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<pukkamustard>ArneBab: raptor codes look interesting, but they won't be added to eris anytime soon. it might be interesting to add them to block stores to store/transfer blocks with error-correction, but currently i don't see any pressing need for such things. <pukkamustard>sneek: later tell ridley: Yep, Sammi and myself got a grant to work on an ERIS integration in Goblins. <ridley>wow that sure looks like a lot of work <sneek>Welcome back ridley, you have 1 message! <sneek>ridley, pukkamustard says: Yep, Sammi and myself got a grant to work on an ERIS integration in Goblins. <ridley>Nice! I re-read the ERIS specification today and love that it was designed to be protocol/transport agnostic! <dthompson>my one wish with the eris spec is that the crypto could be pluggable... no blake support in web crypto api <ridley>pukkamustard can you explain further what the ERIS spec means about confidentiality not being an objective? Or maybe what you mean by confidentiality? <jfred>The recent RAM/storage shortages have gotten me more interested in creative reuse of existing hardware, which motivated some of my questions about home relays at office hours haha <jfred>something like "your always-on relay is your old smartphone running postmarketOS" feels like a nice solarpunk-esque possibility :P <dthompson>an ocapn relay should be *much* lighter weight than, say, a matrix home server <ArneBab>jfred: don’t forget that your old smartphone is faster than the old supercomputers that could run 3-day global weather prediction models. <ArneBab>jfred: one thing you’ll have to solve is battery degradation from constant charging. A timer directly on the power source which limits charging to 1 hour per day could be an option (and would match very well with charging from solar power). <ArneBab>Looking at the statistics in our home solar, two 100 Euro solar plates can even power multiple mobile phones during winter (with downtimes of a few days while it snows or rains, but you can offset that with a pretty cheap battery). <iscurious>Yeah, constant charging prevents me from turning phones into servers. My preference would be to remove the battery entirely (as I'm successfully doing with an old laptop as server). <ArneBab>During summer a 200 Euro solar system can easily power 28 mobile phones (800W, assuming 2 hours charging time per phone and 14 hours solar power). <ArneBab>iscurious: maybe get one of these mechanical timers for the wall power? <ArneBab>that turn constantly and allow you to set some switches to choose at which 15 minute intervals it provides power. <ArneBab>If you build something with that, please blog about it so I can link it ☺ <jfred>ArneBab: Yeah, I think definitely running the phone without its battery is the move... which unfortunately limits which phones you could do that with unless you do some phone surgery ^^; <ArneBab>jfred: how much power does the phone draw when without power? You may want to measure that first.