You do go to restaurants for food, you do buy books (story books at least) to be enchanted. And even then addictive substances are banned from food.

Not everyone goes to social media for entertainment, and there's no way to maintain hygiene apart from just going off it.

I play chess on the toilet at work.

PDE can simulate Kelvin helmhotlz instability and if you want to go even smaller, you can go to particle in cell methods. And the distribution thing you are talking about is similar to lattice boltzmann methods.

Very cool, but I must say the best way is still a paper with master password in a bank locker. May be distributed it if needed gor additional security.

Name me a stable binary interface that is not ints and arrays of ints

C ABI is more than how ints and array of ints sit next to each other in memory.

It cares about calling conventions and what you can store in registers vs what you cannot. There are multiple possible ways of doing an RPC call and C ABI only provides one way of doing it.

How big is an int?

COM, WinRT, XPC, AIDL.

Now you can move the goal posts and assert that any data serialized into a memory buffer is an array of ints.

No. It's not fully OSS.

it’s also not decentralised (unless you bridge it to Matrix), nor end-to-end-encrypted. or standards based.

To be fair, why would you care if your internal organization or company chat is decentralized?

If you work with lots of other entities who want full control over their own comms (e.g. other governments, other departments, other EU entities like European Parliament and Council, the UN, NATO, etc) then decentralisation or federation is a big deal.

In the public sector it's basically a requirement: it's bananas if your country's critical infrastructure ends up dependent on some a product effectively controlled by another country (e.g. Teams) - and you obviously want to be able to communicate with other govt entities rather than being stuck in an island.

Then it's a natural extension to the private sector - although for now, it feels more folks are on the "nobody got sacked for using Teams" train.

The article said secure communication with other EU bodies was a use case.

Who is Ghandi?

It's probably a mispelling of a French domain registrar known for its nonviolent resistance.

Depends on the market size. If the market is 100M, then a 500k profit effectively means your product will be inferior and poorly placed to evolve. If the market is 500k, then by all means go ahead. Startup are designed with explicit purpose of designing a product to capture that market without having to worry about the revenue during the time the product is being made. But of course capture does mean capture quickly because of the first mover advantage.

What you probably mean is recommendation systems shoukd be banned

systemd is the most well supported init systemd there.