well that you can't tell good from bad is a skill issue on your part then
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inshallah in five years all of this horseshit will be distant fever dream memory
flights to east asia are much more expensive from europe, and the cheapest ones were with stopover in one of gulf countries (qatar or uae generally) now you can get direct lufthansa flight over polar circle, but you'll pay
that's gonna be wework on meth
good luck with picking and choosing after brainrot as a service does irreparable damage
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 platformThis 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
it's a flow battery, so it keeps charge basically indefinitely (when not in use energy-bearing parts are separated). you can run it as hard as you need and it will not degrade in use-dependent way, at least not as hard as lead or lithium batteries
to elaborate on durability, there's no capacity loss with these batteries. so if design intention is to run these batteries from full to empty and back every day, and maybe a bit more* they can handle it no problem, because everything that happens, happens in liquid phase that can't degrade. lithium battery will degrade fast with such usage, but this one won't. on balance, there's need for pump and electrolyser maintenance, but at least you won't need to rip apart everything and replace all batteries every 3 years. per kwh per year of use it might be cheaper this way
* they might want this battery to provide energy in the morning, before solar panels kick in, soak up excess energy from noon peak, then discharge it in the evening. that might be 500ish cycles per year, and they can run it at full tilt