@gudenau Sure, but encryption quirks isnt the only persistent bug in Matrix. DAG/Room sync/desync bugs could be extremely punishing if they strike at the wrong time.

@famfo To be fair the ships already have a good amount of server/kit on board for radar and general IT ( I would bet they have a lot of floating Active Directory replicas in the fleet ), so a chat server surely can't be that much worse

If you are doing stuff outside of the "Instagram for cats" style of company. Please Please Please just use boring tech, I beg you all to just use boring tech where lives may matter

(also the idea of Element becoming a part of the military–industrial complex is quite funny in some way)

Like, if your hacker trans girl or whatever is struggling to make your chat system exchange messages consistently and predictably, what hope does a single branch of defence with 200,000 troops have?

It's not like the DoD has hoarded all of the experts in this area from the rest of the world, likely quite the opposite

@latenightowl Absolutely, In defence comms there is definitely a open question for do you take the risk/cost of encrypting something if it's tactically useless very rapidly (say, a UAV video feed looking down at a building you are about to blow up), as encryption/key management/etc has reliability impact in the literal battlefield. I assume the same thing exists in some (all be it, not all) uses for """tactical""" chat.