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by progval 3y ago
> those people should feel free to contribute or sponsor a non-JS version It will be rejected. Mastodon used to have a good HTML view with progressive enhancement for logged-out users. But in v4.0 they replaced it with the same React app
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by progval 3y ago
> Abuse is vastly more manageable than it was on IRC. You're comparing a Matrix server operated by someone else (Element) with an IRC network that Mozilla operated themselves. How does your Matrix setup compare to an IRC network ope
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by progval 3y ago
The EU just designated Whatsapp as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_... following the "full list of do's and don'ts&q
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by progval 3y ago
Element is the trading name of a company, of three clients with mostly-independent codebases written by that company (web, android, iOS; not counting the two Element X rewrites), and of a hosting service (EMS).
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by progval 3y ago
> It took me quite a few clicks just to learn that this is effectively virtual machines with Tor Click "What Is Whonix?", scroll down, "Whonix ™ consists of two VMs: the Whonix-Gateway ™ and the Whonix-Workstation ™. The f
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by progval 3y ago
GP is talking about the Framework 16". 6 USB-C ports, but headphone jack without an expansion card.
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by progval 3y ago
> some potential VC questionnaire asked if the company was using github Were the repositories even public?
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by progval 3y ago
This seems to match the definition of a unikernel. Here is another one in Rust: https://github.com/hermit-os/hermit-rs
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by progval 3y ago
> yet no-one was even doing the easy bit (auditing the source code). Someone did: the Fedora maintainer who raised the issue. One of the reasons I avoid installing from wild-west package managers like Cargo/NPM/..., is specific
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by progval 3y ago
From a legal perspective, it's against Mastodon's trademark policy: "Only use the Mastodon marks to accurately identify those goods or services that are built using the Mastodon software." https://joinmastodon
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by progval 3y ago
This is a grammar: stars mean they are repeated, not pointers.
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by progval 3y ago
As a desktop user I dislike Flutter apps because they have high input latency (at least in Firefox), and their UI is always mobile-first so it strongly clashes with expectations and capabilities of a desktop.
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by progval 3y ago
> IRC had a thing called "CTCP", client-to-client-protocol, with which two users' IRC clients communicated directly, client IP to client IP. That's DCC (Direct Client-to-Client). CTCP is another in-line protocol that
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by progval 3y ago
I must have got it confused with another client then. Wasn't there another lightweight one made by Element-the-company that reuses the react SDK?
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by progval 3y ago
Does any Matrix client support voice/video calls other than Element (including Hydrogen as it shares Element Web's codebase)?
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by progval 3y ago
Does matrix.org publish these stats somewhere?
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by progval 3y ago
How do you count users? I couldn't find a way to get stats from other people's homeservers when I looked into it
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by progval 3y ago
What client do you use? I can try looking for why it would hide it from you.
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by progval 3y ago
They aren't on https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors so probably not.
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by progval 3y ago
IRCCloud and The Lounge do it natively. Maybe KiwiIRC too.
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by progval 3y ago
FWIW, someone identified the issue, and next Monday's update ( https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/postponing-libera-chat-depor... ) may include a fix
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by progval 3y ago
This isn't inherent to IRC; some servers support sending history when you are back online: * https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/USERGUIDE.... * https://docs.inspircd.o
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by progval 3y ago
> The whole protocol you would have to build around IRC to achieve client agnosticity would arguably be more complex than IRC itself. You don't have to build a new protocol. The Ergo IRCd supports multiple clients connecting to the
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by progval 3y ago
IRC uses persistent TCP connections as a transport. You can't lose a message in the middle of a stream without the whole connection being closed, and your client would tell you about that.
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What Happened to Vivaldi Social?(thomasp.vivaldi.net)
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by progval 3y ago
I am French, but I feel this matches definitions 2a and 3 on https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of : * "used as a function word to indicate origin or derivation, eg. a man of noble birth" (js code com
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by progval 3y ago
They are still in use in France from time to time. Typical use cases I have seen are security deposits, and for small non-profits to expense volunteers and getting paid without bothering with payment terminals.
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by progval 3y ago
Federating with other instances isn't binary: instances subscribe to individual users.
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by progval 3y ago
Hard to tell. Server is at Hetzner (that's also where its outgoing requests are coming from, so not just a dumb reverse proxy). TLS cert is signed by QuoVadis Trustlink, so probably not mastohost (which uses Let's Encrypt).
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by progval 3y ago
Yes, I don't understand why systemd doesn't support it sudo-less. It's even designed to run units configured by unprivileged users, but those can't access sandboxing features at all.

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