#faraday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #faraday, aggregated by home.social.
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https://mosequipment.com/products/mission-darkness-dry-shield-molle-faraday-pouch
Might not be the worst thing, solar storms aside. Could become more important as protest and things move forward in the future, no matter who is US president.
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Today is a good day for me as #physics professor because I made a final experiment to work in the class, a simple yet seminal one (by Michael Faraday, 1831!)which I have so far replicated only in partial ways.
It gave the theoretical basis for our modern technology, from power generators to the wifi transmission of power and signals (i.e. telecommunications).
Let me show it in 3 steps:
1. The #Faraday induction I usually show: a moving strong magnet induces a tiny tension in a secondary coil.
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Today is a good day for me as #physics professor because I made a final experiment to work in the class, a simple yet seminal one (by Michael Faraday, 1831!)which I have so far replicated only in partial ways.
It gave the theoretical basis for our modern technology, from power generators to the wifi transmission of power and signals (i.e. telecommunications).
Let me show it in 3 steps:
1. The #Faraday induction I usually show: a moving strong magnet induces a tiny tension in a secondary coil.
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Very proud of this test, first time ever I make it work: it shows in a nutshell the wireless transmission of a small power via #Faraday induction effect, from one coil to a secondary coil which is connected to a voltmeter.
Both coils have >1e4 windings.
First, I let the primary coil have an intermittent current, but nothing happens on the secondary. After I insert a ferromagnet instead, the transmitted tension to the secondary goes to a few +-0.1V.
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Very proud of this test, first time ever I make it work: it shows in a nutshell the wireless transmission of a small power via #Faraday induction effect, from one coil to a secondary coil which is connected to a voltmeter.
Both coils have >1e4 windings.
First, I let the primary coil have an intermittent current, but nothing happens on the secondary. After I insert a ferromagnet instead, the transmitted tension to the secondary goes to a few +-0.1V.
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Always striking to see how multi-faceted some of the great scientists of the past were ( #Gauss, #Faraday, #Maxwell, #Newton, #Somerville, #Lovelace etc.). The boundaries between disciplines were much more fluid back then, and the same person could contribute to multiple fields, even though they might be remembered for only one today.
#Neuroscience #Physics #ComputerScience #Mathematics #Biology #Astronomy #Geophysics #ScienceHistory
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Always striking to see how multi-faceted some of the great scientists of the past were ( #Gauss, #Faraday, #Maxwell, #Newton, #Somerville, #Lovelace etc.). The boundaries between disciplines were much more fluid back then, and the same person could contribute to multiple fields, even though they might be remembered for only one today.
#Neuroscience #Physics #ComputerScience #Mathematics #Biology #Astronomy #Geophysics #ScienceHistory
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The Conditions Were Not the Ones I Would Have Chosen
The cultural and political conditions under which my new book RelationShaping: Field Studies has been published are not the conditions I would have chosen for it. The book is an argument for sustained attention, long apprenticeship, and the slow acquisition of perceptual capacities that operate below the level of declarative description. It enters a culture where the dominant economic logic rewards short attention, fast turnover, and the substitution of automated outputs for the trained reading those outputs are supposed to approximate. I make the case anyway, because the case needs making, and because the people who recognize what the book is describing will recognize it whether the cultural moment is favorable or not.
The book’s central claim is that relational seeing is a competence: a real, trainable capacity to attend to the relations among elements rather than to elements considered separately, acquired the way reading is acquired, operating faster than conscious analysis, producing results the practitioner cannot fully describe in declarative terms. I develop the claim across ten case studies that range from Giorgio Morandi’s still-life shelves to Michael Faraday’s iron-filing diagrams of magnetic field lines, from phyllotactic spirals in plant growth to Renaissance counterpoint, from the human microbiome to Anni Albers’s woven textiles, from mycorrhizal networks beneath forest floors to Charles Sanders Peirce’s three-cornered theory of signs and the classifier predicates of American Sign Language. The case studies share a structure: a trained perceiver attends to relations among elements as the constitutive features of the structure the elements together produce.
