welterde

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by welterde 4y ago
Many networks were being developed in parallel, so I am not sure how you can say that the idea of interconnecting them would never have come up. And most of the initial network designs (including ARPANET btw) were very much inspired by a de
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by welterde 4y ago
I also had my fair share of repairing home appliances (trying to anyway) and in my N~5 sample size I was not only limited to failed control boards. But having seen those control boards I am honestly surprised that they even survive the warr
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by welterde 4y ago
That's a lot of FUD about RoHS - especially for the consumer space. Don't you think that maybe everything built to be as cheap as possible to barely survive the warranty period is maybe a slightly larger effect than tin whiskers?
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by welterde 4y ago
> Last I knew, most IRC servers didn't support authentication directly. That's not quite true anymore. While many IRC servers don't directly talk with the user database, but indirectly to the services daemon (which provide
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by welterde 4y ago
Libera is still quite active, just hop on and onto your favorite programming language channels there (or science or news or ..) and chances are you'll see plenty of chat activity instead of only joins and quits.
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by welterde 4y ago
IRC does support sending URLs just fine. The key point here is though, do I want those images to be displayed inline among the text or not. And there are IRC clients (such as thelounge) that will just display those images inline (which is w
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by welterde 4y ago
> Before pulseaudio only one application could access the sound card. That's only true if the sound card has no hardware mixing support (or very limited number of streams, where it would suddenly break after a certain number of appl
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by welterde 4y ago
I don't think the argument that the mere existence of clients that work differently ruin the modern features somehow is really that fair (see below). The bouncer argument is kinda fair, but if you also don't like to live in a wall
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by welterde 4y ago
Fair point (especially for super generic things like "#science" or similar) - that could sometimes be handled better. However sometimes there are multiple rooms discussing the same thing on the same network, so it's not alway
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by welterde 4y ago
What do you mean with keeping caps in your head for my client? Capabilities? Why would you need to keep those in mind? One doesn't need to keep anything in mind if one just has two different clients for the two user groups. And there a
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by welterde 4y ago
That very much depends on the network and the channels how well things work or not. And other than having no moderators/channel operators at all, I don't see how it can be a problem that can even be solved? People can always get d
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by welterde 4y ago
Part of the problem is though that there people (like myself) that simply don't want any of those features. If everyone agreed that these features are worth having then there would be no problem, since then every client would get them
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by welterde 4y ago
For me it's not really about fast moving rooms or not, but that I want to see a bit of context to what was said. In IRC it's easy to see more than 60 lines back without having to scroll, but all modern alternatives don't have
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by welterde 4y ago
That's not the direction that's the problem - like I mentioned (IPv6 is backwards compatible), NAT64 and so forth boxes exist (but still not great since you have to hold state). But the problem is that the inverse is not possible
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by welterde 4y ago
That's a laughable low limit. Even the "pro" plan would be marginal for a single person without running into limits from time to time. And nevermind power users that might do something with p2p or have a couple more devices c
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by welterde 4y ago
IPv6 is perfectly backwards compatible with IPv4 with the IPv4-in-IPv6-address embedding and other technologies. The problem is that IPv4 is not forward-compatible with anything that has a larger address space. Thus a IPv4-only host will ne
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by welterde 4y ago
They already had IPv6 support while they were still using google cloud for connectivity (not sure why they went with google for their initial phase instead of a more traditional carrier) and when they moved to their own network they disable
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by welterde 4y ago
Not sure I would say that all aspects of tooling are bad though. Stackage for example is great and I wish there was anything even close to it in other languages.
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by welterde 4y ago
> Don't forget Germany recently also hiked their sales tax to 19%(!!!), which is almost double Seattle. Not sure I would say that 2007 is that recent anymore (when it was increased from 16 to 19 percent ( )). Also keep in mind that
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by welterde 4y ago
Some people prefer to chat on desktop and don't really like the mobile-derived UI and prefer a text-heavy dense layout. Throw in lightweight resource usage as a requirement and suddenly there are not that many working alternatives anym
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by welterde 4y ago
I think there are some IRCv3 extensions in the works for that, but imho it will make it even more confusing since not everyone will be seeing the same thing (at least for the edits), but I guess we'll see how widespread the adoption of
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by welterde 4y ago
IRC also supports anarchism with + channels that simply have no modes and no ops (also no topic which is slightly annoying) but then you are kinda at the mercy of the network admins to stop the spammers (as well as liberal use of /igno
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by welterde 4y ago
How is the compatibility with federation and clients? Any issues? Last synapse upgrade half of my clients just stopped working due to some incompatibility between the newer synapse server and a too old shared library (that all the desktop c
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by welterde 4y ago
I consider both anti-features for _instant_ messaging since it's easy to misuse by hitting enter first and then editing their message for half an hour. Which people do a lot and is quite annoying since it breaks the flow of conversatio
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by welterde 4y ago
This issue has been solved by the ergo in that it integrates the bouncer functionality into the IRC server. So from everyone elses perspective you never get disconnected and combined with support for the chathistory extension (which your mo
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by welterde 4y ago
Not sure free-speech-friendliness is really relevant here, since the most likely avenues of attack would be copyright or it being classified information. For both those things the US isn't exactly the best candidate either.
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by welterde 4y ago
If you look at the low to medium end there is quite a large number of startups in Europe. And many medium-size businesses that do quite well for themselves, but it's much harder to scale in Europe. Language alone was quite the barrier
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by welterde 4y ago
I personally wouldn't call that incredibly permissive, but just natural scatter due to differences in definitions, but in practice you are correct - only a couple countries in EU have similar time frames in the end. At least if there a
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by welterde 4y ago
You are aware that even with Roe v. Wade there is still considerable variation in laws between the states? And I wouldn't say that the limits set by Roe v. Wade are at all very permissive compared to most European countries. Neither wa
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by welterde 4y ago
Socialism does not require an entirely different system, one can implement it just fine in whatever democracy one happens to be operating, so large chunks of it are just tweaking some numbers. And some numbers do kinda make a large differen

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