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by nicoco 3y ago
They use private custom extensions that makes it non-trivial to federate with XMPP unfortunately. I haven't followed closely what's happening with this DMA but I wouldn't get my hopes up about XMPP being chosen for anything,
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by nicoco 3y ago
Not sure about _everything_ but it is already in use for notifications on Nintendo Switch, Fortnite group chats, WhatsApp... Of course, none of these are federated or mention XMPP anywhere, but it tells something about the intrinsic qualiti
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by nicoco 3y ago
Google talk was XMPP-federated for a while (but never upgraded to good practice such as using basic encryption...), and while you could connect to Messenger via an XMPP client, they never enabled federation.
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by nicoco 3y ago
Do not trust the FUD. I've been using XMPP since I had a smartphone (I was late to the party, around 2015) and never needed a persistent connection or had issues with multi-device use. https://xmpp.org/extensions/x
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by nicoco 3y ago
I never needed to set up firewall to fight spam, but maybe I was just lucky. I think https://xmppbl.org/ via https://modules.prosody.im/mod_muc_rtbl is the way to go to fight spam if you plan on hosting pub
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by nicoco 3y ago
iOS is not indie-dev-that-does-not-want-to-monetize-friendly and I believe this is the cause of this struggle. Siskin and Monal are iOS clients that solved the issue apparently.
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by nicoco 3y ago
Since we're recommending clients, Quicksy (basically the same as Conversations) is great on Android to be close to the UX of Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal (your ID=your phone number + autodiscovery of contacts). I don't want it fo
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by nicoco 3y ago
That's true for Matrix, not XMPP.
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by nicoco 3y ago
Shameless plug: once prosody is up and running, add some gateway components to use your xmpp clients to chat with those still jailed in walled gardens such as WhatsApp, telegram, signal, discord (and a few other more): https://sl
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by nicoco 3y ago
> at least as significant as — if not more than — agriculture Are there really people out there who believe that? I mean, agriculture was a BIG BIG BIG deal for humanity, it is not unreasonable to thing that this will have been out bigge
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by nicoco 3y ago
If you are serious about needing e2ee, using few sessions (well, devices) and actually verifying fingerprints OOB is a must, and that's true for all E2EE methods AFAIK?
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by nicoco 3y ago
Oh yes, more e-waste, more consumerism. We don't have enough of those. Sending text messages and viewing images requires a 90's supercomputer. It's fine.
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by nicoco 3y ago
It's also possible to not be religious about it. Git is distributed. I have projects on srht and contributing does not mandate using the send-email workflow. "Push it somewhere and let me know where I can pull" always works t
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by nicoco 3y ago
Top posting is so common that I often receive "you replied with an empty email" when I try to bottom post. I think some clients (maybe outlook?) will just automatically fold everything below a quote, resulting in my recipients not
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by nicoco 3y ago
The downvote button apparently means "j'aime pas les arabes".
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by nicoco 3y ago
Doesn't "lots of land" works for the US too?
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by nicoco 3y ago
Leader in German is "Führer". Isn't that offensive too? Just to be clear, I'm not even against ditching the master/slave terminology, I'm a privileged white cis man and I think we have to listen to all the oppr
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by nicoco 3y ago
Bigger servers?
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by nicoco 3y ago
Try organic maps.
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by nicoco 3y ago
I think it's mostly through server side archives that chat history is kept in sync between devices nowadays https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html
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by nicoco 3y ago
There are things you cannot do with numpy and that numba helps with, eg a custom PDE solver where you cannot avoid iterating over arrays' elements.
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by nicoco 3y ago
IRC is great! I access through the excellent biboumi gateway, which offers bouncer-like functionality and let me choose between various clients. There are open instances available for everyone to use, although I couldn't give a list of
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by nicoco 3y ago
(replying here because too deeply nested to answer on the comment) > When did asking "how do we know" become forbidden in science? What has been forbidden exactly and are you sure we are "in science" here? > You ar
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by nicoco 3y ago
Agreed. But that sounded like creationist dog whistling to me, and I'm curious why OP doesn't want to be explicit about what he thinks. Being explicit usually leads to improving the quality of a discussion IMHO.
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by nicoco 3y ago
OK, so what is your favorite explanation then? You seem to imply /something/, maybe just be explicit about it?
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by nicoco 3y ago
Are you implying that the only viable theory is that of a creator god to you or do I not understand your post?
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by nicoco 3y ago
Doesn't seem that much tinfoil hat to me. The Snowden leaks taught us that a bit of tinfoil hatting is reasonable. Before we had access to so many cop video footage, the ideas that they were the bad guys and did stuff like actually bei
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by nicoco 3y ago
Hyper ones.
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by nicoco 3y ago
> Even in Linux there were tools to sync gnome with QT look There are still such tools, you don't have to use the past tense here.
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by nicoco 3y ago
Add prowlarr and bazarr for the full win.

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