The book is the companion volume to The Scientific Aesthetic: An Operating Theory. The Scientific Aesthetic developed the theoretical framework for what I called the originating-act test, distinguishing acts of art and science from the craft activities that follow them. RelationShaping takes the relational dimension of that earlier argument and develops it into a sustained examination of one specific perceptual capacity across a wider range of human practice than the first book could cover. The two volumes can be read independently. They make a single argument together, and the order of publication is the order of the argument’s development.
The argument is not a recent one for me. I started a blog called RelationShaping in the BolesBlogs network in 2007. The blog has been working on the questions this book gathers for almost twenty years, and many of the book’s arguments began as blog posts whose claims I refined, tested against new examples, and pushed further across that span. The new book is the culmination of long work, the gathering of two decades of writing into a single sustained argument that the blog form, by its nature, could not quite hold.
The closing chapters of RelationShaping extend the framework into harder territory. Chapter Eight examines the trained-perception competence in domains where it has not been institutionally named, including the recovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, the decipherment of Linear B, the Hubble Deep Field, and the contested Sappho papyri. The next chapter addresses the methodological problem of attending to relations that have not yet been discovered, drawing on microbiome and connectome research, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, and the substantial scholarly traditions of Indigenous knowledge integration. The book closes with Chapter Ten, titled “The Severed Field,” which addresses the contemporary cultural and political conditions under which the discipline of attending to the between has come under pressure.
Chapter Ten is the chapter that made the book hard to write, and the chapter that makes the book necessary right now. The trained eye depends on conditions that are political, not merely epistemic. The classroom where a student learns to read counterpoint exists because public funding for music education exists. A museum where a young painter can spend weeks in front of a Morandi exists because the public funding that maintains museum collections exists. The graduate seminar where a future scholar of Indigenous ecological knowledge learns the methodology for ethical engagement exists because public funding for humanities research exists. Forests where botanists learn to read mycorrhizal networks exist because public funding for forest conservation exists. None of those institutional preconditions is independent of the political settlement that funds and protects them. The settlement turns against the institutions; the institutions thin; the conditions for the acquisition of trained perception thin with them; and the next generation of trained perceivers does not appear.
This is what Chapter Ten attempts to articulate. The substantive argument about relational seeing as a trainable competence would have been correct in any historical period. The urgency of articulating it right now belongs specifically to this moment, when the institutional preconditions for the competence are under organized political pressure to dissolve.
The book makes no claim that political pressure is the only force at work, or that institutional contraction has only one cause. The contraction has many causes, including economic restructuring, demographic change, the erosion of forms of community that once supported sustained attention, and the substitution of cheaper automated processes for human practitioners. Political pressure is one cause among several, and it is the cause most directly susceptible to political response.
What the book hopes to offer the reader is a vocabulary. With the vocabulary in hand, a reader may notice the trained eye in the people who still have it, may understand what those people are doing differently, may in some specific case ask to become an apprentice. In other cases, the reader may recognize that the political pressure on the institutions that train such perceivers is not pressure those perceivers can resist alone. They will need allies. The book is one attempt to make the case for being one of those allies.
I want to be honest about the limits of what the book undertakes. The book undertakes a specific task: it names the competence, documents it across a wider range of domains than is usually recognized, and articulates what is being lost when the conditions for its acquisition stop holding. The book makes no proposal for restoring the institutions whose contraction it documents, and no claim that naming the loss is sufficient to reverse it. Naming is the first step the book attempts, on the conviction that a loss without a name cannot be addressed in any organized way. The book gives the loss a name. What follows from the naming is for the reader to decide.
