shadearg

Why Threema?

Currently limited to groups chats of 256 participants and group calls of 16 participants

For privacy, freedom, and control, iOS is out. As with Telegram, I advise staying away from the Google variant and highly recommend the Threema Libre implementation for Android. Licenses are not compatible across variants, so stick with the Threema Shop!

• Open source full E2EE (end-to-end encryption) platform with regular security audits
• Mobile clients can be linked to Threema Desktop/Web
• Source code available for Android, iOS, Desktop, and Web
• Threema Libre implementation for Android
  • Liberated from Google Services, uses Threema Push for instant delivery
  • Reproducible builds
  • Available via F-Droid repository
• Simplified (normal human-understandable) Changelog
• Multiple ways to purchase through Threema Shop
  • With or without Email Address
  • Cash, Bitcoin, Mastercard, Visa, or bank transfer - Can leave every non-payment field blank!
  • 4.99 CHF, EUR, or USD per license
  • Pay anonymously with cash (rounded nearest 10, buy in multiples of 2)

The largest criticism levied against Threema:

• 2023010? - Accusation - Three Lessons from Threema - Analysis of a Secure Messenger
• 20230109 - Rebuttal - Statement on ETH Findings
• 20230110 - Coverage - Messenger billed as better than Signal is riddled with vulnerabilities

"While some of the findings presented in the paper may be interesting from a theoretical standpoint, none of them ever had any considerable real-world impact," the post stated. "Most assume extensive and unrealistic prerequisites that would have far greater consequences than the respective finding itself."

Are you sure you didn't set low-detail with the viewport cranked way down? I played it on the same model ~~with a math co-processor~~ and it could not handle high-detail and the large viewport in the video.

Edit: I'm fairly certain I had a math co-processor, but I'll defer to you on this detail just in case. That would certainly make a sizeable difference.

40MHz is plenty for doom.

Ew, no. Even 386DX-40 is terrible for Doom:

Doom timedemo 386 DX 40 MHz DOS PC

486SX-33 is certainly playable, but you really want 486DX2/66:

Doom Timedemo - 486DX2/66MHz

Edit: grammar

Edit 2: These videos are accurate, btw. I upgraded from 386SX-25 to 486SX-33 just for Doom while my friend got the 486DX2/66 Packard Bell. Envy.

Edit 3: My memory forced me to go back and properly designate the models.

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Each SimpleX release gets me closer to using it. The upcoming v5.8 update is no exception:

This release focus is improving the app usability, and preparing the foundation for v5.8 that will provide an in-built protection of user IP addresses when connecting to unknown file and messaging servers, reducing the need to use Tor (which would still remain supported via SOCKS proxy, for additional privacy).

And another round of security audits:

We are planning a 3rd party security audit for the protocols and cryptography design in July 2024, and also the security audit for an implementation in December 2024/January 2025,

Looking good.

Edit: SimpleX v5.7.5 is 313 MB without Data/Cache on Android. Yikes.

And it was a proper Warehouse successor, too.

My two favorite maps.

Trying to break that million point grind.

Damn, that was 25 years ago.

I am concerned about the energy abuse of LLMs, but it gets worse. AGI is right around the corner, and I fear that law of diminishing return may not apply due to advantages it will bring. We're in need of new, sustainable energy like nuclear now because it will not stop.

Would you kindly find a source for that?

I can personally speak from the 80s, so that's not exactly a golden age of reliable information. There was concern about scale of infinite growth and power requirements in a perpetual 24/7 full-load timeshare by people that were almost certainly not qualified to talk about the subject.

I was never concerned enough to look into it, but I sure remember the FUD: "They are going to grow to the size of countries!" - "They are going to drink our oceans dry!" ... Like I said, unqualified people.

Another factor is that there aren't that many supercomputers in the world, a handful of thousand of them.

They never took off like the concerned feared. We don't even concern ourselves with their existence.

Edit: grammar

While I absolutely agree with everything you've stated, I'm not taking a moral position here. I'm just positing that the same arguments of concern have been on the table since the establishment of massive computational power regardless of how, or by whom, it was to be utilized.

Supercomputers were feared to be untenable resource consumers then, too.

Utilizing nuclear to feed AI may be the responsible and sustainable option, but there's a lot of FUD surrounding all of these things.

One thing is certain: Humans (and now AI) will continue to advance technology, regardless of consequence.

The forefront of technology overutilizes resources?

Always has been.

Edit: Supercomputers have existed for 60 years.