into an episode-long, passive aggressive competition between comrades over who’s is the better — oh, hello Tendi. Didn’t see you there.

Oof. There is a note of necrophilia in these digital recreations of dead actors, even when their relatives sign off on it. I guess we will see more of it as the technology becomes more widespread, but it feels icky.