RelationShaping: Field Studies is available now in print, in ebook, and as a free PDF download from BolesBooks.com, along with its companion volume The Scientific Aesthetic: An Operating Theory. The book was difficult to write under the present conditions; it would be dishonest to claim otherwise, and equally dishonest to claim that the difficulty makes the book unnecessary. The argument exists, the case needs making, and the book makes the case.
#amazon #bolesBlogs #book #davidBoles #faraday #fieldStudies #kdp #morandi #philosophy #phyllotactic #politics #relation #relationshaping #scientificAesthetic -
The Conditions Were Not the Ones I Would Have Chosen
The cultural and political conditions under which my new book RelationShaping: Field Studies has been published are not the conditions I would have chosen for it. The book is an argument for sustained attention, long apprenticeship, and the slow acquisition of perceptual capacities that operate below the level of declarative description. It enters a culture where the dominant economic logic rewards short attention, fast turnover, and the substitution of automated outputs for the trained reading those outputs are supposed to approximate. I make the case anyway, because the case needs making, and because the people who recognize what the book is describing will recognize it whether the cultural moment is favorable or not.
The book’s central claim is that relational seeing is a competence: a real, trainable capacity to attend to the relations among elements rather than to elements considered separately, acquired the way reading is acquired, operating faster than conscious analysis, producing results the practitioner cannot fully describe in declarative terms. I develop the claim across ten case studies that range from Giorgio Morandi’s still-life shelves to Michael Faraday’s iron-filing diagrams of magnetic field lines, from phyllotactic spirals in plant growth to Renaissance counterpoint, from the human microbiome to Anni Albers’s woven textiles, from mycorrhizal networks beneath forest floors to Charles Sanders Peirce’s three-cornered theory of signs and the classifier predicates of American Sign Language. The case studies share a structure: a trained perceiver attends to relations among elements as the constitutive features of the structure the elements together produce.
The book is the companion volume to The Scientific Aesthetic: An Operating Theory. The Scientific Aesthetic developed the theoretical framework for what I called the originating-act test, distinguishing acts of art and science from the craft activities that follow them. RelationShaping takes the relational dimension of that earlier argument and develops it into a sustained examination of one specific perceptual capacity across a wider range of human practice than the first book could cover. The two volumes can be read independently. They make a single argument together, and the order of publication is the order of the argument’s development.
The argument is not a recent one for me. I started a blog called RelationShaping in the BolesBlogs network in 2007. The blog has been working on the questions this book gathers for almost twenty years, and many of the book’s arguments began as blog posts whose claims I refined, tested against new examples, and pushed further across that span. The new book is the culmination of long work, the gathering of two decades of writing into a single sustained argument that the blog form, by its nature, could not quite hold.
The closing chapters of RelationShaping extend the framework into harder territory. Chapter Eight examines the trained-perception competence in domains where it has not been institutionally named, including the recovery of the Antikythera Mechanism, the decipherment of Linear B, the Hubble Deep Field, and the contested Sappho papyri. The next chapter addresses the methodological problem of attending to relations that have not yet been discovered, drawing on microbiome and connectome research, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, and the substantial scholarly traditions of Indigenous knowledge integration. The book closes with Chapter Ten, titled “The Severed Field,” which addresses the contemporary cultural and political conditions under which the discipline of attending to the between has come under pressure.
Chapter Ten is the chapter that made the book hard to write, and the chapter that makes the book necessary right now. The trained eye depends on conditions that are political, not merely epistemic. The classroom where a student learns to read counterpoint exists because public funding for music education exists. A museum where a young painter can spend weeks in front of a Morandi exists because the public funding that maintains museum collections exists. The graduate seminar where a future scholar of Indigenous ecological knowledge learns the methodology for ethical engagement exists because public funding for humanities research exists. Forests where botanists learn to read mycorrhizal networks exist because public funding for forest conservation exists. None of those institutional preconditions is independent of the political settlement that funds and protects them. The settlement turns against the institutions; the institutions thin; the conditions for the acquisition of trained perception thin with them; and the next generation of trained perceivers does not appear.
