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@AmpBenzScientist Briar has no verification system and possibly lacks authentication. Session and Tox are the same.

You do hide metadata with those services, but it's not worth the security risks of talking to someone who has compromised an account and make you believe you're talking to your real contact. There are no per-session keys like what Signal, XMPP, Matrix, and even WhatsApp, have; you are blindly trusting that you're talking to the real contact and their account has not been compromised.

Signal does the best job at hiding metadata without an onion service, and its security/encryption is what almost every other messenger today is based on, including XMPP, Matrix, and WhatsApp; you can't get any better.

@inference I saw where you previously critiqued Matrix and said Signal is good enough. I agree that security could have been implemented better with Matrix. I remember using Riot years before Element, while the service implemented more and more advanced encryption, it was implemented worse than previous attempts.
I agree about Signal. It's a solid service and open enough.

What are your thoughts on Briar? I've found it quite usable and it seems secure enough. If you haven't tried it I hope you have two working phones to use.

I think my project might not include training sets. This better fits the theme and it is likely that they will not be necessary. There are a few tricks being utilized with this.

Hopefully I can optimize it enough to lower the hardware requirements. Progress is slow but that's okay. I really want to release it on time or as close to it as possible.

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I should probably get a benchtop power supply. Variable voltage type.

@igelsQTs Hey bro do you lift weights? There's something called Powerlifting that I think you might be super into.

So I have a bit of an announcement on my current project.

Recommended Hardware specs as of right now are as follows:
Quad Core x86-64 CPU like an I5
8GB of RAM this could change
Harddrive space.
GPGPU optional
GNU/Linux I'm not going to port it.

So you might have experience with Machine Learning of some variety and noticed a fair drain on system resources. This isn't turning out to be that. If you can't comfortably put your computer into full send for an indeterminate amount of time, I don't recommend running this.

The requirements are very conservative estimates as the entire system hasn't been put together yet. The requirements are expected to grow but this should be good enough for very basic jobs.

Another successful mission. Good thing it's being documented as I go.

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This project is dragging behind again. I might need to make some changes to the design again. There's a lot of problems that I'm going to need to solve if I want this to work.

I look back and see what has been accomplished already. I discovered concepts in this project that I only recently read about. It seems like my rationale is as sharp as it has ever been. As demoralizing as it might seem to rediscover another Scientist's work, it's so common and well it reminds me of a quote. To know what no other man knows is to dwell in the Pantheon of The Gods.

I'd give it away even if it was truly something special. I don't believe in owning the work of a mind. Attribution is a very different story.

Hopefully I can find a job digging ditches or something. It looks entirely hopeless for work here. If I can't find one, maybe there will be a hole in this damned soil for me. I can't continue to live like this.

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