jprjr_

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by jprjr_ 10d ago
let's say you have a bug that makes your app unusable. If you can't get an update our for a week - people are going to just stop using your app.
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by jprjr_ 10d ago
F-droid is the biggest one
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by jprjr_ 10d ago
Yes and no. The computer itself won't really do anything. But I'm sure suicides go up when people lose all their money, or get personal private details leaked, and so on.
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by jprjr_ 10d ago
My experience isn't that they're not being told. It's that they just don't care.
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by jprjr_ 11d ago
Sorry but I just fundamentally disagree about the app centralization. If you want xmpp to gain traction you need an app that exists on both mobile platforms. It can (and should) have per-platform tweaks and everything to be performant. But
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by jprjr_ 12d ago
For me searching my old messages is really useful. I don't scroll back through history but I'll search for things like "plumber" to find the number of a plumber a friend texted me a while back.
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by jprjr_ 12d ago
Pretty certain pidgin relies on gtk2 which is pretty dead. Most of the supported protocols are also dead, or woefully outdated like XMPP and IRC. They've been working on a version 3 for years but no idea if that will ever happen.
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by jprjr_ 12d ago
Plus the sad reality is even if they're not using Chrome they're probably still using Chrome - most browsers are based on Chromium. You have Safari and Firefox, nearly everything else is just Chrome. Also last I checked - on iOS d
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by jprjr_ 12d ago
For email - most people use the official app and assume they have to use it. You sign up for Gmail, you get the Gmail app. You sign up for Outlook, you get the Outlook app. 1 service = 1 app. For browser - on mobile most people use whatever
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by jprjr_ 12d ago
Re: fediverse my point is - regular people just do not care about any of the fediverse-y parts of it. If I share a post I saw, I don't say "here's a thing I saw on the fediverse" - I just say "here's a thing I
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by jprjr_ 12d ago
There is a XEP for it but as per usual, it's experimental and not widely implemented: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0513.html https://xmpp.org/software/?category=clients&xeps=0513
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by jprjr_ 12d ago
Make a single cross-platform client that implements every non-humorous XEP. If you tell people "on Android you should use this app, on iOS use that app" - you lose regular people fast. If you have a feature that only exists in one
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by jprjr_ 3mo ago
Nothing else, I think what the're more concerned with is how open an architecture is. I think with RISC-V if you wanted to design your own chips and stuff you can just do it, whereas ARM doesn't let you do that. I'm not about
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by jprjr_ 3mo ago
You could argue well, if you have to open the file to read it anyway may as well look for magic numbers. That doesn't work well with text documents which won't have any kind of magic number. So now you're doing some heuristic
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by jprjr_ 4mo ago
Honestly requiring DMARC was overall a good thing. I was an email admin for a university. In the past - each college ran their own email. Before DKIM, before SPF, you'd just have basically random servers on the internet sending email a
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by jprjr_ 4mo ago
Just a few years ago, Atlassian required you to add an unnecessary include: record to your SPF record, and wouldn't use your domain for emails until they scanned your SPF record for that include. https://jira.atlassian.com&#
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by jprjr_ 4mo ago
Lookalike domains are a problem but in my opinion the bigger problem is when attackers figure out how to hijack a real domain. For example, making a company named "there's a problem with your account call this number" on a si
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by jprjr_ 4mo ago
That was how I felt. "The Future of Email", from Fastmail - I immediately assumed some big announcement. It's basically "you need to pass DMARC now" which has been true for 2 years. It also goes into how authenticat
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by jprjr_ 4mo ago
> They're widely understood I'll tell you right now, I've had multiple cases where I've had to quote parts of the RFCs to large companies because they were handling email authentication incorrectly. They are wildly mi
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by jprjr_ 5mo ago
Restricted access, yes but I'd argue intelligence, tech-savvy, and common sense aren't really the same thing. There's two big issues I saw on a large University network (talking something like 60k users). Issue one was accoun
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by jprjr_ 5mo ago
Regarding SFUs - with something like HLS, I can really easily scale up using something like a caching CDN (not entirely sure if that's the right term). But the idea goes: I can distribute the HLS media playlist, and have my media segme
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by jprjr_ 5mo ago
There's a few cases where WebRTC falls apart that I think MoQ could help with. It doesn't work so well for having a low-latency broadcast. Your choices right now are - use WebRTC and deploy selective forwarding units, which are go
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by jprjr_ 5mo ago
Universities are so tricky. If you put up too many roadblocks you wind up with official shit on completely external resources. Which makes it hard to figure out what's legitimate and what's a scam. But make it too easy, you wind u
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by jprjr_ 6mo ago
The answer is yes, to all of it. Email providers have better spam filtering, some have strict rules about attaching any kind of executable code to an email (as in - you just can't). Email clients are always getting updated, stricter ab
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by jprjr_ 6mo ago
To be fair that seems to be the path email is going down. Most businesses don't want run their own email and just use one of two big providers.
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by jprjr_ 6mo ago
It's not really tables all the way down - Lua has datatypes like nil, boolean, number, string, table, userdata + lightuserdata, functions, coroutines. I think that's the entire list, actually. So a table is a hashtable. Just about
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by jprjr_ 6mo ago
There's already a stenographer recording the proceeding, right? I'd think you could project what they're recording onto a display somewhere.
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by jprjr_ 6mo ago
> at first boot up as a parent should be your job to setup a child account. Something I would be 100% OK with is some regulation that at first boot, you have to present information about what parental controls are available on the device
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by jprjr_ 6mo ago
Basically these age attestation/verification laws are being pushed as a "save the children!" scenario. But if you read the laws - all they really do is shift responsibility around. Currently, websites and apps are supposed to
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by jprjr_ 6mo ago
I cannot express how disappointed I am to see open source projects giving in to complying with age attestation laws. I feel like complying really undermines any first amendment arguments. Software is a first amendment protected form of expr

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