This is what Chapter Ten attempts to articulate. The substantive argument about relational seeing as a trainable competence would have been correct in any historical period. The urgency of articulating it right now belongs specifically to this moment, when the institutional preconditions for the competence are under organized political pressure to dissolve.
The book makes no claim that political pressure is the only force at work, or that institutional contraction has only one cause. The contraction has many causes, including economic restructuring, demographic change, the erosion of forms of community that once supported sustained attention, and the substitution of cheaper automated processes for human practitioners. Political pressure is one cause among several, and it is the cause most directly susceptible to political response.
What the book hopes to offer the reader is a vocabulary. With the vocabulary in hand, a reader may notice the trained eye in the people who still have it, may understand what those people are doing differently, may in some specific case ask to become an apprentice. In other cases, the reader may recognize that the political pressure on the institutions that train such perceivers is not pressure those perceivers can resist alone. They will need allies. The book is one attempt to make the case for being one of those allies.
I want to be honest about the limits of what the book undertakes. The book undertakes a specific task: it names the competence, documents it across a wider range of domains than is usually recognized, and articulates what is being lost when the conditions for its acquisition stop holding. The book makes no proposal for restoring the institutions whose contraction it documents, and no claim that naming the loss is sufficient to reverse it. Naming is the first step the book attempts, on the conviction that a loss without a name cannot be addressed in any organized way. The book gives the loss a name. What follows from the naming is for the reader to decide.
RelationShaping: Field Studies is available now in print, in ebook, and as a free PDF download from BolesBooks.com, along with its companion volume The Scientific Aesthetic: An Operating Theory. The book was difficult to write under the present conditions; it would be dishonest to claim otherwise, and equally dishonest to claim that the difficulty makes the book unnecessary. The argument exists, the case needs making, and the book makes the case.
#amazon #bolesBlogs #book #davidBoles #faraday #fieldStudies #kdp #morandi #philosophy #phyllotactic #politics #relation #relationshaping #scientificAesthetic -
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@InfoSecSherpa/116490994143529063
KitKat is all marketing schtick. I will not buy until EMI test results similar to the ones in the link below are available using similar methodology.that prove it actually works.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@InfoSecSherpa/116490994143529063
KitKat is all marketing schtick. I will not buy until EMI test results similar to the ones in the link below are available using similar methodology.that prove it actually works.
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La SEC abandona su investigación de cuatro primaveras sobre la startup de vehículos eléctricos Faraday Future #abandona #años #cuatro #eléctricos #EVS #EXCLUSIVO #Faraday #Future #futuro_de_Faraday #investigación #SEC #sobre #startup #vehículos #vehículos_eléctricos #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinión 👇
https://butterword.com/la-sec-abandona-su-investigacion-de-cuatro-primaveras-sobre-la-startup-de-vehiculos-electricos-faraday-future/?feed_id=74769&_unique_id=69c076a37b6ad -
🚀✨ In a shockingly #groundbreaking revelation, the article painstakingly reveals that #Faraday was simultaneously a scientist *and* a Christian! 🙄 Thanks, #MIT, for this earth-shattering insight—who knew you could believe in #science *and* other things at the same time? 🤔🔬📿
http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Faraday/ #Faith #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀✨ In a shockingly #groundbreaking revelation, the article painstakingly reveals that #Faraday was simultaneously a scientist *and* a Christian! 🙄 Thanks, #MIT, for this earth-shattering insight—who knew you could believe in #science *and* other things at the same time? 🤔🔬📿
http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Faraday/ #Faith #HackerNews #ngated -
Sharing this before its too old (a personal question but presentation imcludes #Faraday and #Packham)
https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/home/the-climate-emergency/whats-science-outreach-for/ -
Sharing this before its too old (a personal question but presentation imcludes #Faraday and #Packham)
https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/home/the-climate-emergency/whats-science-outreach-for/ -
One piece of yesterday lectures at Nordita from our #COSMOMAG school: how a discovery during the late stage of M. #Faraday's career turned a failure in optical astronomy into a vertiginous progress for radio astronomy.
