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by ezst 2y ago
> Meanwhile Matrix 2.0 is a genuine pleasure to use "trust us it's good this time" → (still the very same at its core) → "you are right, we are sorry, but bear with us, <buzzword> is just about to be ready!&quot
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by ezst 2y ago
Oh, TIL! Thanks :-)
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by ezst 2y ago
To me, it's slowly become obvious that Matrix was invented because certain people wanted to ride the trendy wave of VC money propping up Slack and friends back in those days. Matrix has been all about superlative marketing and over-pro
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by ezst 2y ago
I've been running XMPP/ejabberd for a decade, it's a single service embarking everything you need, including what it takes to do A/V calls (NAT traversal & al.). Nonetheless, it's also the quietest and lowest-pr
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by ezst 2y ago
Am I the only one who's getting annoyed of seeing LLMs be marketed as competent search engines? That's not what they've been designed for, and they have been repeatedly bad at that.
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by ezst 2y ago
I don't know what to do with the first part of your comment, too many variables. If machines can take over those jobs in the short, the societal changes would be so far-reaching that an electricity increase would be the slightest of th
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by ezst 2y ago
Nobody needs a kind of AI that consumes that much energy. There's no way that's commercially viable and carries its own weight. Also, the whole discussion is taking place in the context of present day GenAI where nobody has found
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by ezst 2y ago
Bet Apple eyes at the rent that Adobe extracts out of all those subscriptions and wants the same thing for itself. Apple has been in the market of renting out content for decades (starting with iTunes) and this move means people will have l
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by ezst 2y ago
That's the thing, though, the compat story is terrible. I can't say much about the backwards one, but Microsoft has started the process of removing features from the native versions just to lower the bar for the web one catching u
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by ezst 2y ago
Indexing is IO-heavy and does slow things down, that's the nature of it (and Windows is dramatically bad at that), but they have improved quite substantially in this department recently: whole indexes of large libraries/runtimes c
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by ezst 2y ago
> What kind of nonsense is that, lmao. I mean, immense corporate codebases is the bread and butter of IntelliJ Idea and where it has a reputation to shine. I don't doubt that you are commenting in good faith, but the exact opposite
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by ezst 2y ago
Totally correct, the lame excuse being that it didn't make the situation worse for the reason that those factors were anyway authenticated using the same device previously already. But at least I am now in much less trouble in case thi
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by ezst 2y ago
What finally brought me to using BW was that I simultaneously needed to backup/sync my TOTPs across mobile/desktop devices, and came to have the need for sharing an increasing number of passwords with my SO. It delivered beautiful
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by ezst 2y ago
My very personal opinion is that LSPs haven't contributed very much in the area of turning text editors into cohesive and integrated development environments that I enjoy using. One still gets to spend a lot of time and energy fishing
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by ezst 2y ago
The argument boils down to "since it's there, better to keep it because making a version without it would defeat economies of scale and not save much, if at all", and that's a sensible take… under the assumption that the
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by ezst 2y ago
I'm fine with the mockery, I genuinely hadn't realized that "wanting to pay for what one needs" was such a hot and controversial take.
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by ezst 2y ago
I can't wait for the LLM fad to be over so we get some sanity (and efficiency) back. I personally have no use for this extra hardware ("GenAI" doesn't help me in any way nor supports any work-related tasks). Worse, most
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by ezst 2y ago
> I think we just might have a pretty distorted view of ARM vs x86 because of Apple. They are just much better at designing ARM chips than anyone else and those chips become relatively unimpressive once everyone gets access to the same T
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by ezst 2y ago
I know chrome dev tools are capable, but to me they feel much more dumb and convoluted. There's lots of convenience and golden nuggets in Firefox dev tools that makes you feel they've been designed by and for developers.
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by ezst 2y ago
> Your rationale doesn’t make sense since every single usb port on the device can also charge it. It does, because as I said, we now have a charger that basically amounts to e-waste. As the result of its supposed benefits being very weak
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by ezst 2y ago
Let's see, one can hope, but before that they have to abandon decades of a business model based on rent seeking and up-selling memory and storage at 10× the price. Wall street won't like it and only the EU can incentivize them eno
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by ezst 2y ago
That's why my next thing is a framework laptop (I'm aware how tone-deaf it might sound in an Apple thread, but I really think Apple should be leaders on this front instead of making their devices less and less upgradeable and repa
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by ezst 2y ago
Don't, in my experience (and that of everyone around me), USB-C is very sturdy. My wife had a MB Pro (last Intel, with USB-C) and recently upgraded to the latest gen with the magnetic connector. It's really annoying that we can&#x
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Matrix and XMPP: Thoughts on Improving Messaging Protocols – Part 1(process-one.net)
7 points by ezst 2y ago|0 comments
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by ezst 2y ago
What you say (though I'm not sure that we can speak of an "ideal"), compounded with the "late stage capitalism" fact that everything today is consolidated, and has to be about making profit and maximizing it: Disney
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by ezst 2y ago
then it's fair game for Iran (or any other country) to fine them/block them for that.
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by ezst 2y ago
Where they operate doesn't matter, and it should be pretty obvious why (hint, for the same reasons that American bleached chicken can't be sold in the EU)
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by ezst 2y ago
I imagine that this would be reason enough for them to either comply with the law or not operate there, like every other business does? You seem to imply that it's ok for internet companies to be above the law, I don't see how tha
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by ezst 2y ago
If they want to operate in country X, they have to abide by the laws of country X, I don't see what's controversial about this.
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by ezst 2y ago
> we actually rediscover classic solutions, at a certain point classic desktop computing will came back forcibly You make it sound like evolution being circular is matter of fact/inevitable (and, to be fair, tech history proves you

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