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Show HN: A modern XMPP client in Tcl/Tk(github.com)
2 points by wusspuss 4mo ago|1 comments
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by wusspuss 4y ago
Well, given how all mainstream desktop programs are getting huge buttons these days...
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>Because it predates them? I know, point is Android could've been something like regular linux + flatpak, that's it. If "security" were so important to them they could just invent flatpak without reinventing the rest
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>Display hardware for mobile SoCs often had no or poor x11 drivers during the early days of Android. How is creating an entirely new SurfaceFlinger a solution to the lack of x11 drivers, logically? There could no drivers for SurfaceFling
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by wusspuss 4y ago
LineageOS is still buggy as hell (AFAIK it doesn't even make "stable" versions anymore since 2016 or so, just nightlies), still takes more resources than GNU/Linux, still doesn't support any good software from the d
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>Debian already fails to put your laptop to sleep half of the time when you close the lid and you expect it to work well with your phone that you send to sleep every other minute? Debian isn't made by a trillion-dollar company. Very
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>Just to add, because your rant is really not constructive and dismissive of a whole platform: android likely has more apps than desktop linux, plenty of them in better shape as well. Why on Earth would they be buggier, when they do in f
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>Android’s biggest contribution/change is the security model — the old UNIX one is simply way too crude, so instead android runs each application as a new, dynamically created user so that UNIX permissions actually get used properly
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Ask HN: Why is Android not just another GNU/Linux distro?
15 points by wusspuss 4y ago|34 comments
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Ask HN: Why do smartphones and SoCs require a custom build per model unlike PCs?
4 points by wusspuss 4y ago|1 comments
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by wusspuss 4y ago
All of those requirements, 'user centered design' among them, to show a picture in the slowest way possible, ever, and to abuse the user by forcing them to download megabytes of malicious code to see that goddamn picture. The most
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by wusspuss 4y ago
What metadata do you believe it is giving out?.. And how it could possibly even be comparable to what an android espionage device gives out by itself in the first place
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by wusspuss 4y ago
Literally half the OP article along with half the comments here explain how XML is a problem, how it is not equivalent to any other serialization format, etc. IMO the funniest example is stanza ids. That problem wouldn't exist even i
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by wusspuss 4y ago
It is not a long solved problem if it takes a demo to prove. If it were long solved it'd be self evident. This argument wouldn't exist to begin with. A demo is worthless if experience doesn't prove it in the long run. And I h
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>But it has far to go before reaching XMPP's levels of achievement - millions of XMPP-connected users via Google Talk, and popular products such as WhatsApp and Zoom built on top of it. That many of these aren't, or are no long
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by wusspuss 4y ago
How much worse than XMPP is Matrix in this regard? On XMPP your and your interlocutor's server can see who you talk to
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by wusspuss 4y ago
It's not the lack of namespaces that causes people to reinvent them. Using or not using namespaces is a choice you take. With XMPP it's 100% dictated by the XML mindset. There is NO reason for <starttls xmlns="urn:ietf
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>No matter how many times you say that, it still won't be true. A mere few minutes spent looking at the Matrix protocol and a few minutes spent looking at XMPP (if you can get past the fact that it's XML) will make that clear.
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>For messaging purposes, it is absolutely identical to JSON in this regard. There's no "JSON mindset" to produce anything comparable to this crime against bandwidth and code brevity: <stream:stream from="draugr
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>So with that said, I'm very interested in hearing any details you can provide about how to silently lose messages in modern XMPP. Clients involved, steps to reproduce, etc. Then we can produce actionable bug reports. Conversations,
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>It would be just as easy to write a post like this about JSON, JSON has no namespaces, even without taking that into account it's already less verbose, it maps nicely into lists and dicts, I don't know a single JSON parser tha
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by wusspuss 4y ago
>I personally like the simple delivery model of XMPP The moment you ask for reliability it stops being simple. Stream Management + Stanza Ids isn't simple, and it shows - XMPP is the only thing I use today where it occasionally happ
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by wusspuss 4y ago
Not losing messages is pretty key too. But yeah, given enough marketing you can pull anything off. WhatsApp basically doesn't support multi device to this day and is more popular than either (free) XMPP or Matrix could ever hope to be
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Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe(wusspuss.neocities.org)
101 points by wusspuss 4y ago|140 comments
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>completely-dynamically-rendered web app slathered in frameworks for A/B testing, feature flags, analytics & tracking, cookie permissions, media middleware, localization, theming and browser compatibility Getting you to click on
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by wusspuss 5y ago
XMPP is extensible huh? Extend it to not torture implementation developers with xml. You can't. That's the law of software. Good components tend to be easily replaceable, bad components do not. Thus overtime as software evolves it
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>it is instead served from a ton of geographically-local servers. All owned by the same company. I'd agree about it being revolutionary if it was on some distributed p2p network like freenet, torrent, ipfs etc. But to call some comp
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>Today if you want to print "1 item" or "2 items", many would probably pull a library. 25 years ago, you would either build the logic yourself, or consider the logic unnecessary clutter and write snprintf(buffer, 25,
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>Have you checked your phone for malware? Unfortunately there are no phones without malware in the form of at the very least android on the market, you can't even remove the malware. And reddit's and twitter's programs, in
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by wusspuss 5y ago
>There are a lot of beautiful and useful websites that are built with modern tools. Mind sharing some? >Why do twitter and Reddit use perceived anti-patterns instead of good UX I'm by far not talking about UX alone.

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