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@cyrilpedia Liquid Metal batteries are another industrial scale solution to the storage problem.

But the worse problem with Big Solar and Big Wind is habitat destruction for Big Solar and spent tower disposal for Big Wind (and both are quite destruction of birds, and Big Solar is quite the hazard for pilots).

I'm a fan of micronuclear - if the regulatory people will ever update their procedures.

@engelbart Yes, you need to run your own homeserver. Synapse only lets the admin configure retention policy.

@engelbart Oh - are you saying you can't reach github.io ?

@engelbart It's like a mastodon/chatter/pleroma/etc server but for Matrix protocol instead of ActivityPub protocol.

Protocol website at https://matrix.org, one list of homeservers at https://joinmatrix.org

@jeffjarvis No restaurants have refused service to gay clients. There are a number of cases with attempted compelled speech (custom cakes/websites/etc).

When a Christian group walks into a restaurant and demands the staff gather 'round and sing "All Hail King Jesus!" instead of "Happy Birthday!" - you will have something comparable.

@engelbart What do you mean exactly? Are you trying to DM me? On what server?

@engelbart And of course, when facebook, et al, "delete" on your request, it is still on their backups.

@engelbart Of course, once something is out on the internet you can never be sure all copies are deleted. Standard Matrix homeservers follow delete/retention requests - but the code is open, and NSA homeservers would just archive them instead. 😜

@engelbart https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/message_retention_policies.html

@sdgathman Hello back

@engelbart Oh, but you can.

@engelbart What is "this" you don't like? That comments don't disappear unless you take steps? Or that comments can disappear eventually?

@engelbart They are kept indefinitely. But you can set a retention limit on matrix-synapse - or as a user post a tombstone on a room pointing to a new, fresh one.

@derek Heh. In my case it actually is (use a BATMAN layer 2 mesh for local LAN).

@orcmid There is nothing wrong with HTTP - it just doesn't scale. Your Dell server in your office is not going to support a million people viewing your site.

There is nothing wrong with TLS - it just that a secret cabal decides what CAs are included by default in popular browsers - wielding an effective power to cancel.

There is nother wrong with DNS are originally conceived - it has just been centralized because companies were mad that using a new "cool" TLD wasn't resolved by all users (depending on the sysadmin for their DNS resolver). There were the original ARPA TLD list, and ISO country codes that everyone agreed on. (With some disputes over nations out of favor - e.g. Kurds today banned by ICANN.) But using .COM for your company was BORING.

But mainly, ICANN was sold to sysadmins as a convenience - no more following mailing lists and keeping nameservers updated for the TLDs you support. ICANN does all that work for you! All they ask in return is world domination.

There are attempts to provide a successor to HTTP that scales. E.g. IPFS, DAT, and other content addressable schemes. Note that CDN providers work similarly to IPFS, and their business model continues to hold if IPFS gets widespread adoption. (Pay us to ensure your content is cached close to your customers - instead of relying on amateurs who may or may not be reinstalling their server at the moment or turning their desktop off.)

@davoloid Agreed. And that is a big weakness of SSB - it doesn't have the selection of robust clients like Matrix does.