So you feel China is betting on Silicon and that the actual future is Gallium arsenide ?

Because it has a direct band gap and at 1/50 of the thickness would be cheaper and more efficient than silicon?

no, the government doesn’t serve the people it serves power.

Unless power thinks you as a group are worth the effort, they will ignore your mailed documents, state you failed to file paper work and you now have to deal with (problems incurred due to not having completed the paper work).

Paper processes are going away. Oh, they will keep mailing you stuff for a while but nations and states are implementing SSO systems and the scanning/indexing systems are disappearing. Replaced by “You scan and upload” combined with you extract the relevant bits so we can cut staffing again.

But the point was, there are no good XMPP libraries that would enable a willing government to easily onboard that support. If there were, it would be a very different discussion.

Tell us more about your field of solar research and what bit around it you think we might need to know about.

ssh -X ${hostname} works better than both even on ancient hardware (pre 1990)

If you are going to self-host please embrace a shell (bash, powershell, fish, zsh, etc) any shell; then you’ll be fast and productive even at 300 Baud.

ok, lets just assume xmpp is reliable enough to use. And a government agency is will to adopt it to prove that all out.

What libraries for Java/C# are available under an FSF approved license that would enable one to securely send XMPP messages to the public?

As governments don’t like being mailed or emailed anything. They want you to login to a thin wrapper around a database and perform basic data entry so that they don’t have to pay someone to do that data entry.

They are only going to message you to deal with password resets or data entry tasks they want you to do (legally required renewals, reviews, etc).

a liter of Urine in the fuel tank would disable them, so make sure plenty of restrooms are available.

A $5 magnet and $30 of electrical equipment could cause the electrical systems to permanently burn out as the induced voltage might go too high. so you may wish to ensure electrical diagnostic equipment is properly grounded and not connected to electrical mains.

Also be careful with unidirectional speakers, they can shatter windows and cause extreme disorientation in the drivers even if the children in the vehicle can’t hear it…

Well governments will use any open standard that can reliably contact individuals (as that is the easiest way to do their jobs) That is why the 3 most supported options are:

• mail
• phone
• email

They would use IRC, XMPP, Matrix, etc if they would reliably send you a message and enable them to reliably receive messages from you. The problem is that those options are not reliable.

The other alternative is they provide a website (that they control) that you can login in to but it is then on you to routinely login and people are bad at that and thus few organizations even support that approach.

We appreciate the slrpnk admins <3 them all.

Down time is fine, I support the goals

Well, it lacks a proper bootstrap and its documentation is basically empty trash.

hell live bootstrap has those and did it without requiring a file system or a kernel to get there https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

a search engine for the gemini network protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

gemini://gemplex.space/search

have 2 flash/hard/whatever drives: A and B

once a month (or at what ever frequency you can sustain)

backup your data to A and next cycle backup your data to B

nothing fancy or technical, just some basic consistent backups.

if you can do that you’ll likely be fine. There are nearly infinitely many enhancements you can do if you are more technical or can follow technical instructions.

That is just the gateway drug to bootstrapping.

Check out https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

if you want the real hard stuff.

They already did: https://www.commanderx16.com/

you just probably want something better.

and that is the problem building higher performance requires more advanced lithography and that is expensive and until recently was not even an option for a hobbyist (without taking a mortgage on their house).

Given current stagnation, you need only wait about 10 years for that viable option.

rxvt-unicode with tabbedex.

I refuse to use a terminal emulator that needs more than 100MB of RAM to display 80x24 green text on a black display

Really looking forward to seeing this packaged in Guix

in software these days it is: good, cheap or fast; pick one (if you are lucky [usually things are just bad, expensive and slow as f&*k])