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by amatecha 2y ago
It blows my mind how many people like "that's so inefficient!" or "that will create so many problems!", giving even a shred of consideration to this fake org that its goal has literally anything to do with what it s
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by amatecha 2y ago
OMEMO is the only E2EE standard to use now (I mean, barring occasional outliers, but OMEMO is the norm). That's cool, I'm talking to people on XMPP every day with people who have zero intention of moving unless something better (
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by amatecha 2y ago
There are giant, active channels for specific topics. I've been in the OpenBSD channel(s) for years and there is always relevant deep discussion there. Same for other technical topics like that.
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by amatecha 2y ago
XMPP isn't dead, but think what you like. More and more people have been adopting it. "experimental, broken", that's not really how I describe software that's been in use since 2004 ( https://en.wikiped
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by amatecha 2y ago
It's a spam account, look at their profile, karma and other comments.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Coincidentally I just got an XMPP server going and have a bunch of people happily chatting on it. Yeah it has its issues, but it's an open, well-defined protocol evolved over a long period of time. It won't disappear if its sing
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by amatecha 2y ago
I broke my wrist on an 11-day hike this past summer (Tour du Mont Blanc). The awesome doctor I dealt with in Switzerland was like "you can finish your hike, just don't fall on your wrist again or it will be really bad" (or s
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by amatecha 2y ago
hahaha, thank you, I needed a laugh :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah man, when people say "your brain just made that up", it's like, no, this is stuff that wasn't suggested or "generated" and is verifiable (I love how many examples you have!) .. I especially relate to the &
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by amatecha 2y ago
I remember a few things from when I was a baby/toddler. The strongest memory is the confusion around why I was "me", since I was experiencing reality from my totally-subjective experience and I didn't understand why I w
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah for quite a while I was using an old ThinkPad as a Valheim server lol, maybe not the most power-efficient, but not that bad either!
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by amatecha 2y ago
Jellyfin is awesome. I started to set up Plex server, then realized I have to have an account on some centralized service to access my own server?? Instant no-go, for me. Using Kodi as a client, almost problem-free. Super cool!
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by amatecha 2y ago
Whoaaa I was not aware of #3! Amazing, thanks. Got a few friends to share that information with as well :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
It's so awesome to be able to stream from my NAS at home my "documentary" of my last europe trip to someone in-person when I'm out at a gathering or whatever. Jellyfin + tailscale + whatever else you want to link up, is
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by amatecha 2y ago
Sadly true. I don't scroll through the offline friends because sometimes I don't want a reminder of THAT many people who I can no longer message or play games with. One old friend, him having not responded about the game key I s
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by amatecha 2y ago
I did the same once, or similar - I took an external 500mb SCSI HDD to a family friend's office so I could load up stuff from my favorite servers at then-mind-boggling speeds, on their trusty G3 if I recall correctly. I couldn't
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by amatecha 2y ago
Cheers -- thank you for shipping such amazing software at a time where the Mac was always "second class" or shunned from other communities. For once we had a seriously badass exclusive thing and it came at JUST the right time in
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by amatecha 2y ago
Wow, I totally forgot what it stood for - thanks for reminding me! I was just digging up the old snapshots of the site on archive.org . Were you involved in the project at all? I wonder if I still have any builds/files on any of my
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by amatecha 2y ago
Ah man, that's amazing. It's insanely cool to hear from you! Thank you for hosting!! It's such a strong memory for me, hopping on Hotline and finding just how much amazing stuff was on there -- your server is one of very v
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by amatecha 2y ago
Aw man, first off, my condolences :( Second though, I relate very well to your story! I definitely had some "dialed up when I wasn't supposed to be" times, enough that my dad once simply cut the phone line with a pair of sc
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by amatecha 2y ago
Hotline got official Windows clients after a year or so! I remember feeling a bit salty that our insular club suddenly had _intruders_ hahaha :) but yeah and around that time people started reverse-engineering the protocol (since it was p
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by amatecha 2y ago
KDX was the followup to Hotline, made by the same guy IIRC, he made a new company "Haxial". and yeah it was quite nice!
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what the site was! https://web.archive.org/web/19991011173529/http://tracker-tr... :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Cheers!! Yeah, this server has been collecting stuff for a very long time, and people have contributed lots of neat stuff. I'm not sure how many other servers have such a historical selection of files, probably not many!
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by amatecha 2y ago
It started out as Mac-only, but they later made Windows versions of the client and server (and tracker)! :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Coincidentally that site you just linked also hosts one of the longest-running Hotline servers still online: https://preterhuman.net/server.php / https://preterhuman.net/gethotlinekdx.php :) (server
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by amatecha 2y ago
Hell yeah, it was the best. I still remember finding "Tempo/MacQuake Palace", which was the most glorious combinations of things I thought I could find - Mac OS Tempo[0] and the unauthorized Quake source port for Mac! Amazi
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by amatecha 2y ago
or KDX! :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Wow nice, are you familiar with one of the still-running servers also based out of BC, "Higher Intellect"? Does it ring a bell at all? It's one of the longest-running servers, started in 2001 or so, still up and active toda
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by amatecha 2y ago
It was very much a "TCP/IP BBS". One unique feature was the "tracker", on which you could list your server. You could browse the servers, hop onto one (as long as guest access was on, or they'd have a login&#

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