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Thanks for reading, though, and for commenting!
If you are interested in seeing some of my other (more ethical) work, check out Delphus [1], an open research study management platform which I am working on at my new startup ;)
[1]: https://delph.us
Getting caught in the air - now, that's a different story ;)
[1]: https://lifehacker.com/get-free-unlimited-wi-fi-on-flights-a...
edit: added! try refreshing if you don't see it.
We also have operational encryption, multi-researcher studies, and soon an end-to-end encrypted chat system between researchers and participants using Matrix.
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/51060 for an example.
I feel like the difficulty comes mainly from the breadth/size of the spec. Which is a major issue (the Matrix.org team's own alternative server, Dendrite, has been slow to progress as well), but ultimately I'm not sure what they can really do about that considering one of their key tenets is to contain all the functionality out-of-the-box, so to speak (no extensions like XMPP).
And just to add my personal anecdote, Matthew (CEO of New Vector, co-founder of Matrix.org) is present quite often in the Matrix HQ chat room, and willing to field questions from anyone. Perhaps with slightly less willingness when people start such accusations.
Also, to address some of the technical issues, I think what they're talking about as "The blocks have hashes but their implementation does not check the hash" in the DAG is being fixed with the next (v3) room version [2]. Again, this development is all being done in public: see e.g. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1659 for the v3 room proposal.
[1]: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/02/04/matrix-at-fosdem-2019/ [2]: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/rooms/v3.html
Looking at some chunk files on my system backs this up:
root@rem> ls -l | head
total 11702880
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 33558528 Dec 12 18:17 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_000000000000010C_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 69632 Dec 12 18:12 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_0000000000000179_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 69632 Dec 12 18:11 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_0000000000000187_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 69632 Dec 12 18:26 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_0000000000000194_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 69632 Dec 12 18:06 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_0000000000000197_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 69632 Dec 12 18:36 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_00000000000001A1_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 69632 Dec 12 18:03 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_00000000000001CE_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 69632 Dec 12 18:13 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_00000000000001D4_00000001.mfs
-rw-r----- 1 mfs mfs 135168 Dec 12 18:05 chunk_ec_1_of_2_1_0000000000000217_00000001.mfs
As for illumos/SmartOS -- maybe? The LizardFS cookbook [2] has a section for illumos, but there's nothing in it. It should probably work (it's C++), but there is probably going to have to be manual effort involved.We are also concerned about scientific reproducibility as a whole, as well as data alteration. For example, even large companies like GlaxoSmithKline [0] have been caught tampering with clinical data, and the effects for those taking the drugs can be deadly.
We believe Delphus can solve these issues, giving patients more transparency and trust in the research they participate in.
[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-...
I guess Windows has lost its advantage of perceived quality.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9a7k2i/psa_on_kde_ne...