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by mxuribe 5y ago
> ...As a reader I imagine going to a specific website, choosing a topic and immediately seeing a stream of genuine thoughts of many different people on it.... I see your point. I made an assumption that the separate websites would in f
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I think that can be accomplished with wordpress (or a similar blogging platform)...i suppose it would simply take tweaking the template/site settings to not expose features like comments, post titles, etc. Maybe wordpress might be over
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by mxuribe 5y ago
Recently I learned of a quote attributed to Arthur C. Clarke (among other things, the science fiction writer and futurist): "...the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I'm a product manager not an engineer...but i manage digital products, so i hope that is close enough. I use text files employing simple markdown within them. I use one text file per project/product...however i'm thinking of
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by mxuribe 5y ago
> ...I think needs time to settle right now... I hear this on occasion (though more rarer nowadays than in the past)...But curious, is there something specific that you're finding in matrix that is not yet settled? By all means, th
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by mxuribe 5y ago
The comments that others suggested would be good, or of course there's also the "Discover Matrix" page: https://matrix.org/discover/
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by mxuribe 5y ago
> ...If only it could be taken mainstream. A part of me actually wishes for utilities like this GUI app and the underlying youtube-dl to stay a tad under the radar, only to avoid getting them blocked somehow by the powers-that-be...i kno
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I had used synapse in its early days (and really like it), and then eventually had to spin down my homeserver (not due to any synapse issues, I just didn't have bandwidth at the time to maintain host and synapse plus other experimental
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by mxuribe 5y ago
Wonderfully stated!!!
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I kinda bounce back and forth between feeling like a tech curmudgeon, and freshly optimistic of the future...among some things that make me look forward to the future include: * computer makers who focus on either linux or "fix it your
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by mxuribe 5y ago
No doubt that there would be a wide spectrum of levels of acceptance...some folks even given a good optioon for support might choose to recycle their old machine because they're genuinely interested in getting the shiny newness...so of
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by mxuribe 5y ago
visdata is pretty mind-blowing...at least, that's how i felt when i saw the demo the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU
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by mxuribe 5y ago
Have you considered submitting your 3 sentences to the project?? Because in the mere moments that it took me to read your 3 sentences i got the gist of what this does instantly! Thanks for providing this, and please do consider submitting
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by mxuribe 5y ago
There is a story to tell here beyond just conventional recycling computers... One could be on the digital divide. For example, there are plenty of computers that may not even need recycling which could be given new life by installing a lig
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by mxuribe 5y ago
You are not wrong that any new entrant might be introducing yet another standard like the referenced xkcd comic...but I have faith that this protocol will be the one that sticks. Time will tell of course. As far as interacting with closed p
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I was a web developer in the late 90s/early 2000s, then moved to low-level management...and over the years, i might touch a little script here or there, and maybe code up a boring website...but nothing needing such an expansive pipelin
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by mxuribe 5y ago
> ...I really miss the days of when I could load all my accounts into Pidgin (Gaim!) and have almost everything centralized... Me too! I'm very much hoping that matrix - the protocol - continues its steady climb (both popularity an
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I just learned this myself the other day... I was looking at the "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" book by Al Sweigart (which admittedly i have not read cover to cover, but rather use it as a reference) for some help with a
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by mxuribe 5y ago
The [politician]©fullofcr.app might have a limited market or at least limited lifecycle, but would be both hilarious, and I think very fulfilling for whatever each customer buys! As far as for flab.by, I actually think the affiliate links i
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by mxuribe 5y ago
A blogs around the proctocology, and the weight loss industries, respectively?
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by mxuribe 5y ago
> Chat: Beta-level support for Matrix servers (set chat.prpls.prpl-matrix.disable to false)... Oh, this is neat! I didn't know matrix support was coming this soon; nice!
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by mxuribe 5y ago
That's encouraging to hear wrt JavaScript!
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by mxuribe 5y ago
Same here...i don't know about others, but over the years, the reason i have tried avoiding javascript is that the browsers/targets differ enough that its annoying...whereas it *feels* like coding in python (or other languages) se
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I'm a digital product manager, and I concur with everything that Tim stated in his post...however, the sad part is - at least where i have worked - there is inertia from higher up that forces (yes *forces*) certain directions. "Yo
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by mxuribe 5y ago
> ...Matrix is much more than an instant messenger. It's a replicated database with ACLs... THIS is one of the main reasons that I'm such a fan of the matrix protocol. Yes, the chat use case is by far - for now - the most pop
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by mxuribe 5y ago
> ...any long-time IRCers use it? If it is any consolation, Mozilla (yes, that Mozilla!) moved over from irc to matrix back in 2020 if i recall correctly. So, i imagine that would represent a large-ish number of irc users, and many like
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by mxuribe 5y ago
Like an old engineering mantra, "I can give you 2 out of 3"...Jokes aside, the matrix.org website does have a nice page listing the different clients (that they at least know about), and its nicely broken up into sections for mobi
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by mxuribe 5y ago
Here's some info on newsboat: https://newsboat.org/releases/2.24/docs/newsboat.html#_newsb... You could skim some of that, as the nextcloud/owncloud stuff is in section 4.7. Good luck!
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by mxuribe 5y ago
I have a nextcloud instance (up in the clouds somewhere) on a rented vps...and subscribe to rss/feeds there (via nextcloud's web-based rss reader)...then set up newsboat command line client on my local linux laptop to connect to t
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by mxuribe 5y ago
> ...Your side project could be using tools and techniques that you learnt decades ago, which could be fine but my org is only interested in cutting-edge stuff... Or, perhaps the inverse could be the case, where i learned cutting-edge s

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