"Faraday Rotation" is the most powerful we have to perform magnetic tomography of the Universe and study the 3 dimensional distribution of B in clusters and possibly filaments of galaxies
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One piece of yesterday lectures at Nordita from our #COSMOMAG school: how a discovery during the late stage of M. #Faraday's career turned a failure in optical astronomy into a vertiginous progress for radio astronomy.
"Faraday Rotation" is the most powerful we have to perform magnetic tomography of the Universe and study the 3 dimensional distribution of B in clusters and possibly filaments of galaxies
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Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/faraday-effects-emerging-from-the-optical-magnetic-field/ #electromagnetism #MichaelFaraday #Faradayeffect #Science #faraday
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Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/faraday-effects-emerging-from-the-optical-magnetic-field/ #electromagnetism #MichaelFaraday #Faradayeffect #Science #faraday
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Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field
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Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field
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"New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries" phys.org/news/2025-11... #physics #light #faraday #magnetism #optics #science
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"New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries"
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html
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"New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries"
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-magnetic-component-faraday-effect-centuries.html
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Un nuevo giro en el efecto #Faraday: la luz influye magnéticamente en la materia
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Un nuevo giro en el efecto #Faraday: la luz influye magnéticamente en la materia
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I just got this really nice parcel in from @nitrokey ! This is gonna be made good use of soon :ablobcool: .
They even had FCK BIG TCH tape on the box. Cool detail!
#faraday #nobigtech #leavingbigtech #wegbijbigtech #stickers #datablocker #security #datasecurity #infosec #cybersecurity #cyber #privacy #data #nitrokey
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#UnDiaComoHoy 22 de septiembre de 1791 nace Michael #Faraday, científico estudioso de los campos magnéticos.
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#UnDiaComoHoy 22 de septiembre de 1791 nace Michael #Faraday, científico estudioso de los campos magnéticos.
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Les événements du 25 aout; le décès de Michael Faraday.
En 1867, Michael #Faraday décède chez lui. Né le 22 septembre 1791, physicien et chimiste, il est connu pour ses travaux sur l’électromagnétisme, la chimie et l’électrolyse. Une unité physique a été nommée en son honneur, le Farad, qui mesure la capacité électrique d’un condensateur.
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Les événements du 25 aout; le décès de Michael Faraday.
En 1867, Michael #Faraday décède chez lui. Né le 22 septembre 1791, physicien et chimiste, il est connu pour ses travaux sur l’électromagnétisme, la chimie et l’électrolyse. Une unité physique a été nommée en son honneur, le Farad, qui mesure la capacité électrique d’un condensateur.
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So I made a Faraday Cage designed and built to survive an EMP of various types and be TEMPEST proof against data destruction. I went all out.
I need some "test to the point of destruction" ideas for making sure this works. I've already tested with a phone, wifi, radio, nfc, uwb.
Would anyone be interested in a write-up about this?
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For reasons I will once explain, I am becoming a conoisseur of Michael #Faraday life and correspondance.
These are his (not too flattering) feelings about the people he met in #France (mostly in Paris), during his first trip abroad following his master, Sir. Humphry Davy, in 1814 (he was 23 at the time), in a letter he sent to his friend Abbott.
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For reasons I will once explain, I am becoming a conoisseur of Michael #Faraday life and correspondance.
These are his (not too flattering) feelings about the people he met in #France (mostly in Paris), during his first trip abroad following his master, Sir. Humphry Davy, in 1814 (he was 23 at the time), in a letter he sent to his friend Abbott.
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Why is #Matrix so bad?
I really want to love Matrix, but it's terrible. Let's not get into that it's more #IRC than Discord, and there's a reason why #Discord, despite its drawbacks managed to get such a big mind share, that's beside the point, but relevant and we'll come back to how.
