Evidlo

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by Evidlo 6y ago
I think the guy is married with kids.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
You can see some proposals for server migration/fallback here: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/915
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by Evidlo 6y ago
A few ms as others have said, but it's also a non-deterministic delay. This is a problem for applications like time-of-flight measurement, so one way to account for this is to send a known signal on TX and look for it on RX
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First Full Test of SLS Booster Fails as Engines Trigger Emergency Shutdown(youtube.com)
10 points by Evidlo 6y ago|1 comments
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by Evidlo 6y ago
Fixed.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
I forgot to turn on automatic updates. Still, it's only 1.5 years old.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
Also 'Menu > Report Bug' on Element Android.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
Here's a screen recording of me trying to log in to app.element.io [0]. 0:10 - Stuck on "Verify this login" despite cancelling 1:00 - Same as above. The security phrase I have saved seems to be invalid. 1:38 - Can't dra
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by Evidlo 6y ago
I'd argue that vendor lock-in is a far more important issue. You're right that non-technical people won't care about why decentralization matters. It's up to technical people to nudge the boat in the right direction. Th
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by Evidlo 6y ago
Why is not wanting vendor lock-in a high bar? After dealing with Messenger, WhatsApp, Face time, etc all my life I'm tired of it. It doesn't matter if the code is open source, I'm still going to be locked in when all my frie
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by Evidlo 6y ago
While e-mail usercount is not evenly distributed across many servers, the fact that it's open an interoperable gives you several things: - you can use whatever client/server you want (or host your own) - you can still communicate
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by Evidlo 6y ago
I really doubt it was about security. My bet is on convenience and the fact that it's free for Non-North Americans while SMS is not.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
There's been work on integrating the server and client together in a p2p fashion. Then you are essentially self-hosting on your phone/laptop when you run the client.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
I can't believe I'm suggesting this, but maybe trade it through cryptocurrency. Pay a few bucks to create an account. It might get expensive to start a server and have others agree to federate with you though. Could also just us
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by Evidlo 6y ago
These are all complaints about the app's UI, not Matrix or federated networks. > If we could do better, we would have done better by now. I'm guessing you might have said something similar about a non-profit running a massively
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by Evidlo 6y ago
HN won't even get dark mode, so the only way we'd ever get Matrix on HN is through a random macroscopic quantum event.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
It doesn't seem like these problems are fundamental to Matrix, though. I agree that Element is not that good, but if you were to replace Signal's backend with Matrix, your experience would (could?) be nearly identical as Signal is
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by Evidlo 6y ago
It's not like his motives are secret. He's been straightforward about his stance, however much I disagree with it. https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
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by Evidlo 6y ago
A lot of open source projects are also "open" in the sense community contributions and interoperability, so people often take open source to mean these things as well. Signal is open source, but hardly open as in the sense above.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
What's untrue about that? There haven't been any commits to Signal-Server for almost a year. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
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by Evidlo 6y ago
> What prevents the same thing from happening to decentralized services? Nothing, but at least knocking a server offline doesn't bring down the whole network, which is indeed "better than Signal" on this front.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
Reminds me a bit of TempleOS.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
If you're referring to Facebook and Twitter banning Trump-related things, I think that was voluntary for them to avoid PR troubles.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
I'm guessing the federated aspect. You can jump ship to another server and not break your social graph. Also you can use alternative clients, which (I think) is against Signal's TOS, and is at least discouraged.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
It's not really any less generic than Signal, though. Neither are great names.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
So is everyone OK with this big migration to another centralized service that doesn't interoperate? Imagine if e-mail had been like this. You can't talk to your friends if they have a different provider, and you're not allow
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by Evidlo 6y ago
meetfromhome.io has an interesting idea where you move a little character around a 2D room and are only connected to others you are standing near. It's built on Jitsi.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
ctrl+pageup/pagedown switches to the next/previous tab in Firefox and Chrome and also works on Windows.
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by Evidlo 6y ago
> in Matrix the extremely low popularity of alternative servers is kind of a big roadblock. This sounds like the opposite of the point I was making. What is this a roadblock to?
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by Evidlo 6y ago
> Mastodon is decentralized, but last I heard ~50% of users were on 3 nodes I would argue that the user distribution does not matter. What's important is eliminating network effects, which you get with federation. I think most peop

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