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541.
by pmlnr 5y ago
It was probably the irccloud ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495358
542.
by pmlnr 5y ago
Other explanations could include, plain madness, delusions of importance, etc.
543.
by pmlnr 5y ago
You do realize Freenode, Libera, etc, all the big networks, are not self hosted, and that all traffic goes through them, right?
544.
by pmlnr 5y ago
LOL. The whole freenode drama should be taught a few years later on "how to shoot a service in the head in a month". Dictating what clients can connect to your protocol based system is plain, dead wrong. EDIT: I realized @rasengan
545.
by pmlnr 5y ago
The only issue with gemini is that is should parse gopher for backwards compatibility.
546.
by pmlnr 5y ago
Activity*: let's overcomplicate xml by making it json!
547.
by pmlnr 5y ago
Lack of guides for setting up a private nntp, I'd say. If you have some resources, please share them.
548.
by pmlnr 5y ago
This used to be called jack of all trades, master of none.
549.
by pmlnr 5y ago
“What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?” Yes. Or move to a place with water, and it not a desert.
550.
by pmlnr 5y ago
That won't help prevention.
551.
by pmlnr 5y ago
This was my thought as well.
552.
by pmlnr 5y ago
They do. Cambridge, UK, has regular magnet fishers.
553.
by pmlnr 5y ago
> 2. Fix that damn file picker dialog we've been groaning about for 20 years. Hell, yes, please.
554.
by pmlnr 5y ago
Garmin more well known than Fuji?! In what world?!
555.
by pmlnr 5y ago
> It is publicly accessible That depends on the instance.
556.
by pmlnr 5y ago
"social media" - do they include the fediverse? retroshare? secure scuttlebutt? Otherwise it's "we'll monitor you on fb & co and twitter", because even reddit allows pseudonyms. So it boils down to this: st
557.
by pmlnr 5y ago
When will people learn there's no such thing as dated design, just design people finally got used to?
558.
by pmlnr 5y ago
oh. My bad.
559.
by pmlnr 5y ago
a PDP-8 is not 30 years old... it was released in 1965. The last batch was in '74, according to wikipedia. That's ~50 years old. Remember, 2000 was 20 years ago.
560.
by pmlnr 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue can come in handy if the situation is bad.
561.
by pmlnr 5y ago
> “If that board dies we’ll have to go onto eBay” from this article, whereas > "I have a prospective customer supporting a U.S. missile defense system that is buying parts on eBay," from https://www.pcworld.com&#x
562.
by pmlnr 5y ago
And it's fun - once. Exactly once. But there was a year when every second page was parallax scrolling everything, and it was plain horrible.
563.
by pmlnr 5y ago
> all with different UIs, etc. Let me introduce you to the concept of RSS and news/feed readers: https://aboutfeeds.com/
564.
by pmlnr 5y ago
synapse is: a, fragile, depends on a lot of external libs (eg. hazmat, which needs sslv3 compiles openssl) b, eats a lof of resources when using medium size and above federated rooms And there are no other servers ready for production.
565.
by pmlnr 5y ago
> Can some explain precisely what the commenters here know that the USB-IF doesn't Safety margins.
566.
by pmlnr 5y ago
240W !? On what, a fraction of a mm bloody copper cable?! Whoever designed this hadn't actually encountered electricity in real life.
567.
by pmlnr 5y ago
Yes. And forever will: it's the only truly decentralized communication system out there. And I run my own mail stack.
568.
by pmlnr 5y ago
> Refreshed mobile apps, intuitive web apps, friends lists, working team support, video calls and file sharing. All within a few taps of the mobile device as people have come to expect. So... XMPP?
569.
by pmlnr 5y ago
Those are all important points, though I wonder: with registration required, tied to email accounts, and if we were all running thousands of small irc/xmpp/matrix servers instead of one big system that is indeed simple to attack,
570.
by pmlnr 5y ago
I'd much rather like see people/projects running their own irc/xmpp/matrix under their own domain so that this situation can never happen again to them.

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