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by ezst 10mo ago
> you are at best grasping at straws to find some semblance of justification for you irrational dislike. You seem so emotionally-involved that the whole point whooshed above your head. JS is a language that gives me no joy to use (there
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by ezst 10mo ago
XMPP just works and has matured substantially in the last 5years or so. You may or may not like it, but that's all I've been using/needing for a decade, and because of that, I ended up onboarding a bunch of tech-illiterate fr
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by ezst 10mo ago
https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/ https://www.reddit.com/r/learnjavascript/comments/qdmzio/dif ... or anything that touches array ops (concatenating, map, etc…). I m
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by ezst 10mo ago
> [federation] offers a degree of censorship resistance, as the messages or images are replicated across multiple servers, making it difficult for any single entity to censor or control the content. That's the way Matrix goes, but t
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by ezst 10mo ago
Not OP, but the case can be made that it's still the same very ugly language of 10 years ago, with few layers of sugar coating on top. The ugly hasn't gone anywhere. You still have to deal with it and suffer the cognitive burden.
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by ezst 10mo ago
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/positron-upside-down-... and here you got an interesting form-factor
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by ezst 10mo ago
Till yourself get hacked because the connected-to-the-internet TV is running an insecure software version. We should legal action the hell out of such practices.
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by ezst 10mo ago
Same HN niche that wants smaller iPhones, just not commercially viable they say.
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by ezst 10mo ago
Did it? I mean, even when you compare it to its contemporary devices (it took a while for Android to get close to smooth animations and fluid navigation, even without the type of true compositing and multitasking the n900 had).
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by ezst 10mo ago
> Nokia did not understand what it had Like any other large company, Nokia needed time to adjust its strategy, whether it would have happened or not we will never know, because Nokia got Trojan horsed by Microsoft killing any plausible c
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Bitwarden lite self-host deployment is now generally available(bitwarden.com)
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by ezst 10mo ago
> That means the server ops become these little lords over little fiefdoms and a server just dying takes your identity with it. Or that means that everyone can be their own little lord reigning over their own little server, to the point
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by ezst 11mo ago
I think if fits well in this comparison, because Scala-native: - has the ergonomics, abstractions, expressiveness and conveniences of a high-level language with pointer-level semantics if/when needed (essentially covering the abstracti
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by ezst 11mo ago
Yep, that's what late stage capitalism leaves you with: consolidation, abuse, helplessness and complacency/widespread incompetence as a result
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by ezst 11mo ago
Nice thing is, Microsoft themselves are undoing that with the push to Office as a web-first application. While making it more ubiquitous (they think), they are at the same time cutting loose some of its strongest anchors
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by ezst 11mo ago
Should really consider adding scala-native to the comparison : https://scala-native.org/en/latest/
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by ezst 11mo ago
So, that sits firmly where Django/Rails are at, except that you use a GUI rather than code to define the models? I suppose that lowers the bar ever so slightly, because any management rule or business logic is still deferred to a prope
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by ezst 11mo ago
I suspect it got worse with the advent of algorithm-driven social networks. When rage inducing content is prevalent, and when engaging with it is the norm, I don't see why this behaviour wouldn't eventually leak to algorithms-free
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by ezst 11mo ago
For sure, it got continuously refined for WA-specific needs over the years, but XMPP very much still is there, lurking in the shadows: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S17422...
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by ezst 11mo ago
just posting this here: https://www.isode.com/whitepaper/operating-xmpp-over-hf-radi...
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by ezst 11mo ago
> my experience with XMPP is that was not as solid as other solutions, including closed source ones. Considering that WhatsApp is essentially an old/non-federating fork of ejabberd (from where this blog post originates), I think XMP
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by ezst 11mo ago
I repeat: when confronted to bad or evil, you should expand your options.
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by ezst 11mo ago
This doesn't fly in light of recent history: first, Signal has some trust issues of its own (I mentioned a couple user-hostile acts in sibling comments), but that aside, do you remember how much praise WhasApp was getting in its early
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by ezst 11mo ago
What you say is barely different from what the opponents to generalized https were saying back in the days "true your ISP can see all your traffic, but they are the good guys, you are their customer after all". With SSL, we no lon
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by ezst 11mo ago
Precisely. The metadata and some basic packets analysis suffices to reveal if you are at home or at work, sending text or images, traveling/from approximately where to where or still, on the toilet or working, etc, all without breaking
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by ezst 11mo ago
> The article confuses confidentiality with anonymity/pseudonymity. sure, but let's not pretend that the distinction is lost on Signal and serves to fuel their security theatre. > My grandmother cannot, but she can use Signa
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by ezst 11mo ago
> Signal is the only WhatsApp/Messenger alternative I've managed to get friends and family to actually move to. And what good did that achieve, practically? In effect, your friends and family: - still use a centralised service
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by ezst 11mo ago
> They bolted products onto Active Directory which is ancient LDAP tech. It's a massive flaw in how Azure works and why it's 10x more complicated than AWS or GCP. I really don't see the problem with LDAP. If they make an o
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by ezst 11mo ago
That's provably untrue. If you mainly write modules for the ejabberd server, indeed erlang might be on the menu, but that's very specific. If you develop on the client-side, pretty much all mainstream languages (JS, Python, C&#x2F
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by ezst 11mo ago
It's probably an important feature now, but it's a recent one in this context.

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