nicoco

15 ms·

151.
by nicoco 4y ago
Someone mentioned this directive on slidge's MUC* yesterday, but I haven't looked into it too much yet. I guess slidge's plugins should be easier to maintain once this is directive is in application. I should focus on improvi
152.
by nicoco 4y ago
Oh, that's my little project. I planned on doing a show HN in a few days or so, but someone was faster than me. I'm happy to answer any question. Slidge even has a hackernews plugin, to be notified of replies to your comments and
153.
by nicoco 4y ago
This guy apparently took the time to propose counter arguments: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362959885_A_note_on...
154.
by nicoco 4y ago
The article mentions using chatty for SMSes which also happens to be an XMPP client, then a few workarounds to get discord and signal on their phone. It's shameless plug time for me, as I'm developing XMPP gateways for both these
155.
by nicoco 4y ago
But lying, manipulating your emotions, etc. are efficient ways of doing ads. If something is OK when done poorly and harmful when optimised, maybe it was a bad thing in the first place?
156.
by nicoco 4y ago
Most of these issues require a malicious user, right? I think none of them really are a problem for a friends-and-family instance (as long as they don't get their creds stolen obv). For a single-user usage, none of these really are iss
157.
by nicoco 4y ago
I'm surprised not to find any mention of Chomsky here and his "new pascal wager". > Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up a
158.
by nicoco 4y ago
Aren't there ads in the task bar and start menu?
159.
by nicoco 4y ago
You can easily block any XMPP address you want. Why are you spreading FUD like this?
160.
by nicoco 4y ago
You quote a comment where I present several options to solve a problem I have never experienced on XMPP (spam). How does that illustrate "critical features [not being] there"?
161.
by nicoco 4y ago
> I found that in practice it doesn't work May I suggest you give it another try? It has been steadily working for me for a few years now. (Conversations/gajim/dino/siskin-im/beagle for the clients, and prosody s
162.
by nicoco 4y ago
What I meant what "who you talk to and how often you do" is as valuable as "what you say". > If they didn't care about the content of your message I'm not saying they don't care, just that e2ee in a cen
163.
by nicoco 4y ago
I think that beside the scary name, not forcing 'apps' into user's devices and via massive advertising is what makes XMPP not so popular. https://snikket.org/ is an attempt to 'rebrand' XMPP into so
164.
by nicoco 4y ago
I think you can block a user easily if your server supports XEP-0191, or if it implements some sort of blacklisting. I am unsure about blocking client side, since I never needed it (yet?). It is probably due to XMPP's lack of popularit
165.
by nicoco 4y ago
E2EE in WhatsApp is here because Meta does not care about the content of your messages. Analyzing natural language is hard anyway, whereas determining who you are, what you aspire to, and how to trick you into thinking your life won't
166.
by nicoco 4y ago
No mention of XMPP so I'll be that guy. XMPP has a variety of clients for about all platforms, is federated, can (optionally) be e2ee. Its most used client on Android is user-friendly and has built-in (optional, again) tor support. On
167.
by nicoco 4y ago
Modifying gorillas? You and your and friends were rockstar programmers already. I remember looking at the source code and thinking "this must be black magic". Thanks for bringing back the memories though. I looooved playing gorill
168.
by nicoco 4y ago
You have a valid point here. It's probably utopian, but to me the only reasonable answer to this is to acknowledge that science is a collective process. Of course, this goes against the (stupid) idea that some extremely deserving geniu
169.
by nicoco 4y ago
This is an interesting idea. Although I am afraid that publishing a dataset, even a good one, will not be considered "real science" by our (broken) institutions.
170.
by nicoco 4y ago
From my experience in the digital health sector, concerns for privacy is always the reason given for not sharing anything valuable and/or useful to others. But it's just a convenient way of hiding the 'desire of commercialisa
171.
by nicoco 4y ago
Funny, a stable release is the main reason why I choose Debian over anything else. I enjoy that it doesn't change too much. And for the occasional software for which I really want (rarely need ) the upstream version, backports, flatpa
172.
by nicoco 4y ago
koreader is great and also works on (some?) kobo devices.
173.
by nicoco 4y ago
>as simple as uploading it to my hosted instance of calibre-web, and then next time I pick up my kobo it will automatically download it. Wow, sounds really nice, you got my attention! My stack to achieve the same result is a bit more com
174.
by nicoco 4y ago
This would be interesting indeed. But it wouldn't be enough to really appreciate the paper's value. Often times a paper is cited because it is related 'prior work', even if it's crap. This can happen because a revie
175.
by nicoco 4y ago
The author is aware of this. At the bottom of the article: > Please don’t contact me to “well ackchyually” me and explain MITM attacks and how your terrible ISP inserts ads into your unencrypted web pages
176.
by nicoco 4y ago
Care to elaborate why?
177.
by nicoco 4y ago
Well I was surprised to receive the "lettre avec accusé de réception" recently. So HADOPI's not dead yet, unfortunately... Ineffective to prevent torrenting, they definitely are. But I think they are winning on the ideas fron
178.
by nicoco 4y ago
Because I don't care? What worse can happen to me? I firmly believe that sharing "cultural products" (sic) between individuals not seeking profit should not be illegal, and that any attempt to restrict this is vain at best, a
179.
by nicoco 4y ago
>None of us knew we needed Steve’s devices until they were given to us. I have recently been given a $2500 toy by $EMPLOYER$ and I still don't need it. Personal anecdote aside, is this post seriously advocating for creating needs fr
180.
by nicoco 4y ago
Not in France, at least not immediately. The antipiracy authority first sends you an email (1st warning), then an IRL letter (2nd warning). When you receive the IRL letter, THEN you should VPN (or SOCKS or whatever) for one year, then you c

More ›