Many different things I have installed offer instant messages as a way to follow communities, get support, etc and I really don't wanna use something I use personally or I have issues with due to whatever corporate fuckeries they undertake. This means I generally want to avoid #Telegram, #Signal or #Discord.
As a result, I ended up leaning into using a Matrix. It feels like the best of the rest and that's because it's lead by a bunch of old men who don't understand why people prefer Discord over IRC.
Anyway, what made me really commit was that I finally found a client that could do multiple accounts. So I had #Faraday installed and though a bit temperamental, things were working fine.
One month ago, Faraday updated, because it's forked from an old version of #Schildichat and shit was outdated. So after some prompting the developer updated it a bit. It broke the client completely and wouldn't open. I impatiently waited and one month later a new update was released that still never fixed my issue. I thought, no way can the developer and #FDroid be that collectively incompetent, which means it's probably on my end. So I cleared storage on my other phone and the app opened. Hooray!
So I ran to my main phone and reset storage. Finally Faraday opened and then it began… Or didn't. Because once I logged in and it crashed, as it does, it was stuck on the Initial Sync, waiting for a server response. I didn't wanna be impatient, so I waited and waited and waited and nothing changed. Clear cache, clear storage, uninstall and reinstall, nothing changed.
So I'm thinking something has to be wrong, so eventually I said let me check with a stock app, so I grab #ElementX and log in and suddenly I get this stuff about authentication and I'm like WTF?
Now I swear down. I hate #privacy zealots. If you work in software, get them away from your decision making process. I don't dispute they have valuable input, but it's at the cost of the end product, every single time.
So I'm there trying to authenticate a device and I'm stressing because I just want all my old chats back. These aren't even private chats, they're public chats. I just don't wanna have to go hunting down room addresses again. But Matrix is making this harder than it needs to be and seem scarier than it needs to be.
In the end I realised that I didn't have another device to authenticate me and I didn't have the encryption codes saved. I ended up trying to circumvent it by using a web based client, which didn't work. And after some anxiety, I said fuck it and reset and then I'm finally in and find all chats preserved. But now at the bottom of all the rooms it says it's not encrypted and I'm like, fuck!
Turns out this has nothing to do with the encryption before. I found this out later. Anyway, so I'm trying to authenticate Element X using the browser and that refuses to work, because switching screens is bad, so I'm forced to use two devices. Give me strength! And then hilariously the Element X doesn't want to authenticate anything else. Yay, you're useful.
So my question is, when all these old arse developers who have clearly dreamed the same dream for fifty years were sitting around, why didn't anyone ask why it needed to be so hard. Secret agents are using Signal not Matrix. Even if you were adamant, why couldn't you just use a #TOTP? Problem solved, less friction. Why_can't_you_just_be_normal.gif
Anyway, now that I'm back in, I try Faraday again and it's still not working. I'm forced to give it up, I actually didn't mind the #UX and the icon is better than Schildichat. So I search for a new client with multi account support and the only choices are cross platform clients, ugh. I end up going with #FluffyChat and the UX isn't great, which is part and parcel of anything developed to run across platforms. I would rather something someone made for Android with love and understanding every time. But alas.
Even then, I had to log into the web to authenticate, because for some reason we can't just have a #2FA TOTP pop-up. Ugh!
Oh and the mind share thing was because they were targeting modern needs as opposed to trying to recreate an out of favour platform or bury people with terrible UX.
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Why is #Matrix so bad?
I really want to love Matrix, but it's terrible. Let's not get into that it's more #IRC than Discord, and there's a reason why #Discord, despite its drawbacks managed to get such a big mind share, that's beside the point, but relevant and we'll come back to how.
Many different things I have installed offer instant messages as a way to follow communities, get support, etc and I really don't wanna use something I use personally or I have issues with due to whatever corporate fuckeries they undertake. This means I generally want to avoid #Telegram, #Signal or #Discord.
