xethos

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by xethos 8mo ago
Apparently yes [0]. I thought I'd seen a different post the other day, but this one was further up in a ddg search [0] https://tomsitcafe.com/2025/11/06/private-matrix-hosting-a-s...
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by xethos 8mo ago
I was actually playing with voice rooms the other day. One can create a standing call room that people can join or leave as they see fit, without having to set up a new call each time. Discord currently has more integrations with streaming
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by xethos 8mo ago
That's why the bittorrent protocol is in such dire straights /s Bittorrent actually has fewer real uses than Matrix. The former is useful for Microsoft and others trying to roll out big patches, but the latter is used by NATO, t
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by xethos 8mo ago
You didn't say, and I wouldn't want to assume the situation, but calling the number on the back of a bank or credit card would work better here (in case it was a bank). This is also an argument in favour of paper bills, or logging
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by xethos 8mo ago
Found your article for you, as I was looking it up the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...
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by xethos 8mo ago
I assumed it was because people here are constantly telling Arathorn that Element (not ElementX) is slow and buggy, and that when they last tried the default server (circa 2019 or so) is was buggy and full of rough edges He's (in my
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by xethos 8mo ago
Mobile notifications do not require outside operators. UnifiedPush / ntfy is FLOSS, and allows for a single background connection for multiple apps / notification channels. It can also be self-hosted (and I do!) This puts the oper
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by xethos 8mo ago
You would think so, but: > You won’t find apps for either service on Google Play or any other app store; users who have tried report that it’s impossible to run them on any other third-party device, suggesting that they were custom-built
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by xethos 8mo ago
Ballmer was kinda the best Microsoft CEO for Windows , IMO. He didn't get the Justice department's attention in either the states or Europe, and he started building alternate revenue streams (XBOX, Windows Phone) without destroyi
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by xethos 8mo ago
This cuts both ways - ADP requires changing some settings on-device, and (in some cases I've heard) calling Apple to disable. So it is baked in, but it's hardly easy to enable and disable GrapheneOS (which, FWIW, I do trust at lea
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by xethos 8mo ago
Maybe I’m mis-interpreting what you mean, but without a notification when a message is sent, what would you correlate a message-received notification with?
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by xethos 9mo ago
> The first electric car predates the 20th century Great, now do steam. Being produced in the past does not mean it will make a comeback, despite steam being quieter, with great torque, and the main ingredient for propulsion (water) bein
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by xethos 9mo ago
Wanting to discourage motorists being around where a massive group of people are expected to gather is reasonable. It's why streets will close for parades and parties. You're turning something designed to protect protestors into
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by xethos 9mo ago
The ”Leader of the Free World” and Commander in Chief of the largest, most well-equipped military force the world has ever seen, with bases dotted around the globe has spent the last several months threatening annexation of my country. For
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by xethos 9mo ago
The frog had to be pretty well lobotomized to keep it from jumping out. One can recreate the ”experiment” with a lobotomized frog and mostly get the result described though
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by xethos 9mo ago
Well that's a shame - I'd thought they'd continue to be available, but apparently not. I hadn't even noticed the banner, sorry
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by xethos 9mo ago
No promises, but a Tangera might actually be what you failed to find. Fair enough for that too, as they're not exactly mainstream https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
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by xethos 9mo ago
I agree with the recommendation that you yourself replied to: move in front of the vehicle, and gradually slow to a stop, with lights and sirens optional but recommended I am thrown by the question of "What else should have been done&q
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by xethos 9mo ago
Except those straight, boring roads that require no input are also exactly where and when I most want to use autopilot . This means I have to manually adjust to keep the car happy, instead of letting the well-aligned car just carry on. Aut
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by xethos 9mo ago
In which case we disagree fundamentally on America's place in the world, and how best to lead - and that's okay. We can politely disagree (on this), and neither of us has to be an asshole, because neither view is objectively wrong
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by xethos 9mo ago
I get that it all adds up, but you're railing against 0.1% of a budget that's over a trillion dollars. Not only do household and national budgets work differently, the numbers are also so much larger that they give a sense of vert
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by xethos 9mo ago
For a more focused point, sticking to just one here: > we’re tired of funding the world’s defense Reads like "The outrageously high R&D costs of modern weapons systems are being subsidized across many customers. This must end im
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by xethos 9mo ago
You're still citing arrested, not charged and convicted though. Those are all different, with no guarantee of the officers facing repercussions beyond a brief arrest. While those are still consequences, they have to be consistently a
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by xethos 9mo ago
Aternately, Google claimed gMail wa in public beta for years . People did not treat it like a public beta that could die with no warning, despite being explicitly told to by a company that, in recent years, has developed a reputation for d
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by xethos 9mo ago
> 99% of countries on the planet do not get 10-15k of outside subsidies per resident. While not 10-15k, the feds put ~5-8k [0,1,2] per-resident into Alaska, a remote territory the country intends to hold [0] https://www.usaspe
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by xethos 9mo ago
> the cycle has been like this since 2001 > The US is getting less stable instead of more stable > I hope they are more long-sighted than that Quoting you out of order, but when one puts all three together what do you believe the l
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by xethos 9mo ago
If it's done in the open they can be taken to court. When done in secret, the first challenge is when their defense attorney tells the prosecution to prove it even happens.
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by xethos 9mo ago
The Canadian ones have to deal with Americans that don't realize the second amendment doesn't excuse forgetting there are firearms in your vehicle That's why the American side presumably has "Don't forget about your
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by xethos 9mo ago
Then you're going to take it home for >8 hours per day, and to your job several hours per day, and likely call at least one or two of your important contacts. At which point that's the ball game - the pool of people that live i
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by xethos 9mo ago
The point about de-Google'd Android vs your insistence on GrapheneOS is that by the time you are using Google's libraries, like Maps, Play Services, or their notification service (Firebase, IIRC), you've already lost. Graphen

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