My personal life has been impacted more by a few hours of Amazon Web Services glitch than a 20 day federal government shutdown.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-real-reason-birmingham-isnt-safe-for-jews/
It was not West Midlands Police that transformed Birmingham from 99.6 per cent white in 1951 to 42.9 per cent white British in 2021; nor is it their fault that Muslims comprise 70 per cent of residents of Aston Park, where Villa Park stadium is situated. The police did not make a Birmingham Imam issue an ‘Islamic Ruling’ that worshippers should ‘not show mercy to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans’. Nor did they sign the local petition to ban the Israelis from coming. It was local residents, concerned more about ‘Gaza’ than the bins, who elected Muslim sectarian MPs now crowing about ‘Israeli hooligans and terrorists’ being denied entry.
The focus on the police and the ‘optics’ here has the whiff of displacement activity. When commentators decry ‘cowardly cops’, it is perhaps worth spelling out what they are effectively calling for. For the police it means overtime and risking getting bottled or worse to maintain the façade that Jews are safe in Britain’s second city. It means ordinary British coppers policing a mini Israel-Gaza conflict on their doorstep to spare the blushes of those who insist we’re a harmonious multi-faith democracy, and that our diversity is our ‘greatest strength’. Surely by now it’s clear that it isn’t. And no amount of riot gear and pepper spray will make it so.
Lots of stuff is federated, Matrix is a DAG which means every message contains references to the previous one (actually multiple in Matrix's case), and getting a server to sync the whole DAG of a channel to you is possible using the backfill endpoint, even if you have no business in that channel.
> not sure you get what matrix is lol
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There is no single central signal server. Signal uses #AWS cloud, next to Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails.
With #deltachat you can choos #chatmail relays ( https://chatmail.at/relays ) which distributes the risk across a wider network. We are currently working on the multi-transport feature to finally remove any central point of chat failure: https://chaos.social/@delta/115362144863345662
Nah, my cloud (which is a 20 y.o. Mac Mini sitting on top of a bookcase) is fine.
It's just a pun on Signal being a secure messenger, but relying on third-party infrastructure.
Nothing wrong with relying on others' infrastructure per-se, I'm not one of those full-on paranoid types — but the founders of Signal probably are. I mean, now that they have added a third "post-quantum" ratchet, the data is resistant to being brute forced by quantum computers: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/19/0546205/why-signals-post-quantum-makeover-is-an-amazing-engineering-achievement
But this improvement itself assumes that earlier data IS vulnerable to store now, decrypt later attacks — from this POV using AWS is an awful practice, so relying on others' infra is bad according to them, not me 🙃
