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by pmlnr 6y ago
Sort of. Google Talk, yes, but only the post-2006, federation enabled version, which was XMPP - read http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/01/xmpp-federation.html Hangouts - no. It never was as smooth as skype or go
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> There is history delivery on first connect on Matrix whenever I set-up a new device. Not for encrypted rooms. -- EDIT: XMPP has https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html which can deliver history for the clients t
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by pmlnr 6y ago
LOL, no. I've been trying to run my Matrix server for a while without serious hiccups, with audio/video support, federation, irc appservice, and it's a clusterf*ck. Plus if you cared to read the whole entry, I have the reason
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> That doesn't feel simple. What doesn't feel simple from the user perspective? Get https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.blabber.mes... , start it, follow the screen. Or https:/&#x2F
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I've been trying to find a solution to bridge rooms across chats to make the change simpler for anyone, and matterbridge[^1] does a lovely job - except for Signal. Moxie made it stupidly hard to connect to Signal with anything that&#x2
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by pmlnr 6y ago
A group of my friends asked to set up a groupchat recently, our requirements varied. Among them: - needs to be simple (not all of them are techies) - need to be possible to run on desktop without any mobile need - not Facebook (my requireme
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by pmlnr 6y ago
The funny thing is: they are now forced to highlight the differences between business and "private" chats, especially that business chat contents are _not_ private.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> I'm so disappointed in this. Whatsapp is a functional tool. It was successful since it worked. One decade ago: s/Whatapp/Skype/g s/Facebook/Microsoft/g
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> as news worthy as a NYT article ::insert doubt meme:: Make them write a blog post, please. If it's inside Facebook, it's useless; it can't be added to archive.org, can't be read without Facebook.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
This is the same person who created HTTP 402 Payment Required, in the HTTP 1.1 RFC in 1999, right? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4.3
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> I wonder what will change the opinion of the skeptics? Nothing. It's an ugly system, for soulless players: it's eating up hardware production capacities, energy supply, and the money of the ordinary folks.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Use plain text view by default.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
https://prohardver.hu/forum/index.html Hungarian tech forum; think tech only reddit. The thinkpad thread used to host quite a decent knowledge in the x200 modding era. http://www.elektro.zolee.hu/rajz_l
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Yeah, that mindset is the reasons why M$ has no mobile presence any more.
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Phone vs. Supercomputers(tnhh.net)
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by pmlnr 6y ago
FreeBSD had "containers" - jails - a decade before linux: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/ I still don't understand why Docker was not made to run on jails as well.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I worked in automotive 10 years ago, and I completely agree. It had become insanely bloated since.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> The more people see it and appreciate it, the more validated and important the creators feel. That is called vanity in one word. > What exactly are you suggesting to the content creators? If it really is a hobby, one enjoys it on it
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> Yeah, I think the problem with self-hosting vs. Medium is that it is harder for the authors to reach a large audience. To be honest, this sounds like profit thinking as well. Why would one need "wide audience" when it's
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by pmlnr 6y ago
It did, then the google reader effect kicked in. Google talk, whatsapp, facebook were all xmpp at one point, deliberately crippled, then nearly killed. See RSS.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
Conversations and it's forks are all very good clients, and their voice/video chat works perfectly once the XMPP server configures the turn server. Gajim got a lot better recently. I even managed to get Pidgin to a decent, albeit
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by pmlnr 6y ago
So... federate but not really? I'd heavily advise instead to run as many xmpp servers* as possible, and let people/friends use them. *not matrix, unless one configures it to forget the data and only act as a message broker, like X
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> You're welcome to either use such a decentralised service or fork signal and add decentralisation / federation. It's called XMPP. It predates Signal by ~15 years.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> there isn't YET. I wonder if someone will find a simple way to map these with shodan.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
There was an article in 2014: "Imagining a Rebel Firefox" ( https://medium.com/@efrensandoval/imagining-a-rebel-firefox-... ) which played with the idea if every firefox node would become tor(ish) gateway. Is
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by pmlnr 6y ago
There has been a growing movement around the thought that one's website is their digital garden, for example: https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/
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by pmlnr 6y ago
M$ would probably pay nvidia. Does linux pay nvidia?
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by pmlnr 6y ago
I wonder when will people learn to always set up at least microcaching, because you can never know when the ~slashdot effect~ hug of hackernews will hit you.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
> Don't blame people maintaining software for changing your routine. IMO that depends if the software is paid for or not. If I regularly pay for a software I can have demands.
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by pmlnr 6y ago
... ... Really? "Us, open source devs demans nvidia to alter their ways". And you wonder why people are disappointed in wayland?

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