Scotch as in the tape, not the whisky

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  • What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?

    Matrix is more like discord, no phone numbers, just email, and you can make big groups with different channels within. More meant for communities then something like Signal, that’s mostly for 1:1 conversation or small groups

    What advantage would it give me over other services? Keeping the discord example i said above, no tracking, possibility to have end to end encryption, and open source code, along with the ability of having different instances that can communicate to each other, just like here on lemmy, so if you don’t trust anyone else you can run your own instance

    Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that’s still fully in development?

    It’s mostly good already, but as with many other privacy focused services it lacks a wide adoption, so most of the communities there are about privacy, Linux and that type of stuff.

    How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?

    The most used client, Element, is IMO very easy to use, you can directly register through there, and you get the choice of choosing between the official matrix.org instance (which on certain occasions is laggy due to the many people using it), or other instances



  • Given:

    Bite Force of T. rex: 45,000 Newtons

    Jaw Closing Distance: Approximately 0.3 meters

    Energy=Force×Distance=45,000N×0.3m=13,500Joules

    Say we have a typical 10w led lightbulb, how much could it power it for?

    Time= Power/Energy=13,500J / 10W=1,350 seconds, or approximately 22 and a half minutes with a single T-Rex chomp, assuming 100% conversion efficiency










  • Ammonium nitrate isn’t dangerous.

    It’s not gunpowder, it’s not rocket propellant, it’s not liquified natural gas

    you need extreme heat and fuel to make it detonate, in the Beirut case that was given by nearby stored fireworks, but otherwise it’s pretty safe to use, you can blast it with a blowtorch and it doesn’t even burn

    The misconception of it being explosive comes from the fact that people buy it as fertilizer and then use it to make bombs by mixing it with fuel and other primary and secondary explosives (or just to have some fun with homemade gunpowder), and even then, usually you use potassium nitrate, a derivative of ammonium nitrate, because the ammonium nitrate is just so goddamn hard to detonate

    Now, should they accept the ship? I don’t know, as far as I know Russia’s regulations might as well allow storage of ammonium nitrate inside the ship’s fuel tanks, but some simple checks would mitigate 99.99999% of risks.

    That said, it’s still Russia and we shouldn’t be giving it money anyways, but I’m not gonna get into politics here