welterde

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by welterde 5y ago
It only counts as working if you are ok with a giant pile of hacks and pain. Ever had to debug NAT-related SIP issues? Not fun. A lot of protocols fell out of favor, because they poorly interact with NAT (and stupid corporate firewall rules
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by welterde 5y ago
DB already offers something similar in the form of yearly discount cards with three different levels: 25%, 50% and 100%. The latter being pretty much the same thing as the above mentioned card (although 4x as expensive).
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by welterde 5y ago
In case of BGP it was possible since it's not a end to end communication protocol. How exactly does TUBA solve the problem where ipv4-only host wants to communicate with a non-ipv4 host? This proposal solves none of the issues we are f
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by welterde 5y ago
Which is what I mentioned in my comment? This exists for IPv6 and would need to exist for any alternative proposal. And there are certain deployments of this in action, where hosts only have IPv6 and they only receive IPv4 connectivity via
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by welterde 5y ago
This gets repeated over and over, but the issue is that it's an impossible task. A ipv4-only host cannot ever directly communicate with a IPv6/IPv7/.. host. The issue is simply that you cannot fit more than 32bit of informati
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by welterde 5y ago
The issue is that it's impossible to make anything with more address space directly interoperable with IPv4 since it has a fixed 32-bit address space. Unless you consider NAT from your extended IPv4 towards IPv4 interoperable in which
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by welterde 5y ago
The compatibility layer for the linux native games is the steam-runtime though. So fragmentation of the distributions matters to a much lesser degree already.
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by welterde 5y ago
I have been connecting to IRC using SSL for well over a decade. SASL authentication is also a thing for many years now (and most clients support it out of the box). There are channel settings one can set to prohibit people entering from non
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by welterde 5y ago
If one excludes the binary groups then the Usenet doesn't need that much storage at all.. The cost for that is negligible. However one needs to put in some work to keep it running and given it's not exactly a mainstream service, m
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by welterde 5y ago
Isn't qucs licensed under the GPL? Which would make that quite illegal.
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by welterde 5y ago
I tried with a normal IRC client on Android. And like I said it also works with my Jabber client, which I have been running for years now and never had problems with missed notifications or anything there, despite it also requiring a open T
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by welterde 5y ago
> Sure but the connection drops a lot if you roam, if you close the app you don't stay connected, etc. Discord does not have this problem. Yeah that mobile networking is completely broken is a bit unfortunate. But at least the stayi
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by welterde 5y ago
> They want push notifications on hilights. Huh? Pretty much all mobile irc clients have that though? And if you are running weechat anyway, something like weechat-android might be an better option for you? That connects back to weechat
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by welterde 5y ago
Totally agree that not everyone wants the same UX. And same applies to IRC as well, there are clients that go more in the slack/discord direction (which I also won't touch), but it's great to have options, so everyone can be
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by welterde 5y ago
That had some weird interactions with some of the other scripts I was running. There were some known incompatibilities that were still being worked on - and now it's being rewritten in rust? In any case, I wasn't having a great ti
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by welterde 5y ago
Giving Nheko a spin right now and while it is somewhat better than some of the other matrix clients I have tried, the UI is still much too close to discord/slack for my taste. And doesn't have enough knobs to disable features I do
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by welterde 5y ago
Maybe I am alone in this, but not everyone likes the UX of slack or discord and might prefer a more information focused/less distracting desktop application and prefer a native desktop application over something electron/browser b
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by welterde 5y ago
That's being worked on and there are already irc daemons that support it (but it's all a bit bolted on until the standard for that is ratified). However it is also a feature that has to be enabled by the server operator and here y
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by welterde 5y ago
Currently playing with Matrix a bit and I have to say that most of the TUI clients are pretty terrible still. The desktop clients are not much better, they either have mobile UI but on desktop or are quite buggy still. And what they all hav
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by welterde 5y ago
Registration is a bit of a sore point (and is being worked on in the IRCv3 WG), but login, ops, channel listing, etc. afterwards isn't - that's all handled quite well by modern graphical IRC clients.
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by welterde 5y ago
There are irc daemons that have everything integrated such as oragono [1]. And if you just want an irc server for a couple friends you can just ignore ChanServ/NickServ.. it's not really needed (hell.. ircnet is still going strong
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by welterde 5y ago
Yes, but you are not syncing between all of them (since that would scale quite badly), but directed graph like in IRC (if I understand the specs correctly anyway). Edit: Oh.. or does it really sync between all servers (in which case I didn&
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by welterde 5y ago
We are conflating things here, since the architecture of IRC and Matrix are not the same. Since due to the federated nature each room will be different - like it is in Jabber. I am not talking about talking to my friends (since that's
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by welterde 5y ago
Yes it is possible to mirror rooms, but last I checked that had to be setup manually? Or does synapse do that automatically now? In any case that wasn't my point earlier. That was that I never had the issue on IRC that my homeserver so
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by welterde 5y ago
That doesn't really help since the home server more corresponds to my irc client (or something like quassel-core or a bouncer) and not a irc server and will just have me as a user and no one else. The Matrix architecture is much closer
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by welterde 5y ago
It's not really as much of an issue these days as it used to be. And like I said.. you can get that all in a neatly integrated package where you don't have to worry about any of that anymore.
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by welterde 5y ago
Sure netsplits happen, but at least I can still communicate with people that are on the same side of the split (and know exactly who they are). I never had the same issues as with Slack, Matrix, etc. where I just couldn't communicate a
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by welterde 5y ago
I have given it a fair spin a while ago and I wasn't impressed at all (too many problems.. even with simple 2-person chat). Distributed database based chat isn't really the way to go to get something reliable (where nothing gets e
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by welterde 5y ago
Sadly that means pretty much only locked gardens all around - Since anything else is by definition too complicated.
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by welterde 5y ago
Curious by which metric you are measuring productivity. Also wouldn't it make quite a difference on what time scale you are multi-tasking? If it's on the time scale of days between context switches or hours/minutes.

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