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after 2022 they shat their pants and bought threema license specifically to avoid it, and now migrated from that to matrix (this app)

the few who will stay sharp will have endless job security

yeah it's element-x

on-prem matrix instead of slack? literally 1984

i doubt that any national comms authority will want to have anything in common with nostr. big point of this thing seems to be that it's on-prem (or at least in country) and with tightly controlled access

other countries already use matrix for similar purposes (france, germany, estonia) army had their own deployment on similar terms (on-prem, controlled registration)

users [can] retain access to messages even after logging out of the platform

This sounds great. Nothing bad could happen here. I’m sure the people developing this are competent.

the article says:

Further, if users want to retain access to messages even after logging out of the platform, they must set up a recovery key, which the installation manual suggests storing in a password manager.

this is standard matrix thing. if you log out of matrix and don't do that, you're greeted with Unable to decrypt message after next login. this is because it's on-prem matrix instance (or instances) with mandatory 2fa (freeotp is an option) and registration process tying matrix identity to national id, and it's intended only for public administration internal use. you can't just walk up and register you have to work there, and as their threat model is about phishing, this does make sense

xmpp sucks balls for this scenario. there are incredible footguns in encrypted xmpp, it wasn't there from day one and mind you it's intended for non-nixos users. they have migrated from threema

I mean, yeah. But it's not some national open source project, and that was claimed. Also, i'd like to know how intensely it was audited, because it's something different from open-source matrix homeserver/element-x (it's the propertiary part of it)

polish army used it too before this one, but it wasn't intended for sensitive info

that's reskinned, siloed matrix instance with maybe minimal changes

thunderous speed in the range of minutes per residue (not every aminoacid can be used and what they're printing is dna, not proteins so multiply it 3x. they're encoding 3 bits per aminoacid, but there's overhead, error correction and structural requirements that make data density lower than 1 bit per nucleobase)

could be, there was more of these weird things that i had to do that i don't remember already because motherboard of that one cracked like three years ago. i also remember that stock driver for tplink dongle was limited and the actual useful one had to be gotten from github

to get wifi working properly in the first place i had to find a missing binary that wasn't packaged in any normal way and was only hosted on some dudes github so my expectations were low already. it got a lot better over the years tbh