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I heard about about the war build up in the Economist weeks/months before it hit most Australian news media (ABC/SMH).
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by jakecopp 5y ago
Goyo is wonderful, it's nice to have all your vim config intact. My only confusion is having to :q twice to exit vim :D
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German Armed Forces Matrix messaging case study (2020)(element.io)
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I see the author recommended Signal - it's worth noting the German armed forces use a self-hosted Matrix installation! [1] [2]: > It is an easy strawman to compare Signal to technology from the 90s and completely ignore IRC and Matr
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by jakecopp 5y ago
Selenium BrainDriver :D > the ability to copy drawings correctly in older adults That's an interesting measure of preventing cognitive decline - is this a common metric?
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A great explanation of Hanko is this podcast episode by 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hanko/
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> It’s compelling to look at the non-hosting users, conclude that they are a smashing majority (99.8% !!!!), and make a sweeping conclusion that no one wants to host their own servers. Yet it’s precisely because of those 0.2% that the s
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I'd love to hear how this goes if you are interested in writing a blog (or comment!)
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That was the part that captured me too. I really want to create a "personal feed" or newsletter out of a Matrix [1] group chat with threads [1] enabled, where I can post once a week or so and my friends can react/reply. [1]:
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by jakecopp 5y ago
On the theme of the personal newsletter mentioned in the article, I really like the idea of using a group chat on Matrix with threads [1] as a personal newsletter - where I can post something say once a week and my friends can react or add
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> Also see a lot of new releases of 'trendy' music on CD and digitally, but no tape or vinyl. Interesting - which releases are these? I'm having the opposite problem - recordings like Flight Facilities releasing on vinyl b
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Can you notice the difference with SACDs for classical tracks on good speakers? I've never had the good fortune of seeing a SACD player. > It's just special. Agreed, the process and the album art definitely can't be replic
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> Hard to agree that vinyl sounds like rubbish. Maybe I was too harsh - the warm, compressed sound isn't for me :) > Also, the art sleeves are nice. I do absolutely love the size of vinyl art sleeves - I've noticed some frie
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I for one think CDs will be the new vinyl! (in a few years, when everyone who's been collecting vinyl realises it sounds like rubbish [1][2] and they don't use it anymore - but still want the physical medium experience) [1]: http
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What rates are typical for being on-call for a week? (my team has a rotating weekly roster, Australian team).
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Are there any plans for this to be implemented in Firefox? I don't feel like jumping over to Brave.
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> ad-hoc implementation of Matrix, which hardly even deserves to be called a protocol. Please explain why you believe this. This is the spec: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/ These are the spec change proposals: htt
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https://digital-justice.com/articles/skip-signal.html Agreed - I've moved ~80 of my friends from Messenger to the free Matrix server, and I host my own server. It's a wonderful experience.
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Why on earth do people trust a closed source messenger owned by Facebook, which backs up to Google? Signal and Matrix are open source and full-featured.
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I hadn't heard this before, could you provide a source or examples?
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Might be time to move to Matrix hey :D Element provides free accounts, managed hosting designed for communities [1] or you can host your own [2]. There are plenty of clients in case you don't like Element [3]. [1]: https://e
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by jakecopp 5y ago
Car stopping distances from 60mph/100kph are ~100 metres. 39,888 people died in the US in 2018 from car crashes. [1] Emergency braking distance of a TGV from 300 kmph (186 mph) is something like 3,500 m [2], carrying ~450 people. Movi
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Melbourne's new Metro tunnel (and Cranbourne, Pakenham and Sunbury lines) will use high capacity moving block signalling, with a minimum headway of 120 seconds!! [1] I assume this will be similar to the European Train Control System Le
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Cactus Comments [1] is a comment section replacement, but the comments are just posts in a Matrix room - effectively a public Matrix room viewer! I've thought it'd be cool to expand on this to build a strictly chronological social
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If you want more visualisation like that Daft Punk sample, see how the samples in Jamix xx's Girl come together! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3LCqcC61mk
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Radiohead listeners might like the recent (Nov 5th) release of Kid A Mnesia - unreleased material from the recording sessions of Kid A and Amnesiac! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_A_Mnesia
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> Signal's has the axis tilted all the way to the "security" end, so that the product is unusable if you aren't a technical expert already. How so? What's wrong with Element's UX? It's improved an awful
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> To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private: a system for detecting and disrupting spam campaigns. Interesting. Matrix sol
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Eric Migicovsky, Pebble founder who now runs https://www.beeper.com/ : > These bridges are actually just an intermediate step. Since Matrix itself is an amazing chat network, eventually as more people start using bridges
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> with not just the content of your messages Yes, for bridged chats. Matrix <-> Matrix direct & group chats are E2E by default. > but your account identity/login information as well Yes, however identity/login does

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