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by zaik 2y ago
A standard XMPP server could be an alternative. Apparently WhatsApp (~2 billion users) use a fork of ejabberd as their backend.
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Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse(mastodon.matrix.org)
141 points by zaik 2y ago|169 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
Oh look, climate change does economic damage, but not at the source.
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by zaik 2y ago
20 dollars? I wanted a peanut!
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by zaik 2y ago
In a complete disregard for the rule of law? Which other democratic countries with anti-nuclear constitution had a secret nuclear program?
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by zaik 2y ago
> once-popular servers have stopped accepting new registrations That's why providers.xmpp.net gives a good overview on where to sign up. The clients I know of also allow you to create an XMPP address directly from the app. The whole
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by zaik 2y ago
https://ircv3.net/
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by zaik 2y ago
You're probably thinking about memory and caching. There are no advantages to keeping the CPU at 100% when no workload needs to be done.
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by zaik 2y ago
IPFS is very much VC funded
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by zaik 2y ago
I used the pipeline tar | gpg --symmetric | torrent to transfer a 4GB collection of photos to a (technically skilled) friend on a slow mobile connection and it worked quite well. I could shut off my computer and it would resume the
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Studying the promotion of health misinformation by the Bolsonaro government(skeptic.org.uk)
3 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
You could add a building:levels value to the object in OpenStreetMap, to record the information of how many stories your building has. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building:levels
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by zaik 2y ago
The Arch wiki is still going strong...
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by zaik 2y ago
> Twitter lets me [...] see what they have to say * if their viewpoint agrees with Mr. Musk.
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Wikidata Beacon(wikidata-todo.toolforge.org)
2 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
I enjoyed writing a small module for the Prosody XMPP server, which is written in Lua. Everytime I had to look into the internals I found what I was looking for pretty easily.
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by zaik 2y ago
Aliens using the ISS toilet confirmed.
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Engineering Memory(gregorygundersen.com)
2 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
You don't have to.
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by zaik 2y ago
Have you seen https://snikket.org ?
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by zaik 2y ago
> red herring I think you meant to say red flag, not red herring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
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by zaik 2y ago
Why not simply leave To and CC empty until it's ready to send?
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Left-wing conspiracy theories and 'missing' votes in wake of Trump election win(skeptic.org.uk)
5 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
Yes, I'm sure the intention was remembering the victims of the Tiananmen massacre when they put it in a non-visible part of the HTML of a student admission webpage.
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by zaik 2y ago
All very true, but in this case there is no balancing act. Blocking prospective Chinese students from receiving education abroad punishes only the students and also helps the government in perpetuating their censorship, as this student will
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by zaik 2y ago
It's about the intention of who inserted that keyword into the page.
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by zaik 2y ago
It is discriminatory because someone at the university acted specifically to block Chinese students from accessing the website.
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by zaik 2y ago
It's a deliberate act to include this string in the website. Very different.
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by zaik 2y ago
Innocent people in the business of denying coverage to the sick and the dying.
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by zaik 2y ago
ejabberd and RabbitMQ are written in Erlang

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