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by rakoo 4y ago
You're not using it, only services on top of it, so you're not entitled to it. On the other hand, there's a reason Google forbids even spelling the letters AGPL, because then they might have to give you the source code. Copyl
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by rakoo 4y ago
Wrong. KaiOS runs on featurephones and has a lot of the features people want from a handheld device: listening to music, messaging, social, even directions. KaiOS has a store where anyone can distribute their own apps.
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by rakoo 4y ago
My featurephone still gets 5 days of use without plugging in. If you say that the comparison isn't relevant, I'll say yes: the whole point is that the industry has been innovating for computing power and computing power only. Chea
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by rakoo 4y ago
Shopping for a phone with a better battery life out of the box, before you need to change it. I think that's what the GP wanted to say.
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by rakoo 4y ago
It's not a big deal if you don't care about the environment. It's about time we forget this wasteful mindset
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by rakoo 4y ago
The architectures are not the same. In XMPP, the server is the source of truth. It receives all stuff from the outside and arranges it in its database. You ask it "what's the status" and it can give you the snapshot you desir
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by rakoo 4y ago
I can use a 4$ VPS for my own personal cloud. I will never pay 45$ for that. There's a whole band of people who have the technical chops to self-host, or host little instances for their family/friends/association/hiking
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by rakoo 4y ago
Oh I'm well aware that newer machines use less electricity and that's good; it's just not necessarily true that, looking at the entire lifecycle, it is better for the planet compared to taking your older computer out of the c
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by rakoo 4y ago
I think we need to take a step back and see the big picture. There are 10-year olds computers sitting unused; as a whole, it can fill a percentage of usages. If it does then the people using them don't need to buy another one, new or r
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by rakoo 4y ago
Yep, I was talking about the environmental argument, where drawing 40W idle might not be that bad compared to what happened at construction. Especially when you can source electricity from low-impact sources.
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by rakoo 4y ago
It might make less economical sense, true, but if reducing pollution or environmental impact made economic sense we wouldn't even be talking about it. Economic sense is not always relevant. I might even argue that economic sense is at
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by rakoo 4y ago
In digital, pollution happens during construction way more than usage. It still makes sense to use a decade-old computer. The second-hand market is filled with material that was built at same point; you having access to your nice second han
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by rakoo 4y ago
Libredirect, the extension, needs access to my data but it remains in the extension. Farside, as I understand it, sends clicks to https://farside.link , which will redirect to the appropriate proxy with the full URL including th
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by rakoo 4y ago
I'm not a big fan of hiding my traffic from youtube, twitter, medium et al by sending all my traffic to https://farside.link . I use https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/libredirect&#x2F
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by rakoo 4y ago
There's a clear lack of communication. The engineering process is (was?) opaque. It's not clear the Go team acknowledged there was a problem with the proxy itself and not just upstream sources, it wasn't communicated that a f
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by rakoo 4y ago
> The Go team has decided that the automatic refresh behavior is their responsibility, not the responsibility of other operators I am stunned it took so much kerfuffle to get there. Why is it not the default behavior ?
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by rakoo 4y ago
When you think about it, is an automobile really an innovation compared to a horse cart ?
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by rakoo 4y ago
> The experience needs to be more like installing an app on a phone or a game on a console and with automated backups and easy restore. Self hosting will never come back if we are still expecting people to manage servers like it’s 1985.
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by rakoo 4y ago
It does 80% of the job of a package manager with 20% of the complexity, I find that acceptable
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by rakoo 4y ago
Yes but the original question is interesting: how do you make sure you're using the latest one ? You could use the upstream URL, but that'd be a privacy issue. You could proxy the upstream file, but that rules out static serving.
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by rakoo 4y ago
But a package manager is a hundred-ton hammer when all you need is to decorate your little html page that you hand-edit and push with rsync. You wanted a fun website but what you got is a dependency manager with a production CI/CD pipe
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by rakoo 4y ago
The only reason you see scams, malware and porn is because you don't have an adblocker. Install uBlock Origin. It's mandatory not just for pirating, but even for normal browsing. It does take a but of time to spot fakes, and you n
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by rakoo 4y ago
Darius Kazemi, the creator of Hometown, made an AP server where you can register a feed and it turns into an actor (ie an account): https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub I made my own thing, fetching an RSS fee
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by rakoo 4y ago
Oh I'm sure some companies did try, and probably even deserved success, but like all businesses there's always a question of chance involved. Maybe your company was too early to the game, trying to push computer communications whe
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by rakoo 4y ago
> What happened with XMPP? There never was meaningful money behind it. It seems the only way a protocol can ever grow today is by having for-profit companies sponsoring its development, doing the marketing, pushing it to individuals, com
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by rakoo 4y ago
Good, because gemini doesn't claim to solve the problems of the web. It's a different space, like IRC or emails.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Creators can create public posts just like they can create private posts, followers-only posts, local-only posts. Instances may or may not display content to non-logged users. It's not up to the software, it's up to what the admin
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by rakoo 4y ago
That's what websub is for. It sends new entries to followers. It's a complement to RSS
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by rakoo 4y ago
RSS with replies and comments, that's a pretty big step up (and I'm all for using RSS when nothing more is needed)
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by rakoo 4y ago
Complete supposition: maybe teens' exposition to memes is through non-private messengers and apps, meaning all media is saved automatically on the phone and available through a search. I don't think the web is very much used still

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