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by ezst 1y ago
I think it's a reasonable take after 15 years of seeing CSS/HTML/JS being abused for everything and more (when all you have is a hammer…), with the result being that many simple static pages are nowadays monstrous JS apps. My
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by ezst 1y ago
I suppose it had, but as a large codebase written in a memory-unsafe language with unrestricted system access, in an era where browser plugins weren't sandboxed by design, it was a cat and mouse game.
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by ezst 1y ago
> I struggle to imagine how it could realistically be not complex. Pretty easy, we should have had 2 standards, one being "Web for applications", built on a VM, stdlib, bytecode, RPC, UI framework and standard library of contro
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by ezst 1y ago
It's probably a good time to bump https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ for those who haven't read it yet.
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by ezst 1y ago
With this administration, it's probably just more blackmail, in the form of "it would be a pity if nobody came to the rescue when China eventually puts its Taiwan plans in motion! (Not that playing ball is a guarantee of anything
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by ezst 1y ago
> Nothing as close to the metal as Rust has that baked in today You should have a look at what's going on in Scala-land, with scala-native¹ (and perhaps the Gears² library for direct style/capabilities) I like this style, thoug
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by ezst 1y ago
To me, the "hotdog skin complexion" aspect is a dead giveaway for when a photo was taken on an iPhone. It's so over the top and unrefined that I wonder how not only Apple let it happen, but seemingly entertain it/make it
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by ezst 1y ago
How are environmental aspects of LLMs "non-practical"?
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by ezst 1y ago
Sure, trump administration threatening members of the EU of war (economic or territorial) counts as "trying to protect". No dissonance in that whatsoever.
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by ezst 1y ago
Yeah, that ship sailed the second time Americans voted for him.
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by ezst 1y ago
It doesn't look like it supports Scala, unfortunately.
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by ezst 1y ago
This is really cool, and it smells like old-school Google, in a good way, like "let's do this because we can". It feels like it's been a while since something coming out of Google Engineering is meaningful and not design
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by ezst 1y ago
What you say is true everywhere but in a monopoly, and on that I've got bad news for you.
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by ezst 1y ago
> talking about the old legacy Element client No, out of the 4 cited sources, at least 3 clearly identify Element X. Also, great way to miss the point: users can only bear so long being told that they are wrong.
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by ezst 1y ago
> I'm not familiar with the ecosystem yet. It seems like ejabberd is written in erlang I highly recommend ejabberd: it's one of the easiest server software I ever had to sysadmin. It's rock-solid and never gets in your way
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by ezst 1y ago
> This is literally the first time i’ve heard someone accuse Element X of being clunky, buggy or unappealing I mean, picked from the top of THIS comments section - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44627333 - https:&
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by ezst 1y ago
Second!
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by ezst 1y ago
For me Signal is not an option. Any pretty promise can be broken on a whim in the same fashion Facebook acquired WhatsApp and could then do whatever they wanted with it. Any pretence of user-friendliness has been defeated when Signal starte
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by ezst 1y ago
Could it be that your needs would be covered by XMPP? You can run that on a RPi in a shoebox.
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by ezst 1y ago
It's depressing to be told that we can pick between a moribund client and one that's barely usable, indeed. Element X is a mess. You can make it look good in comparison to the previous one on a "checkbox" basis like you
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by ezst 1y ago
> primarily to communicate with family located where there is high censorship and most messengers are blocked I was travelling frequently through Asia and the Middle East around a decade ago. I wanted a platform that just works, that is
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by ezst 1y ago
People keep hammering zulip as the example of threads done right. I disagree. They are practically indistinguishable from rooms, in looks and behaviour. It's not like zulip is offering a better abstraction/isolation level: you end
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by ezst 1y ago
As someone in the exact same boat as you (a happy XMPP user for 10+ years, with family and friends there), if I had to name one, it would be group calls and overall calls being supported in Gajim. We just hyperlink to jitsi meet whenever th
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by ezst 1y ago
Interesting! How is it going to work between IDE version and addons compat? At one point those constantly updating addons will become incompatible with older IDEs?
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by ezst 1y ago
As I understand it, in the new scheme, ultimate subscription is essentially about turning on proprietary addons for as long as the subscription lasts. That uncouples the features from a specific build and release carrying them. How does thi
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by ezst 1y ago
I mean, for years Dendrite was positioned, by the developers of Synapse themselves, to become Synapse's successor, and Dendrite was getting a ton of funding and attention to make sure it happens. It didn't then, and now that the s
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by ezst 1y ago
> a real victim complex that, a thousand times. Combined with a severe lack of objectivity. If you can't see the flaws and can't be critical of your own product, what room/hope is there for improvement? Matrix is a never e
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by ezst 1y ago
> It partially nullifies the point of the room decentralization, though. And that's the ONE thing giving Matrix bragging rights over any other chat protocol. Their whole crusade against XMPP in Matrix early days was based on this di
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by ezst 1y ago
It's dead https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrit...
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by ezst 1y ago
Let's not fool ourselves into saying that Android development isn't miserable in its own many ways

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