As a result, I ended up leaning into using a Matrix. It feels like the best of the rest and that's because it's lead by a bunch of old men who don't understand why people prefer Discord over IRC.
Anyway, what made me really commit was that I finally found a client that could do multiple accounts. So I had #Faraday installed and though a bit temperamental, things were working fine.
One month ago, Faraday updated, because it's forked from an old version of #Schildichat and shit was outdated. So after some prompting the developer updated it a bit. It broke the client completely and wouldn't open. I impatiently waited and one month later a new update was released that still never fixed my issue. I thought, no way can the developer and #FDroid be that collectively incompetent, which means it's probably on my end. So I cleared storage on my other phone and the app opened. Hooray!
So I ran to my main phone and reset storage. Finally Faraday opened and then it began… Or didn't. Because once I logged in and it crashed, as it does, it was stuck on the Initial Sync, waiting for a server response. I didn't wanna be impatient, so I waited and waited and waited and nothing changed. Clear cache, clear storage, uninstall and reinstall, nothing changed.
So I'm thinking something has to be wrong, so eventually I said let me check with a stock app, so I grab #ElementX and log in and suddenly I get this stuff about authentication and I'm like WTF?
Now I swear down. I hate #privacy zealots. If you work in software, get them away from your decision making process. I don't dispute they have valuable input, but it's at the cost of the end product, every single time.
So I'm there trying to authenticate a device and I'm stressing because I just want all my old chats back. These aren't even private chats, they're public chats. I just don't wanna have to go hunting down room addresses again. But Matrix is making this harder than it needs to be and seem scarier than it needs to be.
In the end I realised that I didn't have another device to authenticate me and I didn't have the encryption codes saved. I ended up trying to circumvent it by using a web based client, which didn't work. And after some anxiety, I said fuck it and reset and then I'm finally in and find all chats preserved. But now at the bottom of all the rooms it says it's not encrypted and I'm like, fuck!
Turns out this has nothing to do with the encryption before. I found this out later. Anyway, so I'm trying to authenticate Element X using the browser and that refuses to work, because switching screens is bad, so I'm forced to use two devices. Give me strength! And then hilariously the Element X doesn't want to authenticate anything else. Yay, you're useful.
So my question is, when all these old arse developers who have clearly dreamed the same dream for fifty years were sitting around, why didn't anyone ask why it needed to be so hard. Secret agents are using Signal not Matrix. Even if you were adamant, why couldn't you just use a #TOTP? Problem solved, less friction. Why_can't_you_just_be_normal.gif
Anyway, now that I'm back in, I try Faraday again and it's still not working. I'm forced to give it up, I actually didn't mind the #UX and the icon is better than Schildichat. So I search for a new client with multi account support and the only choices are cross platform clients, ugh. I end up going with #FluffyChat and the UX isn't great, which is part and parcel of anything developed to run across platforms. I would rather something someone made for Android with love and understanding every time. But alas.
Even then, I had to log into the web to authenticate, because for some reason we can't just have a #2FA TOTP pop-up. Ugh!
Oh and the mind share thing was because they were targeting modern needs as opposed to trying to recreate an out of favour platform or bury people with terrible UX.
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A classical #electromagnetism experiment in this time of the year (i.e. towards the end of my EM course): magnetic breaking acting on a falling magnet (home version).
The left magnet just falls in free fall, the right one gets braked by the induced magnetic field within the aluminum cylinder (mad just sticking together three aluminum foil wraps for kitchen use).
Where is the induced magnetic field coming from? From #Faraday's induction law of course!
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A classical #electromagnetism experiment in this time of the year (i.e. towards the end of my EM course): magnetic breaking acting on a falling magnet (home version).
The left magnet just falls in free fall, the right one gets braked by the induced magnetic field within the aluminum cylinder (mad just sticking together three aluminum foil wraps for kitchen use).
Where is the induced magnetic field coming from? From #Faraday's induction law of course!
