Been using matrix for years now. Even operating a server for a small community. It is slightly more involved for regular users though so that is not the best but otherwise works. Setting up your own federated instance is quite simple, there is an Ansible playbook around to make it even easier. You could even isolate it and have it only for your org. From what I know there is some traction to get it adopted in a bunch of agencies eu-wide.

I loathe how difficult Matrix is for normal people though. It's a nightmare to find a client, get an account, connect to your server, set up push notifications, and then navigate to a chat, much less set up encryption.

Fine for us, my mom is never managing.

Hopefully if it gets more mainstream some of these things get smoothed out, because it's nice once it's working.

I just don't think Matrix is the solution.

[1] https://benharri.org/matrix-sucks/ [2] https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 [3] https://piegames.de/dumps/a-week-in-matrix/

Huh, I guess that works. I never considered it as a Signal replacement. It always seemed closer to an IRC (and I guess Discord and maybe Slack) replacement to me. But yeah I do believe it has end to end encryption for individual communication as well.

LoRa is not fast enough?

Don’t know about the parent, but I found LoRa adequate for (tiny) payloads (sensor data and such) but OTA updates are a PITA without some alternative channel. Speeds are measured in bytes / sec.

Same channel width and power restrictions. The US' 915MHz band is much much better than the EU 869MHz band

No one is using it in real life. It's a super weak hobbyist protocol with a lot of hype and marketing.

Seriously. Only rich nerds in SAN FRANCISCO are using it.

LoRa has rather iffy security. I certainly would not use it for anything serious.

Sounds like it fills the same niche as LoRa. Never heard of it though, thanks.

I wonder how many people died of heart attack when they saw this.

On the other hand having 10 times as many bridges could prove to be an impossibility when maintenance costs come knocking.

Iirc in java I managed to parse those just fine. Ages ago though.

I also recall actually seeing some web pages somewhere using semicolon, possibly IBM stuff.

School system was created to increase productivity.

It is also and equalizer. Unschooled kids from bad backgrounds now start even lower.

Just ban the phones from schools. Because with that you cannot compete. Instant gratification vs hard work?

As you yourself said. Your load is so light you keep it in free tier. Their entire business model is for them to capture you while your load is light and then when you scale the price goes up.

I have also used lambda at scale in professional environments. I would not use a lambda for a webserver at scale, but having an s3 object trigger processing via a lambda function is a really nice flow.

But the price per unit of measurement goes down, so no, it's not "their entire business model".

Leaking school or medical record can have serious personal consequences that cannot even be enumerated

It can, but not for most people. For most people leaking that stuff would still have damages of zero dollars.

Which is what the comment above was referring to. "Most people". Not "all people".