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by ezst 5d ago
Not sure what the point of this would be? Devalued street creds for running something nobody else does? Who cares?
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by ezst 5d ago
KDE. KDE is all you need.
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by ezst 7d ago
Yup, I would love to try it in-hands (I looked it up on emulator many years ago, and that was frankly underwhelming). I'm also not sure about their open source situation, which was the premise of this thread.
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by ezst 7d ago
And yet, the single vastly dominant source of electricity at around 55%. It's a long way you go and a long shot to call it clean.
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by ezst 7d ago
> at least the energy comes from solar If by that you misspelled coal, sure https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
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by ezst 7d ago
I would say that I've been doing most of that already with a reverse proxy+SSO/IDP for a very long time. Not the same, but close-enough and open to the "traditional internet" in a manner that does not require my users to
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by ezst 7d ago
Not even wearing rose tinted glasses right now, for having daily driven them back in the days, maemo and then WebOS had touch ergonomics and multitasking abilities which took Android/iOS decades to incompletely mimic. Maemo/Nokia
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by ezst 8d ago
> I don’t want to dwell on drama, but it is perhaps worth mentioning that we reached a sad end for jemalloc in the hands of Facebook/Meta even though most of the people involved were acting in good faith. Far from the only case. Tri
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by ezst 9d ago
At what point exactly are those companies going to be held accountable and punished for their irresponsible behaviour and overall disregard and negligence for security and ethics practices? If a researcher causes harm by accidentally unleas
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by ezst 10d ago
For the curious, the note taking app Trilium has a "standalone" mode¹, built on top of OPFS² and sqlite OPFS persistence, such that your notes (~web pages here) are stored in sqlite locally, offline-available, optionally syncing w
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by ezst 11d ago
Teams. Your CFO keeps telling your head of Projects/Engineering that he's already paying for it anyway. And your helpdesk loves it because it's sharepoint all the way down and up, and they can shine their "Microsoft Cert
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by ezst 11d ago
Precisely, which isn't much, and on top of that, you would have those modified as well to map to XMPP concepts and specifics. That said, I do believe that XMPP deserves a beautiful Qt client. There is Kaidan (QtQuick), but it's ve
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by ezst 11d ago
Are you a LLM? In this context, a third party client clearly refers to "a Signal app/client software that's not distributed by Signal", The point I was making is that this goes against Signal's terms of service, and
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by ezst 12d ago
As a XMPP user in the modern times, XMPP ecosystem and its alleged fragmentation affects me and my users about… never. Every major platform has at least one decent client that support all essential features (reactions, message corrections,
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by ezst 12d ago
I've been self-hosting XMPP for slightly more than 10 years now. I started out of necessity with 2/3 family members, so I would have reliable messaging while travelling on a tight bandwidth, and/or to places that would censor
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by ezst 12d ago
I'm just a hobbyist sysadmin, but I did get a ton of exposure over the decades deploying some pretty random stuff, often taking the long and painful way as a learning experience (rarely using containers, often compiling from source, …)
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by ezst 12d ago
It doesn't matter as much as you think. Office workers around the world are using email(/IMAP) just fine. Jabber/XMPP was used today to the satisfaction of everyone when I video-called my 90 years-old relative. All she had to
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by ezst 12d ago
I really don't understand this attitude. The landscape has changed in 25 years, XMPP was built from the ground-up for extensibility. And that was the right approach, since it managed to improve continuously, and is now on par with the
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by ezst 12d ago
And Google Talk. And WhatsApp. https://www.process-one.net/blog/whatsapp-facebook-erlang-an...
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by ezst 12d ago
1) I think that's by design: you've got two ways to use OMEMO, the "friendly (default)-way" (with BTBV, Blind Trust Before Verification), and the "paranoid-way" (where you verify each and every device). In the
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by ezst 12d ago
> Some use cases like business chat actually can't have E2EE, and that'd probably be Jabber's foot in the door because no other open solution has taken off in business So, Cisco Jabber (now Webex)? You can't really co
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by ezst 12d ago
Of note, Conversations and some other XMPP clients can act as UnifiedPush Distributors (i.e. they use their own reliable persistent connection to proxy notifications for other apps). Some mastodon (tusky, fedilab, …), matrix (fluffy chat, e
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by ezst 12d ago
Re: P2P, it's kind of making an impromptu comeback. If you want some trivia, IIRC, the developer of Conversations was on some trans-continental flight few months ago and realized that XMPP works just fine on the free onboard internet p
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by ezst 12d ago
I looked into that very briefly about a decade or so ago: it would be very difficult to get it done and maintained in practice. XMPP leans towards the "dumb server/smart client" side of the trade-off, while Telegram is the ex
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by ezst 12d ago
XMPP is so bad on mobile that this persistent connection thingy and the whole XMPP protocol itself are effectively what prop up every single push notification on Android and Nintendo switch. True, Android vendors made a habit of killing bac
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by ezst 12d ago
> if you're a human rights activist or journalist in an oppressive country, I'd stick to Signal So that the state actor can listen on the edge of the network and infer with whom you are taking and when? Or maximize their chance
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by ezst 12d ago
That's a defeatist take that's been vastly debunked, someone linked the Matrix version and here is the XMPP one: https://gultsch.de/posts/objection/ In short, yes, building a standard takes some effort,
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by ezst 12d ago
Realistically nothing is ever perfect, but XMPP comes very close. You've got Signal-introduced double-ratchet encryption if forward secrecy is your jam (so it's as "E2E-secure" in practical terms) and you've got a
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by ezst 12d ago
Signal is there for power and control, not for its users, otherwise they would welcome the usage of third party clients, and generally, encourage decentralisation measures like self hosting, federation and account portability. Yep, they hav
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by ezst 16d ago
GP's username chess' out

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